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Comment on Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting by WGHubris

WGHubris — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:47:09 +0000

Unfortunately, there are many configurations and variables that can come into play. The scenario here is just one of many. I don’t know what your issue might be. I had to research this one for a while before finding an acceptable answer which is why I published it here. But, if yours doesn’t fit this scenario, then you may have to try other measures.

Comment on Get Around Amazon Associates Colorado Ban by WGHubris

WGHubris — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:45:07 +0000

Right. But our income tax isn’t what the state wants. It wants those sales taxes since us affiliates pay “only” a 5.43% income tax, and we whittle that down with expenses and deductions.

My point was that by going to Wyoming, a quick 1 hour drive, I could have an address there and thus be a Wyoming affiliate instead. Ironically, the law was recently struck down in court, but there hasn’t been any re-initiation of Colorado affiliates. Even more ironically, Amazon is essentially agreeing to do exactly what Colorado demanded except in Texas, which represents a much bigger piece of Amazon’s earnings. They will apparently be playing ball in California in a few years as well.

In the meantime, if you don’t want to run over to Wyoming, you can use either Skimlinks or Viglink to handle your affiliate links for you. They are the affiliate (not you) and then they take a cut. Theoretically, you come out even because they are bigger affiliates than you are on your own so they get higher commission rates. Not sure if it really works out or not.

Comment on Get Around Amazon Associates Colorado Ban by Shelly

Shelly — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Too many sellers & new biz owners get “sales Tax” & “income tax” mixed up & think they are one in the same. This law has absolutely nothing to do with State INCOME tax.

Colorado says… “amazon – since you have affiliates in Colorado, we consider this a “presence” here & all sales made to Coloradoans, YOU are responsible to pay us SALES tax”….

Amazon replies with a “screw you, no more affiliates in Colorado, Now we have no “presence there” & we don’t have to pay CO any SALES TAX”.

That is sort of the simple way of putting it since the actual law is SO screwed up that NO ONE can comply.

Any income derived from an affiliate of any kind (all posters, Zazzle, B&N etc) is usually 1099d & you add it to your Federal INCOME tax 1040 form. THOSE NUMBERS gets put on to the Colorado INCOME TAX form. So we are STILL paying our fair share of income tax.

Comment on Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting by Charles Cope

Charles Cope — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:51:56 +0000

Icannot thank you enough,Ihave Windows 7 and IE9 .I was suffering dropped connections several times each day until I followed James Walkers advise to Disable NetBios now things seem to be fine, which makes a 78year old man very happy

Comment on Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting by Zeon

Zeon — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:16:33 +0000

I tried what you wrote in the article. It seems to help or not, I am not so sure. I get two error messages while copying:
1. There is problem accessing \\%computername%\%folder%
2. Could not find this item. This is no longer located in \\%computername%\%folder%\etc (computer and folder names do not matter much, they are correct anyway, the copy process was initiated through drag and drop). Some times clicking Try again helps and the copy resumes, sometimes it does not.
Needless to say that both computers see each other in Windows Explorer for instance, and during the copy process nobody altered any network settings. Nobody is leeching the internet connection, the network is clean.
Both computers run Windows 7 x64, one is a desktop the other is a laptop (ASUS K53SC) connected via a router (TP-LINK WR841ND). This is happening with even after Computer Browser has been stopped. Should I turn off NETBIOS, too? Or what is the culprit for this seemingly untouchable problem?

Comment on Reopen Last Browsing Session Internet Explorer 8 By Default by Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:05:11 +0000

Even better: in some cases, shutting down IE8 doesn’t remember the tabs that were open. So those enough who play with the options and find this one can’t even get the benefit of using it. Argh!

[Situation: IE8, running on Windows 7. Shut down the computer with IE8 open. When you next restart, it doesn't remember tabs. If I close IE8 and THEN shut down, it seems to remember.]

Comment on Unsupported Personality Error HP LaserJet 1012 Windows 7 by Chris Tarjeft

Chris Tarjeft — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:05:44 +0000

I fixed it by going to this page:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizs.....Id=1137934

Downloading the HP Universal PCL5 print driver for my version of windows and then telling the installer to install the generic driver now and specifying the local port as Dot4.. It added a new printer called “HP Universal Printing PCL 5″ no more errors..

Comment on Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting by James Walker

James Walker — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:52:40 +0000

James Walker () wrote:
Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting Fix

I’ve got an updated fix for your above article – not sure if it’ll work on other
computers, but it is worth a shot. After following your disable Computer Browser
fix I was still having problems, so I downloaded a v. useful program called
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4, this allowed me to see that, even WITH Computer
Browser disabled, the System Process (PID 0×4) was still sending out BROWSER:
Get Backup List Requests to a local I.P. address (192.137.10.255) that didn’t
have anything attached to it.

Frustrated, I realised that in fact I didn’t need NETBios at all, and googled
how to disabled it on Windows 7, and found the following fix:

1. Go to Network Connection and click properties on your wireless connection.
2. Internet Protocol Version 4 > Advanced > Wins > Netbios setting
3. Disable NetBios

Cheers,

James Walker

Comment on Unsupported Personality Error HP LaserJet 1012 Windows 7 by Roman Hannesschläger

Roman Hannesschläger — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:19:03 +0000

I’ve got another funny story to share
My LJ1012 is connected to a linux box that uses CUPS.
If you print directly from applications like Word, Excel, AutoCAD or the browser it prints perfectly. But any PDF file I send just disappears – no message, no printout, nothing.
I also tried the “print as image” option.
Any idea about this?

Comment on How To Block Phone Numbers On Comcast Voice Service by Bob

Bob — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:14:08 +0000

As far as the Comcast call forwarding—I forward to an existing number. ‘Course the receiving party may not like it–nor will the caller—202-456-1414. (F.Y.I., It is the White House switchboard).