Mundane News

[TVC]

Right, brace yourself Larndun, here we come.

 

[EltonFrog]

Right, brace yourself Larndun, here we come.

You be careful out there.

 

[hopless500]

It's raining.

And I have a headache for some reason

 

[coffeejo]

MY cats? Happy as pigs in 5hite

Pedant alert: pigs don't like being in 5hite. They're extremely clean animals and given enough space, will create a toilet area far away from where they sleep or drink water. When they have a litter of piglets, the sows teach the piglets to go outside for toilet duties within a couple of days. Their tolerance for mucky straw doesn't last very long. They do like mud, however, but only in hot weather. Pigs can't sweat so wallow in mud to cool themselves down, scratch off old skin, and get rid of unwelcome hitch-hikers.

 

[Hill Wimp]

MORNING @hopless500

 

[coffeejo]

You be careful out there.

It's everyone else I'm worried about.

 

[coffeejo]

MORNING @hopless500

MORNING!

 

[hopless500]

MORNING @hopless500

 

[tyred]

Every day I seem to get emails from Trip Advisor recommending places to stay in Ayr. Why Ayr?

 

[Hill Wimp]

Both cats are in the shed.

 

[Katherine]

Gah, it's raining.

And now it's raining here too. I was about to go for a ride...maybe later!

 

[swee'pea99]

That would be superb news if i could at least get to my cooling fan on my laptop.

I'm going to have to take mine to the repair shop

Have you tried a search on YouTube? There are loads of strip-down vids, and sometimes it's amazingly easy to access the fan. On my old HP 6120, eg, it's a matter of removing two screws on the bottom, using a basic cross-head screwdriver, then releasing four clips on top of the keyboard, using a basic fingernail, then the keyboard just lifts out and there's the fan. Cleared out a pad of dust on mine recently in about five minutes from start to finish.

 

[coffeejo]

I rather like the forecast here for the rest of the week and the weekend (especially tomorrow as I need to be forced to sit down and do some paperwork and housework). Hoping it doesn't change. Stupid British Isles and their stupid competing weather systems.

 

[fossyant]

And now it's raining here too. I was about to go for a ride...maybe later!

I was going to potter in the garden. Well, off to collect a WIFI powerline based extender so we can get WIFI over to the new summer house - bloody kids. Even got 4 sockets in there with one socket having USB charging !!!

My son was asking for gigabit wired connection - it's a long way to the summer house (shed with windows) from the router - told him to sod off. Already got a big armoured cable going to the 'shed with windows'.

 

[fossyant]

Have you tried a search on YouTube? There are loads of strip-down vids, and sometimes it's amazingly easy to access the fan. On my old HP 6120, eg, it's a matter of removing two screws on the bottom, using a basic cross-head screwdriver, then releasing four clips on top of the keyboard, using a basic fingernail, then the keyboard just lifts out and there's the fan. Cleared out a pad of dust on mine recently in about five minutes from start to finish.

I'd second this. I checked out a youtube video about installing a second drive into my laptop - used the video to confirm which tiny drive cable I needed