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Ok all my desktop(Gateway) died last week and it will be awhile before I will be able to get a replacement(we are looking a Dell Desktop), anyway we have an ASUS Laptop that will have to do for now and I am looking at either a Print Server for printing or getting a whole new wireless Printer, any suggestions/recommendations?

I have a client that has 2 ISP's, Frontier and Mediacom and is running POS/Credit Card machines through the Frontier service primarily, however Frontier goes out from time to time so they would like to be able to switch to the Mediacom service easily and quickly during those down times. Question, is a dual wan router the best answer to this issue? Thanks for the input.

Facebook could be spreading unhappiness through society as well as keeping people connected, research has shown. The number one social networking site is strongly associated with declines in well-being, psychologists claim. Scientists found the more time people spent on Facebook over a two-week period, the worse they subsequently felt. In contrast, talking to friends on the phone or meeting them in person led to greater levels of happiness. "On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection," said Study leader Ethan Kross, from the University of Michigan. "But rather than enhance well-being,...

Basically, the original CD for this printer was lost. Webpages say to use some software that you have to load SCOM/SCE to use. We can get to this printer on the network (IP Address) and we have successfully set this up to one computer on the network. The story on the CDROM was that someone else used this printer at this University and probably discarded the CDROM. I have had no success with Dell Support sites. And the printer is old enough to be out of warranty. There is the following: Dell Printer Management Pack for (versions 4.1 and 5.0)...

.....It was a learning moment for the entire family, and everyone, including Nick, emerged stronger for it. But it made Rattray re-examine all his priorities, about family, love, happiness and his goals. He decided that a life in pursuit of making money and personal indulgence was empty. But he didn't know how he could empower people all by himself. He just knew that he didn't fit in anymore with the corporate banking track at Stanford. ............Spreading democracy After graduating, he left for London to get a master's degree in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science....

Aviation authorities are scratching their heads over a mysterious flying object in the skies above Colorado that almost caused a mid-air crash. The object was sighted by a commercial jet pilot, who claimed to air traffic controllers that some kind of flying craft got too close for comfort on Monday. In a transmission that appeared on LiveATC.net, the operator of the Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 says: 'A remote controlled aircraft, or what? ... 9News reported the Citation was about 8,000 feet above sea level, or about 2,800 feet above the ground, at the time the pilot reported the seeing the...

Russia and the United States will begin their controversial first joint anti-terror military exercises on American soil shortly at Ft. Carson in Colorado. A special unit of Russian paratroopers departed for the United States over the weekend and will be working alongside American land forces as part of the war games. The Russian and U.S. special units will engage in joint gun practice as well as ... The drills are scheduled to end on May 31

With more than 50 percent of the world's population under age 30, humanity is getting younger and less experienced. E-mail is already passe. Some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts. The social gamers have taken center stage. Facebook now tops Google+. E-readers surpass book readers. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world (after China and India). Now at 93 percent, almost all marketers use social media for business. Eighty percent of companies use Facebook for recruiting. Kindergarten children learn on iPads, not chalk boards. One-in-five couples meets on line. For gays, it's three-in-five....

Women are to be allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia. K ing Abdullah bin Abdulaziz announced the change yesterday and also said women would be allowed to run in elections. However, the new law will not come into force until 2015. In a speech, the king said the move was in accordance with sharia law.

Hartford PR SEO Social Media Marketing Group To Attend CT Business Expo By Herb Brandon Israel News Agency Hartford, CT ---- June 7, 2011 .... The Hartford PR SEO Social Media Marketing Group has announced that it will be attending the CT Business Expo in Hartford, Connecticut on June 9. HartfordPr.co and HartfordSocialMedia.com have been providing Internet marketing, digital PR, SEO and social media services since 1995. The Leyden Digital PR, SEO, Social Media Group, which owns and operates HartfordPr.co and HartfordSocialMedia.com is credited for creating some of the first commercial, governmental and news Websites on the Web. The Leyden...

