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From the soundtrack of Donnie Darko

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Or if you are of a religious disposition ?

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So hard finding inspiration

I knew you’d find me crying

Tell those girls with rifles for minds

That their jokes don’t make me laugh

They only make me feel like dying

In an unguarded moment

So long, long between mirages

I knew you’d find me drinking

Tell those men with horses for hearts

That their jibes don’t make me bleed

They only make me feel like shrinking

In an unguarded moment

So deep, deep without a meaning

I knew you’d find me leaving

Tell those friends with cameras for eyes

That their hands don’t make me hang

They only make me feel like breathing

In an unguarded moment

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[Boris]

Irish Punk ?   tick

Space ?            tick

Details here –

Saw these in Cheltenham Town Hall early 70’s – as the support band to Argent.

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[Boris]

Dave Rice wrote:

Too hot to do anything in the workshop at the moment! No windows and a south facing non opening black metal garage door.

Just use Linux then ? ?

 

Sorry  – just couldn’t stop myself !

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I believe that the PSU you need is  HP part no. 504965-001

(HP-D2201C0 -220W Power Supply Unit) ?

You’ll have a job finding a new branded model of this 🙂

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[Boris]

Just found this too – Intenso  3813430 2.5″ SATA 120GB SSD – £23.98 Delivered

https://www.ebuyer.com/787170-intenso-2-5-sata-120gb-ssd-3813430#

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Another new model to me – Lite-On MU3 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2.5 inch SATA 3 – 120GB.  3D MLC NAND and 3 year warranty.  From 7dayshop.  £24.99 delivered.

Details

 

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You usually get a “shipment” email the day after you order from them.

I ordered a Kingston SSD 10.20 Wednesday morning, and got the DISPATCHED mail at 09.13 today.

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This one is for sale from Pontyclun (by coincidence ? next door to the Mint)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PADDINGTON-BEAR-IN-PADDINGTON-STATION-2018-50P-RARE-ACCIDENTAL-RELEASE/132660613632?

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More “quality” updates ?

June 12, 2018—KB4284835 (OS Build 17134.112)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4284835

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Thanks for all the responses. I found the whole subject interesting.

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The last 3 things I have bought have all initially been lost by being beaten at the last moment by unregistered bidders.  However I have then contacted the sellers and advised them that I was a genuine bidder who had the highest bid before the unregistered bidders, and luckily won all 3 items at the second auction.

The stuff was all “Collect only” – surely there must be some way that Ebay can stop people from hundreds of miles away from bidding on stuff that it would be impossibly expensive for them to buy/collect.  A 50 mile radius of the vendor say ?

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This one is used to power the heating for a large 4 bed house.  There is an outside metal cabinet with vents in (see red X on attached) and there is a separate dedicated “plant room” indoors between the garage and house.

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Tippon wrote:

Thanks Dave The Samsung site listed on the drive has now been redirected to Seagate, and they have no record of my drive…

Try this :- Link

Samsung Drive Diagnostic Utility (Hutil) 2.10 – it seemed to work for me a couple of years ago.

I can also send you the bootable ISO – Samsung ESTOOL 301v – it is only 3MB.

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Thanks

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Boris wrote:

On the subject of activating Windows 10, I had a strange one today – a 3 year old ASUSPRO PU551LA lappy (i5-4200u + 8 GB DDR3) which was originally downgraded from new from Win 8 to Win 7 Pro. It wouldn’t boot – the original 500GB spinner seemed deceased. It had been used 6 days a week for 10 hours a day, but had definitely never been upgraded to Win 10 according to the owner. So, I fitted a Sandisk 240 SSD and installed Windows 10 on it using the April 1803 ISO – just to see what (if anything) else on it might not work. Couldn’t believe it when after going online to get the latest Win 10 updates, it activated itself as Win 10 Pro ! I’d been expecting to have to buy a cheap Ebay key for it as my stock of Win 7 keys were supposedly going to be of no use according to my original Tech Radar post ! Presumably it got the activation via the BIOS ???? I can’t think of any other way.

This one

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That post is about dwynnehugh’s experience – I am talking about a completely different user/machine.

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Just phoned him and he confirms that it has been purely Win 7 from new – he had no interest in upgrading it to Win 10 for free as he prefers to use Win 7 which he is familiar with.

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He doesn’t have a Microsoft account !

There was no problem in re-activating – it has never had Win 10 on it to date.

 

Never trust an atom - they make up everything !

[Boris]

On the subject of activating Windows 10, I had a strange one today – a 3 year old ASUSPRO PU551LA lappy (i5-4200u + 8 GB DDR3) which was originally downgraded from new from Win 8 to Win 7 Pro.

It wouldn’t boot – the original 500GB spinner seemed deceased.

It had been used 6 days a week for 10 hours a day, but had definitely never been upgraded to Win 10 according to the owner.

So, I fitted a Sandisk 240 SSD and installed Windows 10 on it using the April 1803 ISO – just to see what (if anything) else on it might not work.

Couldn’t believe it when after going online to get the latest Win 10 updates, it activated itself  as Win 10 Pro !

I’d been expecting to have to buy a cheap Ebay key for it as my stock of Win 7 keys were supposedly going to be of no use according to my original Tech Radar post !

Presumably it got the activation via the BIOS ????

I can’t think of any other way.

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