Re: [H] Epson R200
At 02:20 PM 7/16/2006, you wrote: I have one I only use for labels and cd/dvd's. Leave off all the time. about a year old, 1st set of replacement cartridges and so far no problems. ( other then not wanting to feed the cd's correctly without playing with the position of the tray) YES glad to see it isn't just me. This is the only flaw with this printer. was dirt cheap ( refurbished ) printer cost me less then the ink cartridges. :-D If they put these ensile again may by one for grins. fp me too! or if I see a R300. I just hooked up a OKI 3200N color laser I bought last April. I got it from Staples really cheap because of a extended warranty credit from another laser. I printed out my first color graphic on this baby sweet! and it pops them out in a hurry. The one unexpected thing was the size of the printer out of the box. It is h u g e and heavy. Part of the reason it took so long to get around hooking it up was that it was so big I didn't have a place for it. m
Re: [H] Epson R200
I have one I only use for labels and cd/dvd's. Leave off all the time. about a year old, 1st set of replacement cartridges and so far no problems. ( other then not wanting to feed the cd's correctly without playing with the position of the tray) was dirt cheap ( refurbished ) printer cost me less then the ink cartridges. :-D If they put these ensile again may by one for grins. fp At 01:46 PM 7/16/2006, Winterlight Poked the stick with: >I own a Epson R200 that I only use for photo, and CD/DVD. So I don't use it >that often. I am not concerned about ink replacement, but I am worried about >clogged heads. The manual recommends that I print at least once a month, and >ink cartridge replacement every six months or less as needed. > >My question is, should I leave this printer OFF with heads parked when not in >use? Will this help prevent head clogging? -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Opinions expressed here or there are not necessarily mine
Re: [H] Epson R200
I just dumped one for that reason. Not 1.5 years old. Heads so clogged no amount of "cleaning" could bring it back. I didn't print much, especially in the last few months. Left it on all the time. I can't complain, I bought it Sept 2005 for 50 bucks it sat in the box until January, and it has been great to date. I am still using the same ink, I have about half yet. I have learned my lesson about the ink though. As soon as it shows any drying I will replace them all. I would be sure to print something every week. they say once a month... but you're probably right. There must be some way to manually clean the heads. Wish I had bought the next model up, as it's ink usage is much less. you mean beyond the R series?
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
like a Goose, every day is a new beginning >:-} sometimes I feel like that :-D fp At 10:04 AM 7/16/2006, warpmedia Poked the stick with: >Soon we will have to pay for the right to remember what we have viewed or be >subject to mind wipes. I am sure they have scientists working on that as we >speak! -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Opinions expressed here or there are not necessarily mine
Re: [H] Epson R200
Winterlight wrote: I own a Epson R200 that I only use for photo, and CD/DVD. snip My question is, should I leave this printer OFF with heads parked when not in use? Will this help prevent head clogging? I just dumped one for that reason. Not 1.5 years old. Heads so clogged no amount of "cleaning" could bring it back. I didn't print much, especially in the last few months. Left it on all the time. I would be sure to print something every week. Good luck with it. I wish i could answer your question about parking the heads. al Wish I had bought the next model up, as it's ink usage is much less.
[H] Epson R200
I own a Epson R200 that I only use for photo, and CD/DVD. So I don't use it that often. I am not concerned about ink replacement, but I am worried about clogged heads. The manual recommends that I print at least once a month, and ink cartridge replacement every six months or less as needed. My question is, should I leave this printer OFF with heads parked when not in use? Will this help prevent head clogging?
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
At 11:23 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: You do need a subscription. It is $10 a month if I remember right. It is basically just a proxy service - all your traffic is encrypted to them, then anonymized and released onto the net. Yeah, and you really have to dig to find that out! 12.95 per month and 120 a year. http://www.iphantom.com/action/activation/subscriptionRates Still, it would be nice these days when you feel so "exposed". Even if your not doing anything that could cause you problems. And it would be great to kill viruses before they get to the email client.
