Windows 10 task bar is on top of full screen video or games.
This happened to me recently. I could not figure it out for a while, there are all sorts of "fixes" on the internet about it.
I got a clue that reminded me that I had changed the resolution of one of my monitors to something other than normal, and back again. restarting explorer did not fix the issue. I logged off and back on again and now it is back to normal.
I have a Sure 2 X 100Watt Dual Channel Class D HiFi Power Audio Amplifier Board - AA-AB32971 that I built as an amplifier for my computer.
I was having trouble with hum especially when the LED lights in my laundry room were turned on, or the wife ran a vacuum cleaner in the back room.
Also sometimes for no apparent reason I would just get hum at anything above low volume settings.
I tried line conditioners, filters, different outlets, ups's, audio isolation transformers, different connectors, and ferrite loops. Nothing would stop or reduce the hum. The audio isolation transformer would inject a local AM station directly in to the amp.
The power supply was a switching supply taken from an old laptop.
what fixed it was installing a 3 prong to 2 prong adapter on the plug. The lack of ground on the plug caused the problem to stop.
Sometime around 2009 the government banned Vanish and Sani-flush because it contained Sodium Bisulfate.
The crap it has been replaced with is terrible at cleaning toilets and removing hard water stains.
It also had the effect of helping to keep older toilets flushing because it dissolved calcium buildup in the jet hole.
use this information at your own risk.
You can't get real Vanish or Sani-flush but you can get the main ingredient that they used.
Just go to a pool supply store and buy Ph- but make sure it says on it sodium bisulfate or sodium hydrogen sulphate.
keep in mind this is pool acid and don't handle the crystals.
place 1/2 cup sodium bisulfate in the toilet bowl let it sit a few minutes and stir it with the bowl brush. wait 15 minutes or longer then scrub as normal. Sodium bisulfate does not fizz or bubble like the original vanish or sani flush because the bubble were for show they did nothing other than neutralize some of the acid made when the crystals dissolved in water.
The remainder of the ingredients was a surfactant (sodium lauryl sulfate), blue dye, and wintergreen scent. Only the sodium bisulfate did anything.
I use it all the time now.
You start autocad 2000 that was copied over from an older computer to a windows 10 64 bit computer. You get it working fine, then some time later (probably after a windows update) you get a variation of "this version of autocad was not installed properly".
Issue is that you cannot run the autocad 2000 installer on windows 10 64 bit.
If you have access to a copy of autocad 2002 even a preview copy run that installer, install it, and it may fix the autocad 2000 install.
The only Star Wars that is canon is Episodes 1 through 6.
Though I liked Rogue one, I do not count it as canon.
I deleted my copies of the DVD for 7 and 8 from my media server. I will be getting rid of the blu-rays.
You have ruined it Disney.
abrams... ALL your movies are garbage.
This is my running tally of the Covid-19/china flu/kung flu infections in Arizona. I will update it as often as I can with the number of confirmed cases, and deaths. I will continue to do this till the pandemic is over, I get sick and/or die, or get bored.My sources: azdhs.gov and Wikipedia.
First wave 3-13-2020 to 10-4-2020
1 year of the rona.
August 2020
January 2021
Home depots website is one of the worst, if not THE worst website for online browsing and searching.
Recently I was searching for a ballast for a 34.5 inch long 2 bulb T5 flourescent lamp. I have one that I bought from them several years ago. The ballast is bad.
I cannot find a replacement ballast on their website for it.
I could not find the fixture on their website, until I used the manufacturers part number. turns out they have the wrong dimensions for it.
searching their website is a nightmare. Basically you have to know what they call something or what they list it under.
if it doesn't come up when you start typing you most likely won't find it. it constantly returns results that have nothing to do with what you are looking for.
It constalty shows you things that aren't in the store, or you can't even order. if it's not in the store AND I can't order it, don't show it on your fucking worthless website.
I hate using their website, but it's not much better going there in person. They don't carry many things that a hardware store should.