Cisco Systems (CSCO) fell 12% just after Thursday's open, a day after reporting lower Q2 earnings and issuing a weak Q3 profit outlook. Smaller, more nimble rivals like Riverbed Technology (RVBD) and EZchip Semiconductor (EZCH) are thriving as cloud computing fuels the need for more and faster network gear. Meanwhile the tech darling of the 1990s is beginning to resemble discounter Kmart (SHLD) in the 1980s, which lost its industry leadership to Wal-Mart (WMT) long before Sam Walton had more sales.

The Air Force is warning its troops to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where U.S. forces are located in war zones. In a warning issued on its internal website earlier this month, the Air Force said that "careless use of these services by airmen can have devastating operations security and privacy implications." The message was also sent to senior commanders, who were asked to get the word out to their forces. The sites are a concern for U.S military services, which have 95,000 troops in Afghanistan...

There’s this network of networks called the Internet, not to mention all these other computer networks that make business work — and if you have technology to optimize this stuff, you can be a hot company. The latest IBD list of top 100 stocks includes companies that fit the bill, and they’ve been staples of the IBD 100 for weeks. Here they are: 14. F5 Networks (FFIV). The maker of products used to optimize the delivery of applications on networks has the highest EPS Rating

controversial proposal has students horrified at a Bergen County middle school on Wednesday. The principal is asking parents to join a voluntary ban on social networking. Eighth grader Ali Feinberg told CBS 2 she uses her iPhone to check her Facebook account "a lot" and some of her friends said the same. Now all have to talk to their parents about getting off the popular social network. It won't be easy. "I am very addicted to Facebook," Feinberg's classmate Elizabeth Dolan told CBS 2. Anthony Orsini, the principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, sent out an e-mail Wednesday...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-press-secretary-a-new-beginning-presidential-summit-entrepreneurship Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 05, 2010 Statement by the Press Secretary on A New Beginning: Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship President Obama, together with the Department of State and the Department of Commerce, will host the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on April 26 and 27. Participants from over 40 countries on 5 continents have been invited to participate. The Summit will highlight the role entrepreneurship can play in addressing...

Some “tion” words describe the five networking gear makers in the latest IBD 100. That’s “tion” as in optimization, acceleration, maximization and virtualization. All five of these networking leaders use one or more of those words to describe what they aim to do, which basically is to improve performance on computer, Internet and telecom networks. The 5 networking companies: 19. F5 Networks (FFIV) provides products to improve data centers and is big in cloud computing and virtualization.

2/2/2010 - KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq (AFNS) -- Airmen from the 506th Expeditionary Communications Squadron taught communication techniques to Iraqi air force members Jan. 30 at a command section at Kirkuk Air Base. The laptop training was another step in the nation building component of the Air Force's mission to foster Iraqi self sufficiency. "We think it's important because it's part of our mission here; to build nations and enable our Iraqi partners to be self sustaining," said Maj. John Tran, 506th ECS operations flight commander. "It's the old adage of instead of giving them a fish, we're teaching them...

After fighting with my wireless connections between my Vista and my friend's Windows Seven pc, I discovered Network Magic. I installed the trial version of the program which is up in two more days and now, I'm looking for a similar 'free' program. Everything has run smoothly since I have been using the program 'but' I am really not in a position to shell out the $50.00 that it will cost after the trial period is over. Hoping that someone has run across a similar program? It would be well worth the cost if I could afford it right now!...

Facebook users... I was wanting to befriend all facebook users here. I would love to have networking outside of freerepublic.com so we can share comments and interests outside of this site. PM me your page and I would love to network with you. I can't wait until I see most of the freeper comments on this. Consider this enjoyment for today!!!

ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities are turning to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in a bid to prepare people to be vaccinated against the pandemic H1N1 virus. But efforts to distribute accurate information about the dangers of swine flu and the importance of vaccination are hampered by the sheer complexity of the message that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aims to convey. For a start, the vaccine will not be ready for widespread distribution until mid-October, after the traditional flu season has begun. The U.S. government hopes to target around 50 percent of...