JUNE 6!!!

FINALLY A RELEASE DATE!!!

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.

Breaking Bad

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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.

Just so you can be sure, you should get tested...

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Observation of the day...

The phrase "what do you have in your rss?" could be mistaken for a naughty typo.

The simplest solution is often the hardest to find.

I was once told a story, as I recall, it was about Isaac Newton (unproven creator of the doggy door). The story stated that he had a pet dog and a pet cat. The dog was much larger than the cat, and as such, he installed a door for each. A large one for the dog and a small one for the cat. It was only after he witnessed the kitty using the doggy door that he realized he only needed the one door.

I think it's funny how great minds tend to do things the hard way. Someone once told me they had a brilliant brother and a lazy cousin. Any time they needed something done efficiently, they would ask their cousin because he always had a quick easy solution where as his brother would spend hours explaining some convoluted plan that looked good on paper but wasn't practical.

I can't help but wonder if sloth, at least in this context, is a virtue.