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Category: computers suck
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Free the Laserjet 4!
I love the HP LaserJet 4+. Built like a tank, good print quality, and now available used/refurb for pennies. Sure, they weight about as much as a Sherman, and suck power like there was no tomorrow, but one of my 4+s has nearly a million on the page count, yet prints crisp and clean.
Last weekend I scored a 4+ with built in duplexer from eBay for very little. It didn’t want to print at first (giving a cryptic 13 PAPER JAM error), but removing the rather beat-up full-ream paper tray fixed that. It may need a new cartridge (at almost twice what I paid for the printer), but I’m happy.
Wonder if I can direct-connect one of them to the ethernet port on Catherine’s eMac? I know my router won’t talk AppleTalk, so we can’t network just one printer.
SCO – The Campaign For a .SCO Internet Domain
This is good: SCO – The Campaign For a .SCO Internet Domain
mailbox fool
Can you believe the Outlook mailbox limit at work? 60MB. Yup. I’ve been forced to tidy up every week.
I can’y believe a program as widely used as Outlook has so many critical limitations. Storing mail in binary archive files of limited size? Please; so 1989.
no use UPS
I inherited a big UPS for my NSLU2 backup system. It’s all hooked up, and should be providing protection. I don’t think the power went out today, but I find this evening that the NSLU2 is off — what’s that all about?
upgrade
Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2, and did the same for Catherine’s blog. It must’ve been one of the very few 1.2 to 2.0 upgrades still out there.
Times & Seasons
It’s definitely spring, for today I saw:
- the first geese flying north
- my first spam in my inbox at EPCOR.
two cheers for sandisk
SanDisk used to have terrible packaging for their memory cards, but no longer. Now they use a small, simple cardboard box with a PET insert. Not perfect, but much better; no knives required!
first bad rockbox build
Today’s daily build of rockbox caused my iRiver to crash. It’s the first time it’s been anything other than perfect.
NerdTV
Has NerdTV gone the way of all flesh? The main page has been stuck on Doug Engelbart for more than a month.
2.0
I’m running WordPress 2.0 now. You shouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
no work shall be done
Oh dear, I’ve just discovered Arnold, the Amstrad CPC emulator for OS X. The CPC was my first home computer, and I have fond memories. What with that, and the ftp.nvg.ntnu.no games archive, I’ll be as happy as a pig in glabber.
the cry of blackberryschmertz
My Blackberry mail server setup hasn’t been completed yet (it’s quite a shock to be on a computer with nothing above user privileges, I tell you). So I’m getting lots of blackberry.net messages which look a bit like this:
BEGINETP 10
AwUAAAAAAAAAAQ!!
ENDETP ...
Sums up pretty much how I feel about it: AwUAAAAAAAAAAQ!! AwUAAAAAAAAAAQ!!
Google Earth for Mac
Yes, we can run Google Earth now too.
go train chkdsk
One of the GO information signs was knowing a difficulty this morning. Looks like they’re something like a Mini-ITX box running Windows XP, but I’d rather I didn’t know that.
At least the signs (when they work) are better than they used to be.
Deep Thoughts from the St Louis HIExpress
From the wireless internet instructions at the St Louis Holiday Inn Express at S. Jefferson & Lafayette:
Do I need to pay for it?
No you do not have to pay anything. It is Free. Poo Management is offering it for free for all the guests for all hotels.
It would seem that Poo Management, Inc., is a hotel franchise holder in St Louis. No, really.
palm crash
My M500, previously very reliable, now seems to crash every time I switch it on.
go 1and1!
I just noticed that 1and1 upgraded my hosting package to 30GB and 100 MySQL databases. Meep!
the disgruntled cyclops in your computer
You might see this in Perl if, for instance, $data were a reference to an array of arrays, and so @{ $data[$#data] } would represent the last row of data in the array. You don’t see it that often; probably more frequently than a real disgruntled cyclops, though …