I eventually returned the cable, and set up the printer as a network printer attached to one of my notebooks with a parallel port.

When you are running Windows XP, you may have noticed that every so often (rarely) that Windows reboots without you asking it to. This tends to be caused by a Blue Screen error. If you want to see what this error is, you will have to check the error log list because Windows reboots too quickly for you to read what happened. Well with this tip you can disable the Auto-Reboot so you can finally read, and see the blue screen error.

1. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System
2. Go to Advanced
3. Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings...
4. Under System Failure un-check "Automatically restart"

In the Global Economy, the strength of any country is measured by the quality of their exports. With exports, you earn the currency that you need for imports, which then can be used to raise your standard of living. It's like any household, doing a job or selling a service to earn income.

Some well-endowed countries export natural resources, like Gold and Diamonds from South Africa, and Oil from Saudi Arabia, but those industries do not create a strong middle class for a sustainable economy.

Exports from strong economies include electronics from Japan and Taiwan, machinery from Germany and Sweden. These economies have an engineering focus.

What does America have? Salespeople, managers, and sales managers. What does America export? Financial instruments and derivatives. In America's money culture, you're focused on money, on making your accounting statements look good, on shuffling money around to create fake wealth. That's not real wealth. Thats not enduring wealth.

To win a war, you need to win battles. To win a sports game, you have to make good plays. So a strong economy requires each sector to be winning. Automotive is an example of how American industry has deteriorated. While Japan spent effort to improve their product, the Big 3 spent money on advertising. The resulting decline of General Motors, and the rise of Toyota was inevitable.

Real wealth is building something worthy, and having others respect you for that. You prove your worth, you feel valuable, and no amount of money can buy that.

Hopefully Americans can learn that, and then build a worthy economy.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/hoefle_bubble_2711.html

US Vehicle Sales has plummeted in 2008:

Year Sales (thousands)
1998 15,534
1999 16,879
2000 17,344
2001 17,118
2002 16,810
2003 16,643
2004 16,866
2005 16,948
2006 16,504
2007 17,129
2008 14,131 (Near 1993-1994 sales levels)

The historical data is from http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_17.html

The forecast is based on the 15% YTD drop to October, plus anticipated 30% drop for the last 2 months of the year. http://wardsauto.com/keydata/USSalesSummary0810/

To find relevant free data, search google with "-order -subscribe" to eliminate search results that will ask you for money.

Subprime mortgages are home loans made to people who would not, under normal circumstances, be ideal candidates to get a mortgage - thus they are "subprime." These mortgages have also been called the NINJA mortgages, standing for No Income, No Jobs or Assets.

Starting around 2005, U.S. lenders loosened their rules and began granting mortgages to borrowers who provided very little evidence of their income and ability to repay. The share of subprime mortgages to total originations rose from 5% in 1994 to 20% ($600 billion) in 2006. In 2005 the median down payment for first-time home buyers was 2%, with 43% of those buyers making no down payment whatsoever.

Many of these mortgages had very low initial interest rates, for the first six months to three years, but when that period ended the payments jumped sharply. Borrowers were led to believe that they would be able to refinance their homes at this point because the value of the property would have increased. With the slump in the housing market, many people defaulted on their mortgages and lost their homes.

Financial institutions borrowed enormous sums of money during 2004–2007 and made investments in mortgage-backed securities (MBS), essentially betting on the continued appreciation of home values and sustained mortgage payments. The seemingly endless income magnified profits during the housing boom period, but drove large losses after the bust. Financial institutions and individual investors holding MBS also suffered significant losses as a result of widespread and increasing mortgage payment defaults or MBS devaluation beginning in 2007 onward.

Normalized relational databases are designed so that information resides in one place and only one place.

Repetition of information is dangerous because information can be changed in one place, not the other, thus causing inconsistencies.

Bad design can create unwanted dependencies, such as the inability to create one entity without the other.

For example, if a single table is designed to store both the customer and the order. While some may think it's simpler to put both entities into a single table, especially if the address is just a single field of text, two problems are created:

1. If the address is wrong and to be changed for all outstanding orders, one of the addresses on an order may be missed, as there are multiple copies.

2. A customer record cannot be represented without creating an order, because the customer exist only in the order table.

The late 1940s to the early 1950s was a time when US-Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly. While Roosevelt believed that Soviet-occupied territories would be allowed to determine their own fate with free elections, Truman's suspicions quickly became true as most of East Europe fell behind the "Iron Curtain" by 1947.

American Cold War policies were meant to give aid to those nations fighting Communism, financially and militarily. This was the major focus of American international relations in that period.

After Korea War and Stalin's death in 1953, gradually there was an acceptance on both sides of a status quo.