I've had an Epson Stylus 740 hooked up with a CIS system for about two years. I would do it again in a hearbeat. The benenfits:
- You can tell exactly how much ink you left at a glance. - Your price per page is around $0.12, if you print 2000 pages a year for only 2 years:.12=(200+150+8*8+75)/4000 (200 printer, 150 for CIS, $8 ream, 75 for ink. Obviously, YMMV. - My print quality is very good- no banding at all. - I run two weekly crons, one to print a color bar pattern and one to run an extra cleaning cycle. Only once did I have a clogged head, and a couple extra cleaning cycles cleared it up. - With any amount of diligence, you will never run out of ink in the middle of a job. - You get the satisfaction of knowing you're not paying pure profit for carts.
I would definitely recommend that if you go this route, you get a new printer and do CIS from day one. If not, invest in the cleaning solution to get every last bit of old ink out and your heads totally clean. This I learned the hard way.
If you have more questions, you can email me at jmgallag at attbi dot com.
Valenti noted that "currently our films are protected by two factors - the amount of time needed to download a full-length motion picture and the lack of unprotected digital copies of our works. But, with the increased availability of broadband Internet access you can bring down a full-length motion picture in less than 15 minutes versus the four to five hours for non-broadband."
"In addition, cable modems are a shared pipe, you share it not with strangers, but with other rabid netsurfers, warez vendors, porn freaks, and quake server operators in your building or street."
This is true. But how does this differ from all the DSL lines going into a shared pipe at the local exchange?
It sure doesn't sound like they're giving you a guaranty on your 416Kb for $159 a month. I've got a cable modem, which almost always blazes - I've had big downloads come in at over 200KB/s. The limiting factor almost always seems to be somewhere other than the last mile of copper. And I get it for $50 a month - yep, modem & access included.
Even if I had to use a phone line for the uplink (which, luckily, I don't), I would have to think real hard about shelling out 3 times as much money for a comparable service. Especially when the cable companies are eager for your business, while you practically have to beat up the phone company to get anything done.
Most people using Linux come from a PC background, where Plug&Pray, ISA, IRQs and windoze have made life miserable for quite a while. The longer you used and added to your PC, the more likely it was that you would be forced to learn some of this stuff (at least that was the case for me.) I'm not a Mac user, but my impression is that Apple did a good job of hiding those kind of details on their machines. My point is that more PC users know about hardware than Mac users (which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it,) which Mr. Katz is.
Although it may be hard to accept, most people expect their computer to behave like an appliance- all they have to do is plug it in and start computing. Until this type of Linux machine is easily available with the apps people want, it will remain an OS for propeller heads.
Now before some of you get out the flame thrower, let me say that I use Linux and I love it. One of my machines at home is an old 486 that I turned into an ipmasq gateway for my other PCs. If I could use Linux full time, I would. But like the man said, it takes a lot of time learn what you need to know to be able to install Linux, the apps you want and configure your GUI. It took me a whole day to get Window Maker working on my dual boot machine. Now I'm not saying that if I can't do it quick, nobody can, but I am fairly knowledgeable about PC hardware, Windows, and Linux. But damnit, every time I set out to do something new on Linux it takes me a lot of time. Unfortunately, everyone doesn't have this kind of time on their hands.
The common reply is 'Read the FAQ/How-To!' Don't get me wrong- these documents are a critical part of community, but often the document is along the lines of 'this is how I did it, YMMV'. This is OK for someone that knows what's going on, but it's not sufficient for the newbie.
The important thing is that the time is almost here when the average home user really will have viable options for what OS they use on their PC, but at the moment, Linux is an OS for the PC and Unix literate. If you aren't when you start, you will be when you get there.
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I've had an Epson Stylus 740 hooked up with a CIS system for about two years. I would do it again in a hearbeat. The benenfits:
.12=(200+150+8*8+75)/4000 (200 printer, 150 for CIS, $8 ream, 75 for ink. Obviously, YMMV.
- You can tell exactly how much ink you left at a glance.
- Your price per page is around $0.12, if you print 2000 pages a year for only 2 years:
- My print quality is very good- no banding at all.
- I run two weekly crons, one to print a color bar pattern and one to run an extra cleaning cycle. Only once did I have a clogged head, and a couple extra cleaning cycles cleared it up.
- With any amount of diligence, you will never run out of ink in the middle of a job.
- You get the satisfaction of knowing you're not paying pure profit for carts.
I would definitely recommend that if you go this route, you get a new printer and do CIS from day one. If not, invest in the cleaning solution to get every last bit of old ink out and your heads totally clean. This I learned the hard way.
If you have more questions, you can email me at jmgallag at attbi dot com.
His presentation had nothing to do with the arrest (technically.) He was arrested for writing software that violates the DMCA.
Valenti noted that "currently our films are protected by two factors - the amount of time needed to download a full-length motion picture and the lack of unprotected digital copies of our works. But, with the increased availability of broadband Internet access you can bring down a full-length motion picture in less than 15 minutes versus the four to five hours for non-broadband."
"In addition, cable modems are a shared pipe, you share it not with strangers, but with other rabid netsurfers, warez vendors, porn freaks, and quake server operators in your building or street."
This is true. But how does this differ from all the DSL lines going into a shared pipe at the local exchange?
It sure doesn't sound like they're giving you a guaranty on your 416Kb for $159 a month. I've got a cable modem, which almost always blazes - I've had big downloads come in at over 200KB/s. The limiting factor almost always seems to be somewhere other than the last mile of copper. And I get it for $50 a month - yep, modem & access included.
Even if I had to use a phone line for the uplink (which, luckily, I don't), I would have to think real hard about shelling out 3 times as much money for a comparable service. Especially when the cable companies are eager for your business, while you practically have to beat up the phone company to get anything done.
Found these guys on Pricewatch. Called 'em up and they said they had some, but had already sold out. Maybe this thing is for real after all.
http://sales.bearkan.com/bcs
EIDE only.
Most people using Linux come from a PC background, where Plug&Pray, ISA, IRQs and windoze have made life miserable for quite a while. The longer you used and added to your PC, the more likely it was that you would be forced to learn some of this stuff (at least that was the case for me.) I'm not a Mac user, but my impression is that Apple did a good job of hiding those kind of details on their machines. My point is that more PC users know about hardware than Mac users (which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it,) which Mr. Katz is.
Although it may be hard to accept, most people expect their computer to behave like an appliance- all they have to do is plug it in and start computing. Until this type of Linux machine is easily available with the apps people want, it will remain an OS for propeller heads.
Now before some of you get out the flame thrower, let me say that I use Linux and I love it. One of my machines at home is an old 486 that I turned into an ipmasq gateway for my other PCs. If I could use Linux full time, I would. But like the man said, it takes a lot of time learn what you need to know to be able to install Linux, the apps you want and configure your GUI. It took me a whole day to get Window Maker working on my dual boot machine. Now I'm not saying that if I can't do it quick, nobody can, but I am fairly knowledgeable about PC hardware, Windows, and Linux. But damnit, every time I set out to do something new on Linux it takes me a lot of time. Unfortunately, everyone doesn't have this kind of time on their hands.
The common reply is 'Read the FAQ/How-To!' Don't get me wrong- these documents are a critical part of community, but often the document is along the lines of 'this is how I did it, YMMV'. This is OK for someone that knows what's going on, but it's not sufficient for the newbie.
The important thing is that the time is almost here when the average home user really will have viable options for what OS they use on their PC, but at the moment, Linux is an OS for the PC and Unix literate. If you aren't when you start, you will be when you get there.