Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Dude, you got a Dell, and now you can't print!
Ok, so I had an issue with a dell laptop that would not print. Fresh restore, re-installed a known good printer... Still wouldn't print. It installed and recognized the printer just fine, but try as I may, I could not get the damned thing to print.
Searching Google was no help... No matter how I phrased the problem, "Unable to print to USB Printer from Dell laptop," I was unable to find a solution.
After talking to Dell tech support for 45 minutes and being transfered twice, I finally got to a technician who told me to uninstall the AMD USB Audio Driver Filter... Yeah... That's right the factory image includes software that conflicts with many USB printers.
So, I google the AMD USB Audio Driver Filter, and WHAM! there's my answer. So, it's a common problem, but not an easy solution to locate. That's annoying. Dell needs some SEO for problems like this...
I can only hope that someone stumbles across my post and it helps them fix their problem printing to USB printers from their dell laptop.
Searching Google was no help... No matter how I phrased the problem, "Unable to print to USB Printer from Dell laptop," I was unable to find a solution.
After talking to Dell tech support for 45 minutes and being transfered twice, I finally got to a technician who told me to uninstall the AMD USB Audio Driver Filter... Yeah... That's right the factory image includes software that conflicts with many USB printers.
So, I google the AMD USB Audio Driver Filter, and WHAM! there's my answer. So, it's a common problem, but not an easy solution to locate. That's annoying. Dell needs some SEO for problems like this...
I can only hope that someone stumbles across my post and it helps them fix their problem printing to USB printers from their dell laptop.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Facebook Notes
Ok, so Facebook has a feature that allows you to pull notes from an RSS feed.
So, this message is posted directly to Blogger, and that triggers Facebook to post a message automatically (within 2 hours).
Now I never have to log into Facebook again.
So, this message is posted directly to Blogger, and that triggers Facebook to post a message automatically (within 2 hours).
Now I never have to log into Facebook again.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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