Wow, I can't believe I've been here a whole 6 YEARS!!! 

Actually 6 years and 5 days.   It sure doesn't seem like it's been that long.  It's been a fun and enjoyable experience.  Met a lot of really cool people and learned a whole lot of stuff.  And I hope I haven't bored everyone here with my never ending doggie advise and stories.  But hey, I have to talk about what I know, and computer stuff just isn't really me.  If it wasn't for the fact that in this day and age it's about the only way to sell dogs or actually do much of anything, I wouldn't even have one of thise silly machines.  Well, that and the fact that I heard someone say years ago that in the near future, a person who didn't know about computers was going to be looked at the same way we look at people now that don't know how to read made me decide that I didn't want to be considered a complete fool, so to the wicked world of computers I jumped in feet first.  It's been quite a struggle for me, not having anyone here at home to help me out, I just had to punch and click and figure out things all on my own for the first several years and let me tell you it was very hard.  That's another reason I am so fond of this place, I've had lots of good advise and all kinds of help from the good people here. 

  So....just wanted to say thank you to everyone here and here's to another 6 years!

Have you ever seen the like of the scandals coming out of Washington these days!!???  I'm getting to the point where I am almost afraid of listening to the news in fear of what has happend now.  First Bengazzi, then the IRS targeting of Teaparty/Patriot groups for unfairly stopping these groups from getting tax exempt statis, now the DOJ listening in to our phone calls and reading emails, which of course they claim they are not doing, but at first they claimed they weren't even stockpiling the information, but now they admit to that but say they aren't reading it, then the taps on the computer and phones of a journalist and his parents for crying out loud, and threats to charge him criminally for doing his job, and now attacks and threats to whistle blowers who are coming forward with information about wroungdoings in just about every branch of our government!  This is just pure insanity!  And to date, not one single person has been disiplined, even after they have been caught in flat out lies, some have even recieved promtions to other jobs, and the government is going after the whistle blowers and ignoring the crimes they are bringing to light.  Lois Lerner not only refused to tell what she knew, the witch got put on leave WITH PAY!  So she is getting a paid vacation for screwing over the public. 

How on earth can we clean up such a massive amount of corruption?  They certainly have the fox guarding the hen house, those put in charge of investigating these activities are the ones who are doing some either completely illegal activities or at least unethical activities.

This kind of garbage infuriates me.  How can it be fixed?  I think I might be for throwing the whole damn lot of the crooks out and starting over, though I fear the next bunch will be just as bad and the whole thing will just start all over again. 

So, with erything going on right now, this particluar forum should be really jumping.  How would you fix this mess?   Any bright ideas?  Faintest clues?  

Hi,

I have a networking USB  2.0 print server, which connects to the router with an Ethernet Cable, and to my Samsung CLP-300 Colour Laser Printer via USB.

I have used it successfully for some time (after a bit of toil to set it up using a TCP/IP port) on 3 machines running Windows 7, but for a few days now, I have tried to set it up on my new laptop running Windows 8, and I get to setting the software up, but then, all of a sudden, the software tells me there are no USB devices found, mind you, it will be a coincidence about the new laptop and Windows 8, I guess, as the same happens on the other machines as well.

The funny thing is, when I disconnect any of the cables (Ethernet or USB) from the print server box and then put them back, everything acts normal again for just a little while, only to stop recognising the printer again.

I know I am not giving a lot to go on, but that is about the only information I can give out myself.

As far as I am aware, the PS Box did not get a knock, or did not fall or did not get stepped on, I also tried a new Ethernet cable, to no avail.

Does anyone recognise what I am writing here from personal experience, or does anyone know whether it would be the box or the router that has a problem?

Like I said, the PS box itself is only a few months old.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you.