Thursday, March 24, 2016

Balcony PC update

As posted last Sunday bought from the market, installed and cloned a Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB - all good. Anyway ended up with quite an array of drives (LOL) as Macrium Reflect just tagged every drive with a letter including system partitions etc. Did some cleanup in Disk Management to hide stuff (see picture) so we are tidy again. Next task was to cleanup the SSD as all the user data like docs, photos videos etc is already on (what is now) the F: storage drive - the Samsung 1TB. Note that all the apps including large ones like Office 2007 Pro will stay on the SSD and as you can see from the picture we have 145GB free.

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Dell memory kit

Dell Optiplex GX270 - 2GB memory kit has arrived from the US.

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Monday, March 21, 2016

Balcony PC tower upgrades

Balcony desktop tower PC upgrade(s) - the CPU swap from E5200 to E7400 which cost $8.60 went well, now it's time for a SSD so got a Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB from the market today along with SATA and power cables.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Foxtel Go on my phone

Foxtel Go on a older unsupported Samsung Galaxy Note GT-7000.

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Downloaded the Apk file and installed directly onto the phone – works well.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

ALDI - night lights

Already have two of the one on the right @ $9.99 each so this time around didn't notice there was a second choice until browsing today - so got one to try. Note that the price has gone up from $9.99 to $12.99.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Hot day for the chooks

Current temperature from the remote sensor in the chook shed is 41.2°, of course they are not in there but over in the shade of the cottage garden.


Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Bunnings XU1 garden tools

Blower, hedge trimmer and grass trimmer selling for $79 each. Need to replace my Robyi blower so went to grab one of those but there's only one left and it's been opened and looks like no charger - bugger. ET grabbed it and went off to find a staff person to try and do a deal.  Nice staff person say’s it's a stuff up, two batteries and no charger I'll give you a big discount on that. I also wanted the grass trimmer so we got both for $110 instead of $150.

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Another new toy for kitties.