I usually have to got to Ace Hardware or harbor freight to find many things I need. A huge store like Home Depot and they can't even stock common things. Their welding supplies are a shit selection. They don't carry band saw blades for common tools. They have no stock of replacement hammer handles except for specific brands.
I usually order stuff from ebay because of their lack of stock.
Their prices are often ridiculously high.
They don't carry many common types of 220 outlets or outside ouutlet boxes.
They are a piss poor excuse for a hardware store.
Why is the statue in Bisbee called the "virile copper miner"?
See for your self.
I was told (back in college) that if you stood in the right place you would see why he got his name.
Here is the other side for reference.
How to un-hide or restore a media server (that you accidentally hid or removed) in windows media player windows 7.
Open windows media player.
view library
Right click other libraries
Select Customize navigation pane.
at the top where is says "yourusername's Library"
click the down arrow on the right.
Select other libraries
put a check mark next to the library or libraries that are missing.
click ok.
in 2017 I built a small 200 watt DC generator powered by an Echo GT-1000 string trimmer engine. Here is the playlist for that.
If you don't want to watch the whole thing you can watch a wrap up video here:
The biggest problem was that it did not have a governor and so is mostly useless. I could have made one with an arduino or something like that, but I kind of think that's like using a cray to balance your check book. Gensets were out of the question as being too expensive and way to big.
Recently I found a device called the Pololu Micro Maestro 6 It can control 6 servos or any combination of 6 buttons, sensors, and/or POT's.
Here is the full build:
The most difficult part of this was the script. The script language is basically Fourth. I will provide a more detailed explanation of the program at a later date.
This is the most current script that works:
100 #this does nothing
top:
8800 0 servo # Move servo to middle position
begin
button # is button on or off
if #on proceed with program
too_low # Check if throttle is too low
100 delay
too_high # check if throttle is too high
else #off keep checking for on and reset the servo if it was moved.
goto top
endif
repeat
sub too_low
5 get_position 750 less_than #check the voltage is it below X
if 0 get_position minus 10#if voltage is too low get position of servo and subtract 100
over # not sure how this helps
negate
0 servo # move the servo to the new position
10 delay # wait
else #if voltage is fine do nothing
goto skip
endif
swap # not sure why but the program won't
drop # work without these commands
skip:
return
sub too_high
5 get_position 900 greater_than #check the voltage is it above X
if 0 get_position plus 10 #if voltage is too high get position of servo and add 100
over # not sure how this helps
0 servo #move servo to new position
10 delay #wait
else #if voltage is fine do nothing
goto skip2
endif
swap # not sure why but the program won't
drop # work without these commands
skip2:
return
sub button
2 get_position 500 less_than
return
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this video has the explanation of the script above
Bonus video
When I attended Cochise college or as we called it "tumbleweed tech" back in the early to mid 80's the place was probably quite different than it is today. It seems that back then college students were a bit more rowdy then they are today. so much so that the furniture in the men's dorm lobby was replaced with rubber padded prison furniture. Furniture exactly like this:
I worked in the security office as a dispatcher and operator as no one had an outside line and we had to make and connect calls for people using their calling cards. This was annoying and changed when the phone system got hacked. After that they setup each dorm room so that they could have their own phone line and bill. sometimes at night I'd sit and watch horny students run back and forth sneaking in to dorm rooms through windows since men and women visiting each other dorm rooms was strictly monitored and controlled.
I also worked the front desk of the men's and women's dorms checking people in and out. To make sure people were'nt staying and screwing. It was pointless because there was constant parties and screwing going on in both dorms.
Tumbleweed tech is located 8 miles from Douglas, 16 miles from Bisbee, 2 miles from the border and 6 feet from hell.
Some of the things we did for fun were:
Go shooting at the shooting range behind the runway (it's still there). We were allowed to have firearms and they were kept in the security office.
We would also go across highway 80 and run around in the desert hunting and hiking. I spent many a weekend hiking in the desert there.
Exploring mines and hiking in the desert around Bisbee. Including the Easter Sunday Mine. Though we did not know the name at that time.
