I own a Ricoh Aficio CL2000N with duplex unit, which is a great machine.
My dad has a Laserjet 1100 on a hardware printserver and it works flawlessly. Both printers work fine on Linux, what is more to ask for, eh?
Before that I had messy, trouble-prone inkjets. I will never go back.
I cannot say that was my experience, but that's mainly because the Inkjets we owned were first-generation. Back when HP Inkjet printers were good quality. Our HP Deskjet 500 worked for years and years and years flawlessly. We went laser after that (that means that the Laserjet 1100 replaced the Deskjet 500... think about it!) because I knew that the quality was down. Personally I had (Heck, I still have it, and it still works!) a HP Deskjet 320 which never made problems. It's a portable printer and I used it to print my thesis at university. Never had a problem with it either.
The problem is that both our inkjet printers were extremely expensive. About the price you'd pay for a laser these days.
Not entirely true: the better husband makes the existing things work and thus saves money. Why throw away a perfectly fine computer in order to buy a Mac?
You will just have to explain my wifes computer that is on 24/7, running XP.... It reboots only when Windows Update requires it to do so. That's not that often.
Of course, it's behind an OpenBSD firewall, but that is of no concern for my wife.
Got a Ricoh Aficio CL2000. It was under 1000€ and is Postscript 3 compliant and thus works with any Unix I've tried it with. Including Linux and Mac OS X. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. It is huge though. I had to admit, I paid more than 1000€ but that was because I wanted the network interface and the duplex unit.
That said, I wanted to have a B&W printer, but my wife insisted on colour. A networked B&W printer with network interface can be had for much less.
I actually liked Photo Editor. Why? Because in my NT4.0 and 2000 days, it was one of the fastest loading viewers... The viewer that comes with XP is better, but before that it was the best choice. Just imagine Photoshop or The GIMP loads whenever you doubleclick a jpg.
I actually still have IE6 on my work computer. Why? Because pretty much every developer has upgraded to IE7, and I think our app needs to be tested with IE6 too! I'm very sure that our users in the company don't have the same level of control as we have on our dev machines... Ours are not locked down, theirs are and as such they still run IE6.
I don't understand how they even let us install IE7, but hey, what do I know? I'm not in charge of IT.
Checkout ABC's website. You can watch Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate House Wives, and other shows, which include 2-3 30's commercials.
Cool... I expected it to block out non US-users, but it doesn't. That's surprising. Of course, it would even be better if I could actually run that stuff fullscreen. Content that is worthwhile with a few ads isn't a problem....
And I'd like to nominate Office 97 as one of the best Office suites ever.... Once you turned off Clippy of course;-) People critisize OpenOffice to be like Office 97, but I think that's a good thing.:-)
I used my Jaz drives extensively... I even had a carrying case for my Jaz drive & disks. I was a student and took it with me every weekend for four years between University and Home on a 4 hour train trip. Including most of my disks....
Might not be the usage a newspaper gave it, but I surely gave them some grief. As said, I'd re-use them, but my current laptop doesn't have PCMCIA slots anymore and my PCMCIA SCSI card wont work. My desktop has a Adaptec 29160 and as such the Jaz should still connect and boot, but I haven't taken the time yet.
I still have mine and at least 6 disks... It used it as a primary disk for a very long time (booted the OS from internal, the Jaz 1GB was for data & apps. My primary disk was 320Meg!). None ever died, they were fast and reliable. Perhaps I was lucky. I've been thinking to start reusing it simply because 1GB is nice enough to try out exotic OSes that aren't too big. (Yes, I have a bootable SCSI host adapter)
Oh, and tape drives are still considered one of the most reliable backup methods in major datacentres....
Well, I had a SCSI burner... It didn't happen all that much, but if it happened you were very much pissed off because a single CD-R would cost about 6€....
I did read the article, and saw that...But, don't you lose your Copyright to youtube and the like once you release it to their site?. I have to admit that I didn't read their terms of service, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.
Even if it's supposed to be the at the discretion of the copyright holder, how long till websites like youtube will see a great revenue stream and add it in without the consent of the copyright holder (or better said: by forcing the copyright holder to accept their terms). It's enough that they change the terms of service (which usually says that they can change it whenever they want) to say that "when posting to $OUR_WEBSITE you allow us to add advertisements to your videos". In legalese of course;-)
That will kill self-made videos in no time. Who really wants to wait through a 3 minute ad for tampons to watch a 2 minute rambing of a camwhore? I certainly don't want to do that.
Not that I care, I have put exactly one video of on youtube. I just had a dash of inspiration. Probably will never happen again.
The OEM version you buy at newegg is not equivalent to the OEM version that comes with your Dell/Toshiba/Gateway. Those OEM versions are tied to the hardware they are sold with. This means that you cannot transfer your Windows XP that came with your Gateway to the new machine (sans OS) that you just built.
