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Here is an other article from an HP insider : The great printer scam . It describes the strategies of printer manufacturers

Don't forget also Understanding, Reversing, and Hacking HP Printers , which however may be a bit off topic but was the original article to which the above on refers.

Understanding, Reversing, and Hacking HP Printers

non-sequitor and a rather poor troll.

If you're going to use your +1 to troll, learn to do it properly. Sheesh. Reminds me of the days I spent on Usenet, listening to those morons in alt.flame. I mean, you could have at least picked an analogy that had some semblance of working. Even if you had said something about on the job training, it might have worked.

idiots who refuse to rtfm and want it all spoon fed to them are the biggest weakness of Linux. Its a free and open system, do your part and don't leach off others without putting forth at least a little effort. THAT is what I see happen all day long. I am on the 'i need help' side of that equation myself, and its very tempting to be lazy about it and ask someone instead of hunkering down and looking for it.

If you have trouble finding what you're searching for, read up on how to search effectively in the first place: searchlores.org

See also Understanding, Reversing, and Hacking HP Printers for more information about manufacturers traps for consumers.

These are worth the reading:
- The great printer Scam
- Understanding, Reversing, and Hacking HP Printers

Enjoy!
freddo

These are worth the reading:
- The great printer Scam
- Understanding, Reversing, and Hacking HP Printers

Enjoy!
freddo

Hiya,
Theres already a host of such brilliant sites around, probably the best i've ever come across was run by Fravia who unfortunately has decided to close it down, if you are very lucky you may be able to find one of the mirrors still alive. In its place he has created a great site which deals largely with search engines and searching the web as well as many other interesting topics. He still has a few links to reverse engineering stuff however. You can find his site here .
Some other sites which are up there with Fravia's site include:
Mammon's Site
Crackz r.e site here and here
The Sandman's code reversing for newbies.
Greythorne the Technomancer's
These are just a few of the many out there however imho they are the best i have come across.
Cheers, VI

On a similar note if you are interested in filtering out some of these 1x1 gifs and ads from sites you can find sample windows hosts.sam files with a list of less than desirable web ad sites etc at Fravia's Searchlores page. Just do a local search on his site for doubleclick and you get quite a few links to lists of addresses you could add to your hosts.sam file(in windoze) or i assume (as I havent tried it yet) /etc/hosts. A direct link to one of the lists can be found here

On a similar note if you are interested in filtering out some of these 1x1 gifs and ads from sites you can find sample windows hosts.sam files with a list of less than desirable web ad sites etc at Fravia's Searchlores page. Just do a local search on his site for doubleclick and you get quite a few links to lists of addresses you could add to your hosts.sam file(in windoze) or i assume (as I havent tried it yet) /etc/hosts. A direct link to one of the lists can be found here

nice page on obscuring web pages - if you want to do that kind of thing :)

looking at the linked info, maybe IBM should have used some URL translation scripts before subbing the search engines. Maybe then they've found a whole load more stuff. Anyway I guess (just guess) anyone who wanted to link out o fan isolated site / page could strip referrer headers to prevent obvious detection by target page logs?