Timberline Employee Blog

Sometimes I think that manuals should at least be read once before printing. But then again I wouldn’t have been able to find, “Note: No replacement parts are available for this tool. For replacement parts, please call xxx-xxx-xxxx”. I’m sure somebody will have to call the number.

Edit: I got an email back from this local discount tool store when I requested permission to place a scan of this portion of the test meter manual online. They said no. I’m assuming out of embarrassment. If they said yes, this local discount tool store would have had a link back to their website which is great for the search engines.

If you downloaded the Microsoft Office 2007 trial and decided that your Microsoft Office XP will continue to suit you just fine than you will need to download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. This provides support for reading Microsoft Office 2007 formats in Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003.

Link 1 — Link 2

Remember these? Long ago there was a time that we used floppy disks that were actually floppy. The 5.25 inch disks is what most households had who had computers with disk drives. The common format was a singled sided 5.25 inch 180K disk.

5.25 inch floppy disks had a hole along the side that when covered acted as a mechanical write protect when this hole was covered.  This notcher would put a hole in the flip side of the disk so the drive would think you were working with an unprotected disk when you flipped it over. In effect you now have 360K to work with on a single disk.

Floppy disk manufactures didn’t tell you that the single sided disks they were selling actually were double sided disks. These manufacturers eventually came out with the statement that the flip side often contain manufacturing errors. I had no problems on the flip sides when I used this device.

It became unnecessary to use this device once you upgraded your hardware to a double sided disk drive.

After a lengthy non productive chat with Chrysler tech support for the Chrysler dealer website I decided to do some investigation.  I started going through miscellaneous recent Microsoft updates that included msxml3.dll. KB936021 from mid December has msxml3.dll. I uninstalled this update to make this go away:

I rebooted and checked but no luck.

Trial and error let to uninstalling KB941568, a requirement for KB941644. And success it works again.

There has been a fiber cut this morning affecting 800 service to Timberline. Our provider is working on a resolution. For now please use the direct numbers.

UPDATE 4:30PM:  800 Service is up again.