I used to own an Epson photo printer some time ago; now I have a Canon 560i.
The problem with my old Epson printer was, that the ink dried out inside the printhead, changing the device from printer to garbage. Due to the fact, that it's not possible to change the printhead (yourself) for epson printers and they are driven by piezo-elements - this means that, if the ink dries in the printhead, the printer is wrecked. (note: I didn't use the printer often...)
After that I went through some reviews at 'Tom`s Hardware' and bought myself a Canon 560i. For my surprise:-D it has a seperate, replaceable printhead. This means you can change the printhead when it's no good anymore and you can change all ink colors seperatly. (Plus it doesn't use much ink - I've printed over a dozen letter-sized photos and still have more than 90% in the inktanks:-D )
AFAIK it still hasn't got a lot of features that automake has (specially the detection / configuration stuff - as you said correctly).
Never the less, it's easy for beginners, and it's cross-plattform!
So for posix developers it might be unsufficient - for Windoze developers (M$VC) it would be a great improvement (the way M$VC handles the project settings is horrific)!
Nice idea!
And if OSX has ifup/ifdown scripts for the network interfaces (like in e.g. Debian) it's easy to get you laptop to automatically set up a tunnel whenever the network interface is brought up:-)
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I used to own an Epson photo printer some time ago; now I have a Canon 560i.
:-D it has a seperate, replaceable printhead. This means you can change the printhead when it's no good anymore and you can change all ink colors seperatly. (Plus it doesn't use much ink - I've printed over a dozen letter-sized photos and still have more than 90% in the inktanks :-D )
The problem with my old Epson printer was, that the ink dried out inside the printhead, changing the device from printer to garbage.
Due to the fact, that it's not possible to change the printhead (yourself) for epson printers and they are driven by piezo-elements - this means that, if the ink dries in the printhead, the printer is wrecked. (note: I didn't use the printer often...)
After that I went through some reviews at 'Tom`s Hardware' and bought myself a Canon 560i.
For my surprise
What you want more ?
Have a look at this:
:-) Great fun reading and you might get some sneaky ideas from it ... hehe
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AFAIK it still hasn't got a lot of features that automake has (specially the detection / configuration stuff - as you said correctly).
Never the less, it's easy for beginners, and it's cross-plattform!
So for posix developers it might be unsufficient - for Windoze developers (M$VC) it would be a great improvement (the way M$VC handles the project settings is horrific)!
QMake (from Trolltech) is a possible replacement, though not free (according to the FSF)!
Nice idea! And if OSX has ifup/ifdown scripts for the network interfaces (like in e.g. Debian) it's easy to get you laptop to automatically set up a tunnel whenever the network interface is brought up :-)
You must have been playing 'The incredible machine', eh ??
AFAIK the 'for dummies' series of computer books are a quite good start for beginners - easy to understand (but just the basics).
Take a look here
-- Gallagher
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