analog_kidd

Can't tell your location from your profile, but if you live near Knoxville, I have a full body beekeeping suit you are welcome to borrow if you want to try taking it down.

A quick Googling of "WRT310N access point" indicates that others have had success doing exactly what you are after, with that model. Good luck.

The WiFi extender will cut your speed in half. They can't transmit and receive at the same time, so they take an outgoing packet, receive it, then forward it, then wait for an incoming packet, receive it and forward it on. Your router can transmit and receive at the same time.   One option for you, since you have the Ethernet cable run, is a wireless access point. Plug one end of the cable into one of the ports on your router, and the other end of the wire at the other end of the house is where you plug in the access point. It's kind of like the range extender, but you get the full speed, and you get WiFi at both ends of the house.   Many routers can be configured to act as an access point, you just have to go into the config and set it. I think some manufacturers even sell dedicated access points, so there's no monkeying around with settings to make it work. If you find a router that supports something called DD-WRT, it's almost certain that it can be configured as an access point. DD-WRT is open source code that can be installed on a router that enables all kinds of functionality not included in the manufacturers default configuration.

To me, he seemed like that annoying guy that used to smoke, and would do it anywhere, anytime, and didn't care who's face the smoke blew into. The world be damned, it's my right to smoke if I want. Then for whatever reason they decide to quit, and they never shut up about how everyone else should quit too.   He has his ideas about how life should be and likes to share them, and that's fine, but sheesh, sometimes you gotta give it a rest.   I remember him from a couple of years ago when he did the AT. I really enjoyed reading his posts. Since he came back to TGO, his posts immediately got under my skin. It's like he's a completely different person.

My truck has some notches in the sides of the bed liner, just forward of the tailgate by about 18". I cut a 2x4 to fit in it side to side. Whenever I'm carrying something, like groceries, I put the 2x4 in and it keeps all my stuff from sliding around. Best $2 truck accessory I ever bought.

Chrome froze up for me a few days ago. It would open, but would never load any pages. I found this tech note: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142059?hl=en and it fixed my problem. It did, however, clear out all of my settings, so I had to re-enter things like saved passwords on TGO, etc.

When my wife was preparing to get her HCP, I discovered that the place giving the class used IDPA targets for the shooting test. I Googled IDPA Target Dimensions and there are several images with all of the dimensions. I made a template from a piece of poster board then traced it onto scrap cardboard and made my own.   For her, she just had to put a hole in the paper to count. You may want a more official one, but if the DIY route is OK for you, look them up.

It looks like the wreck happened just outside a turn. Any driver at that point would be unable to swerve left to avoid him. Plus coming through the turn, most drivers probably would not have seen them until the track straightened out, at which point they would not have had time to react. Going further into the center of the track, he signed his own death certificate.

For me everything was fine, parts wise, until I turned 40. I still am in great health with the 50 looming now, but right after 40, things just hurt that wouldn't normally. Now, I spend a day whitewater kayaking and I feel it the next day, when I didn't used to. I seem to get tendinitis a lot more now, and joints just hurt a little.   At 40, you really should start thinking about a prostate exam and have your blood tested for a PSA score. :ugh: The exam sucks, but it's a part of modern life. Just go to your happy place and it'll be over soon. Oh, and find a Doc with skinny fingers  :up:.   I'll leave you with this quote from Hunter S. Thompson: I put that on my wall at work and read it almost every day.

I thought it was going to be the one where the kids asks how much the box of condoms are? The clerk says "$10 bucks". Kids says "I'll take them". Clerks rings it up and says "That'll be $11". Kid says "I thought you said they were $10. What's the extra dollar for?" Clerks says "That's for the tax". Kid says "Oh, I always wondered how you kept them on".   (Clerk said tax, kid heard tacks. The joke translates better when spoken)

We took the grand daughter to Pigeon Forge to see WonderWorks for her birthday on Saturday. There were bumper to bumper cars from 441 through to  Pigeon Forge, with about 90% of them turning into the parking lot at the Outlet Mall. The 10% savings fighting all those shoppers would not be worth it to me.

I can't believe the advise being given here. This guy has an awesome life! He is living rent free in grandparents house, he's got a sugar-momma taking care of his financial needs, gets to play video games all day, and has a sweet car.   Maybe he should follow the girlfriends lead and get a little side action going too.   /sarcasm

Drove past the early voting spot in Oak Ridge this past weekend, and it was so littered with yard signs, it was beyond ridiculous. Some candidates put out dozens in a row side by side. Then their opponent put out dozens of their own. It was, quite frankly, an embarrassment, and an eyesore. I'll be glad when election season is over and all those signs come down.   Another rant: Sunday night, during the storm, we tried watching a show we like. Before it even got started, the local news broke in over the show and gave storm updates for thirty minutes. When the weatherman returned us to "regularly scheduled programming" they went into a 15 minute loop of local political ads, which was just enough time to get us caught up to the national commercials normally attached to the show. In the local commercial loop, I must have seen the same half dozen or so ads 5 or six times. 

  I have witnessed this great feat one time. I have tried myself many times, but never succeeded. 

