DMartin9N-2N
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Good morning: I often seem to have problems relating to computer technology that has outrun my education. we seem to have power outages at least every week here in the country, near Jackson, TN. After an outage, which we notice when the room lights go out for a few seconds or hours, we try our computers and cell phones, they sort-of work but we cannot print. Why must we fiddle for hours sometimes to get the printers working?
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Example: yesterday evening my wife handed me a "THUMB-DRIVE" with a Word document on it. I could not get my Word program on my computer to send the document to my printer 5 feet away! Today, when I started my computer, the document printed unexpectedly and perfectly without human intervention.
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I don't know how most of our stuff works.
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I do know that several important devices in our house are powered by (UPS) boxes, which contain a lead-acid battery, similar to my 1941 Ford Model 9N. Wonderful!!
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I do know that some or all of our household devices somehow utilize a THING (ADSL 2+router) made by NETGEAR that is connected to a copper cable that is connected to an ATT PEDESTAL beside the ditch along our road. We have WIFI, but I do not know how it works. I do know I often have to turn on the WIFI feature at my computer startup so I can connect to the internet.
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Our cell phones talk to a cell tower a mile or so from our house, which seems to work ok most of the time. I have driven by the cell tower, it has an auxiliary generator (diesel) marked KOHLER. Modern technology, I suppose??!
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I suppose if I am ever lying injured or disabled in our back field, I will be glad my cellphone works, and has a location feature (which is dependent on satellite communication, I think).
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Maybe I should take a course at the local COMMUNITY COLLEGE to learn more about computer technology. about two gallons of gas round trip for each classroom session; and what is time to a retired person?? HA HA. Just ranting...
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Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
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Example: yesterday evening my wife handed me a "THUMB-DRIVE" with a Word document on it. I could not get my Word program on my computer to send the document to my printer 5 feet away! Today, when I started my computer, the document printed unexpectedly and perfectly without human intervention.
.
I don't know how most of our stuff works.
.
I do know that several important devices in our house are powered by (UPS) boxes, which contain a lead-acid battery, similar to my 1941 Ford Model 9N. Wonderful!!
.
I do know that some or all of our household devices somehow utilize a THING (ADSL 2+router) made by NETGEAR that is connected to a copper cable that is connected to an ATT PEDESTAL beside the ditch along our road. We have WIFI, but I do not know how it works. I do know I often have to turn on the WIFI feature at my computer startup so I can connect to the internet.
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Our cell phones talk to a cell tower a mile or so from our house, which seems to work ok most of the time. I have driven by the cell tower, it has an auxiliary generator (diesel) marked KOHLER. Modern technology, I suppose??!
.
I suppose if I am ever lying injured or disabled in our back field, I will be glad my cellphone works, and has a location feature (which is dependent on satellite communication, I think).
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Maybe I should take a course at the local COMMUNITY COLLEGE to learn more about computer technology. about two gallons of gas round trip for each classroom session; and what is time to a retired person?? HA HA. Just ranting...
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Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
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