I have a Canon Pixma 3000, and prices for ink are very reasonable (4-5 euro, 2-3 afer market). It's an awesome printer in general, if it was still on the market I would recommned it to anyone. - Nice colour photo printer - full duplexer for double sided printing - Can print CD's and other unfoldable items. - separate ink tanks for each colour. - Quite small, about the size of 4 stacks of paper, or 3 flat-bed scanners. I often take it woth me. - new price was about 100 euro, 2 years ago.
Cheap ink and general good experience with Canon products is what made me buy this printer. But i am especially happy with the double sided printing and great colour prints.
I've bought a Canon Pixma3000 a couple of years ago - price: 100 euros - small (about the size of 4 stacks of paper), I often bring it with me, fits in a bag together with a laptop and scanner. - photo colour printer, separate color cartidges, also prints CD's etc. - full duplexer for double sided printing - cheap cartidges (about 5 euro brand, 2.50 white label), they last about 500 pages (1 stack of paper)
My friend bought a laster printer a year ago that can not match this in any way. Canon now has newer models with basically the same specs, only slightly faster and better color prints.
Until your beloved laser printers come at 100-150 euro/dollars, print in color, double sided and be small enough to carry around, I'm going to stick with inktjets.
I am Dutch and I think the conformity mindset is indeed a significant reason. Secondly we have always been more of a trade nation instead of a technological leader, and very US oriented. Trade favours those that speak the most widely spoken language, wich in this case happens to be MS.
sidenote: The CS department of the University of Groningen happens to run HP-UX/Linux, maybe move there?
I personally consider World of Warcraft a great game. It's one of the first games I've played for more than a few days in years. I think it's enormous player base is a testament to how good a game it is.
I think there are just as much good games as there used to be, which means to me that good games average about one per year, maybe a little less. Different people would draw different lists of which titles would be that 1/year game. I don't even get around to playing a new game/year anymore, but there are some I have to pass on that are realy good.
I started working as a programmer at a radio aobservatory in januari 2005, just weeks after this had been detected. I remember one of the first talks on how much energy was approximately in the explosion. Then I learned that numbers in astrophysics are indeed astronomical, as they came up with something like 10^48 Joule, or approx. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 Joule. This is purely from memory, so the unit might have been erg instead. I'm definately sure about the 10^48 as it made my mind boggle then.
The Age of Enlightment "occurred solely in Germany, France, Britain, and Spain Don't forget the Netherlands. We might not have as many big names as other countries, only Hugo de Groot and Spinoza come to mind. Being the only other republic in those days we did share a lot of the visions of the early USA. The the Dutch island of St. eustatius was the first to salute the US flag and states of Holland and Frisia were the first to diplomatically recognize the USA. John Adams spent some time here around 1780-1782 coordinating with Dutch Patriots and sudying the republic. (his son John Quincy Adams became fluent in Dutch)
Duh, if you are realy having an application that critical, you get your own guarenteed lightpath, or something like that. You go outside the regular IP traffic.
I bought a Nokia N70 in may last year, it is in a similar price range without plan. Even it's successor the N73, in stores today has nowhere near the functionality of the iPhone. I bought Nokia over Sony or Samsung mainly because I have very poor experiences with usability problems on those two other brands. If the Apply history is anything to go by, it will be even easier to use as the Nokia. My current plan for the N70 will run out in early 2008, when the iPhone will be available here in Europe, so I will certainly consider it by then. It will be interesting to see what competition for the iPhone has arrived by then. Currently there is nothing in the mobile phone market I would want more.
I don't need the things you find missing, like OSS, or a fully fledged OSX. I don't want to mess around with my phone, I want it to "just work" and be easy to use. I like the iPod for that, but I run Linux instead of OS X on my desktop, because I do need and want to fiddle with things there.
Probably I (well my boss), will be ordering a new laptop from Dell in the next 1-3 months. The first thing the IT people downstairs will have to do is whipe the Windows of and install Novell SuSE Linux 10.1, as we have standardized on that at work. So I could answer these questions pretty well.
Next to that I wanted to point out that since Apple switched to Intel, a lot of my co-workers have been switching from Dells-running-Linux to Macbook Pros as those run most of our tools too. Getting better Dells-running-Linux would certainly have Dell keep a significant portion of our business (we're not very big though, I'm talking maybe 10 laptops/year)
One thing that I would love if Dell (or anybody) did, was sell a box with Linux, where I can legally watch my DVDs. There are already legal linux DVD players out there. Some googling points me towards Linspire, so maybe they should go with that, I have no experience with them. Pity Novell/SuSE isn't offering this as at work that's our standard.
