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Dave, I usually take anything printed in MicroMart under caution.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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As most of my printing is text files I ditched ink printers a while back and bought a b/w Laser from Brother - the quality is perfectly acceptable and if I don't use it for a while all I have to do is shake the toner cartridge a few times and all is fine - the cost of a new toner cartridge is £22 ( last time I checked ) and I still have 60% of toner left. No brainer for me. DD I will check your site for prices.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Waiting for the cost of printer cartridges to become so high that it will be more economic to just hire someone to type your stuff on an old Smith-Corona.
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Did a *lot* of refilling years ago. With Epson it is really easy, just get some bottles of compatible ink and syringe it in. At the time, I got a special little gadget that reset the ink counters on the cartridge chip back to 100% and was good to go.
The big problem is actually getting decent ink. Unfortunately, there seems to have been a race to the bottom in a large part of the market. Most of the ink you'll find on Ebay and the like is absolute rubbish. The black comes out green or is not very dark so grey shades on photos have a greenish tint. It is a common problem.
The ink I used to buy in Epson branded cartridges is really excellent but priced almost as much as a new printer for a full set of cartridges which is clearly very wrong.
Best advice I can give you is for B/W, get a laser. The cheap ones are mostly pretty good and far crisper for text than an inkjet can ever be. They are also usually a lot faster. For photos, take them to a local shop. In the long run, although a *bit* of a hassle, they will be better quality and longer lasting especially if they are generated using a photographic process.
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A short (~12 minute) documentary on one of the world's greatest problems. Safe for work and little sisters IMO, but I don't really have that much of a problem with the word. Still, the real title "encrypted" for the sensitive.
The ΑȓʂεНοɭę gene[^]
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TTFN - Kent
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Your encryption algorithm failed miserably.
I did enjoy the mocumentry though.
I had a good laugh. Thanks for posting.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/asus-zenbook-ux301-hands-on/[^]
Why does it take so long, I've been waiting all year! They are just teasing now. 
13.3" i7 haswell, 8gb ram, hi res touchscreen, SSD and GT7xx gpu it is certainly looking like the worthy winner (Samsung have let me down with the spec of their Ativ Book 9 Plus), so just Toshiba's KIRAbook to be finalised now released.
Think the Infinity is winning my purchase so far. (with my winnings from the Ultrabook Article competition earlier in the year no less!)
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Guy I work with got his yesterday. It is one slick piece of kit.
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Very nice! 
/ravi
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2560x1440? That's insane. I have a 30 inch monitor that runs at that resolution and I often find things too small on that.
Presuming that its just there to make everything supercrisp rather than fitting more on the screen I suppose its ok but I haven't really seen that on a PC. iPads, mobiles etc. yes.
Edit - thinking about it the 30inch is 2560x1600.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: 2560x1440? That's insane. I have a 30 inch monitor that runs at that resolution and I often find things too small on that.
Presuming that its just there to make everything supercrisp rather than fitting more on the screen I suppose its ok but I haven't really seen that on a PC. iPads, mobiles etc. yes.
Exactly. Apple started the trend last year with the Retina Macbook Pro; a number of PC OEMs are now selling premium laptops with DPIs high enough for 2:1 resolution scaling now. There're still occasional problems[^] with apps that tell Windows "Yes I know how to scale myself to high DPI so don't do it for me" that only do so partially or not at all; but integer scaling has much fewer issues than other modes.
Edit: Ars did a more detailed review of the issue at one point; but I'm not finding it. The article I linked is mostly about win8.1 changes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You think that is insane? You obviously haven't seen the spec for the Samsung Aptiv Book 9 Plus @ 3200x1800! Shame the rest of the spec cpu/memory etc is poor.
See http://ultrabooknews.com/[^] for the current crop of ub's.
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It's 12C @ 10:20am in Toronto, with a forecast for 8C tonight. Fall is around the corner... 
/ravi
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Just checked, nudging 30°C here in Surrey.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Suwwey!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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It's 82°F here in Cincinnati (Thats 28°C for most of you lot...  ).
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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My car temp gauge displayed 109F yesterday afternoon on the freeway. That is quite warm.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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-5 here in my Freezer. If the kids don't find me soon this is going to be a very tragic game of hide n seek.
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You have internet access in your freezer? Can I have yours after you freeze?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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WiFi on his tablet.
But he doesn't have any kids, it was just a cry for help.
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I guess I figured that one couldn't get WiFi in a freezer, being that it is essentially a Faraday cage.
OriginalGriff wrote: But he doesn't have any kids, it was just a cry for help.
He doesn't have to cry about it, we all know he needs help. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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My chest freezer (the upright one is a bit too small to fit an adult in) is mostly plastic and insulation... so probably not a Faraday cage.
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It certainly is Ollie ... it certainly is.
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My dad finally managed to get me to remove all my text books from university from his house yesterday.
Anyone want some?
Teach Yourself Borland C++ 4.5 in 21 Days (Second Edition)
Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours
Making Sense of Modula-2
The C Programming Language (Second Edition)
An Introduction to Information Theory; Symbols, Signals and Noise
Engineering Mathematics; A Modern Foundation for Electronics, Electrical and Systems Engineers
Discrete Mathematics With Applications
Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach (Second Edition)
Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design using UML
Data Analysis for Database Design
Telecommunication Principles
Electronics A Systems Approach
Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Second Edition)
Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems (Fourth Edition)
Some of them even look like they may have been opened, but most probably not.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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