Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Dusty – farrier appointment

Had to go out today past Pakenham to Nar Nar Goon to pick up our younger daughter Natalie who’s car is in for service and then back to Cranbourne for a farrier appointment. This gave us the opportunity to see our girl Dusty again, and ET to give her hugs and kisses. Then return trip to Gooney to drop off the kid and finally on the way home again.

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It’s good to see her again.

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Computers

Mulling over getting a new i7 tower to replace the Balcony PC which is a Scorptec E5200/G31M-SL2/4GB/GT210 about 8 years old. Meanwhile...we could jazz up the current one so ordered a Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz 3 MB Cache 1066 MHz FSB LGA 775 CPU Processor from a NSW eBay guy for $8.90. If this works out I'll get a 120/250GB SSD and maybe do another CPU upgrade.

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Computers continued

Meanwhile in the workshop we are reviving a couple of Dell towers. One of them is a beautiful (but aging) Precision 670 workstation with dual Xeon processors but only 1GB RAM. Browsing eBay I can get typically get 4GB of ECC for around $40 bucks - might do that.

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Another new toy for kitties.