Hp 2000 fan issue

Most laptop fans cool the CPU and GPU with a heatsink attached to a thin fan. This fan can wear out and become slow and/or the heatsink can get plugged with dust. The intake for my HP 2000 laptop is near the QWE keys on the keyboard, this then goes through the fan expelling it through the heatsink fins. If these become clogged, or the fan is failing you will notice a decrease in your laptops performance as the fan cannot cool your computer's demand for processing power. 

     

This small fan is essential to the cooling of the CPU and video GPU of the HP 2000 laptop. The cooling fins can get easily clogged and you have to disassemble the laptop bottom half.
This is essential for the operation of the CPU and avoiding shutdowns and/or hard disk drive errors.

 

 

Fan Info for my HP 2000 -Model 2000 - 2d70DX 

Before and after photos for comparison.

This fan heatsink is for the CPU and GPU

Improve performance of drawings, xrefs and blocks

Improve performance of drawings, xrefs and blocks by removing CRS and map information.

   If you want to improve performance it is a great idea to convert certain x-refs and/or blocks into AutoCAD (not Civil 3D) drawings. In fact if you go into the File menu and use the 'export Civil 3D' option it will convert the civil 3D objects into proxies.
   This is great if you only need to see certain civil 3D objects as overlays in plan view. (x-refs). For example: You can create a 2D drawing of a survey drawing to speed up loading times in certain drawing sets. A 2D drawing will remain in the correct place if you insert it at 0,0 and the CRS coordinates of all the project drawings remain the same.

   File w/ map information embedded in drawing.

You can also make a wblock of the drawing. 

DO NOT INCLUDE THE MAP INFORMATION

SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS!

What is the map info? Why does it include it in drawings? The CRS coordinates. Once one drawing in the set establishes them you can have other blocks created in that drawing share the same origin point of 0,0.

Some information on WannaCry.

WannaCry is a ransomware attack which affects mainly old windows 7 , Vista and XP systems.

CNET has a great article explaining the effects of this worldwide attack here.

Microsoft has released Security bulletin MS17-010 to guide you to install an update to prevent this ransomware from attacking your system.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

The 2017-05 Security monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 is the one I used on my Windows 7 Professional. It actually upadated on 5-15-17.

There are different updates for Vista and XP  depending on wether you have x64(64 bit) or x86(32-bit) architecture.
In order to check your windows operating system. Simply press and hold the window logo key and then press the PrtScn/SysRq key (located above the Insert key).

QGIS

Adding basemaps to QGIS (satellite or terrain imagery of the world)

It's as easy as installing the QuickMapServices plugin.
Go to menu 'Plugins' and install the plugin called " QuickMapServices"
Then just add any of the layers from any of the following services.
They are immediately added to the as a basemap to the current project.