DIY: HP Printer Memory

Do It Yourself: HP Printer Memory Ever thought about upgrading your printer memory? Ever felt appalled by ads like this? 16 MB SIMM 4 /4M /4P/4MP/4V/4MV/5/5N/5M/5MP/5P/5SI/6P/6MP $179.00 Well, the solution is here! Following an idea from S?nke Behrens’ great “DIY HP Printer Memory” web site, I bought two 16MB standard PS/2 Fast Page modules, took…Continue Reading…

Iomega Sucks

Re:No way (Score:5, Funny) by pantycrickets (694774) on Tuesday April 13, @03:12PM (#8853776) Okay, quick look on the net – http://www.pricewatch.com/, and I see USB hard drives with 40GB of space for under $60. Why buy it from Iomega for more? You aren’t taking into account Iomega’s value-added features, such as slower transfer rates, propietary…Continue Reading…

the world of the dead end ahead

a social worker comes to our door. tall, tubby, bald, with a suit on. he shakes my mom’s hand, then offers his hand to me. i shake it too, and introduced myself. social worker, upon exiting: “i reckon you’ll get a visit from someone today” “who?” “a delivery” we had had visits from an unknown…Continue Reading…

Slashdot | Mars Rovers Still Going Strong, Mission Extended

Re:It’s amazing (Score:5, Interesting) by JaredOfEuropa (526365) on Sunday April 11, @06:14AM (#8829850) (Last Journal: Saturday January 31, @03:25PM) How even though given the anti-intellectual culture of the US we are still the only ones able to land this very successful rover I think one of the factors contributing to the success of the US,…Continue Reading…

What icons are doing while you sleep

Funny Flash animation: see.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) 11/04/04 – Link fixed. I downloaded a local copy and uploaded it to my server.

Now the Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide

“A company wanted to hold off on upgrading Microsoft Office for a year in order to do other projects. So Microsoft gave a ‘free’ copy of the new Office to the CEO — a copy that of course generated errors for anyone else in the firm reading his documents. The CEO got tired of getting…Continue Reading…