If I compare the current Open Office with MS Office, I find that Impress, Writer and Calc are sufficiently good to replace the MS offerings. I still prefer WordPerfect as a document editor, but find Impress and Calc adequate to replace PowerPoint and Excell anc certainly much better as Presentations or Quatro Pro.
BUT, this is irrelevant.
The major selling point of MS Office is: Outlook + Exchange.
I have used Novell Groupwise on Linux and it can't hold a canlde to it. I do not know about Lotus Notes, but seem to hear similar signals. And Exchange tying in to more and more, like blackberries, getting even harder to beat.
I was just thinking it might have been asked in a more generic form that would have ignited a more general discussion how to find old hardware, on Slashdot something useful might have come from that. I was not suggesting he should not have asked about the specific card he's looking for, but maybe not as the topic.
Ah well, it's not a bad topic as Slashdot goes, and they of course rely on how someone submits the question.
The 5 1/4 floppies aren't a problem for me yet, have still a couple drives in working order, in at least 4 flavours, single density, double density, quad density and high density. I don't have any 8 inchers though.
I understand the posters problem, as the basic question is: "Where to find rare out-of-date hardware"
I think a lot of slashdot readers have been looking for rare hardware in the past. I have looked for a riser card for an Apricot system mainboard once, after the company went under, never found it.
I'm not sure this specific question merits being a Slashdot topic, but I do think the audience is the right one. I wish him good luck finding this item.
If you are no longer using iTunes, then please tell me what legal service you are using today to download these TV shows, that does allow you to write them to DVD. As I understand you, Apple's service is much more restictive as the service you are using now. so please enlighten us, what we should switch to that does allow this, I am not aware of any legal service that gives the options you find missing in iTunes.
As far as I know these numbers are much higher in the USA as elswhere, I can't come up with a lot of numbers now, but some interesting ones are: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r188.pdf
I have been using energy efficient lighting for 20 years now, and I find that the lights last very much longer as a regular bulb. Until recently I was still using some that I have bought in the eighties. And those were used for several hours/day (living room, kitchen, bedroom lighting) The newer lights do give a much more natural light though (I had to replace most of my 80's first gen lights with newer ones in the last 3-4 years.) I want to testify that a good fluorescent light will last you 10-15 years under heavy use even if it's a couple times more expensive as the default lightbulb. I find that there are very few spots left where I use light bulbs, mainly in lights that can be dimmed.
In our HPC project it has been quite essential that the OS was (a flavour) Linux. We rewrote several drivers and replaced the ones from the manufacturer to boost performance for our application, in some cases getting an almost 10 fold increase. (I didn't do this myself, I work more on the user applications)
This would have been a lot harder with a closed OS.
I've taken plenty of holidays this year, 3 weeks to the Cabibbean, 1 week to Prague, and 2 weeks to Sweden. (Yes I have 8 weeks of Holiday leave a year) I did take my mobile phone with me on those holidays, not for staying in contact with my work, but to stay in contact with those who stayed at home and because of some organisational work I do for my orchesta in my free time.
So do I completely disconnect - Yes and No Yes - I do completely disconnect from work, No - I do not completely disconnect from those I leave behind when on holiday.
I used to be a Windows programmer (Borland mainly), dabbling with Linux in my free time. Now I am a fulltime Linux programmer and that's a lot harder. some of the issues:
- No realy nice IDEs. Kdevelop is the best I can find, Eclipse might be nice if I was a Java programmer. I could talk about editors, debuggers, refactoring tools, software packaging, profiling, distributing, designing, etc. separately, but I would like those to work together.
- No nice hardware abstraction. My topic is modems, on Windows there is an API where you can tell modem3 to "call +31 123456789", on Linux you need to send "ATDT +31 123456789" to some/dev and hope it works. This gets awkward for more advanced stuff like data bits, answer tone duration, flow control data compression. Just knowing what node in/dev is the modem would also be nice.
- Limited support as a gaming platform. Yes there is OpenGL, but it's features are limited to Direct3D and it is only about graphics, not sound, input devices, etc. Which are hard because of the lacking hardware abstraction layer. There are other libraries like SDL that provide some of that, but it's not easy to find a solution for everything, be portable and easy to install.
- Myriad build environments (cmake, automake, ant, scons), desktops (KDE, Gnome, Enlightment), browsers (Konqueror, Firefox, Mozilla), Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora), RCSses, etc. Having the effort so fragmented means in most cases that no fully functional tool exists. I'm still looking for a tool to draw my software models. I can find a lot that are kind of o.k., but none can show the difference between lines crossing and lines intersecting (tried OO.org Draw, dot, xfig, inkscape) properly. Choice is good, but I think Linux currently might have to much of it.