Saw this on Facebook and it reminded me of this old thread. Thought I'd revive it...       http://youtu.be/Lq14KIgdJOA

We recently signed up for just Internet service from Comcast. When they came to install it, they dropped off a couple of the set top boxes. We said we weren't getting tv and he said that we would get the most basic tv service included in the just internet service, so they give out the boxes. He also said, "By the way, HBO is included for you for fee."   We never even hooked up the boxes, so i don't even know if it really works or not.

I've talked about it before, but I'll mention it again: Google Voice is awesome for this.   GV is a free service from Google where they give you a phone number. You can even pick it from a list of available ones, and they can be from any area code you like.When registered, you go in to the account settings and add all of you real phone numbers, such as your cell, home, work, etc. When anyone dials the GV #, all of those phones ring at the same time. Which ever one answers first, that's where the call is routed to.Picking a different area code is handy if you have family out of state, you can pick a number local to them, and it doesn't cost them long distance to call you, and the call is routed to you for free.   The feature pertinent to this thread is that you can set up contacts and group them into categories like, family, friends, work, etc., then set up ruleyous. The rules can be like: Family always rings thru to the phones. Friends only between 8:00am to 9:00pm. Work only on weekdays. And so on. But, you can also set up one that says if the number is not in my contacts, go to voicemail. There is an option where they have to announce who they are, then google calls you, plays their announcement adn you decide if you want to talk. You can also set up block lists, where the call never goes thru, and the caller is told they are on the block list.   The other feature I use alot is, if you call your own GV # from one of your own phones, it's smart enough to recognize that and it gives you a menu. One of the choices is to place a long distance call. You enter the # you want to call, and GV routes the call through, but all you have really dialed is your local GV# (assuming you picked a local area code). Free long distance for land lines. I use it from work, where personal LD calls are frowned upon.   Another nifty feature is any voice mails left are translated into text and sent to your email. Although I will say the translation code is mediocre at best. A lot of time the written text makes no sense at all because GV didn't understand what was said, and it makes a best guess.

Yep, this is not about "sanctions", but rather just furthering an agenda. If they wanted to impose real sanctions they would have stopped the import of Russian Vodka.

My favorite prank to play on phone marketers was this one: Lady calls me up and says Hello Mr. Analog, how are you today? I get all scared sounding and say "Well not too good. You see I'm in the witness protection program, and analog was my old name. Now somehow you got my old name together with my new phone number. If you found me then they can too."   Lady got all freaked out and went to go get her manager. I had to hang up I was laughing so hard.     The other one I used was with AT&T. When we moved here my wife arranged all the utilities, so they were all in her name. Get a call one night, "Hello, this is AT&T may we speak with Mrs. Analog?" I tell them, "Sorry Mrs. Analog's phone privileges have been suspended, she's not allow to use the phone right now." Blew their mind, they could not comprehend that an adult woman, my wife, was not ALLOWED to use the phone.   We got rid of our land line and our cells are on the Do Not Call list, so I rarely get any telemarketers calling any more. I do get a lot of rings with nobody on the other end when I pick up. I suspect those are robo-calls looking for live numbers.

Well, its not quite $40K, its actually only $39,999.98.   Seriously? When you get up to that price range, do they really need to drop the $0.02 to make you feel like you are getting a deal. Do me a favor and make it easy on my checkbook and make it a nice even $40k

OUTSTANDING!! If you've gone a month, you are home free, the worst is over. I quit probably 20 years ago after about 15 years of smoking. Now, I can't even stand the smell of them. Wasn't the case 20 years ago, though. Keep it up.  :up:

Back in February, we bought a house in the country, and for the first time ever we had a respectable sized garden. I've already made a dozen jars of pickles and a dozen jars of relish. The pickles are a bit sour, so may have to find a new recipe next year.   I've got about 3 gallon sized freezer bags of green beans and one or two of squash in the deep freeze.   We have a thornless backberry bush that has produced over a gallon of berries, and is still going strong, I froze them, and have been adding a handful of them to my oatmeal every morning.  :yum:   We just got a pressure canner, but have not had a chance to use it yet. We are going to have more tomatoes than I know what to do with, so I guess we'll be using the canner on them. We probably have 15 tomato plants, and they are so full and heavy with tomatoes that they are falling over.   We also planted a whole row of pumpkin. Why didn't someone tell me that is way too much pumpkin? It practically took over the whole garden. Fortunately we planted it next to a gap we left unplanted. It consumed all that space, and crept out under the fence. I guess we'll can some pumpkin, but I don't even like it all that much.

Just heard that James Garner passed away today. I loved watching reruns of Rockford Files. I went on a Safety Patrol trip to Washington DC when I was in 5th grade, and caught a glimpse of him in the White House, filming for something.   Gonna miss him.

If you got a 2nd one, it looks like you could hang the two on a wall and make some sort of rack. Perhaps a gun rack?

Ol' Ted is a bit eccentric, and full of energy, but he's passionate, and really believes in his message. If you were to take a transcript of what he says and polish off a few of the rough edges, his message is rock solid.   He's certainly no nuttier than those champions of Liberalism, Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.