My Computer Runs Slow (Norton)

          Recently yours truly has seen his computer
                                  running slow

                        Most everybody says, "
                      Upgrade your computer.."

           As if a computer was a disposable item.

                  We see things differently.
       We see the computer as a durable white good
                              for legal reasons.

                    To make a long story short,
  you can fix your Windows XP computer like this:

          Un-Check the box for scanning other computers!
          Because this "Feature" makes your computer run
                                sooper-slow.
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How To Install Dinex Drivers Into Windows 8 Enterprise Edition

              How To Install Dinex Drivers Into Windows 8 Enterprise Editition

                                               Prior to today in
                                                 the year 2015
             I told you how to install DINEX drivers into Windows 8 Here and Here.
     With Windows 8 Enterprise edition you don't have to do ANY of those things.
                                            Simply plug and play.

      Windows 8 Enterprise edition has net(dot)framework four dot something
                                         BUILT IN ALREADY.
Dot net framework is a way for a bunch of different programs to share information.
                                         On your computer.
                                            In real time.

  Your Windows 8 Enterprise Edition has net framework four dot something
                                      already installed.
           Even so, we need to have net.dot.framework 2.5 installed
                                         BEFORE
               we install DINEX drivers into your computer
          so the advice is, "install net.dot.framework 2.5" first!
          or wait a long time until the software does it for you

  Then install your Dinex drivers into Windows 8 Enterprise edition.

 If you click on the INSTALL icon then you will go round and round.
                        Instead of doing that, follow this procedure:
                        1.  Install net.dot.framework 2.5  BY HAND.
                        2.  Then install your DINEX software.
                                       Plug and play!
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My Road Trip

February 2015

 

                               During a recent road trip to Orlando

                 I decided to visit a nice restaurant each evening

                                      and eat all the things.

                                   I gained five pounds!

                          So no more pigging out for awhile.

 Even though I was at Walt Disney World, I wasn't having fun all the time.

                I spent most of my time in or around one of these:

 

                This transit bus is the first ride for most of the guests.

              Many of the guests have never ridden on a bus before.

           These vehicles are ten years old and very dusty and dirty

                     in the dark and hidden areas where I work,

                          even though the outside is snazzy.

 After opening two doors, we can see the innards where the magic happens.

These black boxes that light up are PLC, Programmable Logic Controllers.

       I told you about the programming language in a previous post. 

            You wouldn't Normally see these electronic brain units

                 unless you could possibly know where to look.

                                     Enough about work.

   I stayed in an area on International Drive which is wall-to-wall

         with tourist things, some of which didn't look like they

        would be safe enough to exist in the state of California

   such as a raised go-cart track which resembled a roller coaster.

                                 Which I didn't ride.

        The most impressive item that I saw was the Orlando Eye.

 

   The individual cars on the Ferris wheel are bigger than my first apartment.

                             Big enough for a flying dinner party.

 

                      The structure of the Ferris wheel hub is most impressive.

 

                  This picture is a good one for the handy phone splash screen.

                            It is very unusual and people ask me about it

                                when they see my phone light up.

 

 

 

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My Washing Machine

My appliances are twelve years old.

Sooner or later I will have to replace them.

I told you about my clothes dryer over

here.

Before starting work, I unplugged the washing machine's power.

Here is a look at the Clothes Washing Machine's Innards:

 

The Large Gray item is connected to the knob on the

front of it's control panel, which no longer worked.

The Large Gray item is the Controller.

 

As you can see, the Controller has a motor to make the knob spin

(green arrow) while the washing machine is washing my clothes.

Two plastic tabs are holding this side of the controller

Onto the front panel (red arrows).

No problem here!

I added some plastic friendly lubricant "Tri-Flow"

to the part that spins with the knob (blue arrow).

This lubrication helped a lot.
 

But then

on the other side of the Controller

there was only one plastic tab, which had broken off.

The Controller would sag back and then the knob

wouldn't be pushed in and the wash cycle wouldn't start.

Rather than run out to the hardware store,

I found these hard rubber items which are actually

shower door bumpers.

I cut down the hook on one of these bumpers

Very carefully.

 

I held the item with pliers as shown, while trimming the part.

Not with my fingers.

The trimmed piece grabs on to the Controller.

After rummaging through my supplies I found a bolt and, ahem, washer

that would hold the rubber bumper down securely

Then I put some strong, hold-it-to-everything glue

in-between the rubber bumper and the controller..

 

 

After being heated with an incandescent light bulb for about twenty minutes,

the glue foams up a little bit to fill the space (not shown).

Now the Controller is secured to the front panel,

the knob can be pushed in or pulled out

and I am back in the laundry business.

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My Start Screen 2

   My computer seems to take a long time when starting up the Internet Explorer. I have 
              been trying to find a way to speed things up as I told you about over here.

       For some reason I came to wonder if the start screen could be a dot htm file that
   exists on my computer. If so, this html file will load super fast. Today, while I was using
        a help screen, I beheld a dot htm file that exists on my computer. Yowza. Here is a
                               screen shot of how I set up my Start Screen 2.

 We can learn from this example that percent twenty represents a space bar character.

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My Road Trip

                              I have recently visited Maine on a road trip.
            The last leg of my airplane ride was in a small two engine airplane.
                I was proud to see that the pilot and copilot were both women.
                           There aren't enough female pilots in the world.
                         After the plane ride there was a long drive North.
               Technically the season is Autumn so I was expecting a little cold.
                                                   Good morning!

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                                 This rental car turned out to be a good car.
                     Car stayed on the road and didn't get stuch in a parking lot,
                              which is impressive given the road conditions.
                The car is a nice blue color though hidden beneath a pile of snow,
                                                       it is a Buick Verano.

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                           Next morning, car was covered in ice instead of snow.
                              Gasoline prices are about the same, there or here.

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                               For awhile I had the interstate highway all to myself.
             As I proceeded south, frozen rivers and ponds gave way to open water.

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                                         After another short ride in the tiny airplane
                                                 and a long ride in the big airplane
                               I finally arrived at home to find this spider in my kitchen.

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My Lamp

                                     I have a hanging lamp in the living room of my house.
                                      The lamp looks OK from a grownup point of view.
                                              If the viewer is tall, the lamp looks fine.

                         However, a little kid on the floor can look up and see the bare lamp bulb.

                                The bare bulb throws a lot of glare when the lamp is turned on.
                             To remedy the situation I added a lens bowl from another lamp.

                                      I drilled three, one-eighth inch holes equally spaced

                                                     around the rim of the lens bowl.

 

                      The lens bowl is threaded with some wire that has high temperature insulation.

                                     These three wires will support the hanging lamp bowl.

                                          The hanging lamp has some vents for cooling.

                                        The three wires are bent into the shape of hooks,

                                                   threaded through the cooling vents,

                                      and bent into place to support the added lamp bowl.

                                                 The resulting lamp is much better.

                                          The light quality lights up the darkness well, too.

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