Why do all that. I've seen 3rd party cartridges that already have the chip built-in.
Either I didn't see them myself, or they weren't much cheaper than the Epson ones. Inkjet cartridges run out quite often, so there's good reason to keep your per-cartridge cost as low as possible.
I see several mentions of Epson (and other) printers having special chips on their ink cartridges. I have an Epson 777 ink jet. It is pretty cheap (~$80US), but Epson ink replacements (~$45 a pair) are about half the cost of the whole printer.
So I got an "Epson chip resetting kit" and generic ink cartridges. It's pretty easy to use - you take out the old ink cartridge, pop out the chip with a little plastic tool that comes with the resetter, insert the chip in the resetter. Wait a couple of seconds for an LED to change color, then insert the chip in the new cartridge. Then install the new cartridge as Epson's instructions direct.
The chip resetter wasn't cheap - $36, but the ink was - $7 and $9 for B/W and color, respectively. I figure the total fixed cost of $116 for printer and resetter is still reasonable, and $16 for a pair of cartridges is much more reasonable. Also, I got my mother an identical printer, so I can just reuse the resetter since I am her official administrator.
Then again, if I were printing a lot, I'd get a refurbed laser printer. Their per-page cost is way lower than inkjet.
Give up. Don't worry about it. They will not learn why logging in as root is bad until they get burned. Especially since you're just a forum moderator - if you were getting paid to do this and your job depended on these machines staying up, you would have every responsibility to ensure people were properly following your policies; but, as a mere guru to these people, allow them to learn in the most effective fashion: trial by error.
I would add to this that you should reproduce for your readers some of the excellent advice already posted, but tell them to print out a hardcopy for themselves. Then, when they wreck their system, they can read what you posted and realize you were right.
Don't forget that no matter how good it is, an Office replacement has to acknowledge the 800-pound gorilla of Office. In addition to your suggestions, I would propose making file converters for Office apps to handle whatever file format your app produces.
Being able to read and write Office format is (at least) half the battle. However, users of the Office replacement will be stymied when their documents are returned to them by Office users who can't open them.
Word, for example, has a file converter SDK. One of these days, I'd like to have a go at implementing a converter for KWord, say.
Ok, well I guess VA doesn't make hardware anymore, but I recall they were active in writing RAID code for the hardware they shipped. Of course they also have (or had, I don't keep up with this) quite a few heavy-hitter kernel developers on their payroll.
Where I work, we have a program called "MASK", which takes as a single argument the name of some other program, which it looks up in a database. If it can't find that other program in the database, it prints the following diagnostic: "SEVERE ERROR: CANNOT GET " followed by the program name.
So my little joke is to get other programmers to type "MASK LAID".
It's not a simple choice between believing in a Christian God or believing in nothing at all: any number of deities could exist.
As an agnostic former mathematician, I usually make your point by saying that existence and uniqueness are two separate questions. The latter seems to usually be an implicit assumption.
nroff produces its output for monospaced typewriter-like devices
When I was teaching calculus in grad school I would sometimes send out answers to homework via email. I found that Maple was convenient to format the results for a monospaced font. (As well as to check the answers.)
I actually saw Spinal Tap's concert at "Carnegie Fucking Hall," in David St. Hubbin's immortal words. Nigel's guitar had several cool mods, including perhaps over a dozen pickups, exhaust pipes, a speedometer, and a tachometer. That's as much as I could make out with my friend's binoculars, so I don't know if either of the last three did anything...
Oh, and the show was pretty cool, too. I knew I was in for a good time when I saw the midgets hanging around the back stage door. During the show, they were dressed as delivery guys and brought in the Stonehenge triptych hanging from a wheeled clothing rack, and had David St. Hubbins sign for it mid-song.
I opened the case and found that my processor was stolen along with my two 64MB ram units. Someone had bothered to open it up, take the stuff, and close it again
... I'm not even going to know where to begin solving a problem that might occur on a 747 jet liner... But I do understand how my 9-cell sabre 150 parachute works...
