Narrowboat Alacrity

Well the new power supply arrived so I stripped the pc down to fit it ………not so easy in a micro cube….well it went in

It buzzes and the fans come on but ……………….a big fat nothing…..

Well it seems that when the power unit went pop so did the video card …………..£40 later and it works………now for the spanish inquesition.

On asking the SWIMBO if she noticed anything odd on or around the time of demise of the power unit “no” she said ” I just moved some books”

Ahh the penny dropped… the books… the same books that were tight up against the computer blocking the cooling air fans…………………………..

Lately Ive been pondering on getting some network storage for my computer system so I can back up my pictures and website.

looking in my local computer shop I saw the Netgear SC101T which looked to fit the bill so I bought one and two 500 gig drives to put in it.

If i’d only read the reports on the web about it I wouldnt have bothered……….what a total lump of wasted space suffice to say it worked when it wanted, it stopped my computers talking to each other, it seemed to just appear then disappear at will and after spending a whole day trying all the permutations I gave up………

In a foul temper and only put of from smashing it up by the chance of returning it and getting my money back………………I decided that it was beer time…….