No I haven't gone hippy dippy. My new external HD arrived first thing this morning via Citylink from Amazon. I haven't had time to do much but link it up to my laptop, I do love how Windows XP doesn't often need the software/drivers supplied for new hardware.
I do love Plug and Play.
Anyhow, I have received my new HD, taken my parents to B&Q and picked up his birthday, two days late but it's worth the wait for the 10% discount my Mother's pensioner discount card gives me. Especially on large items like we were shopping for today. My Mum bought him a new hedge trimmer, this one cordless so there is no chance of cutting through the cord like what happened to his last one. I bought him a new strimmer, a flymo, it has a higher engine power than his initial one which lasted only months, this one also has dual automatic feed for the main strimmer itself. His last one was a manual rotor, so you had to feed out the plastic string when it broke. And as we found out it isn't all that easy, the strimmer cord broke after a just months and no matter what we did we couldn't extend anymore cord at all. So it has been lying in our shed for over two years gathering dust.
Luckily most strimmers are now auto feeds and you just take out the whole spindle and replace when there is no more cord, no fuss no muss. He's pleased with it and that is the main thing, it also has a wheel which you can use to keep those borders straight, you just roll it along as it strims as it goes. It also has two handgrips and an fully adjustable handle. You can lower/highten it so you own most comfortable fit, so if you're too tall you can elongate it to avoid hunching over the entire time your using it.
I also got the new sandpit/water table I bought for my nephews last Wednesday, it's rained everyday since here and we couldn't get it built up for use, all built up. Well, as my middle nephew was waiting to finally get to play with his new toy we put together the tables and a couple of the attachments, leaving off the various stickers and other accessories of the play kit, so that he could play with it now rather than wait for us to get it all assembled. He loved it. He especially loved the crane, which was one of the accessories we did assemble, and the new tower toy he got today from Asda, and he was out all afternoon in the lovely weather playing with it. He even opted to stay with his Grandad rather than go with us to pick up his older brother from school.
Generally you can't prise him away from a car ride but he waved us off with a loud cry of 'Bye Bye' and trotted off to play with his sandpit once again. Once his brother returned with us they both played with the sandpits until just before their parents turned up for them, they only left their new toys when rain threatened. So I think that the new sandpit is a definite hit.
Well I am now off to start organizing and transferring files off my internal HD to my new external one. Hopefully my system will also benefit from this and I will stop getting that annoying low virtual memory message several times a day. When I see that Windows Update logo flash in my toolbar I cringe when I know that I will have to juggle/clean and uninstall programs to speed up Windows and stop the warning messages appearing so often.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Hello Again!!!
I've finally gotten around to updating at last ...
Daniel is now almost six weeks old, he will be on this Friday, he was released from Yorkhill hospital in Glasgow on the 28th of May. It came as a surprise to everyone, he seemed to suddenly pick up enough to be released quite quickly after being moved out of ICU.
He is due to go back this coming Monday for his first check-up through in Glasgow. But fingers crossed they will be pleased with his progress. He has gained a couple of pounds - almost - and is now back at his birth weight. Not bad seeing as he wasn't about to feed properly for the first couple of weeks of his life, he lost some weight before and after his operation but seems to be picking it up again now.
Sunday past was Father's Day, and the very next day, i.e. yesterday, was my dad's birthday. We are going to let him choose his present tomorrow at the large B & Q shop we have here. He is after a new hedge trimmer as he managed to cut through the one we gave him a couple of years ago, this one we have our eye on is a rechargeable cordless unit so that won't happen again with this one.
Also tomorrow I am supposed to receive my new external hard drive, it's a 500 GB unit, which I badly need as my old laptop only has 40GB total which is split between two separate internal drives. I have long since had problems with lack of space and a slow moving computer. Originally I regularly moved files onto DVD/CD disk via the burner my laptop has but as the burner is now broken. It has been so for over a year and as you can imagine as I can't transfer files off my hard drive I am fast running out of space. I am lucky if I have 1GB to 1.5 GB on my main drive and the same of the second internal hard drive at any given time. So you can imagine how it can slow down my whole system when windows updates. Last updates have a total of almost 100MB added to my windows folder alone, it can really eat up your memory.
I checked and found that I could either buy an new external burner to start burning files, esp. video files and photo files off my digital camera, or I could purchase an external hard drive and add new memory onto my laptop that way.
When I found that the cost could be around the same for either option, I opted for an external hard drive as you can install programs, and games, directly onto an external hard drive which would be handy as my C drive is mostly all programs, I have deleted (or moved) all other saved files to drive D (the second half of my original hard drive) so I can't move much more to give me room on my main drive.
I hope that by moving non essential (or rarely used) programs and files over to the external drive for use when I wish, that I can cleanse my hard drive and speed up my entire system.
I really would love a new desktop, but that will take some saving, I am hoping that the new drive will ease my problems and extent the life of my current laptop a bit to allow me breathing room and so I won't have to rush buying a new desktop and instead save and wait the just the right bargain for both my purse and my computing needs.
