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  1. Boomyal

    Helping my Daughter with wireless-Ha Ha Ha

    My fair daughter, who lives clear across this great nation, has DSL service. I assume that both she and her hubby have to access it by umbelical cord. She wants to get a little Brother wireless Laser printer like I just got (they currently have no printer). Seems we could kill two birds with...
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    Wireless Printer installation! This is a real DUH!

    After days of angst about getting my Wife's new wireless Brother Printer up and operating and after a full Saturday of good help from so many of the iboat members, several glasses of strong, adult beverage finally revealed the solution. In a conventional wireless sense, I did get the printer to...
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    Wireless Router hook-up assisistance.

    I am doing some preventative legwork to keep this project from taking up the whole of this Saturday. As some of you are aware, I am setting about to get Mrs B's some printing capability using her new little Brother Wireless Printer. (discussed in previous post) Here is what I aim to do. If...
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    Ignition point gap?

    In the absence of a manual, what might be a safe generic point gap setting. This is for a 12 v, 4 cylinder industrial flathead engine in a 1962 Hyster Forklift. Currently, with a relatively new set of points installed by a 'professional', I cannot even slide an .011 business card between the...
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    Sweet little printer!

    Just picked up a little Brother HL-2270DW wireless laser printer for $99.00 at Office Depot. Haven't got the wireless set up for it yet but I hooked it direct (USB) to the Mrs Win7 laptop and it just prints it's little heart out. Except for the lack of color, for the price I can't see why...
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    WiFi question?

    This concerns a WiFi laptop that I want to use to access a WiFi capable printer. The laptop is currentlly plugged into a Cat5 cable for internet access. If I install the printer (do not have it yet) will there be any conflict between the WiFi printer communication and the hard wired cable...
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    What gives? Picture size!

    All my PhotoBucket pictures are sized at 640 x 480. This used to be good. Now when I post one you get both the vertical and horizontal scrollbars to be able to see the whole picture??????
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    UltraSonic cleaning?

    I got the great idea of cleaning my Mustang SS wire wheel covers with a ultrasonic cleaning. They are not all that 'dirty' but do not sparkle. I've seen what small ultrasonic cleaners do to jewelry and figured they would do the same for my wheel covers. I googled 'ultrasonic cleaning...
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    Streaming Video-How it works?

    We recently hooked up to Netflix Streaming video. The few times we used it, it worked well. A couple of times the video stopped to catch up? It was not a big deal. Tonight, (Sunday) the pauses were intolerable. The picture stopped every few minutes and took as long as 30-45 seconds to...
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    Using up ISP bandwidth?

    When do you start consuming ISP bandwidth? Do you have to have a web page open or is it just when your computer is on and hooked up to the internet?
  11. Boomyal

    Resolution Question?

    What is the difference between an "I" after the resolution number and a "P"? When do you declare one over the other when setting up a BluRay/DVD player. Furthermore I have no clue what resolution our older Toshiba rear projection TV is. How are you supposed to know? I don't even think they...
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    Woo Hoo! We are streaming live!!

    After several arduous crawls 60 ft under the house, drilling holes into the wall and down thru the floor plate, fishing cat 5 cable up into the two new wall jacks, making up 6 male and female R45 jacks, and finally going thru the new BluRay/DVD player set up, we finally got our first streamed...
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    PM notification?

    I do not see any place, on the forum homepage, where a 'you have a PM' shows up? I just went into my mail box to use an old PM to mail back to a member and there was an unopened PM from Jan 16. No where did I see evidence on the main menu page.
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    Vidjo camcorder?

    Has anyone had any experience with this brand? They have them on Woot for $139.95. Sanyo Xacti HD Camcorder & 14MP Camera w/12x Optical Zoom http://www.woot.com/ They are small and handy. I've been thinking it would be nice to have a reasonable quality camcorder around. I haven't studied...
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    Anyone familiar with electric motors?

    Pictured is an exhaust fan motor that is about 40 years old. I have two of these in service and the most used one works perfectly. The one pictured is out of a bathroom that has had, easily, 1\5th of the use, of the working one. This one is lazy. When you turn it on it spins very slowly...
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    Disabling touchpad mouse?

    The wife's new Dell ate a harddrive. A new one is installed and working well however we have to reconfigure everything to her liking. One thing I did before was to disable the touchpad mouse when an external mouse was plugged in. Mrs B would keep hitting it when typing. I found where to...
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    Why do we bother with....

    ...virus protection programs today? Seems that Malware, Spyware and Trojans are today's maladies du jour. I can't remember when I have had a virus but I sure remember the pain and hassle of recent severe infections of the above.
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    Go Figger! (shipping topic)

    My daughter and her new hubby just moved from Vancouver WA to Kutztown PA. We figured that the best way to get their goods to them (all personal, no furniture) was to box and palletize them and send them via commercial freight carrier. Prior to leaving, they packed up their goods in ten...
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    Light activated photo sensors?****SUCCESS****

    On a typical light fixture that turns on and off with daylight and darkness, does the photo sensor carry the whole 120 volts or is it just a trigger for some kind of electronic switch? If it does carry the whole voltage, is it just wired in line with the black power wire or is it wired on the...
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    Another Win7 mystery?

    I took the hardrive out of Mrs Boomyal's defunct Dell XP laptop. I plugged it into my main XP PC, using the USB adaptor, and I can see/read all folders and files. I then plugged it into Mrs B's new Dell Win7 laptop so she could get all the goodies off of it that she wants. Win7 registers the...
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