USB 3.0 PCI card

Computer playtime morning - waiting for the USB 3.0 card to arrive (ETA today) so decided to clean up the corner where Balcony PC sits on a cardboard box to the left of the desk - so pulled everything out to vacuum the area. Also took the side panel off the box and gave it a good vac as well, and double check that the sole PCIe x1 slot is vacant - it is. Not long after courier arrived so we installed the card and included drivers - all OK.

Windows 10 upgrades

After upgrading two of my Win 7 Pro desktops about 2 weeks ago found this email in my junk folder. No end to it, this is a new one !

Maginon - Wireless Rear View Mirror

This has been lying on the dining room table while I've been playing around with the car black box recorders. However...my main priority is to keep moving with the tree pruning, lost a day yesterday with the rain but I should be OK to have it all done by next week when council collection starts.

Windows 10 update killed my GPU driver

Checking today's weather and screen went blank, then spinning circle followed by pop-up that GPU driver failed to start. Win10 is using generic - check for updates. Ran the Nvidia updater which offered to install the latest driver which is the same version as the one installed - that was replaced with a generic by Windows update !!!

Chooks - Heating the coop

Way back in May 2011 when we got some new little Pekins I provided them with some heating in their temporary dog house quarters. This winter the weather is so cold I decided to heat the coop in a similar way.

May 2011 – new chooks need to go through a integration period where they are separated for a while from the current mob. On this occasion I made use of a wooden dog house to house the new chooks and for heating suspended a reptile lamp from the apex of the hinged roof.

Scroll saw blades

Bought some spare blades for the Work Zone scroll saw that I grabbed last week from ALDI reduced to $55 bucks.

ALDI – Workzone Scroll Saw

While shopping in ALDI came across a solitary scroll saw – interesting. They were on sale a few weeks ago and thought about getting one but gave it a miss. This one looks like a return, the box has been opened and it’s got a hand written price tag of $55 down from $99.

Checked inside and none of the plastic bags had been opened – it’s all there. Wonder why it’s been returned let’s buy it and check it out I can always do the same myself.