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HP splits in two.

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:00:07 +0000

Don’t you feel like trying something new Don’t you feel like breaking out Or breaking us in two You don’t do the things that I do You want to do things I can’t do Always something breaking us in two

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Expect your HP printer to get 0wnz0r3d shortly

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:00:19 +0000

Courtesy of Dan Bowman: You may have seen the brief writeup on Slashdot about how to set printers on fire by messing with the fuser, but in Germany next month there’s going to be a security engineer’s nightmare unleashed, courtesy

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Shame on you, Medtronic

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:56:41 +0000

Insulin pumps marketed by Minneapolis-based Medtronic have a serious, life-threatening security flaw, and the company couldn’t care less. For these two reasons, this isn’t your typical security flaw, and Medtronic’s response–in 30 years, we’ve ever seen a problem that we

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Lenovo and IBM look back at IBM’s PC exit

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:42:40 +0000

The Register reports that Lenovo is gloating over its purchase of IBM’s PC division and its turnaround efforts, while IBM doesn’t regret pulling out, at all, even going so far as to call the PC dead. Who’s right? Lenovo. Though

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Buy a used business printer and save a bundle

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:55:43 +0000

I'm through with cheap consumer printers.

Due to the nature of my wife's work, we print a lot by home standards. We buy paper by the case, not the ream, and a case of paper probably lasts us a little more than six months.

Our workload just isn't practical for the kind of printers you find next to the telephones at consumer electronics stores. So I bought an HP Laserjet 4100. And even if a case of paper lasts you a couple of years, you might want to buy an office-grade printer too.

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How to buy a laser printer

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:30:06 +0000

I had to buy a laser printer in a hurry over the weekend. I bought a Samsung ML-2525, which I believe to be a reasonable choice, but not necessarily the best choice I could have made. It's tiny, whisper quiet, and very fast, and it was on sale for 70 bucks, though sometimes you can get one for as little as $59. At that price, it's hard for buying it to be a terrible decision.

Please note that this advice is for home and light small-business use. For business use, scroll to the end.

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Saying goodbye to my Lexmark 4039

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:49:51 +0000

Today we hauled my trusty Lexmark 4039 off to recycling. Unfortunately its paper handling was shot, and parts and documentation for that model are nearly impossible to find. I found the alleged service manual, but couldn't make sense enough of the documentation to fix it.

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Samsung printer says paper jam but there is none? Here’s the fix.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:41:44 +0000

So my Samsung CLP-300 laser printer developed a fake paper jam. I tried to print yesterday and got nothing but a paper jam message after the click that usually precedes the paper feeding through. I looked inside all the covers, even flipping the printer over multiple times, looking for that stray bit of paper munging up the works.

I found nothing. But I needed to print some resumes. So I fixed it.

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How eBay is ruining itself

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:47:27 +0000

A thread on one of the train forums I frequent mentioned today that the number of listings for Marx trains on eBay is down about 50% over what it was a year or so ago. Not only that, the listings are by and large the common, less interesting stuff.

Meanwhile, a debate rages on another forum I read sometimes, frequented by eBay sellers. On one side are the eBay apologists, saying they'll just change as eBay changes. On the other side, people struggling to make a profit in the ever-changing environment are finding other venues to sell their wares and finding themselves a lot happier.

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No reason for brand wars

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:17:40 +0000

On one of the train forums I frequent, a legitimate question quickly degenerated into brand wars. And brand wars are one thing, but when people hold their preferred company to a different standard than the other company--in other words, one company is evil because it does something, but their preferred company does the same thing, it isn't productive.

Actually, I see very little reason for brand loyalty as it is. I drive a Honda and I use a Compaq computer. Do either of those companies have any loyalty to me? No. To them, I'm just a source of income from yesterday.

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