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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/25/2009 6:02:29 AM

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Well there's your problem then, you don't plug in light bulbs you screw and unscrew them., so trying to plug them in is useless.
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Has any one else experinced something like this, do you know why unplugging it from the usb port makes it suddenly stop working, if you did how'd you fix it.

I've noticed the same phenomenon with light bulbs.

Well technically there are four general fittings for incandescent light bulbs in the UK: BC, ES, SBC, SES.

With the ES (Edison Screw) or SES (Small Edison Screw) you do indeed screw them in which is highly annoying for high level up lighters. i.e. reaching up above yourself, cranking your arm and twisting your wrist endlessly (like mimicking an elephant searching for food in a tree).

Luckily for me most light bulbs fittings in the UK follow the far superior BC (Bayonet Connector) or SBC (Small Bayonet Connector) meaning that when I change the light bulb I am not endlessly twisting my wrist leading to a severe case of RSI (Repetitive strain injury) but instead simply pushing in and twisting only a quarter rotation.

Also highly annoying when you buy an SES or SBC bulb when the fitting is for an ES or BC type. I did this just the other day buying four boxes of bulbs of similar colour and design after checking the contents of one. Then I thought oh how embarrassing it would be to admit making such a mistake upon return of the goods to the store so I devised a plan:…..I wonder if anyone has invented some kind of converter for an SBC to BC. After searching on Google to my annoyance I found people have only bothered to invent converters for ES to BC or BC to ES.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/26/2009 10:40:25 PM

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"If the driver was being deleted then the cable disconnected notice wouldn't pop up. "

Yes that is a bit perplexing. When it is replugged in shouldn't it just find the direction to the driver in the registry ? Typical Microshaft bug. Sometimes it takes a while to find all the bugs, in fact DOS is probably still in beta somewhere knowing them.

I'd say if the problem is not a known issue with the driveer, it is the OS. I wants to revert to the wrong driver. Someone with alot of balls can find that default driver, rename it something or other and move the right driver to where the OS will look, and of course rename it the same. But I'm not sure this would work, and if it didn't one has to remember how to undo what they did, to at least get to square one again. Not recommended for the novice PC user. This can be almost as bad as manually editing the registry.

But then remains the question for the OP, if you are already putting up with 2000, why not just throw XP on it ? OK, they dragged me into XP kicking and screaming, but it had become a necessity. Even buying it legally, it is pretty cheap now.

Which reminds me of my XP issue. If someone can get me drivers for XP that actually work to run a Visioneer 6100B flatbed scanner, I'll get a pretty girl to give you a foot massage on public square and give you a half an hour to draw a crowd. (I had to give up on kiss your ass because some people are very resourceful).

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:21:41 PM

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I have 6 printers none of which are functional.

So - being that I am a tightwad- I ask the neighbor to print for me. She does. She is a sweetheart. :-) I don't print often enough to make it worth buying another.

When I bought the fridge and needed a print- I just brought the whole laptop with me to pick it up. :-) I have a basement full of tech peices- wires and components. One day I will get a dumpster.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:22:58 PM

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I have 6 printers none of which are functional.

So - being that I am a tightwad- I ask the neighbor to print for me. She does. She is a sweetheart. :-) I don't print often enough to make it worth buying another.

When I bought the fridge and needed a print- I just brought the whole laptop with me to pick it up. :-) I have a basement full of tech peices- wires and components. One day I will get a dumpster.

Why don't you offer them up on free cycle?

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:32:24 PM

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I have 6 printers none of which are functional.

So - being that I am a tightwad- I ask the neighbor to print for me. She does. She is a sweetheart. :-) I don't print often enough to make it worth buying another.

When I bought the fridge and needed a print- I just brought the whole laptop with me to pick it up. :-) I have a basement full of tech peices- wires and components. One day I will get a dumpster.

Why don't you offer them up on free cycle?

Ideally- in the back of my mind- one day I imagine that I will "fix: them. lol.

Man I am so behind on stuff. I should run errands but am not motivated.

Happily I am selling a laptop to Jenny that will end up in the junk pile before long. She will use it. If she isnt happy- I do not want her money.

A weather system is moving thru. So - it effects the electrical current with in my body. Sounds odd maybe....

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:36:17 PM

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Do you buy the neighbor paper and a cartridge occasionally? Only fair.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:41:53 PM

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Do you buy the neighbor paper and a cartridge occasionally? Only fair.

Or at least bring her a soda and snack or do some other service for her.

I know that my mother has been fretting because she had to send a couple of faxes to me (less than 25 pages of paper total) and since I do not have a fax, she sent them to phil's, and she has not figured out how to "pay him back." I realize that this sounds corny, but this was the way I was raised, you do not take something for nothing.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:46:16 PM

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Do you buy the neighbor paper and a cartridge occasionally? Only fair.

I will ask her if she wants me to. That is a good point as none of that stuff is free. I do have a stack of paper I could easily drop off in return. I tend to think she wont accept. I think she ran 3- tho it could be no more then 10 copies in the time I have known her. She is very busy. I try not to pester her. Man- I hope I am that functional as I age.

She surprised me with a birthday dinner this month. :-)

When I have extra goodies I send them over. We don't keep score tit for tat- as it has sort of balanced out over time.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 12:48:22 PM

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Do you buy the neighbor paper and a cartridge occasionally? Only fair.

