My best hack was closing the window curtains to get a mouse to work.
It quit working one weekend and I bought another one for a few bucks.
Next weekend the same problem came up. I thought about cleaning it, but remembered it was brand new.
The old cheap mouse had a thin casing and a ball tracker moving wheels with spokes.
It worked OK at night, but during the day the sun hit the side of the mouse and lit up the motion sensors, making it unresponsive.
Can you imagine phoning a help desk complaining about a mouse problem and they tell you to close the drapes.
PDP-10, my first love. Working as a part timer in operations, it was so much more friendly than the CDC machine sitting in the other half of the computer room.
Later, in a small business I pushed to go from Honeywell to the pdp-1170 in about 1977 or so.
The Honeywell salesman's quote was "No one would ever use a timesharing machine for business". But we were early adopters. Quite the ride. Had to develop our own database (indexed file manager) and get it working in 32k. With screen routines in programs, had to move the file manager to another process. Probably one of the 1'st file servers ever written:)
That vt100 brings back memories. What a leap, to be able to change the baud rate without using a screw driver (or dime) on the underside of a VT52.
I don't understand this networking tech, last mile, independents, but I have personally seen throttling on myself in the last 2 months.
I pay $50 a month for the unlimited high speed sympatico since June 2002. About once a week for the last 2 months my download speed drops in the middle of downloads. Last night it went from 400,000 bytes/sec to 40,000 bytes/sec.
The only way I have been fixing this is power off the modem then router, waiting, disable/enable the connection and usually 30 minutes later I can be back up to normal, expected, payed for speed.
Very annoying.
I have an Epson r200 and HAD the same problem. One ink was reporting empty, and actually it wasn't. But because of that it would not print even an all black ink document.
Here is what the corner ink supplier told me when I asked if the ink evaporated...
There is an electronic counter with each cartridge that figures out the ink usage based on pages printed.
She said they all go down at the same rate !!! I don't understand this, but my color inks were low even though I seldom used them. If so, why all the hype on individual cartridges!
I was told to shake them, checking weight, to tell if ink was left, and bring them in to be "reset".
I brought all 7 cartridges in and she reset them free.
I have now bought that ink reseter for $15, so if I run out of yellow ink in the middle of the night, I can reset the yellow cartridge myself, and still probably use it for another few months or years.
When I see all the epson packaging boxes at best buy touting the use of single ink cartridges, I do a slow burn.
I was using windows XP 3 years ago, and bought a Microsoft keyboard.
It had a SLEEP button just above the "-" key on the numeric keypad.
I tried to get it to work.. hours spent, and it always hung the system, requiring a re-boot.
I then spent a couple hours seeing if it could be dissabled, not found.
Microsoft out did themself, requiring only 1 button to crash their system.
After accidently hitting that blue button for the 3'rd time.. I required another keyboard !
The people that brought us over a trillion digits at super-computing also supply a PC program to calc pi up to 32 million. My 2 year old does it in 3 seconds for comparison to the reciter.
Don't know how long their computer would take for 25B
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My best hack was closing the window curtains to get a mouse to work. It quit working one weekend and I bought another one for a few bucks. Next weekend the same problem came up. I thought about cleaning it, but remembered it was brand new. The old cheap mouse had a thin casing and a ball tracker moving wheels with spokes. It worked OK at night, but during the day the sun hit the side of the mouse and lit up the motion sensors, making it unresponsive. Can you imagine phoning a help desk complaining about a mouse problem and they tell you to close the drapes.
PDP-10, my first love. Working as a part timer in operations, it was so much more friendly than the CDC machine sitting in the other half of the computer room. Later, in a small business I pushed to go from Honeywell to the pdp-1170 in about 1977 or so. The Honeywell salesman's quote was "No one would ever use a timesharing machine for business". But we were early adopters. Quite the ride. Had to develop our own database (indexed file manager) and get it working in 32k. With screen routines in programs, had to move the file manager to another process. Probably one of the 1'st file servers ever written :)
That vt100 brings back memories. What a leap, to be able to change the baud rate without using a screw driver (or dime) on the underside of a VT52.
I don't understand this networking tech, last mile, independents, but I have personally seen throttling on myself in the last 2 months. I pay $50 a month for the unlimited high speed sympatico since June 2002. About once a week for the last 2 months my download speed drops in the middle of downloads. Last night it went from 400,000 bytes/sec to 40,000 bytes/sec. The only way I have been fixing this is power off the modem then router, waiting, disable/enable the connection and usually 30 minutes later I can be back up to normal, expected, payed for speed. Very annoying.
I have an Epson r200 and HAD the same problem. One ink was reporting empty, and actually it wasn't. But because of that it would not print even an all black ink document. Here is what the corner ink supplier told me when I asked if the ink evaporated ...
There is an electronic counter with each cartridge that figures out the ink usage based on pages printed.
She said they all go down at the same rate !!! I don't understand this, but my color inks were low even though I seldom used them. If so, why all the hype on individual cartridges!
I was told to shake them, checking weight, to tell if ink was left, and bring them in to be "reset".
I brought all 7 cartridges in and she reset them free.
I have now bought that ink reseter for $15, so if I run out of yellow ink in the middle of the night, I can reset the yellow cartridge myself, and still probably use it for another few months or years.
When I see all the epson packaging boxes at best buy touting the use of single ink cartridges, I do a slow burn.
/sarcasm full on At least she was just fired, and not take out and fired at. Naw... religion wouldn't cause that. /sarcasm, no sense turning it off
I was using windows XP 3 years ago, and bought a Microsoft keyboard. It had a SLEEP button just above the "-" key on the numeric keypad. I tried to get it to work.. hours spent, and it always hung the system, requiring a re-boot. I then spent a couple hours seeing if it could be dissabled, not found. Microsoft out did themself, requiring only 1 button to crash their system. After accidently hitting that blue button for the 3'rd time.. I required another keyboard !
The people that brought us over a trillion digits at super-computing also supply a PC program to calc pi up to 32 million. My 2 year old does it in 3 seconds for comparison to the reciter. Don't know how long their computer would take for 25B