Standing in front of part of the Higgins and Czar Mines
Exploring abandoned houses around Douglas. We found a house one time filled floor to ceiling with 1 gallon jugs of water. Probably a stop for illegals.
Running amok on the gunnery range at Ft. Huachuca.
Having keggers in the desert.
Sneak in to the the not very well locked up gym, and explore the tunnels under the college. There is one that goes from a man hole in front of the building where the cafeteria is to a utility room in the gym. On one of those occasions my roommate was running through the tunnel breaking the light bulbs as he went.
Have all dorm water fights.
Launch rockets and fly model airplanes in and around the dorm rooms.
There was another guy who was the epitome of the "dirty old man". On one occasion I went with him on his rounds and when we got to the women's locker room he stopped. made a great show of sniffing mightily and said "Smell that? Smells like PUSSY!" I thought it smelled like moldy towels. He would often point his walkie talkie at your crotch hit the transmit button and declare "now you're sterile".
Then there was the young mexican guy who had a thing for really fat chicks. He would bring in chubby chaser mags and look at them when not out on rounds. Then show them to me. Huge fat naked chicks. He was quite weird. We sometimes would sit out at the entrance to the campus with a radar gun and light up passing cars to watch the ones with radar detectors slam on the brakes.
Then there was the security guard that painted his car lemon yellow with flat exterior house paint and a roller brush. He was very proud of it.
At one time there was a room in the men's dorm that they put in a bunch of video and pinball games, it was great until someone figured out how to jimmy the games open and get free games.
On Fridays when the A&P class got out early we'd head in to Aqua Prieta to a place we called the Corona factory. For $2.25 you could get a 6 pack of Corona in a bag on ice, for .10 more you could get a bag of limes. You never asked the price of the beer if you did they would tell you $5 but you just walked up and gave them $2.25. Then we went around back and sat on the dock getting drunk (highly illegal there) while watching people walk illegally across the border which was only 100 feet away. Then you took the bottles back and they gave you $1. So in today's money 6 beers cost $2.81.
Yeah Cochise college was an absolute blast in the 80's I wonder what it is like now.
I have found these 2 things will give me a migraine either within a day or 2 of taking.
Niacin within a couple of hours of taking 125mg of it. 2 days in a row.
Flaxseed oil. I started taking this since fish oil makes me sick. I was taking it for 2 days and got a migraine, then on the 3rd day got another. 4th day no migraine, fifth day another migraine. stopped taking the flaxseed oil and no more migraine. I had not had a migraine prior to this for almost 3 years.
The instructions for panelizing a board in EasyEDA are absolutely terrible and confusing, they lack any useful information.
In easyeda select tools then panelization.
Select the number of rows and columns BUT keep in mind that their machine can only accept a minimum size board of 7x7 Centimeters. So you will need to select a minimum number of rows and columns that meets or exceeds this number. as an example I have a board they is 18.75x8.5 millimeters. in order to meet the minimum requirements of panel size my board needs to be 4 columns by 10 rows high. The minimum column and row spacing is 1.6mm. I do not need boarders.
Originally based on the instructions (I found) I thought I had to account for the board size when selecting the spacing and put in 18.750 for columns and 8.5 for rows which got me very strange results.
There is still some confusion on whether you need to copy and fix the circuit to each board. it appears that you do not (JLCPCB will supposedly do this for you), but there is conflicting information about this on line.
Purchase a small bottle of orange scented anti bacterial dish soap, and a bottle of Angostura orange bitters. if the bottle of soap is completely full use or dump out 1 or 2 tablespoons of the soap. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of Angostura orange bitters to the soap bottle and shake. Using a paper towel or small rag pour a generous amount of the mixture on to the rag and run the oxygen line through it adding more soap if needed. The oxygen line should be slippery when you are done. Coat every bit of Oxygen line the cats can get to unobserved.
Repeat every couple of days. Add more bitters for stubborn cats.
Cats do not like the taste of orange, the anti bacterial agents also have a bitter taste to them, and the bitters contain bitter orange. The combination should keep them from chewing on the Oxygen line. I do not know if it will work for other animals.
