Small Achievements - Uncensored

[#] Sun Aug 05 2012 06:12:15 EDT from dothebart

hm, if you take a photo of me, and this pic, and intermix it, its the same lengths of hairs all around.

[#] Sun Aug 05 2012 10:40:21 EDT from LoanShark

Back when I worked at a PC reseller, we worked on a few longshots. The boss would tell me, "take that printer apart", and I always had to bite my tongue from saying "I don't know a damn thing about fixing printers, and we don't have any replacement parts." I guess we managed to fix a few jams, that way, but when things were beyond us we took 'em to HP.

[#] Sun Aug 05 2012 11:34:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I doubt I would have done a teardown as exploratory surgery. This is evidently a somewhat common problem, so much so that someone (outside of HP) took the time to write up a guide, with photos and everything, about how to do the teardown and clean the optics. [ http://goo.gl/nHyYl ]

It's a stupid flaw because there's absolutely no reason that assembly can't be sealed to prevent dust from getting inside. If they did that, the only exposed part could be reached with a Q-tip without disassembly.

I also learned that HP doesn't even make their own imaging engines anymore.
They buy them from Canon.

[#] Mon Aug 06 2012 04:52:20 EDT from dothebart

afaik they buy their imaging parts for laser printers from canon from the very beginning. You can see that on the box of the cartridges you buy; it lists a number of printers, and there always are canon lasers also.

Afaik most (if not all nowadays) buy or license canon technology; You can see that the canon technology just produces a very dark grey; the only other alternative that was existant in the market when I was working in a copy-shop was able to produce a real black; Lanier was that other manufacturer.

Some (like Agfa) even just put their sticker on the canon machines.

[#] Wed Oct 24 2012 21:51:27 EDT from Shazam

Wow, congratulations triL, on getting an Israeli drivers license. I am in awe. The procedures there make it impossible. Or so I thought. An actual Israeli driver's license. Way to go! Even when we eventually move back there one day I will probably never ever get a drivers license there. I can't believe it's even possible. I mean, sure, the roads are full of people. but still.

[#] Fri Oct 26 2012 09:41:08 EDT from triLcat

It's only legal to drive here for 3 months (even as a tourist) on a non-Israeli passport.

[#] Fri Oct 26 2012 16:15:12 EDT from Shazam

Uhg. I wouldn't want to drive there anyway. And it's not just that Israeli drivers are crazy. That's not even what's wrong with driving over there. OK, that is part of it. but the worst of it is that the lanes are too narrow. There's no room for error. Except that the drivers there are also human, so there IS error, but it results in so many more crashes than here.
Hey, don't let me deter you. Good luck with the driving. :)

[#] Sat Oct 27 2012 14:16:36 EDT from triLcat

I don't love the driving experience here, but it's a heck of a lot nicer than the walk/bus experience :)

[#] Tue Oct 30 2012 01:44:43 EDT from Ladyhawke

Managed to make good use of my winter boots before winter. Also, managed to not fall over and not get clobbered by flying debris in the middle of a hurricane.

[#] Thu Nov 01 2012 03:00:54 EDT from triLcat

Glad you're ok, Hawke.

Newest driving complication - cats. Felines, please cross at the crosswalk.

[#] Sat Nov 03 2012 00:20:14 EDT from Ladyhawke

Thanks, TriL. Had it a lot easier than others....but I will admit that hurricanes are definitely the biggest downside of living on the water!

As for the cats.... Felines don't walk in crosswalks.....they demand the walks cross them!

[#] Sat Nov 03 2012 12:16:43 EDT from triLcat

Yeah - I know. It was a horrible storm

[#] Tue Nov 06 2012 15:21:59 EST from dothebart

my wii-fit now has a galvanic battery saving mechanism.

another of these rare occasions to dust off the soldering iron and the glue gun.

[#] Fri Nov 30 2012 23:11:35 EST from ax25

Tue Nov 06 2012 03:21:59 PM EST from dothebart

my wii-fit now has a galvanic battery saving mechanism.

another of these rare occasions to dust off the soldering iron and the glue gun.

O.K. I give. I even used the all-mighty google to try to find the kit, but only got back your mention in this post. Good / bad to see that google is finding things in uncensored-space.

I have one of those at home and it seems to eat batteries like they are kit-kat bar sticks around a certain someone I know. If you would care to share the details, I would love to try a wii-fit board mod myself.

[#] Wed Dec 05 2012 13:44:41 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Doesn't the wii-fit use an ordinary wii remote? Those can be outfitted with rechargeable batteries pretty easily.

[#] Wed Dec 05 2012 14:52:49 EST from dothebart

Wed Dec 05 2012 13:44:41 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Doesn't the wii-fit use an ordinary wii remote? Those can be outfitted with rechargeable batteries pretty easily.

no, its got its own electronics - it uses 4 batteries.

it acts as wii-mode #4.

Its electronicts don't seem to be as thoroughly designed as those of the wii-modes...

for shure I use rechargeable batteries for it, but its not as funny if they are deeply discharged that they go all dead...

and... it takes less then a month for that, while unused wii-motes may easily survive several months.

[#] Mon Feb 04 2013 20:42:15 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Ooops. I accidentally set my new mail sound to an entire song, and discovered there's no way to make it stop once it starts playing.

[#] Tue Feb 05 2013 10:37:35 EST from zooer

"Achievements"

Did you try "Killall <nameofmailprogram>"?

[#] Wed Feb 06 2013 07:20:31 EST from fleeb

*feverishly spams IG's email*

[#] Tue Mar 26 2013 23:11:52 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Ok, it's a month and a half later, and the music from fleeb's spam spree has finally stopped playing. Finally I got to change my new mail sound to something brief again.