As my car insurance is due to be renewed in November/December it means I don't have to find a way to finance a new computer as well as renewing my more important insurance policy. My car's essential, and no matter how I love and depend on my computer it isn't.
Also I figure a new external hard drive is much cheaper than having to swing a new computer at the moment. So keep your fingers crossed for me.
I have quite a few pc games installed on my computer, eating up a lot of room on an already starving hard drive, so I am hoping I can move them onto my new hard drive without them being compromised too much. Most are solitaire/match 3 like games so they shouldn't suffer too much from being moved onto another drive from my main program files.
For about £73 I have purchased a 500GB external drive, which is much cheaper than the £500+ price tag on the desktops which meet my specs., so I hope this measure will keep me happy until next year. By which time I will hopefully be in a position to look into purchasing that new desktop. Also the drive will be usable with any system I use to I won't loose financial when I do upgrade computers themselves.
Also I can start downloading the episodes of my favourite tv shows again, something I haven't been in a position to do since my burner expired. Also my PSP and pixelling can pick up as I find that my virtual memory makes working on graphics harder as the space just isn't their at the moment. Also I have several gigabytes of content from my memberships which I can't back up or move. Let alone actually use.
Anyhow, off I go to dream about all that extra HD space I'll soon have at my disposal.
Daniel is now almost six weeks old, he will be on this Friday, he was released from Yorkhill hospital in Glasgow on the 28th of May. It came as a surprise to everyone, he seemed to suddenly pick up enough to be released quite quickly after being moved out of ICU.
He is due to go back this coming Monday for his first check-up through in Glasgow. But fingers crossed they will be pleased with his progress. He has gained a couple of pounds - almost - and is now back at his birth weight. Not bad seeing as he wasn't about to feed properly for the first couple of weeks of his life, he lost some weight before and after his operation but seems to be picking it up again now.
Sunday past was Father's Day, and the very next day, i.e. yesterday, was my dad's birthday. We are going to let him choose his present tomorrow at the large B & Q shop we have here. He is after a new hedge trimmer as he managed to cut through the one we gave him a couple of years ago, this one we have our eye on is a rechargeable cordless unit so that won't happen again with this one.
Also tomorrow I am supposed to receive my new external hard drive, it's a 500 GB unit, which I badly need as my old laptop only has 40GB total which is split between two separate internal drives. I have long since had problems with lack of space and a slow moving computer. Originally I regularly moved files onto DVD/CD disk via the burner my laptop has but as the burner is now broken. It has been so for over a year and as you can imagine as I can't transfer files off my hard drive I am fast running out of space. I am lucky if I have 1GB to 1.5 GB on my main drive and the same of the second internal hard drive at any given time. So you can imagine how it can slow down my whole system when windows updates. Last updates have a total of almost 100MB added to my windows folder alone, it can really eat up your memory.
I checked and found that I could either buy an new external burner to start burning files, esp. video files and photo files off my digital camera, or I could purchase an external hard drive and add new memory onto my laptop that way.
When I found that the cost could be around the same for either option, I opted for an external hard drive as you can install programs, and games, directly onto an external hard drive which would be handy as my C drive is mostly all programs, I have deleted (or moved) all other saved files to drive D (the second half of my original hard drive) so I can't move much more to give me room on my main drive.
I hope that by moving non essential (or rarely used) programs and files over to the external drive for use when I wish, that I can cleanse my hard drive and speed up my entire system.
I really would love a new desktop, but that will take some saving, I am hoping that the new drive will ease my problems and extent the life of my current laptop a bit to allow me breathing room and so I won't have to rush buying a new desktop and instead save and wait the just the right bargain for both my purse and my computing needs.
As my car insurance is due to be renewed in November/December it means I don't have to find a way to finance a new computer as well as renewing my more important insurance policy. My car's essential, and no matter how I love and depend on my computer it isn't.
Also I figure a new external hard drive is much cheaper than having to swing a new computer at the moment. So keep your fingers crossed for me.
I have quite a few pc games installed on my computer, eating up a lot of room on an already starving hard drive, so I am hoping I can move them onto my new hard drive without them being compromised too much. Most are solitaire/match 3 like games so they shouldn't suffer too much from being moved onto another drive from my main program files.
For about £73 I have purchased a 500GB external drive, which is much cheaper than the £500+ price tag on the desktops which meet my specs., so I hope this measure will keep me happy until next year. By which time I will hopefully be in a position to look into purchasing that new desktop. Also the drive will be usable with any system I use to I won't loose financial when I do upgrade computers themselves.
Also I can start downloading the episodes of my favourite tv shows again, something I haven't been in a position to do since my burner expired. Also my PSP and pixelling can pick up as I find that my virtual memory makes working on graphics harder as the space just isn't their at the moment. Also I have several gigabytes of content from my memberships which I can't back up or move. Let alone actually use.
Anyhow, off I go to dream about all that extra HD space I'll soon have at my disposal.
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