Actually as a casual user running SuSE, I'm having less of a hard time, as being a developer. And I can't go and fix all of these by myself, even if they're open source. I find you are less productive as you spend more time selecting, updating and maitaining your toolchain, esp. when working on a lot of different applications, developed by different people, with users on a lot of different distributions and unix flavors. I think the lack of the above is what makes life harder for the Linux programmers, and therefore harder for Linux to keep up.
I liked being able to see some of these USA shows on YouTube, as they not broadcasted overhere in Europe. I think what a lot of traditional media haven't realised yet is that they potentially have a global audience, but not though the traditional media, as those aren't selective enough. I watch USA broadcasts on YouTube, friends of mine watch japaneese manga, some of my colleagues watch BBC broadcasts though the internet, audiences are no longer limited to borders and media companies could profit if they realised that.
You shouldn't confuse GRID with HPC, supercomputers, or clustering. GRID is complex, it's main advantage is the way it can handle users, data and computational resource administration in a very hetrogenous environment. GRID is all about adminstring groups of users all across the globe, using all kinds of different hardware, to process data that's to big to be stored in one location, and therefore also very distributed. It has al kinds of tools to distribute the management of access to resources, users, etc. And as other posters have pointed out, it's still kind of immature. If you have a Petabyte of data, distributed in 40 Terabyte chunks across the globe, or 57 different user communities, with varying needs, permissions and members, and 57 different people are responsible for those, but all need access to the same data or computational resources, then GRID is a nice idea.
If that describes your kind of environment, then you should consider using GRID technology to administer it.
Otherwise some simpler solution will probably save you a lot of headaces.
Unless he can blam you in some way. I found that if the higher-ups aren't very aware of you, that they will very easily fire you. The more the higher management knows you personally and is aware of your skills, the smaller the chance is they'll fire you, even if they fire your boss.
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I have a Canon Pixma 3000, and prices for ink are very reasonable (4-5 euro, 2-3 afer market). It's an awesome printer in general, if it was still on the market I would recommned it to anyone.
- Nice colour photo printer
- full duplexer for double sided printing
- Can print CD's and other unfoldable items.
- separate ink tanks for each colour.
- Quite small, about the size of 4 stacks of paper, or 3 flat-bed scanners. I often take it woth me.
- new price was about 100 euro, 2 years ago.
Cheap ink and general good experience with Canon products is what made me buy this printer. But i am especially happy with the double sided printing and great colour prints.
I've bought a Canon Pixma3000 a couple of years ago
- price: 100 euros
- small (about the size of 4 stacks of paper), I often bring it with me, fits in a bag together with a laptop and scanner.
- photo colour printer, separate color cartidges, also prints CD's etc.
- full duplexer for double sided printing
- cheap cartidges (about 5 euro brand, 2.50 white label), they last about 500 pages (1 stack of paper)
My friend bought a laster printer a year ago that can not match this in any way. Canon now has newer models with basically the same specs, only slightly faster and better color prints.
Until your beloved laser printers come at 100-150 euro/dollars, print in color, double sided and be small enough to carry around, I'm going to stick with inktjets.
I am Dutch and I think the conformity mindset is indeed a significant reason. Secondly we have always been more of a trade nation instead of a technological leader, and very US oriented. Trade favours those that speak the most widely spoken language, wich in this case happens to be MS.
sidenote: The CS department of the University of Groningen happens to run HP-UX/Linux, maybe move there?
I personally consider World of Warcraft a great game. It's one of the first games I've played for more than a few days in years. I think it's enormous player base is a testament to how good a game it is.
I think there are just as much good games as there used to be, which means to me that good games average about one per year, maybe a little less. Different people would draw different lists of which titles would be that 1/year game. I don't even get around to playing a new game/year anymore, but there are some I have to pass on that are realy good.
I started working as a programmer at a radio aobservatory in januari 2005, just weeks after this had been detected. I remember one of the first talks on how much energy was approximately in the explosion. Then I learned that numbers in astrophysics are indeed astronomical, as they came up with something like 10^48 Joule, or approx. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 Joule. This is purely from memory, so the unit might have been erg instead. I'm definately sure about the 10^48 as it made my mind boggle then.
The Age of Enlightment "occurred solely in Germany, France, Britain, and Spain
Don't forget the Netherlands. We might not have as many big names as other countries, only Hugo de Groot and Spinoza come to mind.
