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OriginalGriff wrote: How much are basic flatbed scanners on Flea bay? Hmmmm....
I think I paid $70 (Canadian) for my Canon scanner (USB, single function) years ago, which must be the same if not even cheaper nowadays. Nothing fancy, but it'll handle up to 8.5" x 14" or so, so plenty good for most basic needs. The exact model is a Canon CanoScan LiDE 100.
Bonus (and this is sometimes important): I never had to install any of the bundled crapware to get it going, and every Windows OS I've used it with so far (7 x64 and above) has recognized it out of the box with no fussing with drivers.
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Me too.
We've gone all BW laserjet here.
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I would've expected you to do a 3d print by now.
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Disney is to release a version of the Iliad – they are calling it Troy Story.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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With the next characters:
rorty toys
rosy rotty
ryot story
ryot troys
ryot tyros
story tory
story troy
story tyro
Torry toys
tory troys
tory tyros
troy troys
troy tyros
troys tyro
tyro tyros
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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when you gonna quit that horsing around?
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I wooden dare!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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When you post these, we all think: OG? How Odyssey in real life?
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I'll wait for the sequel - finding Nelo[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What the Helen are they thinking?
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Oh Griff! If only your father had known about Trojans when he was horsing around with your mother.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Below are my preferences…
For monospace:
1-Liberation Sans Mono
2-Inconsolata
3-American Typewriter (Decorative)
For Serif Font:
1-Baskerville (for long texts)
2-Didot Bold (for titles)
3-Cochin, Rockwell (Decorative)
For Sans Serif:
1-Optima (modern feel)
2-Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Lato
3-Futura/Gill Sans/Avenir Condensed (Decorative)
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Except for angry notes in the office. You are required by law to use Comic Sans for that!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Nope: Crazy Killer Font | dafont.com[^]
Works really well for inter office memos as well*.
* "Works well" as in "they don't bother you again"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Interesting.
If the soapbox ever comes back, that should be the only font available.
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Yay Consolas!
...although FixedSys is good sometimes.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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5 x 3 pixels[^], what do you need more?
3 x 3[^] is a little too spartan, even for my taste.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: 5 x 3 pixels[^], what do you need more? Apparently 5 x 5 and 9 x 9!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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We have Windows 10 on a 24" wide screen so we need a font that is 64x96 at least! It would never do to have more than three words per screen!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Thanks for the links, always looking for fonts for embedded stuff and these are good!
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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That 5x3 is a rather remarkable achievement. It could be improved by not bothering with differences between upper and lower case and disambiguating a few letters from numbers.
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My old computer has a 64 x 32 or 64 x 64 pixel resolution and a 3x 4 pixel font (all upper case) was used for such things as Tiny BASIC. Memory was a big issue and the font and the routines to draw strings into display memory bloated up the interpreter from 2k to 3k, leaving you with only 1k left for your BASIC programs.
My version of this encodes the full set 0f 96 printable ASCII characters in just 288 bytes and about 256 bytes for the drawing routines, a little over 1/2 k total. My font is not monospaced, so I usually get more than 16 characters per line. As a bonus, the routine that draws the characters can also be used to draw sprites.
Readability is quite a problem with this sort of fonts. You don't have a pixel to spare, but some characters (like Q, M, W, # or &) need a width of 4 or 5. I find it readable and useful enough for a computer from 1976: COSMAC Elf screenshot[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Thanks for the screenshot! It did some good to grow up on systems like this. CPUs are now so fast, and memory so cheap, that you get folks developing systems that need to scale using approaches like Thread Per User, Thread Per Request, or even Thread Per Object. And then wondering why the system tips over.
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