Re: Ridiculous
As a former print college technician, I can offer courses on manual paper handling, including paper fanning, for a mere snip at £1000 ex VAT per day for up to 6 attendees.
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BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?
Friday 27th May 2022 14:30 GMT 
Re: HP Laserjet 5
I installed a 4M+ in the laboratory computer room back in... ooh, must be 1994. I went to meet a former colleague for lunch in 2017... it was still there, chugging away happily. The printer had done 6 years already when I left! It had been networked by Thin Ethernet, AppleTalk and twisted pair over the time I was there, as we upgraded our networking.
Friday 27th May 2022 12:22 GMT
Re: Ridiculous
Or sending you out the 6 Horsemen of Unholy Consumption, for which you are charged, followed by a "free" replacement for the now deemed uneconomical to service device... it's free of course, because you've paid for it in the consumables that you've just been charged for and now can't use. The replacement is being shipped by City Limp and on a 48 hour delivery schedule (working days only which currently seems to be every third Monday). However their EU Mandated WEEE recycling van is round in 15 minutes flat to cart the old "dead" machine and accompanying consumables back to the warehouse.
Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers
Amazon puts 'creepy' AI cameras in UK delivery vans
Wednesday 25th May 2022 13:39 GMT
Safe and socially aware behaviour does not in any objective way evenly or predictably balance out pecuniary reward! As you yourself put it they've been incentivised into "riskier" behaviour because of delivery quotas etc.
Indeed, the delivery quota reward is exactly the kind of stick instead of carrot thing I was pointing out about their way of thinking through these things. Even a base level plus top up reward system gives an incentive to the company to disqualify the reward and thus save money. The drivers will find a way to game the system however it's run.
And on the Amazon driver front, I've quite literally had one on their knees begging me not to report them for putting a camping knife through a neighbour's letterbox when they accidentally delivered to the wrong address. As you may or may not know, such an item requires a signature on delivery for age verification. I was in, neighbour was out. I watched the man call two doors down (mistaking the direction the street numbers ran), then head back to the van. I went out to ask him if the package was for me and he went white as a sheet. I said he should still have had the parcel as the neighbour wasn't in and it required the age verification. He tried saying the warning about age verification only came up once he'd hit the delivered button (I dunno - I've not seen it from that side of the business). Then he got on his knees and started pleading not to complain as he'd lose his job and he needed it because he'd been made redundant during covid and Amazon was keeping his family fed, just. I didn't complain; I am human. And I know that neighbour doesn't have kids.
Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never even noticed
Tuesday 24th May 2022 11:20 GMT
Re: Crap article
I accept the fact. Apart from where they allow people to do their own deployment of course, but you have to buy that right.
Anyway, yes... I argue the point not because I don't believe it but because nobody has convinced me yet that this is a bad thing. Or at least a worse thing than the other thing.
Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth
Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months
The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs
Tuesday 17th May 2022 12:05 GMT
Re: Concepts
Oh, IIRC they were self-contained of course, and could exist in a traditional filing system as well - the metadata being a modular part of themselves for those OSes that understood it, but I get the point... useless outside of that ecosystem. I read the article in some depth and it obviously left an impression because I remember it fairly well. It was a very different concept that they were proposing.
Unless the executables required to modify and view is contained within the document - which means you'd really be distributing platform agnostic executable bundles - kind of like Java applications or something. Not that Java applications can't be sophisticated, but a 20Mb file for a flyer for the church fete is a bit beyond requirements. Mind you... today's Word documents aren't exactly the svelte things they started out as many years ago.
Tuesday 17th May 2022 10:40 GMT
Concepts
It does all seem to be based around usability and basic concepts arising from the old Xerox Parc research on GUIs. However I do seem to recall that a few years ago there was talk of moving from an application-centric model to a document-centric one. That is, instead of applications "having" documents in their own proprietary file formats with the various file and folder analogies that come with that, one would have documents which contained elements that were operated on by minimal interface modules geared towards specific functionality. The documents themselves wouldn't reside in a file and folder architecture, but instead would be more like object-storage; metadata tagging done part manually and part automatically describing the contents and thus retrievable by something like a natural language query.
Not much seems to have evolved from that side shoot, though I could be wrong; there's bound to be some examples.
We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them
Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode
Sunday 1st May 2022 12:04 GMT
Re: How friggin' tough could it be to just print the words?
I haven't been able to find a reason for that in the English speaking world but the roots go back to Germanic and are antonyms - on is to, towards, into, part of and off is away from, out of, not part of, from.
One of the earliest uses I can find is related to archery and combat - on target and off target. In an electrical sense I suppose it follows the gas sense or the water sense though there may be some rational thought behind this as for water and gas taps you would refer to them as open or closed, which for electricity is the reverse of the intent - closed contacts conduct and activate but closed taps block flow and deactivate. The flow of electricity is often likened to the flow of water and so it seems that in early demonstrations it may have been confusing to say "I close the contact bar and the electricity flows like water".
But I wasn't there, so.., guesswork.
BOFH: Something's consuming 40% of UPS capacity – and it's coming from the beancounters' office
Friday 29th April 2022 10:34 GMT
Re: I love the smell of burning beancounter kit in the morning
The Batenburg LeydenJar conjecture... genius. Now if we just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and get it working again, we can have a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake until some ham-fisted bun vendor breaks the spatio-temporal hyperlink again.
Microsoft fixes Point of Sale bug that delayed Windows 11 startup for 40 minutes
Tuesday 26th April 2022 20:31 GMT
Our vets is still running VT terminals into their backend. And it works amazingly well still. I've lived here 31 years and been going to the same vet for 30 of those years. The actual terminals have changed - most of them are now LCD screens running Windows with a terminal emulator, so they can do email as well, but there are still some of the consult rooms with VT 100s.
Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes
You can buy a company. You can buy a product. Common sense? Trickier
BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches
Thursday 14th April 2022 17:23 GMT
Re: Serial port settings ...
Or like Dell who offer a BIOS configuration at build time option for something like £5 a setting. Who wants to add thousands onto the bill when refreshing an entire building full of learning suites? Except I think the deliberately set the parallel ports (this was a while ago) to some random configuration deliberately because half the machines wouldn't run Quark due to license issues. You would think brand new machines would all be the same, but not so. Half of them were in a unidirectional mode so the dongles didn't work. The working mode was EPP which the other half had. It's all a big con!
Chip supply relief coming in 2024 when wafer plants open
First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets
South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes
Bank had no firewall license, intrusion or phishing protection – guess the rest
ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite narrowly dodges debris
Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants
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