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Hi! If you can try to connect the printer directly to your computer and give it a go, and check if there are any warning LEDs on the printer indicating that it is out-of-paper or out-of-ink. I've had a couple of printers tell me that they are out of paper if they don't have at least 30 sheets of paper in the paper feeder. It's probably just a design defect that the manufacturer does not want to admit, but it exists no matter what they would want to say. To get the printer running, the NAS would have to detect the printer. Then, you would attempt to connect to the printer over the network at which point the computer gets the drivers installed automatically from the network (though sometimes you have to do it manually). In either case, if the NAS says the printer is connected and the computer says it is able to 'see' the printer over the network and view the print queue status, that's a first step. Try to print some text entered into Notepad to check if the printer responds (some printers have issues printing images). The IP address of the NAS is used to connect to the printer. If you are accessing the NAS as a shared resource in Windows, you should be able to get the name of the printer along with the names of any shared folders. Double-click on the printer to view the print queue. The printer does not have a separate IP address because it is simply plugged into the USB port of the NAS.

With the new one-domain-per-member-per-year rule for MyCENTs, most of my websites have been deactivated so I've been hanging out on FaceBook, WhatsApp, and Google Hangouts, and that's one way to see all your time vanish. Back in the old days, I used to look for stuff to put onto my blog and visit the forum often to post. I guess many other folk who were here for their websites were bitten by the new rule too.

Hi! The Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 works in one of 2 modes - there is the tablet mode, which Microsoft used to call the Metro User Interface mode but after some trademark battle had to call it the Modern User Interface, and there is the Desktop mode. If you open Internet Explorer 10 in desktop mode, you get the regular Internet Explorer window with the address bar on top. If you open Internet Explorer 10 in the Modern user interface, you would get the address bar at the bottom and a weird looking user interface if it is the first time that you are using Windows 8. Also, if you install a web browser like Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, or Opera, and you make one of those your default browser, your Internet Explorer would lose the ability to open in the Modern user interface meaning that Microsoft insists that you set Internet Explorer as your default web browser. I'm surprised this has not got people picking up their pitch forks and demanding that they be allowed to use the Modern user interface mode of Internet Explorer - perhaps not too many people use it? It takes a while to get used to Windows 8, but once you do, you will not want to go back.

...and it is also a perfect time to watch some episodes of Buffy, like you always wanted to. Or was it Charmed? It's either one or the other, but it is bound to get you hooked and you will want to watch the whole series after you have watched the first couple of episodes. Prison Break is another series that will have you wondering about what is going to happen next, but I'm guessing you have already watched it. Prison Break had a greater appeal because the protagonist is a male rather than a female, as is the case with the other two series.

I have been getting my web hosting invoices and payment reminders every year, just as I have been receiving them all along. I didn't notice a change of due date, though there is a new policy on domain name registration - you can only purchase one domain name registration per year with MyCENTs and the rest of the domain names have to be paid for with real cash (or equivalent). Apart from that, I did not really notice any change. Deleted. Velma who? They say that great warriors are meant to be remembered, and not forgotten, such that they serve as inspiration to future generations to come. With each fallen warrior comes another to take his/her place, and greatness shall once again be restored.

I watched all six movies from the Star Wars series last month, and it seems to make more sense to me when I watch all six of them in order. The last time, I watched them in the order in which they were released and with several months to a few years between episodes, so I never could really figure out what the story backdrop was, though I was familiar with the characters from the previous films that I had watched. BTW, I think there are some spinoffs of the Star Wars series too, or at least I remember reading about them. Some of the characters got to have their own movie, just like Wolverine got to have his movie as a spinoff from the X-Men series. Among the more popular spinoffs among television series is the Angel series that branched off from Buffy The Vampire slayer. A lot of people who I got to watch Buffy were totally freaked out after watching the first episode and decided that they were not going to watch it any more - apparently, it gave them nightmares, and we didn't even watch it on a large screen home theatre with surround sound... all we had was a portable DVD player and a DVD pack that somebody thought would make a great present (which it did, considering that Buffy was all the rage back then).

