Seen in a posting on-line from someone discussing the positive impact of taking regular breaks from one’s day-to-day routine: “I guess Jesus knew what he was doing calling for the observance of the Sabbath…” *sigh*
I recently switched from Speakeasy DSL and a Verizon land line to Comcast High-Speed Internet and their Digital Voice® local phone service. The executive summary is that I’m very happy so far.
Continuing the theme of the day… I coded and submitted an enhancement to INN’s “makehistory” program to support throttling by load average, so that my computer at home won’t be completely hosed for a half hour after every unclean shutdown and restart while makehistory rebuilds my news history file.
A few days ago, I described the experience I had trying to buy an HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One (printer, copier, scanner) and Photo Value Pack under a promotion being offered by HP. The printer arrived today, and I set it up. My first impressions of the printer itself are quite good — it’s a really… Read More »
HP is currently offering a promotion which includes rebates on several of their All-in-One printers as well as a $15 rebate on an HP Photo Value Pack when you purchase one printer in particular, the C5280. See here for more information about this promotion. Then read on for the experience I had trying to take… Read More »
I bought a Netgear wireless router (model WGR614v7) early in May 2007 so that I could use WiFi at home. I’ve since exchanged it for a Linksys wireless router, and I will never purchase another Netgear product. Here’s why…
Recently, a backup tape containing over 800,000 unencrypted names and social security numbers for Ohio taxpayers and state employees was stolen from the car of Jared Ilovar, a 22-year-old college student working for the state as an intern.
I think there must be ghosts haunting the world’s email servers this week or something, because in the few days, I’ve had three different surreal email incidents.
I followed the instructions I was given for refilling my Dell 3000cn toner cartridges to the letter. They didn’t work. The printer kept telling me over and over again to replace the toner cartridge I’d refilled. I finally got it to accept the refilled cartridge by enabling the “non-dell toner” option. To do this, hit… Read More »
I recently bought a kit from Toner Wiz for refilling the toner cartridges for my Dell 3000cn printer. The kit was supposed to come with instructions and a funnel for pouring the toner into the cartridge. The kit arrived with neither instructions nor funnel. I sent them email at their support address. They emailed back… Read More »