Being the only other republic in those days we did share a lot of the visions of the early USA. The the Dutch island of St. eustatius was the first to salute the US flag and states of Holland and Frisia were the first to diplomatically recognize the USA. John Adams spent some time here around 1780-1782 coordinating with Dutch Patriots and sudying the republic. (his son John Quincy Adams became fluent in Dutch)
Duh, if you are realy having an application that critical, you get your own guarenteed lightpath, or something like that. You go outside the regular IP traffic.
I bought a Nokia N70 in may last year, it is in a similar price range without plan. Even it's successor the N73, in stores today has nowhere near the functionality of the iPhone. I bought Nokia over Sony or Samsung mainly because I have very poor experiences with usability problems on those two other brands. If the Apply history is anything to go by, it will be even easier to use as the Nokia.
My current plan for the N70 will run out in early 2008, when the iPhone will be available here in Europe, so I will certainly consider it by then. It will be interesting to see what competition for the iPhone has arrived by then. Currently there is nothing in the mobile phone market I would want more.
I don't need the things you find missing, like OSS, or a fully fledged OSX. I don't want to mess around with my phone, I want it to "just work" and be easy to use. I like the iPod for that, but I run Linux instead of OS X on my desktop, because I do need and want to fiddle with things there.
As those only seem to be available in the USA. I have not found a way to aquire those form Dell in the Netherlands (yet?)
Probably I (well my boss), will be ordering a new laptop from Dell in the next 1-3 months. The first thing the IT people downstairs will have to do is whipe the Windows of and install Novell SuSE Linux 10.1, as we have standardized on that at work. So I could answer these questions pretty well.
Next to that I wanted to point out that since Apple switched to Intel, a lot of my co-workers have been switching from Dells-running-Linux to Macbook Pros as those run most of our tools too. Getting better Dells-running-Linux would certainly have Dell keep a significant portion of our business (we're not very big though, I'm talking maybe 10 laptops/year)
One thing that I would love if Dell (or anybody) did, was sell a box with Linux, where I can legally watch my DVDs. There are already legal linux DVD players out there. Some googling points me towards Linspire, so maybe they should go with that, I have no experience with them. Pity Novell/SuSE isn't offering this as at work that's our standard.
Xena for planet!
Petition your local representative for more planets and bigger telescopes, so all your favorite people can have a planet named after them.
If I compare the current Open Office with MS Office, I find that Impress, Writer and Calc are sufficiently good to replace the MS offerings. I still prefer WordPerfect as a document editor, but find Impress and Calc adequate to replace PowerPoint and Excell anc certainly much better as Presentations or Quatro Pro.
BUT, this is irrelevant.
The major selling point of MS Office is: Outlook + Exchange.
I have used Novell Groupwise on Linux and it can't hold a canlde to it. I do not know about Lotus Notes, but seem to hear similar signals. And Exchange tying in to more and more, like blackberries, getting even harder to beat.
I was just thinking it might have been asked in a more generic form that would have ignited a more general discussion how to find old hardware, on Slashdot something useful might have come from that. I was not suggesting he should not have asked about the specific card he's looking for, but maybe not as the topic.
Ah well, it's not a bad topic as Slashdot goes, and they of course rely on how someone submits the question.
I hope the guy finds his soundcard.
Sounds hard.
The 5 1/4 floppies aren't a problem for me yet, have still a couple drives in working order, in at least 4 flavours, single density, double density, quad density and high density. I don't have any 8 inchers though.
I understand the posters problem, as the basic question is: "Where to find rare out-of-date hardware"
I think a lot of slashdot readers have been looking for rare hardware in the past. I have looked for a riser card for an Apricot system mainboard once, after the company went under, never found it.
I'm not sure this specific question merits being a Slashdot topic, but I do think the audience is the right one. I wish him good luck finding this item.
If you are no longer using iTunes, then please tell me what legal service you are using today to download these TV shows, that does allow you to write them to DVD. As I understand you, Apple's service is much more restictive as the service you are using now. so please enlighten us, what we should switch to that does allow this, I am not aware of any legal service that gives the options you find missing in iTunes.
It's because you have this "winner takes all" district/state system. It makes it easy for a two party system where the is always at most one alternative. REAL democracy has equal representation IMHO. My country organises things a little differently, and I like it:2 .pnge rlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dutchparlseats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Neth
As far as I know these numbers are much higher in the USA as elswhere, I can't come up with a lot of numbers now, but some interesting ones are:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r188.pdf
I have been using energy efficient lighting for 20 years now, and I find that the lights last very much longer as a regular bulb. Until recently I was still using some that I have bought in the eighties. And those were used for several hours/day (living room, kitchen, bedroom lighting) The newer lights do give a much more natural light though (I had to replace most of my 80's first gen lights with newer ones in the last 3-4 years.)
