Dryer not drying

I put a bunch of sheets, pillowcases, and other laundry in the dryer around midday and set the dryer to dry for an hour, but when I opened the dryer to remove the items in the evening, the items were still wet, though my wife told me she had restarted the dryer twice during the day. A few months ago when we had a similar problem with clothes not drying even after several cycles in the dryer, when I looked in the vent outside, I saw a clump of lint was blocking the vent. When I removed it, the dryer then performed as expected. I had looked in the vent a month ago, but had not seen any lint blocking the opening, but I went out again with a flashlight, since it was nighttime, and peered into the opening. Though the dryer was running, I could not detect much air coming out of the duct. With the flashlight, I could see what appeared to be a clump of lint near a bend in the tube leading to the vent opening. I had a hard time getting my arm far enough into the duct to pull out the clump of lint, but I was eventually able to get it out. When I did so, I suddenly felt a great deal of hot air coming out of the vent. So if your dryer isn't drying as well as you would expect, check the lint filter and the outside vent. Fixing the problem might be as simple as removing lint lodged in the vent. If there is no blockage visible, you might have to pull the dryer further away from a wall and remove any ducting/tube leading from the dryer to the outside to check it, but there may be a no-cost solution to the problem. I didn't think the problem with our dryer could be a faulty moisture sensor, since I had set the dryer for a timed drying period, which normally would be enough to dry a load of laundry. I've also ordered a flexible drain snake (drain clog remover) one can use for cleaning sinks to make it easier to remove lint. I'm hoping I can feed it into the vent opening and pull out lint, if a similar clog occurs.

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Resizing an image with CSS

If you want to resize an image on a webpage, e.g., to have it display as a smaller image on a webpage than it would based on the image's dimensions, you can edit the image with a graphics editing application to create a smaller version of the image or you can use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS). If you wished to apply the reduction in size to just one image on the page, you could apply a style directly to the IMG tag for that image. E.g., if image1 is 663 pixels wide by 307 pixels high, and you wanted to have the image displayed as 75% of that size, you could use <img src="image1.jpg" alt="Image 1" style="transform: scale(0.75)"> to have it display as an image 75% of the actual dimensions of the image. E.g.:

Image 1 at full scale

Image 1 at 75% scale

Note: The image above is a photo of Robert H. Goddard with an A-series rocket circa 1935

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Starting the Windows Media Player (WMP) from a command prompt

If you wish to start the Windows Media Player (WMP) application from a command-line interface (CLI), such as a command prompt window, you can do so by entering the command "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" at a command prompt window (be sure to enclose the command within double quotes since there are spaces in the directory path). You might wish to do so if you are logged into one user account, but wish to open a movie or music file that is not accesible from the currently logged in user account. If you wished to run the program from an administrator account, you can open a command prompt window as an administrator or you can open a unprivileged command prompt window from the currently logged in account and then use the runas /user command e.g., runas /user:username "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" where username is the account name for the account from which you wish to run the program. E.g., runas /user:jane "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" to run the Windows Media Player with Jane's account privileges. If you need to run the command from a Windows domain account, you can use runas /user:domainname\username "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" where domainname is the name of the domain and username is the name of the domain user account. Once the Windows Media Player app is open, you can then hit the Ctrl-O keys (the Ctrl and the letter "O" key) simultaneously to open a window where you can then browse for audiovisual files in directories to which the other user account has access.

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