The speech recognition software included with Windows 7 and Windows Vista is pretty much available to you at no cost since you bought Windows (either along with your computer as pre-installed software, or as an off-the-shelf add on, or perhaps even through an MSDN subscription or one of the free software give-away plans that Microsoft has). However, I have not been able to get it to work right. I ran the speech recognition software trainer and it still does not recognize most of what I say for the most part. It gets a word or two right, but that is what the old voice recognition software could do too, so I am rather unimpressed at how it works. There's another software named Dragon SimplySpeaking that I tried in the past and I did not have much luck with it either, but it did seem to have an all-voice interface to correct it and it could learn from its errors. I have not really had a chance to use one of the newer versions but unless I get to use something that works with a good deal of accuracy, I'm not placing any bets on speech-to-text software. The other way round, that is text-to-speech, typically sounds very monotonic and robotic and unnatural to hear. It's also quite distracting and sometimes annoying, especially when it is used to provide the narration for something like a Powerpoint presentation or a storyline. For now, I guess I'll just have to do things the old fashioned way.

More cents for my piggy bank! :-) BTW, would it be possible to have a market place on the forums where members can sell services and products - perhaps something like photographs, software, and maybe even T-shirts and electronics - in exchange for MyCENTs, or would that turn into a whole government-regulatory affairs deal for money laundering? (speaking of "money laundering", I often wondered why they call it that... perhaps early money laundering efforts began in a laundry?).

There are some homes that are neglected because there's a single parent who works two jobs or because both parents work overtime but when you have one of the parents who is a stay-at-home mom, the house ought to be more habitable on the inside, if not on the outside. Even in that case, they don't leave garbage lying around, though they may let weeds and thorns block their home from the outside world. When one speaks of a neglected lawn, don't you imagine a fairy tale in which the bushes and weeds keep everyone out but one day a prince comes and they just part and give way for the prince to enter, the prince meets the princess-to-be, and they all live happily ever after (after hiring a cleaning crew, gardener, and a home renovation contractor!). Dogs that have been abused can have a bad temper, which is why many dog breeders recommend owning a puppy instead of adopting a dog. BTW, everyone speaks of having plenty of space for a dog to move about, so there was this farm with loads and loads of space and they adopted a dog. The dog was quite active and seemed to take well to the environment. One day, a calf fell down a shallow excavation pit (probably used for growing rice) and the dog tried to pull it out by its ear, causing injury with the ear lobe tearing. The dog was then kept away from the farm animals out of fear that it may cause them more harm. Finally, the dog met its end from a snake bite. The incident seems to indicate that perhaps a duplex apartment is a better place for a dog than a farm or even a house with a lawn and backyard, unless they breed mongeese (or is it spelled mongooses?) to keep the snakes away. Or perhaps even a pack of attack ducks instead of mongeese, assuming that the dog doesn't decide to make a meal of them; cats tend to prey on chicken but I'm not sure if that's the case with dogs too.

While on the subject of house payments and rent, I was wondering if anyone on the forum lived in an RV or trailer. Apparently, they say that living in a trailer part is a great way to save on cash. I think you would need some really good weather to get by without air conditioning because whatever one would save on rent would be spent by having to generate one's own electricity by getting a diesel generator and burning lots and lots of diesel. In one report, it is said that leaving a car engine running for ten to fifteen minutes is just about as much as what you would need to drive for a distance of two kilometers (of course, they assume you would be driving something like a Suzuki Swift with a diesel engine of under two litres generating about eighty horse power). Given that a fuel tank capacity is around twenty five for smaller cars and it consumes a tenth of a litre of fuel in ten to fifteen minutes, one would be using up less than a liter of fuel in an hour so eight litres of fuel should get one through the night and that would be followed by a trip to the office or to the mall. Having to fill up half the fuel tank on every single day and having to pay for more frequent oil changes because of the longer running of the vehicle's engine is bound to cost more than the rent for a small apartment. In a way, you could say that being home-less costs you more than if you had a home. There is the possibility of living in a space where you get electricity off the city's electric grid and that would definitely make it a whole lot cheaper because you can hook up to the power supply whenever you are parked and can pay regular subsidized electricity rates for electricity generated from coal powered power stations instead of burning diesel in a portable diesel generator.

