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(...) Dang, now I'm sucked into this one, too. Is the printer directly connected to her computer or is it printing over the network (which exponentially increases finding the problem)? Since the printer seems to be physically working (plugged in, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi James! Thanks for your response. (...) Yes. The message goes like this: "Error found while printing document to (printer name). Do you want to retry or cancel?" That was from an attempt to print from M$ Word. (...) Yes. The test page comes out (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Things to check: Are there any error conditions on the printer or the workstation? Can she print a printer test page? The method for doing this varies with which specific printer it is. I could tell you more specifics if I knew which model. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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My wife is having a bit of a crisis at work. She's on a small network and their printer isn't working properly. She's the only one in the office right now. She's tried unloading and reloading the printer software, as well as rebooting the computer (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I haven't been overly impressed with my Inspiron 5000 in general, although I only slightly use it anymore. Mainly I use my Titanium Powerbook at home and my Dual PowerMac G4 at work. I made the switch to Apple last year and aside from (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for the tip, I'll try that out. I dunno what your experience has been - but allthough this is a nice computer performance wise, I'm not very happy with the case. It seems a bit fragile for my liking. I've been careful with it and (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Turns out I saw my officemate on iChat just now. I'll summarize his various statements. Yes - it IS possible to get the keys off, but the "clamps" that hold them on are EXTREMELY delicate. He recommends you remove the assembly and blow some (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Gotcha. I originally thought this was not possible (cause I've tried periodically, gently). I started searching the web today for "cleaning laptop keyboards," and found some tips on it. They included removing keys. But, I realize different (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Doh - sorry. You know, I seriously doubt you can safely remove the keys - or at least I doubt Dell intends for you to be able to do so. Most laptop keyboards I've worked with have been relatively solid pieces. I'd be afraid to try to pry any (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for the link. That shows how to remove the entire keyboard assembly though, but not how to remove individual keys. Can I remove the individual keys and keep the assembly in the laptop? Thanks! -Tim (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you haven't created a login at support.dell.com you will need to in order to use this link, but this takes you to a section specifically on removing parts from the 8100 and has instructions for removing the keyboard assembly. (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone out there have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop? I do, and I'm wondering how the best way to remove the keys to clean the keyboard is. I'm not experiencing any problems with the keyboard, but I've had it for about a year and a half now and (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I couldn't say. Try searching on Google. Sites that just do free hosting are awkward enough with the ads. I couldn't name one that has PHP off the top of my head. (...) Try just typing its IP address into another browser. If you own a domain (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Technotonta desperately seeks help from tech savvy geeks...
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(...) Thank you Richard, I don't know why I didn't just email you directly to begin with instead of broadcasting here how clueless about computers I am (I mean *you* already knew that!). :-) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is it the case that you used the "system restore" utility in WinXP? That should probably have worked. I'm not sure what Netscape may have done to your system but I think one possibility is a java runtime thing. That might answer the question (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Last night I thought I would upgrade my browser (NS4.7), so I downloaded the latest version (7.02) even though it took about three hours with my slow connection. When it was done, I noticed my computer had slowed down considerably. I actually (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Linux. (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But just for testing, what would be a good choice? (...) I have and can, but what will that take? It is just for testing purposes, so I can decide wether or not to leave it running. What I have now, is locally Apache, PHP4 and MySQL running on (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A quick search reveals: (URL) reveals that: (x - A)^2 + (y - B)^2 + (z - C)^2 = R Where A,B,C = the x,y,z coordinates that the circle is centered around, and R is the radius you're looking for. Theoretically (tho I haven't tried), you could (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Quite a while back I asked for help in computing the equation of a circle from three known points, and I received very useful (and ultimately successful) assistance from several people. In addition, my searches led me to a piece of software that (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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