It's been a few weeks since I've posted, I have lost 46 pounds to date! YEA! How? WORK! And a bit of dieting as well. I eat a yogurt and a cup of coffee in the morning (With vitamins) Two yogurts and two string cheeses for lunch, and a normal supper......seems to be working?
No projects have come my way in a while, there may be a netbook that I need to clean up coming my way soon? It would be interesting to see what I could do to speed it up?
Computers seems to be like rain, when they come, they come like CRAZY!
Work is going well, keeping me very busy which is good.
Death of a Dell E6400
For whatever reason my Dell E6400 is no longer working. I believe that it may be similar to the GPU problems that HP faced a few years ago. Turn on the power and I get a "locked D" error.
According to the Dell website this indicates that the processor is no longer being recognized. I swapped the processor out with a good one and the same issue? ARG! too bad! It was a really nice laptop.
For now I am keeping its carcass around, maybe I'll tear it up and fix it in the near future?
According to the Dell website this indicates that the processor is no longer being recognized. I swapped the processor out with a good one and the same issue? ARG! too bad! It was a really nice laptop.
For now I am keeping its carcass around, maybe I'll tear it up and fix it in the near future?
Firfox plug-in checker
Here is the current Mozilla Plug-in checker, use it to keep your Firefox running at its best!
Wight loss, job change, relaxing!
Wow! That's all I can say! since April a LOT has changed. Where to start?
Weight loss. I have lost a total of 57 pounds since February, not much in the last 6 weeks or so, but BOY di I feel better!
I am no longer with the heating and cooling company, while they treated me very well, they pay was poor. I received a call from another company in June asking me to interview with them, I did, and was HIRED! SO! I am back to being a quality Supervisor, as well as a Production Supervisor.
It was quite the change, and I had to learn to (still learning) to deal with the stresses of the position, and everything that I needed to learn (still learning!) I am doing well however, and I like what I am doing!
Relaxing. early this year I was fortunate enough to pick up a 35.5 5th wheel for an incredibly good deal, it needed quite a few little things, but the potential was there! I have invested roughly 1,200 into it to get it to the "comfy" level. it was well worth it! I have had LOTS of fun using it this season, camping is too fun!
No interesting computer issues lately, work has kept me VERY busy! That is a GOOD thing!
Later all!
ICanMan!
Weight loss. I have lost a total of 57 pounds since February, not much in the last 6 weeks or so, but BOY di I feel better!
I am no longer with the heating and cooling company, while they treated me very well, they pay was poor. I received a call from another company in June asking me to interview with them, I did, and was HIRED! SO! I am back to being a quality Supervisor, as well as a Production Supervisor.
Relaxing. early this year I was fortunate enough to pick up a 35.5 5th wheel for an incredibly good deal, it needed quite a few little things, but the potential was there! I have invested roughly 1,200 into it to get it to the "comfy" level. it was well worth it! I have had LOTS of fun using it this season, camping is too fun!
No interesting computer issues lately, work has kept me VERY busy! That is a GOOD thing!
Later all!
ICanMan!
Still kicking
Hello all!
I am still kicking, but back to work! YEAH! I'm working in industrial heating and cooling on the construction side right now. It is quite physical, in 7 weeks I have lost 32 pounds! YEAH BUDDY! I feel MUCH better, but have a long way to go.
Generally I post about projects that come my way, and I will continue to do that. I have two laptops that I received recently that I have played with a bit, a Compaq ZV6000, and a Sony Vaio PCG-9211.
The Compaq has some potential, AMD XP3200 Processor, 1.5Gb of ram, 80Gb. Hard Drive. Just stinking large! 17 inch display (Too bad it is broken right now!)
I cleaned out all the extra programs that the previous owner had installed, along with a load of malware that Malware Antibites had picked up, LOTS of cleaning, but it seems to run far better now. (1200 registry errors? never had a hit that high before?)
