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Unclogging Epson Print Heads

1 – 4″ – 5″ of fish tank air line tubing (Wal*Mart fish department) Windex (No Drip works best)

We are going to flush the print head out with the Windex cleaner. Some people from outside the US may not know about Windex. It is a
popular window cleaner sold here in the US. This fix is not authorized by Epson, it should only be used as a last ditch effort to fix your printer.

Cut four or five inches of fish tank air line tubing and attach it to the end of the injector, remove the needle first. Pull 3 – 5 cc of Windex into the injector. Hold the injector so that the tubing is pointing up and push the plunger a little until all the air is out of the tubing. You don’t want to inject any air into the cartridge. Put this assembly aside for now.

Turn your printer on and hold down the paper feed button until the carriage moves to the cartridge change position. Unplug the printer. This is important, you don’t want the carriage to move in the middle of the procedure.

Remove the cartridge that is giving you trouble. Look inside the carriage cavity for a small post that would normally be inserted into the ink port of the cartridge, in other words the post that supplies ink to the print head. You may need a flashlight to see it.

Attach the other end of the tubing (which is attached to the injector) to the post inside the carriage cavity. Be very careful not to break the post. If you do, GAME OVER. There is very little room to work but do the best you can. Try to get the tubing on the post firmly for an airtight connection. Slowly inject about 2cc of the Windex solution into the print head. Some of the Windex might leak out around the post, just try to get at least 2 cc injected into the print head. It may offer resistance, just be patient. Repeat this procedure for any other color that is not printing. Make sure to wash the tubing between each color.

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Computer Backups

Computer backup is so important to your computer that to ignore it is to risk its damnation.

Computers require care and feeding. They require that you attend to their needs. If you don’t, then they will most surely be sent to Hell.

Halloween means Hell. What! What do you mean that Halloween means Hell?

Well, if your computer is given the option of trick or treat, which will it accept? Will it accept the trick or the treat? What do you think?

Halloween is the time that computers are subject to tricks or treats. Did you know that more computers fail on Halloween than any other day of the year? That’s right. It’s true (smile). Your computer is in danger! Protect it. Do your computer backups.

Back to the Hell thing. Hell you say? Yep. Well, what do you mean by Hell?

Computer hell is the place for computers without computer backup. The failure to perform hard drive backup means that you are playing Russian Roulette with your data. Data needs your protection. Failure to protect your data may cause your home or business records to be sent to Hell.

Hell in this instance is for the records and files that cannot be resurrected. Resurrected you say, what does that mean?

It means that without computer backup as a source of salvation then the files can safely enjoy eternal oblivion. Oblivion you say, what does that mean? That means they are eternally lost from computer resurrection.

Is there any mercy for my precious files, you ask?

Why yes there is. Would like to know what the mercy for your files is? Yes! Yes! You say.

OK boys and girls listen carefully. The salvation, mercy, resurrection and redemption of your files lies in regular and consistent and persistent computer backup.

If you backup your computer consistently and persistently your files will be resurrected and saved from accidental deletion, hard drive failure and those nasty things like fire, flood, theft, earthquake, hurricanes, tornados and the like!

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Data Security on CDs and DVDs

We still believe that to secure our computers against viruses, spyware and take various security measures to do, but never thought to protect the data we use to write in our DVD and CD. We only write CDs and DVDs with our data and put it in a CD case and lock in our draw.

But when we use our data etched CD / DVD on another system, there is always a risk of data loss, so that anyone can copy the data to his / her system and can easily be abused. Many software vendors have developed security software for different viruses and hacking attempts and security data that only can we use on our system, but what about those who use them to burn important data on CD and DVD.

Data security products which plays a major role in protecting and securing data. This application becomes a famous day. The application offers many useful functions related to data security.

Software like Folder Lock, with unique security features to lock the data and encrypted using AES 256 encryption standard to protect data. This software also provides options to secure data on CD and DVD.

You can simply burn your data on CD and DVD and can use a program like Folder Lock to secure your data on CD and DVD so that no one could have the chance to sneak into your data using a CD / DVD.

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Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: Prefix Notation

When you’re ready to take the CCNA exam and get this coveted Cisco certification, you should really be prepared for various types of binary and subletting questions Cisco may throw at you. You must also be familiar with the different behavior, where the mask cannot be disclosed, and that’s where your knowledge of the notation prefix notation is entering another way of expressing the value of the subnet mask, as opposed in decimal format more familiar dotted. Not only will you see the prefix notation in the documentation for Cisco, but you can see on your CCNA exam.

Believe it or not, the two values ​​are exactly the same. The first mask written in decimal notation is more familiar, and you know watching the first three bytes that each bit is set to “1″, because such a maximum value is 255 bytes.

The second value is the mask exactly the same, only this value is expressed in prefix notation. This particular value would be pronounced “slash 24″ and 24 represent the number of successively arranged in the subnet mask.

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