Mr B's Blog: October 2004

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Friday, October 29, 2004

Back to comfortable blogging (in comfy chair with 802.11g(encripted)), thanks to Mr Credit Card, I now have a brand new Laptop that I hope will last. It's an IBM ThinkPad R51, so I really really hope so. Graphics card is the Dogs Whatnots, even better than my desktop PC. Has taken a few days to get it back to where my old laptop was in terms of software etc. and configuring it to have three partitions (Progs, Swap and Data - so that the Windows temp area does not get fragmented and slow down the machine). I am also paranoid enough to backup all of my work to 3 CD-RW's (each a copy) and my desktop PC, and work in progress that ends up on the weekly backup on a USB pen - so no 'work' lost.

Great Escapes

Went to see this on Thursday, absolutley brilliant, pics of the IWM to below... Great Escapes

Leaflet

German Encipher/Decipher machine

Gernam Enigma (Army Version), see Bletchley Park and NZGirl rather than U571, a good film, but historically inaccurate - slight chip on shoulder, Americans should not take offence.

Spitfire

Engine and bottom part of a V2, the prototype for the Apollo Moon Landings - See Wernher Von Braun

WW1 Biplane

Early German Radar

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

John Peel dies :-(

See BBC News

I must have a very good memory!

Monday, October 25, 2004

Almost there - last pic though.

Keyboard and touchpad in situ.

Top on.

Back in the bottom of the case.

Fully apart.

After all that...

Still not working correctly. Managed to get the whole thing back together and running, but after a few hours, the eventual heat build up started to cook the graphics card - must be a design flaw. I always wondered why the model was only on the market for a few months.

Rebuild pics to follow.

Sunday, October 24, 2004

Strip down and rebuild

Have completly taken apart my laptop and put it back together and it still works! Doing a disk check now after I thumped it on Wednesday - hope all works, but still have one screw left {-(

I think the problem was a loose connection between the graphics card daughter board and the motherboard even though it was screwed in place, only time will tell.