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
You do need a subscription. It is $10 a month if I remember right. It is basically just a proxy service - all your traffic is encrypted to them, then anonymized and released onto the net. On 7/16/06, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How long have they been around? I don't see how they can do this without a supscription. Very little comes up on a Goggle search, like reviews from well known sources so why are they so unknown, and why aren't any of the big players offering this sort of protection. This is the perfect devise for the unsophisticated end user. I am surprised that I haven't heard about this. At 10:30 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: >There are a few people I know that use the service and have had zero >problems. The company's policy as linked on their website is pretty >clear: you don't hack, spam, or do anything illegal and they will >protect your privacy. > > > >On 7/16/06, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I might get a few of these, for myself and my sisters. The question is, how >>reliable is the company selling them. How reliable are their servers, do >>you have to worry about them going down. will the company be around in a >>year. >> >>At 10:14 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: >> >BTW, for those of you concerned about Big Brother watching your >> >internet activities, the new versions of Azureus and uTorrent support >> >encryption which means only those connected to the tracker can see >> >what you are doing - your ISP can't. For even better protection, take >> >a look at iPhantom proxy service: >> > >> >http://www.iphantom.com/iPhantomProduct.html >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Brian >> > > >-- >Brian -- Brian
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
How long have they been around? I don't see how they can do this without a supscription. Very little comes up on a Goggle search, like reviews from well known sources so why are they so unknown, and why aren't any of the big players offering this sort of protection. This is the perfect devise for the unsophisticated end user. I am surprised that I haven't heard about this. At 10:30 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: There are a few people I know that use the service and have had zero problems. The company's policy as linked on their website is pretty clear: you don't hack, spam, or do anything illegal and they will protect your privacy. On 7/16/06, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I might get a few of these, for myself and my sisters. The question is, how reliable is the company selling them. How reliable are their servers, do you have to worry about them going down. will the company be around in a year. At 10:14 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: >BTW, for those of you concerned about Big Brother watching your >internet activities, the new versions of Azureus and uTorrent support >encryption which means only those connected to the tracker can see >what you are doing - your ISP can't. For even better protection, take >a look at iPhantom proxy service: > >http://www.iphantom.com/iPhantomProduct.html > > >-- >Brian -- Brian
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
There are a few people I know that use the service and have had zero problems. The company's policy as linked on their website is pretty clear: you don't hack, spam, or do anything illegal and they will protect your privacy. On 7/16/06, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I might get a few of these, for myself and my sisters. The question is, how reliable is the company selling them. How reliable are their servers, do you have to worry about them going down. will the company be around in a year. At 10:14 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: >BTW, for those of you concerned about Big Brother watching your >internet activities, the new versions of Azureus and uTorrent support >encryption which means only those connected to the tracker can see >what you are doing - your ISP can't. For even better protection, take >a look at iPhantom proxy service: > >http://www.iphantom.com/iPhantomProduct.html > > >-- >Brian -- Brian
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
I might get a few of these, for myself and my sisters. The question is, how reliable is the company selling them. How reliable are their servers, do you have to worry about them going down. will the company be around in a year. At 10:14 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: BTW, for those of you concerned about Big Brother watching your internet activities, the new versions of Azureus and uTorrent support encryption which means only those connected to the tracker can see what you are doing - your ISP can't. For even better protection, take a look at iPhantom proxy service: http://www.iphantom.com/iPhantomProduct.html -- Brian
Re: [H] Win2K and XP networking
Never mind these people are just not behind hardware firewalls or you'd never see their shares! I'd love to be doing this kind of thing driving through neighborhoods & dropping a business card on their desktop but have avoid doing do so for fear of prosecution for wifi poaching or some other BS. It irks me when I see lawyer's offices and others with customer data in non-passworded, shared folders connected to non-WPA/WEP wifi links. Then there is the flip side, write enabled shares where a war driver could just load a phone-home-trojan & drive away. If it's your data & your livelihood without affecting me, then do as you will, but of course this is just not the case in practice. Must be time to start a gorilla group of hackers and war drivers to force the world to secure, we can call ourselves USAF - the United Security Awareness Front and hold the world ransom for... 1 million dollars! (sorry, AMP kicking in) Wayne Johnson wrote: alt.binaries.hacking.websites. There are scripts that make this hacking stuff easy. One local ISP hired an outside consultant that ran a program every 24hrs that sent out notices to people's desktops telling them they hadn't used a password on their shares so that whenever a new unprotected system came on line without the proper protection usually the next morning they had a rude surprise waiting for them. He still didn't know which systems were unprotected because he sent out the notices to a whole sub net but he could have & then focusing his attacks on those systems with the point being even a poor pwd is better than none. Why pick a lock when the door is wide open? Heck, they may as well place a welcome sign out if they don't use PWDs.
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
BTW, for those of you concerned about Big Brother watching your internet activities, the new versions of Azureus and uTorrent support encryption which means only those connected to the tracker can see what you are doing - your ISP can't. For even better protection, take a look at iPhantom proxy service: http://www.iphantom.com/iPhantomProduct.html -- Brian
Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?
