morning all.

Careful Glen the Microsoft people may call and tell you that you are in violation of the service agreement for tampering with the fan.

oh goodie there is an ice and snow storm heading for home today. I am hoping to miss it by going tomorrow. The boss just lit out for the airport to catch an early flight for Portland as his later one was cancelled.

It's a whole 27°F outside right now.

I can see the number of fingers I am holding up at arms length with my left eye!
It's better than it has been.
Still pretty annoying though.

well I will cross my fingers for you to get better.

It is not a Microsoft computer, just OS. I am pretty sure even Microsoft can tell if the fan is OEM or replacement. :cool:

We have a lot of strange custom computers here. We just went out to the airport to fetch a scanner our Pilot brought back from the home office. It filled up the cargo bay of out 206 where the camera normally is. It is a 200 lb scanner that sold new for over 75 grand. It is just a parts dog now for our scanner. It is one heavy scanner. It can scan a 10 micron resolution on a 9x9 piece of film and that makes a 1.2 GB file. Lust like our current scanner.

I was kinda referring to the scammers that call and tell you things about your computers.

Most power supplies still have the 20/24 pin connections for the old ATX motherboards. They may not have enough Molex connections but the power to the board should be the same.

Replacing the fan is easy, but should the unit poop out you should be able to replace it still.

got checked in for tomorrows flight. Now lets hope for the snow to melt on the ground at home by 1:00pm tomorrow.

Does snow hang around very long out there? We had 4" of snow last weekend and any place that was even sloppily shoveled had melted off within a day. A lot of the grass has started showing bare spots as well.

Only if the weather conditions line up for disaster. Most times the snow never sticks and melts on touchdown. At other times it stacks up and lasts for a few hours. Very rarely will it last for days. It is supposed to start snowing this afternoon and change over the rain by midnight. My flight lands at 1:00pm tomorrow so as long as mother nature is listening to the weather heads I'm good.

For us it usually starts as rain and then changes to snow so you have ice under the nice new snow. I hate that, but it is better than sheer ice.

snow and ice in any form where I live is just no fun. To much traffic.

Regular snow is fun here for the kids and I, not so much for my wife. She does not buy my excuse that going sideways down our road is good practice for hitting a bad spot in the road.

Oh nooo, in our main assembly building we've had some people come down with carbon monoxide poisoning. One was hospitalized! But they were released. Wonder if it had to do with the cold temps outside? The notice says the safety team has taken care of the problem, that building is where their office is.

The fire alarms in my house are also CO detectors.

That is not good hope everyone is ok.

Going sideways on purpose in the dry and catching it is always good practice in the right car. I try to avoid it in the Elky. With that long wheelbase it tends to keep rotating.

At my former place of employment if the snow was falling hard the boss would just run to a local fried chicken place and buy lunch for the employees. There were usually 6 or 8 people working so not a major expense. It prevented employees having to go out to lunch and be gone for a long time due to weather. Anytime it was snowing hard I would tell him "It smells like chicken today" when I first saw him in the morning.

One time we had a "perfect snow." It started snowing HARD at about 8:30 and everyone was at work already. Around 11:15 the boss went to get chicken in his 4 wheel drive Suburban and as he got back it quit snowing. By 4:30 the roads were dry and the snow was only left on the grass.

no snow on the roads is perfect.

Everyone says Cobras are a car that will bite you with the 90" wheelbase, but it is actually pretty docile under power if you are expecting it. Braking on the other had with a different track front and rear...

The Durango is one of the easiest vehicles I have had sideways. I think it is the rack and pinion steering with a long wheelbase and easy to modulate power.

The Elky is way to anemic power wise to play with. The automatic transmission does not help.

Easy fix, just put an extra washer pump to spray water in front of the rear tires. And a bigger tank.

If you add a cool collar you will have enough power!