Whenever I visit the United States, I find either a Lincoln town car or a Toyota Prius as a taxi. The Prius taxis are usually newer and they probably make up for the price difference in gas mileage in a few years, especially if they are driven around the clock with multiple drivers to cover different shifts. Speaking of Luxury cars, Chinese manufacturers have some really impressive rip-offs of many luxury vehicles, with replicas of popular Rolls Royce, Mercedes, and BMW models available for a fraction of the price. Knowing Chinese phone manufacturers, I'm sure the vehicle manufacturers would have tossed in some electronic goodies that the original vehicles lack, making them improvements over the original vehicle models. BTW, if you do visit Australia, you are likely to find a lot of the Pontiac cars you are familiar with being sold with the Holden badge. Holden is owned by General Motors and sells re-badged Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Vauxhall, and Suzuki vehicles. Holden has manufacturing facilities in Australia, so it is cheaper for vehicle manufacturers to license their designs to Holden rather than attempt to introduce their models independently.

Every person dreams of meeting that one person that he or she can spend the rest of their lives with. Your husband's friend actually lived that dream. He found the perfect companion who was by his side for half a century! Many marriages do not last as long, with most unsuccessful marriages ending within the first five years. Your husband's friend would be in tears but he will feel much better knowing that he had met somebody special and he would be thankful for having had the good fortune of being able to make her a part of his life. It is hard for one to imagine that somebody who makes it out of a coma can begin to show signs of recovery and seem perfectly fine before passing away. Hospitals have a lot of such tragedies and it must be a reality for new interns who begin to work in the healthcare industry to accept when they meet someone on one day and see them gone the next day.

Navin, HCL offers great value for laptops in India, but the two that I have been able to try were defective - whenever they were shut down, the clocks would stop too. I'm sure they would have fixed the problem by now but the exact same problem in two different laptops is a bit more than just coincidence. Kraljica, I've seen some excellent value in a Toshiba. I'm not sure if their customer service is good because I've hardly had problem with them and I did get a replacement battery for a laptop when the battery died outside the warranty period. If there's one brand that offers laptops with a decent build quality and a price low enough to match Lenovo's, it's a Toshiba. If you do want to buy a budget laptop, Lenovo and Toshiba are the ones to look at. Stonefly, Apple and Sony are great for the higher-end models. I've not really used a Sony budget laptop so I can't tell you about how good they would be but they do seem well-designed. Among ultra-high performance laptops, Alienware laptops are good too. There are cheaper brands that make specialty laptops that are comparable to Alienware but they aren't widely available outside the United States or Europe.

A notchback is a cross between a sedan and a hatchback compact car. If you would like to imagine what it looks like, think of the Lincoln Town car that has been in use by cabbies for ages. It's got a long bonnet, a mid-section, and a trunk - a typical three-box design of a sedan. Now, if you were to cut the trunk to about a third of its size, perhaps the length of the boot of a Toyota Prius, you would have a notch back. It's like the vestigial appendix that humans have in intestines - technically, it's there but it has very little utility, if any. Suzuki has a Swift that is a hatch back. They then produced a sedan named the Suzuki Swift DZire that was criticized for having a bulbous rear end. At the same time, there was a tax subsidy in India for vehicles with a length of under four metres so the boot of the Suzuki Swift DZire was cut down to fit it into the four metre bracket for the tax benefits and it grew popular as a notchback. Surprisingly, the notchback has a lot of popularity because people actually think that it looks better than the older variant, which is still available for sale to commercial buyers. BTW, speaking of re-badged cars from Renault and Nissan, Nissan has recently mentioned about the Nissan Terrano, which is just a re-badged Renault Duster, which in-turn is a re-badged Dacia Duster. Sheepdog, I find it odd that the exact seem chemical substance is sold in the exact same containers and one is prescription-only while the other is sold over-the-counter. I'm guessing that there may have been licensing agreements with different vendors where one vendor agreed to get the approval to sell it over-the-counter and it would have exclusive rights to do so. Either that or the vendor that is selling the drug as a prescription-only drug is trying to avoid possible lawsuits from the consumption of the drug without a medical practitioner's prescription.

Wire tapping and listening in on conversations seems unethical. However, governments all over the world have wire taps and listen in on communication to track terrorist activity, and in this case it does sound reasonable. However, taking it further by finding and prosecuting whistle blowers, that again seems unethical. Deciding between ethical and unethical is like trying to figure out what's black and what's white on a gradient that makes it hard to do any more than draw a grey line.