I want to testify that a good fluorescent light will last you 10-15 years under heavy use even if it's a couple times more expensive as the default lightbulb. I find that there are very few spots left where I use light bulbs, mainly in lights that can be dimmed.
In our HPC project it has been quite essential that the OS was (a flavour) Linux. We rewrote several drivers and replaced the ones from the manufacturer to boost performance for our application, in some cases getting an almost 10 fold increase. (I didn't do this myself, I work more on the user applications)
This would have been a lot harder with a closed OS.
I've taken plenty of holidays this year, 3 weeks to the Cabibbean, 1 week to Prague, and 2 weeks to Sweden. (Yes I have 8 weeks of Holiday leave a year)
I did take my mobile phone with me on those holidays, not for staying in contact with my work, but to stay in contact with those who stayed at home and because of some organisational work I do for my orchesta in my free time.
So do I completely disconnect - Yes and No
Yes - I do completely disconnect from work,
No - I do not completely disconnect from those I leave behind when on holiday.
I used to be a Windows programmer (Borland mainly), dabbling with Linux in my free time. Now I am a fulltime Linux programmer and that's a lot harder. some of the issues:
/dev and hope it works. This gets awkward for more advanced stuff like data bits, answer tone duration, flow control data compression. Just knowing what node in /dev is the modem would also be nice.
- No realy nice IDEs. Kdevelop is the best I can find, Eclipse might be nice if I was a Java programmer. I could talk about editors, debuggers, refactoring tools, software packaging, profiling, distributing, designing, etc. separately, but I would like those to work together.
- No nice hardware abstraction. My topic is modems, on Windows there is an API where you can tell modem3 to "call +31 123456789", on Linux you need to send "ATDT +31 123456789" to some
- Limited support as a gaming platform. Yes there is OpenGL, but it's features are limited to Direct3D and it is only about graphics, not sound, input devices, etc. Which are hard because of the lacking hardware abstraction layer. There are other libraries like SDL that provide some of that, but it's not easy to find a solution for everything, be portable and easy to install.
- Myriad build environments (cmake, automake, ant, scons), desktops (KDE, Gnome, Enlightment), browsers (Konqueror, Firefox, Mozilla), Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora), RCSses, etc. Having the effort so fragmented means in most cases that no fully functional tool exists. I'm still looking for a tool to draw my software models. I can find a lot that are kind of o.k., but none can show the difference between lines crossing and lines intersecting (tried OO.org Draw, dot, xfig, inkscape) properly. Choice is good, but I think Linux currently might have to much of it.
Actually as a casual user running SuSE, I'm having less of a hard time, as being a developer. And I can't go and fix all of these by myself, even if they're open source. I find you are less productive as you spend more time selecting, updating and maitaining your toolchain, esp. when working on a lot of different applications, developed by different people, with users on a lot of different distributions and unix flavors.
I think the lack of the above is what makes life harder for the Linux programmers, and therefore harder for Linux to keep up.
I liked being able to see some of these USA shows on YouTube, as they not broadcasted overhere in Europe. I think what a lot of traditional media haven't realised yet is that they potentially have a global audience, but not though the traditional media, as those aren't selective enough. I watch USA broadcasts on YouTube, friends of mine watch japaneese manga, some of my colleagues watch BBC broadcasts though the internet, audiences are no longer limited to borders and media companies could profit if they realised that.
You shouldn't confuse GRID with HPC, supercomputers, or clustering.
GRID is complex, it's main advantage is the way it can handle users, data and computational resource administration in a very hetrogenous environment. GRID is all about adminstring groups of users all across the globe, using all kinds of different hardware, to process data that's to big to be stored in one location, and therefore also very distributed. It has al kinds of tools to distribute the management of access to resources, users, etc. And as other posters have pointed out, it's still kind of immature. If you have a Petabyte of data, distributed in 40 Terabyte chunks across the globe, or 57 different user communities, with varying needs, permissions and members, and 57 different people are responsible for those, but all need access to the same data or computational resources, then GRID is a nice idea.
If that describes your kind of environment, then you should consider using GRID technology to administer it.
Otherwise some simpler solution will probably save you a lot of headaces.
Unless he can blam you in some way. I found that if the higher-ups aren't very aware of you, that they will very easily fire you. The more the higher management knows you personally and is aware of your skills, the smaller the chance is they'll fire you, even if they fire your boss.