That suggests you needn't worry about how to fix a 747, right?
further down... it then references an array with offset 'id'
Has anyone been able to catch this error with a tool like Purify? Language arguments aside, the reality is that the program is already written. In my experience, debugging a complex existing program with good tools is easier than writing the same program from scratch.
In most submissions I've read so far, the story is funnier before the acronym gets out. Here's one along those lines:
In Durham, NC (USA), the story goes that there was a contest to name the local bus system. After some months, the leading candidate was "The Bus." It has a certain folksy charm to it, don't you think? They went with DART (Durham Area Rapid Transit.)
It's not an acronym, but I thought I was pretty clever with the name of a system I worked on. We were upgrading reporters in our news department from Word Perfect on DOS to Word on Windows (OK, so upgrade isn't the best term) and I had a new machine to test the new environment. To reflect the new OS, I called the new system "New Shell", but preferred to think of it as "News Hell."
For the same reporters, I wrote the client side of a program for filing stories which I called "Scooper." The reporters liked it for suggesting getting a scoop on a story (beating the competition), but my private image was of a pooper-scooper to reflect the crap that they produced.
When we wrote the scooper program, one of the things we wanted was to have good error reporting. I was meticulous and read about error codes in the SMTP RFC. The guys who maintained the back-end of the news system had an expression for when things were bad. They would say, for example, "News is on fire! I can't talk now!" So, following the advice in the RFC, this state returned error code 451 (the Fahrenheit temperature when paper combusts, for those of you who haven't read Ray Bradbury.)
(What do you know, I managed to work acronyms into three out of five of the above paragraphs!)
From the law.com article:
Draft versions of the legislation, which hasn't yet been formally introduced, also would impose criminal penalties -- up to five years in prison -- upon anyone who alters existing security technologies or disables copy protection mechanisms.
Here are some of the proposed penalties:
Copying a movie - 5 years
Copying an album - 3 years
Copying shrink-wrap software - 2 years
Copying a song - 1 years
Moving the write-protect tab on a floppy - 6 months
I was a math grad student and dropped out, ABD, in 1995, with the "consolation Master's" degree that you get after you pass your second year exams. There were about 40 grad students in the department at the time, and as I recall the department was ranked reasonably highly for one of its size. Top ten, no, but maybe top 20.
Even the strongest students there had trouble getting jobs in academia. Those that did were all excellent teachers and got jobs at liberal arts colleges.
Starting grad school in the early '90s, I was told that it was a good time to do so - although there weren't too many jobs at the time, there would be waves of faculty retiring around when I was finishing, opening up plenty of jobs.
There were two reasons those jobs didn't materialize. The first is that departments were cutting budgets and tenured positions, replacing them with lecturer jobs. The second was that there was a wave of highly trained mathematicians from the Former Soviet Union who were snapped up into many research positions at bargain rates.
I remember the graduating students in my department applying to hundreds of jobs, and open positions in turn receiving hundreds of applications. It was brutal.
Is there anyone in the math world now who knows how it compares now to 5 or 6 years ago?
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Either I didn't see them myself, or they weren't much cheaper than the Epson ones. Inkjet cartridges run out quite often, so there's good reason to keep your per-cartridge cost as low as possible.
"Worst episode ever." - Comic Book Guy
So I got an "Epson chip resetting kit" and generic ink cartridges. It's pretty easy to use - you take out the old ink cartridge, pop out the chip with a little plastic tool that comes with the resetter, insert the chip in the resetter. Wait a couple of seconds for an LED to change color, then insert the chip in the new cartridge. Then install the new cartridge as Epson's instructions direct.
The chip resetter wasn't cheap - $36, but the ink was - $7 and $9 for B/W and color, respectively. I figure the total fixed cost of $116 for printer and resetter is still reasonable, and $16 for a pair of cartridges is much more reasonable. Also, I got my mother an identical printer, so I can just reuse the resetter since I am her official administrator.
Then again, if I were printing a lot, I'd get a refurbed laser printer. Their per-page cost is way lower than inkjet.
