How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
12-03-2013, 03:56 PM
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So, can anyone help me out by listing some alternatives to ebay that have decent traffic? I think I'm about to start making and selling crokinole (Canadian table top game, gaining popularity) boards and I'd like to not have to give ebay 10% of my profit, plus deal with them and paypal. Anybody dealt with Etsy? Seems decent.
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12-03-2013, 05:50 PM
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Do I need more modems? More routers? More internets?
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12-03-2013, 06:38 PM
I have a bajillion devices connected to this and I haven't power cycled it in over 6 months. Oh, and I get a solid wifi signal out past my neighbor's mailbox. It's probably frying our brains.
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12-03-2013, 07:08 PM
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If I have more than 3 wireless devices running at any given time and try to use a 4th, that 4th device does not connect to the internet unless I either disconnect one of the first 3 (and/or sometimes reboot the modem).
Do I need more modems? More routers? More internets?
Do I need more modems? More routers? More internets?
Seriously, something is broken or misconfigured, and I'm afraid I can't say what. I would bet that if you were to go to BestBuy and spend $45 on a modern router, that all of your wifi-related problems will magically disappear.
Sometimes, weird, flaky **** happens. After I replaced my povertyphone with a brand new Galaxy S4, my ~6 year old router would crash about 60 seconds after I connected the phone to it. New router = no more problems.
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12-03-2013, 09:01 PM
What if I (A) have no clue about electronics [electricity is the work of witches and wizards as far as I can tell] and (B) need to be able to support more wireless devices in my house?
If I have two iPhones, two laptops, Xbox Tree-Fiddy, Apple TV, and the Compy386 all trying to connect to the wi-fi at the same time, someone's gonna have a bad time.
Do I need more routers? Is that a thing? An upgraded router?
If I have two iPhones, two laptops, Xbox Tree-Fiddy, Apple TV, and the Compy386 all trying to connect to the wi-fi at the same time, someone's gonna have a bad time.
Do I need more routers? Is that a thing? An upgraded router?
Good routers are cheap now.
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12-03-2013, 10:46 PM
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I bring my toolbox with me whenever I fly down to Florida to visit my mother and sister around the holidays. It's a foregone conclusion that they will have saved up a laundry-list of problems which can be easily solved, presupposing that I have my Fluke meter, TDR, wire-strippers, soldering iron, Scotch 88, wire nuts, fox-and-hound, butt set, etc., close at hand.
Last Christmas, I had to repair a ******* washing machine that had an intermittent hall-sensor on the motor. That one was loads of fun to diagnose. (Considering adding the USB oscilloscope to the list of tools to pack in my holiday bag.)
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12-04-2013, 02:05 AM
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WHYYYY??? Why must this dynamic range be so bad!? I just want to watch a movie in peace. Can't hear any dialogue, action sequences blow out my speakers. **** YOU! Even with center at +10, it's unwatchable/listenable.
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12-04-2013, 10:08 AM
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True story:
I bring my toolbox with me whenever I fly down to Florida to visit my "girls" around the holidays. It's a foregone conclusion that they will have saved up a laundry-list of "problems" which can be easily solved, presupposing that I have my Fluke meter, TDR, wire-strippers, soldering iron, Scotch 88, "wire nuts," "fox-and-hound," "butt set," etc., close at hand.
I bring my toolbox with me whenever I fly down to Florida to visit my "girls" around the holidays. It's a foregone conclusion that they will have saved up a laundry-list of "problems" which can be easily solved, presupposing that I have my Fluke meter, TDR, wire-strippers, soldering iron, Scotch 88, "wire nuts," "fox-and-hound," "butt set," etc., close at hand.
:( We all have our strengths and weaknesses. If you want to talk global macroeconomics or monetary systems or financial planning - I'm your guy. How to live like an international man of mystery? I'm your guy.
How to deal with the witchcraft that is modern electronics?
I'll investigate the details of my router; I'm guessing that will be the simple solution.
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12-04-2013, 12:21 PM
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No butthurt intended, I was having flashbacks from Thanksgiving. I'm not shitting on anyone for not knowing how to configure or troubleshoot a router. I know that **** sucks and its not a practical skill that everyone can have.I can tell you how to properly drop a tree with the felling sights on a Husqvarna chainsaw, how to field strip an M1 Garand, how to configure a Squid proxy (although its been YEARS.) I can write raw FANUC G code for CNC machines, setup vlans on a Cisco Catalyst switch... but I know my limits. **** all if I know when jeans are appropriate attire for a social function, how to make a souffle, how to properly invest money, how to pack a suit for travel without wrinkling the **** out of it, etc.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses (except for maybe Joe, dude seems to know everything) and that's kinda what makes a society/economy work. It all depends on the value you (or others) put on your skills.
Just point the path for the blue "E" icon to the executable for Chrome.
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12-04-2013, 12:40 PM
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I never even knew that such a thing as a felling sight existed, I loathe having to plug the light-blue cable into the back of a Catalyst, I'm convinced that calculating netmasks must somehow involve a familiarity with the occult, and the most complex gun I've ever been tasked with caring for was a pump-action .22 rifle.
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12-04-2013, 05:37 PM
I am looking at a Samsung 6 channel 1TB dvr weatherproof nightvision tactical bacon ***** kit for 360 wholesale (business license) or do I just buy a DVR card and use my left over PC parts to shimmy one up with add-on cameras of my choosing?
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12-05-2013, 09:56 AM
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Try turning on your dynamic range compression (aka "night mode"). I just did this because my 15 month old kept squirming when I was watching action movies. 15 inch sub goes to twenny hertz.
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