Oh, and about the software. That XP that came with your Gateway is an OEM version tied to your machine. Even if you manage to transfer it to another machine, you are pirating it. OEM XP is pretty much worth nothing.
I even have 6 Apple "White" stickers. Two came with my Shuffle, two with my wifes Nano and one with my iBook G3 (which is long dead by now). So, I can build 6 Apple labelled computers! Sweet!:-D
Yeah, that all fun... I do the same thing, but this is not the category of machines that these people collect. Wintel machines aren't even in the picture. Sure, I had a P-166/256Meg RAM functioning 24/7 as a home server. I decomissioned it when motherboard/cpu combos became so cheap that I could replace it with modern components for pretty much no money. Today my home server is an AMD64 2800+/512Meg RAM. It also doubles as a space heater;-)
Today, I wouldn't even spend money on such a machine because I started to find very capable computers in dumpsters. P-III 1GHz become very common (my parents server is a P-III 800MHz, which was my old desktop). The occasional Athlon and P-IV can be found too. x86 machines are so ubiquitous that they are not worth collection in any way. If you still have one, it is either your primary computer or you have a small home server.
The newest computer in my household is a laptop: barely 3 months old and bought before the release of Windows Vista. Why? Because it was on sale;-) My wifes desktop is from late 2003 and mine from early 2003 (though I invested in a workstation class machine, not a consumer-end machine) Neither machine is even planned for retirement. I maxed both out on RAM and they shug along just nicely for all our tasks. Mine runs Debian, my wifes machines runs Windows XP Pro.
I know as a matter of fact that Windows XP Pro runs fine on a P-III 600MHz/512Meg RAM for mundane tasks. That's what my mother in law uses and that is what my last laptop was.
My baseline for "old" in the x86 world is a P-II class machine. Not that they are not capable of doing any worthwhile work, but because there are faster machines available for 0€. Those machines and below are only worth to be deposited in a dumpster. Now, non-x86 machines... Those are pretty much all collectible;-)
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I own a Ricoh Aficio CL2000N with duplex unit, which is a great machine.
My dad has a Laserjet 1100 on a hardware printserver and it works flawlessly. Both printers work fine on Linux, what is more to ask for, eh?
Before that I had messy, trouble-prone inkjets. I will never go back.
I cannot say that was my experience, but that's mainly because the Inkjets we owned were first-generation. Back when HP Inkjet printers were good quality. Our HP Deskjet 500 worked for years and years and years flawlessly. We went laser after that (that means that the Laserjet 1100 replaced the Deskjet 500... think about it!) because I knew that the quality was down. Personally I had (Heck, I still have it, and it still works!) a HP Deskjet 320 which never made problems. It's a portable printer and I used it to print my thesis at university. Never had a problem with it either.
The problem is that both our inkjet printers were extremely expensive. About the price you'd pay for a laser these days.
Not entirely true: the better husband makes the existing things work and thus saves money. Why throw away a perfectly fine computer in order to buy a Mac?
You will just have to explain my wifes computer that is on 24/7, running XP.... It reboots only when Windows Update requires it to do so. That's not that often.
Of course, it's behind an OpenBSD firewall, but that is of no concern for my wife.
My dad has one of these, we had to replace the pads, but it works perfectly well. It's on a printserver and works with Linux too
Got a Ricoh Aficio CL2000. It was under 1000€ and is Postscript 3 compliant and thus works with any Unix I've tried it with. Including Linux and Mac OS X. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. It is huge though. I had to admit, I paid more than 1000€ but that was because I wanted the network interface and the duplex unit.
That said, I wanted to have a B&W printer, but my wife insisted on colour. A networked B&W printer with network interface can be had for much less.
I actually liked Photo Editor. Why? Because in my NT4.0 and 2000 days, it was one of the fastest loading viewers... The viewer that comes with XP is better, but before that it was the best choice. Just imagine Photoshop or The GIMP loads whenever you doubleclick a jpg.
I actually still have IE6 on my work computer. Why? Because pretty much every developer has upgraded to IE7, and I think our app needs to be tested with IE6 too! I'm very sure that our users in the company don't have the same level of control as we have on our dev machines... Ours are not locked down, theirs are and as such they still run IE6.
I don't understand how they even let us install IE7, but hey, what do I know? I'm not in charge of IT.
Checkout ABC's website. You can watch Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate House Wives, and other shows, which include 2-3 30's commercials.
Cool... I expected it to block out non US-users, but it doesn't. That's surprising. Of course, it would even be better if I could actually run that stuff fullscreen. Content that is worthwhile with a few ads isn't a problem....
dobe owns the world of online video thanks to patent strong-arming against Macromedia.
