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    Thursday, June 19th, 2008
    2:18 pm
    Upgrades...
    ( Xerox Phaser 6100D )

    After 48,000 pages over 3 years and 2 months, Phaser 6100 decided it doesn't want to see the imaging unit or waste toner pack anymore. Considering that the imaging unit and transfer belt had less than 2,000 pages left in them, I looked at the costs - something like $250 each, plus repairs - and realized that getting a new printer will be cheaper. So, enter the Phaser 6360.

    ( Xerox Phaser 6360DN )

    Actually "enter" was one of the harder parts, as the box didn't fit through the door - I had to unpack it outside. More costly up front than 6100D was, but due to ridiculous cost of 6100D drum and transfer belt, getting it up and running would've cost almost as much, and looking back at how much the consumables for 6100D cost over 3 years, 6360DN will be cheaper to own - high-capacity black cartridge costs about NIS600, and is rated for 18,000 pages at 5% fill; high-capacity black cartridge for 6100D costs about NIS550, but is rated for only 7,000 pages. Same story with color - cartridge costs are similar, but 6100D cartridges are rated for 5,000 pages at 20% fill, while 6360 ones are rated for 12,000 pages. Double the speed (6360 is rated at 42ppm) is an added bonus.

    As for why am I averaging 1300 pages a month - don't ask.
    Sunday, May 25th, 2008
    7:14 pm
    Thank you, Mr. Rat
    For, having dutifully eaten the poison I spread for you (and it looks like you've been at it for quite a while, judging by the amount of bright green droppings I found in your nest behind the fridge), crawling out into the middle of a room and dying there, making the task of chucking your dead body into the trash quite quick and easy - instead of a long search in every nook and cranny for a foul-smelling decaying husk that it could've been.

    However, the path chosen by your mate, Mrs. Rat (unless I have the two of your mistaken, in which case you have my deepest apologies) - falling into the toilet and getting thrown into the trash bin wet, but quite alive - was a much less traumatic one; after all, she did leave the house alive, although I can't vouch for her welfare afterwards.

    Sincerely,
    No love,
    Me.
    Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
    10:55 am
    The horror...
    4MB email times 9k+ recipients = crashed server due to mail queue filling up the hard drive. The horror part? This is the FIFTH TIME it happened, from the SAME USER!!!
    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
    4:31 pm
    ThinkPad X300 on my desk
    So sexy... too bad the customer insists on wiping Vista and installing XP on it. Oh well.
    Sunday, May 11th, 2008
    2:20 pm
    AAAARGGHHH!
    net

    NET

    N E T

    November Echo Tango

    N as in nun, T as in tav

    How the FUCK do you manage to interpret that as MAP???!!!?!?!
    Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
    11:14 pm
    Now this is neat
    ( Dell PowerEdge 2950 III new feature )
    Saturday, April 19th, 2008
    1:22 am
    Helpful
    Switcher 2.0.0 - Exposé clone for Windows.

    Requires Vista Aero.
    Thursday, April 17th, 2008
    11:38 pm
    This buzzing noise means something...
    Two servers, one in Ashkelon, the other in Sderot, just reported power failure. Two minutes later, power comes back, also simultaneously. Hmm.
    Monday, March 31st, 2008
    11:32 am
    Back in USSR...
    A certain distributor of Intel CPUs has an interesting policy for their customers (resellers, integrators, etc): if you want to buy an E8200 CPU, you can only do so if you also take an E6550. Also, you have to be in good standing with them, or even that offer is off the table. How nice of them... I understand Intel isn't helping any (see graph below), but this practice is entirely of their own making.

    Sunday, March 16th, 2008
    9:09 pm
    Finally!
    ( Screenshots )

    No more mucking around with imageshack for image hosting, for one thing...
    Thursday, March 6th, 2008
    2:35 pm
    Two out of three ain't bad...
    One out of three is considerably worse though. Out of 3 WD10EACS drives (1TB Caviar GPs), 2 turned out to be DOA. Is it my luck, or [info]arpad's, whose home server these drives were intended for?
    Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
    7:49 pm
    File under: REALLY fucked up
    http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction

    Summary: Someone leaks internal documents from a Swiss bank which allegedly indicate corruption, the documents are posted on wikileaks, bank goes to court, the court orders domain registrar to kill and block the domain, the registrar complies. Very nice showing of international cooperation.

    Only, well, not very effective. And the harder they try to clamp down on the story, the bigger the ensuing shitstorm will get.

    You can't stop the signal bitches. Can't stop the signal.
    Friday, February 15th, 2008
    12:37 pm
    Weee!
    Earthquake! Pretty weak one though. Short too.
    Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
    5:35 pm
    WTB
    WTB a third ear. To mount another headset.

    TYVM.
    Monday, February 11th, 2008
    4:06 pm
    Dear Xerox Corp.,
    Verily, you doth suck. The Vista driver for your Phaser 6100 color laser has been forecast for july 2007, september 2007, november 2007, january 2008, and now may 2008. According to your website, that is.

    In the meanwhile, the Vista driver for the fully identical Samsung CLP-510 color laser has been available since march 2007, both 32 and 64 bit versions. XP-64 is supported too. Since your programmers appear to be suffering from acute laziness, perhaps you should just post the Samsung on your website and be done with it? Especially considering it has no problems working with your printer...
    Sunday, February 10th, 2008
    12:43 pm
    Bloody hell...
    PERC 3/SC in a PowerEdge 1600SC just crashed during a rebuild and successfully corrupted the RAID5 array. Disaster recovery with BE9 backups and no IDR option = NOT FUN.
    11:17 am
    Dear Microsoft,
    What did you break this time? Hebrew version of Word 2003 on multiple workstations keeps occasionally deleting most of the line breaks in %USER%\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof\CUSTOM.DIC, jumbling the separate words into one huge uninterrupted line, and then spellchecker tries to use it and crashes with a buffer overflow. In a pool of several hundred machines, it happens every couple days or so.
    Friday, February 8th, 2008
    9:27 am


    Monday, February 4th, 2008
    6:27 pm
    Great paradox of life
    Why is it the dedicated users of Outlook Express 6, the ones who steadfastly refuse to move to any other email client, are the ones who amass email archives totaling dozens of gigabytes? I've seen huge PST files, even bigger Exchange mailboxes, but MSIMN users consistently hold the record...
    Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
    5:29 pm
    Yay for proper testing procedures!
    WordPress 2.3.2. PHP 5.2.5. MySQL 5.0.51a. Windows Server 2003 SP2 with FastCGI.

    ( Installation results )

    Obviously, it's trying to use a database table before that table is initialized. The bug is trivial to reproduce, yet apparently no one involved with development ever bothered making a fresh installation of WordPress 2.3.2 to test it.

    Wait, it gets better!

    That is expected and shouldn't hurt anything. We can suppress the message inside is_blog_installed().
    As Ryan suggests the experience needs improving, but the error messages aren't terminal. What do you mean you can't run the installation?


    Those are responses from developers on WordPress trac.


    01/25/08 18:19:07 changed by lloydbudd

    * priority changed from high to normal.
    * severity changed from blocker to normal.


    So, even after the bug is reported, nobody takes 5 minutes to run a fresh install and reproduce it, but instead it is treated as a cosmetic issue.

    Then again, this is FOSS, and such things are to be expected. Version 2.3.1 installs fine, and I guess initializing the database with 2.3.1 and then upgrading to 2.3.2 should work. But, say what you will about Microsoft, they don't release betas with such bugs, much less RTMs.
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