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marsmimar said:

John, you wouldn't be trying to mug us off now would you?

As if!

Mitch,
I guess it's ...

THW

Lol, I was LOL watching you all advise poor John

A Guy

BBC News - Atoms star in world's smallest movie from IBM

be fair the first one was about dunnys or lack of in the outback

Sun is shining it actually feels warm here on the Cornish Coast so I am out dog walking this afternoon, I'll keep a lookout for Carl while I'm out!
(Can't be long, that nice lady from MS might phone me agian later!)

Well this happened last night:

Was at work yesterday afternoon. My girlfriend Ellen sent me a text saying how her laptop isn't working and she just gets a message about the fan not working. Told her I'd have a look at it after work and give it a clean out.

It's a HP Pavilion G6 laptop, so fairly straightforward to disassemble. Got to the heatsink and fan and took it apart and was greeted with this when checking the fan out:



Over time the fan must have just been sucking dust in from various places and it's got caught up and just snowballed round and round until eventually it jammed the fan.

Cleaned it all up and gave everything a good blast with some compressed air and it's as good as new now. Runs much quieter and cooler now after putting some new thermal compound on.

z3r010 said:

Doesn't Australia have any news organizations, every link you've posted for the last week is from the bbc

No, we have complete crap here, and its always late. Have a look:
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Technology | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | adelaidenow

Maybe there are some good ones that I haven't stumbled upon?