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Windows 7 Printer Driver for HP2600n

I have a Hewlett Packard HP2600n color laser jet printer. But for some reason Windows 7 doesn’t include a driver for it.  An online Windows Update doesn’t retrieve the driver, and a visit to the HP...

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Slide Duplicator Mod

After my mother died and my father sold his house and moved, I ended up with all the old family photos, as I was the only one who had aspirations to do anything with them.  The photos included both...

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Cloning a Windows 7 System Drive

I just finished what I would consider to be an annoying hard drive replacement/upgrade on a Windows 7 desktop machine.  The annoyance resulted primarily from the time writing and restoring large disk...

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Have Your Gadgets in Windows 7 Without UAC

I’ve disabled the User Access Control (UAC) in Windows 7 (because I like living on the edge). I can’t recommend that for everyone, but I still think the UAC is a nuisance; especially since there isn’t...

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Another Internet Scam

I received a couple of scam emails recently in regards to a couple of domains I own. There are lots of organizations (I won’t give them the dignity of calling them “companies” because that makes them...

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Half a Million and Counting

Since I didn’t have anything else to blog about, I figure I’d brag about my soldering video on YouTube (again). I had intended to publicize it when the video surpassed 500,000 views, but I missed the...

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Dewalt and BearKat Bifocal Safety Glasses Comparison/Review

Like many people, around my mid 40′s my eyes started showing the effects of aging, at which time I began experiencing presbyopia.  That meant that I needed reading glasses to see smaller objects and...

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Setting up a Static Subnet with PPPoe

I recently changed from a copper wired telephone service and DSL line to a fiber optic connection. When I lost my DSL, I also lost the five fixed IPs that I was using to host some devices I was using...

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A Search for a Faucet Ceramic Cartridge

We recently discovered that our kitchen sink faucet was leaking. When I disassembled the faucet, I found that the outside housing of the ceramic cartridge that controls and mixes the water flow in the...

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Another Reason Microsoft Sucks

I provide computer technical support for my union’s computers where I work.  Recently one of the users complained that they weren’t able to access a website with Microsoft Internet Explorer, the...

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