Patent strong-arming? Adobe has bought Macromedia some while ago....
And I'd like to nominate Office 97 as one of the best Office suites ever.... Once you turned off Clippy of course ;-) People critisize OpenOffice to be like Office 97, but I think that's a good thing. :-)
I used my Jaz drives extensively... I even had a carrying case for my Jaz drive & disks. I was a student and took it with me every weekend for four years between University and Home on a 4 hour train trip. Including most of my disks....
Might not be the usage a newspaper gave it, but I surely gave them some grief. As said, I'd re-use them, but my current laptop doesn't have PCMCIA slots anymore and my PCMCIA SCSI card wont work. My desktop has a Adaptec 29160 and as such the Jaz should still connect and boot, but I haven't taken the time yet.
Jaz Drives?
I still have mine and at least 6 disks... It used it as a primary disk for a very long time (booted the OS from internal, the Jaz 1GB was for data & apps. My primary disk was 320Meg!). None ever died, they were fast and reliable. Perhaps I was lucky. I've been thinking to start reusing it simply because 1GB is nice enough to try out exotic OSes that aren't too big. (Yes, I have a bootable SCSI host adapter)
Oh, and tape drives are still considered one of the most reliable backup methods in major datacentres....
Well, I had a SCSI burner... It didn't happen all that much, but if it happened you were very much pissed off because a single CD-R would cost about 6€....
You do have a point there.... ;-)
I did read the article, and saw that...But, don't you lose your Copyright to youtube and the like once you release it to their site?. I have to admit that I didn't read their terms of service, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.
Even if it's supposed to be the at the discretion of the copyright holder, how long till websites like youtube will see a great revenue stream and add it in without the consent of the copyright holder (or better said: by forcing the copyright holder to accept their terms). It's enough that they change the terms of service (which usually says that they can change it whenever they want) to say that "when posting to $OUR_WEBSITE you allow us to add advertisements to your videos". In legalese of course ;-)
That will kill self-made videos in no time. Who really wants to wait through a 3 minute ad for tampons to watch a 2 minute rambing of a camwhore? I certainly don't want to do that.
Not that I care, I have put exactly one video of on youtube. I just had a dash of inspiration. Probably will never happen again.
The OEM version you buy at newegg is not equivalent to the OEM version that comes with your Dell/Toshiba/Gateway. Those OEM versions are tied to the hardware they are sold with. This means that you cannot transfer your Windows XP that came with your Gateway to the new machine (sans OS) that you just built.
I won't say wheather this is biologic or social
It also is "whether" and not that abomination of a word he used....
Indeed... ;-)
I think you don't really understand what family is about...
Oh, and about the software. That XP that came with your Gateway is an OEM version tied to your machine. Even if you manage to transfer it to another machine, you are pirating it. OEM XP is pretty much worth nothing.
Same at my work: vacation requests need to be filled out in an IE only web-application. It's the only thing I use IE for ;-)
I even have 6 Apple "White" stickers. Two came with my Shuffle, two with my wifes Nano and one with my iBook G3 (which is long dead by now). So, I can build 6 Apple labelled computers! Sweet! :-D
Thanks for that one!
Absolutely lovely and sooooo true.
Yeah, that all fun... I do the same thing, but this is not the category of machines that these people collect. Wintel machines aren't even in the picture. Sure, I had a P-166/256Meg RAM functioning 24/7 as a home server. I decomissioned it when motherboard/cpu combos became so cheap that I could replace it with modern components for pretty much no money. Today my home server is an AMD64 2800+/512Meg RAM. It also doubles as a space heater ;-)
Today, I wouldn't even spend money on such a machine because I started to find very capable computers in dumpsters. P-III 1GHz become very common (my parents server is a P-III 800MHz, which was my old desktop). The occasional Athlon and P-IV can be found too. x86 machines are so ubiquitous that they are not worth collection in any way. If you still have one, it is either your primary computer or you have a small home server.
The newest computer in my household is a laptop: barely 3 months old and bought before the release of Windows Vista. Why? Because it was on sale ;-) My wifes desktop is from late 2003 and mine from early 2003 (though I invested in a workstation class machine, not a consumer-end machine) Neither machine is even planned for retirement. I maxed both out on RAM and they shug along just nicely for all our tasks. Mine runs Debian, my wifes machines runs Windows XP Pro.
I know as a matter of fact that Windows XP Pro runs fine on a P-III 600MHz/512Meg RAM for mundane tasks. That's what my mother in law uses and that is what my last laptop was.
My baseline for "old" in the x86 world is a P-II class machine. Not that they are not capable of doing any worthwhile work, but because there are faster machines available for 0€. Those machines and below are only worth to be deposited in a dumpster. Now, non-x86 machines... Those are pretty much all collectible ;-)