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Category Archives: tech
What’s wrong with my printer?
What’s wrong with my printer? Originally uploaded by shrub. My Canon i950 has started printing horizontal bands across everything but yellow and black. Any idea what’s wrong or how to fix it? I spent some time on the phone with Canon tech support, and changing the paper type to photo paper and the document type …
really bad code
When you sign up to accept payments, the folks over at Kagi (aside: why does www.kagi.com work and kagi.com doesn’t?) send you a Perl script you can adapt to process and validate registration keys. It’s bad. No. It’s really bad. It would make Wil Shipley vomit. First off, the thing won’t even run, because it …
your failed business model is not my problem
finally, real broadband
100 MBps in NYC.
Mad as hell, switching to Mac
Winn Schwartau ditched Windows: This is my first column written on a Mac – ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate. I was a PC bigot. But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it …
grrr, mobile device
AIM’s mobile device support is teh suck: Your IM has been sent to my mobile device. When I receive it, I will be able to reply. Thanks for your IM! Want your IMs forwarded to your phone? Click here I now have a handful of people on my buddy list who are visible but aren’t …
Dear Greg Michetti
Yes.
DHS to go low-tech
The Homeland Security Authorization Act requires that more than 50 percent of the components in any end product bought by the Department of Homeland Security be produced or manufactured in the U.S. Oops: “With this purchasing prohibition, I guess (the department) will have to learn to do without computers and cell phones,” ITAA President Harris …
google factory tour
Google factory tour slides.