So... What oiled your gears today?

[hellkat]

Got the hard drive out, and three sticks with 1GB each of DDR (is that RAM?)

Although I don't know what that will be any good for, as I don't think this sort of RAM fits into laptops

As it was bought in about 2005-6-7 or so, its probably pointless keeping it so I'm chucking the case out and left the motherboard in, fuck it. The local Steptoe might like it.

Its probably got a good graphics card but I am sick of poking about in its innards now, and to be fair I have learnt quite a lot about things I never got round to learning before.

*trundles off to look at adaptors with SATA-USB and AC power*
(apparently that is what I need... )
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[Easy-X]

[hellkat]

Crikey that's a bit flash. I have ordered the standard thing as I am not planning to do this on a regular basis.
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[hellkat]

[UncleFester]

Spirit restaurant in Amsterdam - food is priced by the weight of what you have on the plate.

You can have a plate of desert if you are a fat fcuk and pay for that or you can have a few nibbles and pay far less.

All you want to pay for buffet food is a concept more UK restaurants should get behind.
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2017 Z1000SX

[hellkat]

My gears are fully ground by my improving techie skills (mediocre to say the least but for a Boomer, I think I am doing okay)

I received the SATA thingie from Amazon this evening and have already rescued all the old stuff off my hard drive!

The old drive is all reformatted now, and the dusty old tower has been put out for the dustmen.

I know its not rocket science to most of you guys, but to me it was a big step in reclaiming my sanity.

Could I now use the reformatted hard drive as a spare storage space for - I dunno, baby pics of my grand daughter or something?
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[UncleFester]

Yes - but it's old. Do NOT rely on it. You can spin it up from time to time and back things up to it but it should not be the primary or sole source.

You can have a GoogleOne account - 2Tb of cloud storage for < £10 a month, free if you've EE broadband and an EE mobile.

Other plans / storages are available.
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2017 Z1000SX

[stinkwheel]

[UncleFester]

If we enter a Trumpocalypse then Amazon is f'd too. The whole world will see ripples beyond tech.

Banks, Food, deliveries, satnav, internet, emails, mobile phones you name it - we are all about 3 bad decisions that we have no control over from royally fcuked.

As far as backups go, there's a reason it's usually plural.

I have an older SATA SSD that does file history, another external 8Tb that has full multiple snapshots of that SSD plus what goes into GoogleOne and then there's GoogleOne.

There's also a Dell R900 with a 16TB MD1000 attached that i've got backups of all of the above on but that's only powered up periodically as it sounds like a swarm of helicopters under my desk and the electric bill is like running a decent shower.
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2017 Z1000SX

[stinkwheel]

Made my version of kedgeree for tea tonight (substitute smoked mackeral instead of haddock and kale instead of peas). Decided instead of hard boiling and peeling eggs, I'd cook the kedgeree, turn it down to a low heat then make dimples in the rice and crack the eggs into it. Added a splash of water and put the lid on until they poached in the dish itself.

This was a great success, kedgeree with a nice runny poached egg in it. I'm doing it this way from now on. Lovely.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[UncleFester]

kale - because sprouts weren't miserable enough on the palette.
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2017 Z1000SX