Most companies are replacing their old machines (those on the Cannon SX engine, for example) that only do about up to 8ppm. For the typical home user, or even a SOHO, that would be fine. Usally the only parts required to fix them are a new seperation pad (cork bit) and a new feed roller. At my university they have surplus sales, where you can get a HP Laserjet 3/3p, or apple laserwriters for about $20.00 Canadian. They typically come with a brand new toner cartridge (costs more then the $20.00 for the printer in stores)
As well they will last over a year with about 10,000 pages per cartridge.
Lastly they are tough. I have had A LJ2 for 3.5 years, got used, and it has done about 500,000 pages in its life, with just the replacements mentioned above. Total cost about 20.00 over the years.
I started with shaw (wave) then to shaw@home, then to rogers@home, then to rogers.
With each step the service got worse, as did the speed. With the original wave service.. i could get through to tech support in about 5 min. Now I am lucky if it takes 30 min.
I think it is just them realizing that they won't be making any money any time soon, and that is not good for shareholders or the company as a whole.
No matter what you do, there's always something that will cause software to crash. What happens if someone's CPU fan dies, and their OS has a kernel panic because of it? Does the software company owe money even though it's the CPU fan manufactuer's fault?
Ok then just let them pay for anything that an owner can prove is their fault. This would serve two functions. The owner would verify that they are yelling at the right party, and the software maker has a bug tester. Then for finding the problem the company should pay the individual money, for the software not being up to spec. I know that this happens with large pieces of software, but hey if a software maker was to be held responsible for any bug in their code (not anyone elses) then IMHO they would work to make it better.
As well with High Availability of data. If you have multiple connections to the same subnet and want to maximize uptime, then just round robin the cards, making sure that the active one has an external heartbeat. (ping, open aan ftp session, etc)
If this fails, then bring the one interface down, set the MAC address of the new interface to the pseudo interface, and bring up the interface. Most clients won't miss any traffic, unless you have a heavly loaded machine.
You can still use the AOL service if you have a cable modem. It is cheaper if you don't pay AOL for their dialup accounts. This means that they are moving toward offering a content rich site, thus they don't care who uses the dialup side.
Of course the deal with Time Warner, allows them to move from providing low speed internet access to high bandwidth, content rich media with a well known and loyal subscriber base.
I am not one of them, but their business model with the merger, is far from unstable.
I currently attend a university where old computers are sold at a surplus sale once a month. They have over 100 monitors (them old VGA 640x480) and many 386 and 486 on sale for about $10.00 CDN.
They are never sold, and most end up in the dumpster as a result. These computers still work, and usually are just too slow for the advanced computations, that they need faster ones.
Making new glue that would separate components from the PCB is all well and good, but the reality is that most of the boards that are causing a problem (high lead content in the solder) are older models. Unless we can find a way to decrease the content of those ending up in a landfill, then the problem will remain.
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Most companies are replacing their old machines (those on the Cannon SX engine, for example) that only do about up to 8ppm. For the typical home user, or even a SOHO, that would be fine. Usally the only parts required to fix them are a new seperation pad (cork bit) and a new feed roller. At my university they have surplus sales, where you can get a HP Laserjet 3/3p, or apple laserwriters for about $20.00 Canadian. They typically come with a brand new toner cartridge (costs more then the $20.00 for the printer in stores)
As well they will last over a year with about 10,000 pages per cartridge.
Lastly they are tough. I have had A LJ2 for 3.5 years, got used, and it has done about 500,000 pages in its life, with just the replacements mentioned above. Total cost about 20.00 over the years.
http://freshmeat.net/ comes to mind as one bad example. but what happens if you want company.net, and compnay.com is porn. Then they may flag you..
I started with shaw (wave) then to shaw@home, then to rogers@home, then to rogers.
With each step the service got worse, as did the speed. With the original wave service.. i could get through to tech support in about 5 min.
Now I am lucky if it takes 30 min.
I think it is just them realizing that they won't be making any money any time soon, and that is not good for shareholders or the company as a whole.
as well the new news servers are really bad
Ok then just let them pay for anything that an owner can prove is their fault. This would serve two functions. The owner would verify that they are yelling at the right party, and the software maker has a bug tester. Then for finding the problem the company should pay the individual money, for the software not being up to spec. I know that this happens with large pieces of software, but hey if a software maker was to be held responsible for any bug in their code (not anyone elses) then IMHO they would work to make it better.
As well with High Availability of data. If you have multiple connections to the same subnet and want to maximize uptime, then just round robin the cards, making sure that the active one has an external heartbeat. (ping, open aan ftp session, etc)
If this fails, then bring the one interface down, set the MAC address of the new interface to the pseudo interface, and bring up the interface. Most clients won't miss any traffic, unless you have a heavly loaded machine.
You can still use the AOL service if you have a cable modem. It is cheaper if you don't pay AOL for their dialup accounts. This means that they are moving toward offering a content rich site, thus they don't care who uses the dialup side.
Of course the deal with Time Warner, allows them to move from providing low speed internet access to high bandwidth, content rich media with a well known and loyal subscriber base.
I am not one of them, but their business model with the merger, is far from unstable.
I currently attend a university where old computers are sold at a surplus sale once a month. They have over 100 monitors (them old VGA 640x480) and many 386 and 486 on sale for about $10.00 CDN.
They are never sold, and most end up in the dumpster as a result. These computers still work, and usually are just too slow for the advanced computations, that they need faster ones.
Making new glue that would separate components from the PCB is all well and good, but the reality is that most of the boards that are causing a problem (high lead content in the solder) are older models. Unless we can find a way to decrease the content of those ending up in a landfill, then the problem will remain.