Sheepdog, These days, cars are sold in different variants. You can see the exact same car being available in different parts of the world as a sedan, a hatchback, and a notchback, with the notchback being a cross between the sedan and the hatchback to the extent that it begins to look a bit disproportionate. The Suzuki SX4 is a cross-over but it is sold as a sedan in some developing markets. The Honda Civic was common as a hatchback but they decided to sell it as an entry-level sedan. If variants being sold under the same model name weren't enough, we have re-badging as well. The Nissan Micra hatchback is also sold as the Renault Pulse. The car looks the same, but it bears a different logo and has a higher-end in-car entertainment system with bluetooth for cellular phone integration and on-steering phone and audio controls. Similarly, the Nissan Sunny is sold by Renault as the Renault Scala - the same car, with a different logo and re-worked interiors. I wonder if they also make it possible to drive a Renault Pulse or a Renault Scala into a Nissan workshop considering that they use the exact same parts and have the exact same vehicle body. BTW, Nissan is planning to re-introduce the budget Datsun brand so Nissans are sold under the Nissan brand name, with the premium cars bearing the Infiniti brand name, and their vehicles bear the Renault branding when sold by their partner, and now they're going to have the Datsun brand name for their budget models. Toyota's strategy in Japan is to sell everything under the Toyota brand name - the Lexus brand is only used when selling their premium sedan, SUV, and hatchback vehicles overseas.

The monsoons this year have just started in India. Bing News India (from Windows 8) reports that the rain has started in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh would be seeing rain over the next two days. Salem, which Wikipedia describes as a place with scanty rainfall and dry weather, has torrential rains as reported by IBNLive. I recall that the rains in Mumbai always cause overflooding as the city's drainage system has always been ill-equipped to deal with the regular rainfall that the city experiences every year. The open-drains in some parts of the city don't make it any better because the drainage water would be more likely to make it to the streets. The underpasses in Mumbai typically have water reaching right up to the ceiling so that's perhaps one time of the year that you could use a submersible or a submarine to get through. There are some vehicles that have snorkels to deal with heavy rainfall and flooding to prevent water from entering the engine intakes and exhaust but there's still the problem of water entering the bearings and causing damage. Some times some of the belts loose traction and can get worn out as they slip over the pulleys. I imagine SUVs like the Hummer H1 are built to deal with flood waters to some extent.

I know it as been a while since this thread has been created and there hasn't been much activity on this thread but I was thinking about company names for the original poster and could think of: (i) RxPeople - the Rx suggests pharmaceutical and the People stands for staffing and recruitment, (ii) MediPeople - similar to RxPeople but with a different prefix, (iii) HealthCare Staffing Solutions - the company name says it all, (iv) Place_Name Business Solutions - this tells clients that you belong to the region where you are established and the name is a match for a general recruitment firm, (v) Excellence Recruitment - this again says that you help recruit the best in the industry and doesnt specifically limit you to the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry. If you have a portal for the company, I would suggest looking into the domain names that are available. Now that the top level domains can be registered by the firm too, that could help look into non-conventional domain names that do not end in a .com. Sure, there's .biz, .info, and maybe even .jobs but it helps to have more of them to choose from.

This upgrade brought no downtime for me - I was able to access the forums just fine. Seems to me that either the folks at Invision are making the upgrades easier to perform or we have been getting better at keeping track of what sections of code need modification. From the modules that have to be re-configured, the shoutbox is the only thing that I miss

The 1967 Impala is quite a classic. I imagine that it would be hard to find one with a body solid enough to become a daily ride - rust and metal fatigue makes driving old vehicles unsafe, apart from other mechanical concerns that may have been left unattended. Replicas of classics being built ought to be safe because they have been built with modern safety standards. PGO (not Peugeot) builds cars that look like replicas of classics and the PGO Speedster reminds me of an early Porsche. Then there are cars with a retro styling, such as the Dodge Challenger that made it into production and are quite popular too.

Driving without being able to reach the pedals is dangerous. I tried driving a Suzuki Celerio and I was barely able to reach the brake pedal because the car was too small for me to fit. My training was in a Nissan Sunny, which was also too small for me to reach the brake with and at one point a accident was avoided by the driving instructor flooring the brake pedal (a crazy driver turned into my lane and slammed his brakes). Following the incident, I got into a de-badged Nissan sports car and decided not to drive because I couldn't reach the pedals as there wasn't enough space between the seat and the steering wheel/dashboard. Some cars are built for people of a specific height range and it is unlikely that a Ferrari was designed considering the height of a 10-year-old, unless they had plans to sell one to Macaulay Culkin on his 10th birthday or had some equally successful child actor who could afford to own the car and buy a private track to drive it on.