Thank God for the internet

[JB73]

you ever have one of those moments of joy finding something you just Know that without the internet you would never get the answer?

take
http://www.allstarcorp.com

for example. a company I and probably none of you have ever heard of.

My garage remote stopped working some time in December, I called my no good landlord and she told me to go buy a remote at home depot, and deduct the cost off my rent.

I was checking out my remote, and opener thinking, well how am I going to program the new remote to work with this POS. I got super busy, and put it off a while. I suspected the batteries died in my old remote, as most of November I had to be right in front of the garage to open it. I went out and got batteries for it at a batteries plus (some weird ones I have never seen) and went home to try it. no-go

either the remote was really dead, or some magic code was lost. there were no dip switches in the remote, and nothing resembling a way to program it or the receiver.

So I finally went out and bought 2 different kind of remotes hoping I could get 1 to freaking work. no-go

I don't know why I never bothered to take time looking on the internet, I assumed something was wrong with one of the things. even more stupid of me is to not think of why it quit working. See the 2 days before it quit the electric company was working in the area, and after the second day of coming home from work seeing all my clocks flashing I got a voice mail from them saying "we apologize, blah blah blah."

well, from searching the site I found this lovely PDF
http://www.allstarcorp.com/Manuals/Door_Operators/Residential/MVP/110977b.pdf
followed the instructions, and voila, I have a working remote again.

if not for the internet I wouldn't have found the info and been without a garage opener until mid-summer when my landlord finally got off her bellybutton and taken care of it.

I guess I saved her money, but I think my own happiness is more important

[AKIron]

Google does my job every day. I don't have to remember squat.



I refuse to remember which damn registry key Microsoft put the default RDP port in.

[JB73]

Originally posted by AKIron
Google does my job every day. I don't have to remember squat.



I refuse to remember which damn registry key Microsoft put the default RDP port in.

LOL true dat

[DYNAMITE]

Hahaha  Me too!

[rpm]

For answers to important questions I go in this order:

Google first.

O' Club second.

It works every time.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by rpm
For answers to important questions I go in this order:

Google first.

O' Club second.

It works every time.

LMAO thats about the size of it too.

Rarely if ever need go any further

[Thruster]

I've said it before that for some one who does most of his work with little more than a sharp stick and a rock, I have no idea how I got by in the days before cell phones and the web.

It's getting to be the same way with E-Bay, I can't count the times I've either found the item(s) I needed or found a connection for something hard to find from  a seller there.

[Airscrew]

Originally posted by rpm
For answers to important questions I go in this order:

Google first.

O' Club second.

It works every time.

Almost for me..

Google,  My dad, then O'Club... sometimes I'll do all 3 and pick the best solution.

[ChickenHawk]

A couple months ago my wife got her cell phone wet and it stopped working.  Took it down to the Verizon store and they said it was completely dead and there was nothing they could do.  They also said it would cost a minimum of $160 to replace it.

I googled the error on the phone and found a quick and easy fix.  Took the back off and cleared the corrosion with a tooth brush in a couple minutes and its worked fine ever since.

Google saved me $$$