Have her read at -1 to never speak to you again...
I would add to this that you should reproduce for your readers some of the excellent advice already posted, but tell them to print out a hardcopy for themselves. Then, when they wreck their system, they can read what you posted and realize you were right.
No need to obscure your profanity at this point, I'd say.
Being able to read and write Office format is (at least) half the battle. However, users of the Office replacement will be stymied when their documents are returned to them by Office users who can't open them.
Word, for example, has a file converter SDK. One of these days, I'd like to have a go at implementing a converter for KWord, say.
Ok, well I guess VA doesn't make hardware anymore, but I recall they were active in writing RAID code for the hardware they shipped. Of course they also have (or had, I don't keep up with this) quite a few heavy-hitter kernel developers on their payroll.
I don't know about the product, but we turned the site into vapor.
Notepad works in Wine. How's that for ya?
There's a fine line between that and Sharper Image products.
Yeah, but can your Zaurus do this?
April second, by my calculations.
So my little joke is to get other programmers to type "MASK LAID".
As an agnostic former mathematician, I usually make your point by saying that existence and uniqueness are two separate questions. The latter seems to usually be an implicit assumption.
When I was teaching calculus in grad school I would sometimes send out answers to homework via email. I found that Maple was convenient to format the results for a monospaced font. (As well as to check the answers.)
Oh, and the show was pretty cool, too. I knew I was in for a good time when I saw the midgets hanging around the back stage door. During the show, they were dressed as delivery guys and brought in the Stonehenge triptych hanging from a wheeled clothing rack, and had David St. Hubbins sign for it mid-song.
Was your laptop sitting in a bathtub full of ice with a note on the windshield telling you to call 911?
The only simple to setup expert system I know of is the Magic 8 Ball.
That suggests you needn't worry about how to fix a 747, right?
Has anyone been able to catch this error with a tool like Purify? Language arguments aside, the reality is that the program is already written. In my experience, debugging a complex existing program with good tools is easier than writing the same program from scratch.
In Durham, NC (USA), the story goes that there was a contest to name the local bus system. After some months, the leading candidate was "The Bus." It has a certain folksy charm to it, don't you think? They went with DART (Durham Area Rapid Transit.)
It's not an acronym, but I thought I was pretty clever with the name of a system I worked on. We were upgrading reporters in our news department from Word Perfect on DOS to Word on Windows (OK, so upgrade isn't the best term) and I had a new machine to test the new environment. To reflect the new OS, I called the new system "New Shell", but preferred to think of it as "News Hell."
For the same reporters, I wrote the client side of a program for filing stories which I called "Scooper." The reporters liked it for suggesting getting a scoop on a story (beating the competition), but my private image was of a pooper-scooper to reflect the crap that they produced.
When we wrote the scooper program, one of the things we wanted was to have good error reporting. I was meticulous and read about error codes in the SMTP RFC. The guys who maintained the back-end of the news system had an expression for when things were bad. They would say, for example, "News is on fire! I can't talk now!" So, following the advice in the RFC, this state returned error code 451 (the Fahrenheit temperature when paper combusts, for those of you who haven't read Ray Bradbury.)
(What do you know, I managed to work acronyms into three out of five of the above paragraphs!)
Here are some of the proposed penalties:
No offense, dude, but how's your love life?
Even the strongest students there had trouble getting jobs in academia. Those that did were all excellent teachers and got jobs at liberal arts colleges.
Starting grad school in the early '90s, I was told that it was a good time to do so - although there weren't too many jobs at the time, there would be waves of faculty retiring around when I was finishing, opening up plenty of jobs.
There were two reasons those jobs didn't materialize. The first is that departments were cutting budgets and tenured positions, replacing them with lecturer jobs. The second was that there was a wave of highly trained mathematicians from the Former Soviet Union who were snapped up into many research positions at bargain rates.
I remember the graduating students in my department applying to hundreds of jobs, and open positions in turn receiving hundreds of applications. It was brutal.
Is there anyone in the math world now who knows how it compares now to 5 or 6 years ago?