While this category might be useful to someone, a single cabinet is far from "big iron". Best hope for something amusing.
How about one from a small startup Telco I worked for. They were installing a small switch, 100 miles from an existing office. They took delivery at the established office and did preliminary setup. The cabinet was fairly small and mounted on casters but certainly too large for a personal vehicle.
In renting a truck they had a choice between a covered bed or an open bed one with a lift gate. The weather was to be good so they wrapped it in plastic and only sent one tech.
He smoked. Switch caught fire. He didn't know until the highway patrol pulled him over.
I investigated these types of issues with Lexmark and Epson.
I have an assortment of Epson printers. It appears that their evolution on this front has been:
No control, users can fill or use dead carts to their own dismay
Partial control. No chip on cart but tracking in printer and/or driver
Chip on cart. Only updated on major cycles (power up/power down, cart change, etc.) Users can fool by changing cart from full to refilled by other than designed means to leave full values in refilled cart.
Chip on cart updated frequently. I don't actually have one of these but it seems clear that they are trying to stiffle refilling
As I say, I don't have one of the latest types and I never will buy one.
Cannon has some printers that actually use a detector of ink prescence. I haven't tried it but in theory adding ink would suffice. If I were buying again, I would give them a try.
Lexmark does (did not) publish yield numbers. When I corresponded with them, they still did not provide info but offered to do so on a per model basis.
All of this digging was targeted at the dream of decent home photo printing. In the end I find that the online photo services are superior. Most of the prints that are done in color would be just fine in B/W anyway.
The only thing that this attitude from the inkjet vendors has done is increase my appreciation for my LED printers and renew my commitment to keeping them operational.
I have two Tivos, love the concept but many cautions about buying in at this point.
But on the subject of commercial skipping I would point very strongly toward the better Panasonic VCRs and similar models that have automatic skipping. My techno savy 70 year mother got the first one in my circle of contacts. Now I have influenced several people to go that way. A simple demonstration is all that it takes. The only person that did not get a Panasonic after I showed them the feature in action was buying a low end deck for his toddler.
We have been working on watching Seinfeld for once and for all -- All episodes in order, as collected by Tivo, dubbed to VHS for additional buffer space. The broadcasts are frequently out of episode order. The Panasonic VCR is virtually 100% effective at catching the commercials with the only annoyance being about 50% of the time it does not detect the final short segment of the program as being non-commercial content.
Also Panasonic VCRs have about the best rating for reliability in Consumer Reports.
It is quite possible for gases to be disolved into a given volume of some solids or liquids in greater concentration than the same mass of gas would occupy at the normal standard pressure and temperature that is implied in the phrase '1000 liters of hydrogen'. This is present in nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries for example.
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I would really like to see a period of public review prior to issuance
If a handspring is leaked, would we say handsprung?
How about one from a small startup Telco I worked for. They were installing a small switch, 100 miles from an existing office. They took delivery at the established office and did preliminary setup. The cabinet was fairly small and mounted on casters but certainly too large for a personal vehicle.
In renting a truck they had a choice between a covered bed or an open bed one with a lift gate. The weather was to be good so they wrapped it in plastic and only sent one tech.
He smoked. Switch caught fire. He didn't know until the highway patrol pulled him over.
I have an assortment of Epson printers. It appears that their evolution on this front has been:
As I say, I don't have one of the latest types and I never will buy one.
Cannon has some printers that actually use a detector of ink prescence. I haven't tried it but in theory adding ink would suffice. If I were buying again, I would give them a try.
Lexmark does (did not) publish yield numbers. When I corresponded with them, they still did not provide info but offered to do so on a per model basis.
All of this digging was targeted at the dream of decent home photo printing. In the end I find that the online photo services are superior. Most of the prints that are done in color would be just fine in B/W anyway.
The only thing that this attitude from the inkjet vendors has done is increase my appreciation for my LED printers and renew my commitment to keeping them operational.
But on the subject of commercial skipping I would point very strongly toward the better Panasonic VCRs and similar models that have automatic skipping. My techno savy 70 year mother got the first one in my circle of contacts. Now I have influenced several people to go that way. A simple demonstration is all that it takes. The only person that did not get a Panasonic after I showed them the feature in action was buying a low end deck for his toddler.
We have been working on watching Seinfeld for once and for all -- All episodes in order, as collected by Tivo, dubbed to VHS for additional buffer space. The broadcasts are frequently out of episode order. The Panasonic VCR is virtually 100% effective at catching the commercials with the only annoyance being about 50% of the time it does not detect the final short segment of the program as being non-commercial content.
Also Panasonic VCRs have about the best rating for reliability in Consumer Reports.
It is quite possible for gases to be disolved into a given volume of some solids or liquids in greater concentration than the same mass of gas would occupy at the normal standard pressure and temperature that is implied in the phrase '1000 liters of hydrogen'. This is present in nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries for example.