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Monday, April 2, 2007
What Do You Mean, I Have To Change The Toner?
Several years ago I purchased a mid-range laser printer - a Brother HL-6050DN. My work requires that I review hundreds of documents for some projects and trying to do that on a screen, no matter how big and nice, is an awful experience. So I print them. I don't know how many pages I've printed, but I've gone through dozens of cases of cheap copier paper since I bought it in mid-2004.Today I got a warning message on the printer control panel:
"WARNING: TONER LEVEL LOW. REPLACE TONER UNIT."
Wow! I had forgotten you have to do that with laser printers. I guess I thought it would run forever like some perpetual motion machine. Good thing I got a couple of spares when I bought the printer. At this rate parts will be discontinued before I have to buy more. In fact, toner itself may become obsolete.
That's the kind of product I like to buy - works great, never breaks, and runs (nearly) forever before you have to fill it up.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
I Am So Happy
My new firewall is in! My new firewall is in! (Said in my best Steve Martin voice.) Spent Saturday afternoon playing geek. Now I have clear voice on my VoIP phone, dual ISP connections, and a VPN connection.[More...]
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Saturday, August 26, 2006
The Bellsouth Wizard
For grins I put the BellSouth "wizard" CD in my laptop and scanned it. My antivirus/anti-spyware tools tagged the included utility [westellmodemtest.exe] as a 'Trojan Horse - Generic.FFJ'.This doesn't necessarily mean anything - a google search on the term turned up nothing. I suspect the tool allows someone at BellSouth a way to access the modem or computer for diagnostics. But I sure didn't see any warnings or notices that BellSouth was going to put remote access software on my computer. Hmm.
BTW no, I don't install any software from any ISP on any of my computers. When an ISP does their job correctly they don't need to put software on my machines.
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