Recently, someone I know purchased a network printer that was the same make and model as mine. They weren’t sure on how to setup the printer and asked for my help. The setup is not difficult, however the default settings leaves the printer open on its wireless interface. So there are more steps that are required to secure it. The challange facing us was distance, they live in another state. However, I was able to export my printer settings, which…
I saw these two videos about the Voyager spacecraft and the Golden Plate each of them contain and found they fit with the other material posted here. “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every…
A large part of phone automation uses DTMF signaling. DTMF stands for Dual Tone Multi Frequency and has been in place since the 1960s. Dialing a phone number before the advent of DTMF involved using a rotor. The spinning dial would generate a number of pulses that the phone company would interpret as a number. The phone company then placed each number in order and after a set number was reached, the phone company would place the call. We still…