Yes, my new computer is talking to the printer.
I can print things.
What it does not want to do is print double-sided (wasteful, what?).
After doing various downloading of drivers, and software and firmware updates, it does offer something that it calls an Eco mode -
which involves printing two pages side by side on the same sheet, rather small.
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However, the legbone's connected to the kneebone, the kneebone's connected to the thighbone...
- the new computer is talking to the printer and the scanner (I have even achieved actually scanning something), the new mouse and keyboard are on speakers with it (which is a relief, as I kept having to unplug the old ones to go and plug them back in to ( Read more... )

Setting up new computer.
Which is behaving itself fairly well except for the usual attempts to make you sign in for things DO.NOT.WANT -
- but, infuriatingly, I copied a lot of things I wanted to carry over to the snazzy SSD portable drive that was a freebie with the new laptop, and when I plug it in to the new computer it plays very coy. a) With ( Read more... )

I was given madly to ponder and think by this post of
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What I read
Finished Tom Tiddler's Ground, which was quite good, might try more Ursula Orange. Wondered whether anyone has ever done a study of that genre I have noted, novels written more or less contemporaneous at the period of the Phoney War, with the various tropes of evacuees, muddle, blackout, etc. Coincidentally there passed across my ( Read more... )

I do not know what it is that the problem is, but I seem to have inordinate issues with changing my password for email on former workplace site (to which I still have access by virtue of largely honorary position).
This time it was An Entirely New Thing - I went into 'I have lost my password and would like a new one', which is how you change it ( Read more... )

This morning I was having what I thought was connectivity problems with my desktop.
And eventually I thought, as my phone and tablet did not seem to be having problems, maybe if I turned off and turned on again?
And when it restarted it was 'unable to load User profile'.
After a few go rounds with this, it started configuring Windows.
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What I read
Well, indeed it was a Courtney Milan re-read all the way as predicted: The Brothers Sinister sequence: The Heiress Effect, (2013) The Countess Conspiracy (2013), The Governess Affair (2013), The Suffragette Scandal (2014), A Kiss for Midwinter (2012) (I cannot believe I did not pick up on, or at least mention, the anachronistic use of ' ( Read more... )

I think I may finally have got the online banking thing for the credit card sorted? Not before getting into a tangle of frustration and sending a furious vent via their complaints system about how much time and hassle had been involved when all I wanted to do was give them my mobile number for security purposes. But anyway, I was eventually able to ( Read more... )

Have been wrestling with various tech issues which seem to me to have (by and large) been introducing entirely unnecessary levels of complication into their processes.
We have two Nest smoke/CO alarms, which are supposed to operate in sequence, i.e. if the downstairs one goes off, the upstairs one will be alerted, and vikyverky, but this is ( Read more... )