Or at least bring her a soda and snack or do some other service for her.

I know that my mother has been fretting because she had to send a couple of faxes to me (less than 25 pages of paper total) and since I do not have a fax, she sent them to phil's, and she has not figured out how to "pay him back." I realize that this sounds corny, but this was the way I was raised, you do not take something for nothing.

I see your point. The store will run buy one get one free of food items. I dont store food too well-but next time I grab 2- and send one over- I will say- that this is in a way a thank you for the copies she ran. :-)
I am thinking the huge packs of chicken sound good....

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/27/2009 11:50:35 PM

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Hold on Hunky, and everyone. I just spent a bunch of $$$ on a color laser printer and I am not sorry one bit. My last laser was only black, but you could sit there a month and not print anything and it would just work. Not so with an inkjet. The eensty little jets clog up. What's more they are more prone to mechanical failure. If you do a per copy side by side, even the $500 I paid with the original toner was worth it. Many inkjet cartridges are quite pricey and the manufacturers are always looking for ways to make them impossible to refill with those kits.

So it costs five times as much to refill my printer, but I get ten times the use out of it. Plus it will happily lay there in wait for a month or six and not crust up and become inoperable. Also what it prints is not water soluble, and on top of that the finish is exquisite. You print a picture on an inkjet with alot of content out comes a wet paper, very fragile I might add. My toner is baked on. You can't beat it.

All in all I guess this post boils down to a consumer review, but believe me this, I know for sure the laser printer is the way to go and I am not going back. In fact I have two of them. There is not an inkjet in the house (I think), and there never will be.

Some things you just have to pay for. Both my VCRs were about $500 apiece, and I am not sorry. This was when you could get them for about $129. I paid MSRP for my speakers when they were ten years old, and again I am not sorry. I know quality when I see it, and money being practically worthless, my advice when it comes to this shit is this : Either buy the best you can afford and enjoy it or get the cheapest piece of crap that'll do the job and live within it's limitations. If that, in the case of a printer, means burning up a bit of ink to print a test page once a week at least, so be it. You saved the money in the beginning.

I have done alot of different types of business in my life and I find myself using the same phrase in many different scenarios - "You can pay now, or pay later". That statement has never been truer than it is today.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/28/2009 8:58:10 AM

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At the street fair the hornvenders let me take a picture of myself in one of their pair of horns, and they knew I just wanted a photo but they were so nice to let me use their product for my picture that I asked Daddy did you have a dollar I could give the lady, since daddy was broke and only had a few ones on him, an I handed the lady the dollar and said here I want you to have this for letting me use the horns, and she was genuinly happy that I did so.

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RE: after unplugging and replugging in printer won't wo... - 9/28/2009 9:18:48 AM

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Hold on Hunky, and everyone. I just spent a bunch of $$$ on a color laser printer and I am not sorry one bit. My last laser was only black, but you could sit there a month and not print anything and it would just work. Not so with an inkjet. The eensty little jets clog up. What's more they are more prone to mechanical failure. If you do a per copy side by side, even the $500 I paid with the original toner was worth it. Many inkjet cartridges are quite pricey and the manufacturers are always looking for ways to make them impossible to refill with those kits.

So it costs five times as much to refill my printer, but I get ten times the use out of it. Plus it will happily lay there in wait for a month or six and not crust up and become inoperable. Also what it prints is not water soluble, and on top of that the finish is exquisite. You print a picture on an inkjet with alot of content out comes a wet paper, very fragile I might add. My toner is baked on. You can't beat it.

All in all I guess this post boils down to a consumer review, but believe me this, I know for sure the laser printer is the way to go and I am not going back. In fact I have two of them. There is not an inkjet in the house (I think), and there never will be.

Some things you just have to pay for. Both my VCRs were about $500 apiece, and I am not sorry. This was when you could get them for about $129. I paid MSRP for my speakers when they were ten years old, and again I am not sorry. I know quality when I see it, and money being practically worthless, my advice when it comes to this shit is this : Either buy the best you can afford and enjoy it or get the cheapest piece of crap that'll do the job and live within it's limitations. If that, in the case of a printer, means burning up a bit of ink to print a test page once a week at least, so be it. You saved the money in the beginning.

I have done alot of different types of business in my life and I find myself using the same phrase in many different scenarios - "You can pay now, or pay later". That statement has never been truer than it is today.

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If I do not wreck a hard drive once a year- then I am NOT using the crap right.

Somehow- these days I just dont need much printing. I put filed a a USB memory and then I should have the stuff.
(on the hard drive and on the stick) Sometimes I have a 4rd copy in my email.

The neighbor- I am not as public with my xxx stuff- not at all. So of any online content- there is not much I would let her see.

I do not mix "gay" with work or neighbors. If people want to think it fine- go wild.

Thinking on this- it was when I reordered eye glasses and when I ordered a newsletter- where I had to have a print so as to postal mail payment.

One day- I will buy a printer- Oh hey- the old laptop wen to Milton last night. $50.   Which is gleefully spent on booze and cigarettes. ;-)

Yay. I finally stopped a gadget from the junk room!       Tempting to give her old printers- but I will then hear for months how one can not throw them out.

BTW_ there are guys who take the gold and silver out of electronics!    I sent you a link to that board- as Term- has the brain to do that!!!

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