Hey, they want that $.99 for the luxury of downloading that which you pay $65/mo+ to the cable co to watch (who in turn pay networks fees for right to rebroadcast signal to cable subscribers) and could have Tivo'ed but did not! The law, defacto or legislated, should be as long as the commercials are left in the recording it's fair use, but since when have the content providers or the legislature done anything that makes sense? Soon we will have to pay for the right to remember what we have viewed or be subject to mind wipes. I am sure they have scientists working on that as we speak! As to the rest of the pir8 thing, 3rd world countries are the model they fear America and other 1st world nations' populations will adopt, hence the paranoid, draconian attempts to show artificial losses & thwart fair use. Yet I have yet to see a music artist put up a paypal account to "donate" if like but pir8 their music bypassing the industry that eats most of the $12.99 per CD you pay for that has stupid DRM which is doing nothing to stem the flow of rips. Nor have I seen game co's who force you to have 1. a serial, 2. an account, and 3. the original CD/DVD, lower their prices since pir8 is near impossible never mind fair use of a image of the media rather than risk hurting the original disk. It's a mad mad world, and it's only getting madder! Winterlight wrote: A month ago I was having trouble with bit torrent so I called COX and asked their tech if COX was blocking it. The tech didn't know what bit torrent was! It was my understanding that the Media companies, unable to go after any single entity, like for example, Napster,... was going after the search engines that provide the links. Maybe they are also threatening ISPs as well. At 02:46 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote: My wife was telling me today that one of her co-workers got a cease and desist letter from our cable provider (Adelphia) for Bit Torrenting TV shows. This was the first I had heard of this and was wondering if you guys had seen this before? I could understand it if he was downloading pirated software, movies, and/or music but I was still under the impression that TV shows were free game since they are broadcast for free over the airwaves. -- Brian
Re: [H] LCD burn in ?
Logo-L is Lock PC OR switch users depending on you setup under XP, use it all the time here to lock my system. "Lock your computer if you are connected to a network domain, or switch users if you are not connected to a network domain." If you have power management enabled, the monitor should be put in the same sleep mode automatically by the video card via DPMS after a timeout. You are right though, most all monitors LCD or CRT use soft-off for the power switch which is equivalent to DPMS' power save command. What I would like to know is why my laptop sometimes forgets it has a display when I close & reopen the cover! Very fracking annoying to have to reboot since the LCD won't re-activate!!! Not even assigning a profile to a hotkey is reactivating it these days, never mind the Dell LCD/Monitor Fn key combo does nothing under windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am about to describe involves a security procedure, also, but security has nothing to do with this thread. When I am going to be away from my computer, I hit the Windows key followed by the L key (lower case l is fine). This is a quick log off. Then I hit the power switch on my LCD monitor. It is my understanding that computer monitors do not power down completely when you do this. They do like televisions and go into some kind of standby mode. The point is there is no image on the screen in this mode. Because it does not completely power down, I do not feel it is doing harm by switching it off and on several times per day. I do the same thing at night, just hit the power switch and let it standby all night with no image on the screen. I do power down my computer once every 24 hours (at night when I am sleeping.) During the day my computer continues to run during these times I am logged out of Windows. True, there may be times during the day my computer monitor displays my wallpaper for an hour or two, but this has not burned an image into it. In fact the background for this email has lots of white space and I see no images burned in. This monitor is about 5 years old. Chuck
RE: [H] Best hard drive for the job
I would keep your system files and programs on the raptors. The first gen 36gb are long in the tooth but still kick butt, only newer raptors and expensive SCSI drives can best their latency and access times. From: "James Maki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Hardware List To: "'The Hardware List'" Subject: [H] Best hard drive for the job Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:50:20 -0700 I seem to remember a thread awhile back regarding the pros and cons of using SATA, SATA II, RAID0 with Raptors and 7200rpm drives in the best combination to optimize performance. I have two 36 GB Raptors in RAID0, 2 250 GB 7200rpm SATA II in RAID0 and a single 400 GB IDE drive. The system drive/programs and general data are on the Raptor array and the 2x250 array is used for data storage/video editting. I am adding 2 more 250 GB 7200rpm SATA II drives and am trying to optimize performance. Which drives in which configurations would give the best performance (i.e., RAID 0, system drive, virtual memory, video editing, etc.)? I have 2 SATA 150 channels and 4 SATA II 300 channels available (although I had some problems getting the SATA 150 to work for a boot drive when I originally set the system up and put the Raptors on a SATA II 300 channel). Thanks for the advice and guidance. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
