It must be the new printers, the article didn't say which model or models were the problem.
I bought a HP Deskjet 870Cse that had been sitting at a consignment shop for the better of 6 months and it still printed. The print was poor but the ink still came out of the print cartridges. After a few days printing it ran just fine with very good output. (HP cart. #45 and #41)
We can only hope who ever takes control of HP understands the way to make money is to deliver a fine quality product,... but I'm not holding my breath.
Step #2 A long time ago in a land farway called Vietnam, when I was in the Army we had to clean some elect. equipment and all we had was diesel fuel.
And yes it does work! Clean the computers inside and out with the fuel and let dry a day or so then clean the electrical contacts with alcohol.
And why not the power supply boards? They are no more dangerous than any other circuit in the computer, if the 24 v or 12v or 5v circuits on the other cards don't start a fire why would the same voltage in the power supply board start one?
You will have a new smell to deal with but it will not be dead pigs.
Step #1 Call a company that cleans up dead people in houses and apartments. People die all the time in their homes, some because they were murdered and some because they died of natural causes, sometimes they are there a day and sometimes a month or more.
After the police are gone SOMEBODY has the clean that mess up, so call the companies that do that all the time, have them clean your equipment.
In 1917 on December 6th the freighters Mont-Blanc (France in-bound) and the IMO (Norway out-bound) collided in the Halifax harbor. The Mount-Blanc was carrying ordance and the explosion took out the harbor.
The ship Gandcamp was on fire in Texas City with a cargo of ammonium nitrate on April 16 1947 when it blew up- very messy to say the least.
It would looklike it's not a good idea to have a ship full of high explosives go off, 60 years old or not. They have a VERY big problem!
God bless who ever has to work on clearing that ship out.
Actually, shredding was never meant to be a security measure, is was a way to compact paper waste so you could remove it from a building easier. Later people said this is neet, we can shred important documents so no one can read them.
So they begain to buy and sell the equipment for this purpose,..but...that's not what it was for!
In the Army when we had to destroy documents we had to first burn then in a 55gal. drum then turn them around and around till the ash was nothing but dust. (the drums were mounted horizontally with a crank on one end so they could be turned, and a door cut in the side to load the documents.)
I don't know about the new goverment equipment, but I think you are right. They add water to the cut documents and pound them into a paste.
Shreding your home documents with a cross cut shredder is better than just throwing them out, but remember,..that is NOT why the original machines were built! It's just why they sell them to you now.
Well duhhhhh........it's been that way for a long time,...30 plus some years. I unfortunately don't see anything changing soon, I grew up as a Army brat and the on base schools were and still are better than most off base / civilian schools. Most military brats will say the same thing.
I believed the old joke was:
#1. The USA says something can't be done. #2. USSR says they invented that 20 years ago. #3. Japan starts importing it.
(Poor Russa,... they aren't even the USSR anymore) One and two still seem to be almost true, we need to as the ads say "Just do it!"
I'm running Folding@home on a IBM Aptiva 500mhz Athlon system with 384 megs. of memory with Win. 98 SE (at home) and I haven't seen any slowdown on my computer. If I run System Monitor it shows about 16% of CPU cycles being used when the folding application is running in the background, and 100% if I run the job as a screen saver. (still have the Number9 video card installed) Other than the memory upgrade I did the system is box stock, I can surf the web, print, e-mail backup my system with no problems. You do have to turn folding@home off when doing defrag., but that was the only problem I saw.
I was in the US Army Signal Corps. and worked with communication equipment such as the KW26 which did the encryption of data on the comm. lines. It had the little blinking light on the transmitter side to let you know it was working all right,...till the Army found out that light (a neon) was broadcasting all the data! Part of the tech. job was to lock the system from "Tempest" leaking and we had to remove that light and cut out the wires to it.
This was in 1968, (yes.. I'm a old fart)so this has been known for quite some time, or it should have been known,...looks like they forgot!
Well my Adaptec 1542 SCSI card uses the Z80 for its cpu controller, I don't know what the new cards use for a cpu now but there is a good chance their's STILL a Z80 in your system.
I wish the lady good luck, (lots and LOTS of luck!!)but that type of jump has been done before. She will be the first female to do so however.
Capt. J. W. Kittinger Jr. jumped from a balloon on 6/2/1957 at a altitude of 96,000 feet. He also jumped from 102,800 feet on 8/16/1960. Check out "Project Man High" for details.
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It must be the new printers, the article didn't say which model or models were the problem.
