August has been a bit busy, so you get a dump of pictures and links…
Here’s some pics from DaVinci Days
Max Likes Bugs
Off to save the galaxy.
And some from the Steam Up:
Evey year we take a pic in front of the biggest Cat.
Kindly fireman.
Spotted a time traveller…
And his wife.
Walker Bulldog.
Yes it is.
Neat home made rail bike/cart.
Spud took Max and me fishing down the Long Tom.
Small fry.
Going back into the river.
So that’s the last month in pics, at least the high points.
Besides that I’ve been messing with computers a bit (I’ve bought a bunch at yard sales dirt cheap). So here are some computer links:
I bought this IOGear Keyboard for use in the bedroom, works well although the trackball doesn’t work well beyond about 40 degrees tilt.
How to boot from a USB or CD even if your BIOS won’t let you. Very handy, allowed me to restore a $3.00 laptop purchased at a yard sale.
CPU-Z tells you everything you need to know about a PC. Great for dealing with unknown hardware and figuring out what’s what.
Guimark is a great way of benchtesting a machine’s flash performance (I use the “Flex 3” test). Amazing the differences a little ram or CPU speed make when rendering Flash streaming video.
I installed a Netgear WG111 wireless PCI card (no Amazon link because I wouldn’t recommend it…) on one of the Barn PCs. It disabled “Fast User Switching” – AKA the normal XP login screen. Here’s an article on how to get it back. It’s 2010, Netgear, get your act together!
Online “Crap, I left my Caps Key on while typing that 10 paragraph blog comment” converter.
And some other non computer links:
Telegraph Instruments of Europe