The Sony? Pentium III 600MHz, 256Mb Ram (MAX!) 20Gb Hard Drive. good for surfing, not for power. (What a BRICK!) Need a boot disc to install Windows on a larger Hard Drive. 20Gb wont cut it!
For now not much more than trying to clean and upgrade the memory of both laptops. It helped but there is more I can do yet to improve the performance. Time to head off once again, it's quite early and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
Later alll!
"ICanMan!"
I am still kicking, but back to work! YEAH! I'm working in industrial heating and cooling on the construction side right now. It is quite physical, in 7 weeks I have lost 32 pounds! YEAH BUDDY! I feel MUCH better, but have a long way to go.
Generally I post about projects that come my way, and I will continue to do that. I have two laptops that I received recently that I have played with a bit, a Compaq ZV6000, and a Sony Vaio PCG-9211.
The Compaq has some potential, AMD XP3200 Processor, 1.5Gb of ram, 80Gb. Hard Drive. Just stinking large! 17 inch display (Too bad it is broken right now!)
I cleaned out all the extra programs that the previous owner had installed, along with a load of malware that Malware Antibites had picked up, LOTS of cleaning, but it seems to run far better now. (1200 registry errors? never had a hit that high before?)
The Sony? Pentium III 600MHz, 256Mb Ram (MAX!) 20Gb Hard Drive. good for surfing, not for power. (What a BRICK!) Need a boot disc to install Windows on a larger Hard Drive. 20Gb wont cut it!
For now not much more than trying to clean and upgrade the memory of both laptops. It helped but there is more I can do yet to improve the performance. Time to head off once again, it's quite early and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
Later alll!
"ICanMan!"
Freeware and updates
In the last few months Mozilla has released 5 new versions of Firefox, the Current is 9.0.1, I was wondering how many manufacturers of the freeware I use have had recent releases? Here is a list of what I use, and the current versions:
Adobe Reader X
Auslogics Registry Cleaner 2.2.0.0
Auslogics Disc Defrag 3.3.0.2
AVG Free 2012.0.1901
CCLeaner 3.14.1616 (64Bit)
DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
Firefox 9.0.1
Gimp 2.6.11
Image Burn 2.5.6.0
Kompozer .8b3
Malware Anti-Bites 1.15.2.1300
Paint.net 3.5.10
Realplayer 15.0.13
Yahoo Messenger 11.5
I'm thinking about trying out defraggler, just have to see what happens I guess? I'm always looking for the best freeware!!
I'll update tthis later, need to check a couple of things yet.
ICanMan!
Adobe Reader X
Auslogics Registry Cleaner 2.2.0.0
Auslogics Disc Defrag 3.3.0.2
AVG Free 2012.0.1901
CCLeaner 3.14.1616 (64Bit)
DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
Firefox 9.0.1
Gimp 2.6.11
Image Burn 2.5.6.0
Kompozer .8b3
Malware Anti-Bites 1.15.2.1300
Paint.net 3.5.10
Realplayer 15.0.13
Yahoo Messenger 11.5
I'm thinking about trying out defraggler, just have to see what happens I guess? I'm always looking for the best freeware!!
I'll update tthis later, need to check a couple of things yet.
ICanMan!
Firefox 9.0.1 released
Firefox 9.0 was released two days ago, and an update was released yesterday for Mozilla's latest offering. Firefox 9.0 has been touted to be 30% faster that Firefox 8.0, however, you MUST update your pluggins for Firefox to perform at its best.Here is the link to the checker: Firefox plugin checker Here you can check the state of your pluggins, and update if neccesary, there are links to the updates as well.
Once you have updated Firefox, check for Windows updates, and run disc cleanup, and defragmenter to optimize your system.
Personally I use available freeware to optimize my computer, including:
CCleaner
Auslogics disc defragmenter, registry cleaner, and registry defragmenter.
Malware anti-bites
These are the main programs that I use to keep my system running efficiently.
Time to head off for now, other things to get accomplished yet today.
Later all!
ICanMan!
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