I bought a HP Deskjet 870Cse that had been sitting at a consignment shop for the better of 6 months and it still printed. The print was poor but the ink still came out of the print cartridges. After a few days printing it ran just fine with very good output. (HP cart. #45 and #41)
We can only hope who ever takes control of HP understands the way to make money is to deliver a fine quality product,... but I'm not holding my breath.
Step #2 A long time ago in a land farway called Vietnam, when I was in the Army we had to clean some elect. equipment and all we had was diesel fuel.
And yes it does work! Clean the computers inside and out with the fuel and let dry a day or so then clean the electrical contacts with alcohol.
And why not the power supply boards? They are no more dangerous than any other circuit in the computer, if the 24 v or 12v or 5v circuits on the other cards don't start a fire why would the same voltage in the power supply board start one?
You will have a new smell to deal with but it will not be dead pigs.
Step #1 Call a company that cleans up dead people in houses and apartments. People die all the time in their homes, some because they were murdered and some because they died of natural causes, sometimes they are there a day and sometimes a month or more.
After the police are gone SOMEBODY has the clean that mess up, so call the companies that do that all the time, have them clean your equipment.
Much safer than alcohol or diesel fuel.
Largest I don't know but there have been others.
In 1917 on December 6th the freighters Mont-Blanc (France in-bound) and the IMO (Norway out-bound) collided in the Halifax harbor. The Mount-Blanc was carrying ordance and the explosion took out the harbor.
The ship Gandcamp was on fire in Texas City with a cargo of ammonium nitrate on April 16 1947 when it blew up- very messy to say the least.
It would looklike it's not a good idea to have a ship full of high explosives go off, 60 years old or not. They have a VERY big problem!
God bless who ever has to work on clearing that ship out.
Actually, shredding was never meant to be a security measure, is was a way to compact paper waste so you could remove it from a building easier. Later people said this is neet, we can shred important documents so no one can read them.
So they begain to buy and sell the equipment for this purpose,..but...that's not what it was for!
In the Army when we had to destroy documents we had to first burn then in a 55gal. drum then turn them around and around till the ash was nothing but dust. (the drums were mounted horizontally with a crank on one end so they could be turned, and a door cut in the side to load the documents.)
I don't know about the new goverment equipment, but I think you are right. They add water to the cut documents and pound them into a paste.
Shreding your home documents with a cross cut shredder is better than just throwing them out, but remember,..that is NOT why the original machines were built! It's just why they sell them to you now.
Well duhhhhh........it's been that way for a long time,...30 plus some years. I unfortunately don't see anything changing soon, I grew up as a Army brat and the on base schools were and still are better than most off base / civilian schools. Most military brats will say the same thing.
I believed the old joke was:
#1. The USA says something can't be done.
#2. USSR says they invented that 20 years ago.
#3. Japan starts importing it.
(Poor Russa,... they aren't even the USSR anymore) One and two still seem to be almost true, we need to as the ads say "Just do it!"
I'm running Folding@home on a IBM Aptiva 500mhz Athlon system with 384 megs. of memory with Win. 98 SE (at home) and I haven't seen any slowdown on my computer. If I run System Monitor it shows about 16% of CPU cycles being used when the folding application is running in the background, and 100% if I run the job as a screen saver. (still have the Number9 video card installed) Other than the memory upgrade I did the system is box stock, I can surf the web, print, e-mail backup my system with no problems. You do have to turn folding@home off when doing defrag., but that was the only problem I saw.
Folding@home does work at home.
I was in the US Army Signal Corps. and worked with communication equipment such as the KW26 which did the encryption of data on the comm. lines. It had the little blinking light on the transmitter side to let you know it was working all right,...till the Army found out that light (a neon) was broadcasting all the data! Part of the tech. job was to lock the system from "Tempest" leaking and we had to remove that light and cut out the wires to it.
This was in 1968, (yes.. I'm a old fart)so this has been known for quite some time, or it should have been known,...looks like they forgot!
Well my Adaptec 1542 SCSI card uses the Z80 for its cpu controller, I don't know what the new cards use for a cpu now but there is a good chance their's STILL a Z80 in your system.
I wish the lady good luck, (lots and LOTS of luck!!)but that type of jump has been done before. She will be the first female to do so however. Capt. J. W. Kittinger Jr. jumped from a balloon on 6/2/1957 at a altitude of 96,000 feet. He also jumped from 102,800 feet on 8/16/1960. Check out "Project Man High" for details.