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I don't see why not. I think it's the same cartridge format for all the Optra S range, from the 1650 through to the 2455 anyway, and they still work in the newer Optra T series too. Lexmark cartridges aren't cheap, no, but then in home use I'm fairly unlikely to go through more than one 14K...

It all sounds somewhat logical (if very poorly expressed) until you remember it says quite clearly on Windows Update - "No information is being sent to Microsoft." Until that changes those that are one rung above script kiddies and the associated l33t h4x0rz - like the arrogant, misinformed and...

Greg, As usual, Coug is right - the current release of FreeBSD is 4.6.2 (go to www.freebsd.org, look at the right hand side of the screen). 5.0 is going to be the -CURRENT branch or something similar and is likely to be buggy. Go with 4.6.2 - just download the 2 floppies, follow the...

Pradeep, If you just want a 14,000 page toner cart for a Lexmark Optra S, I can get you one if you'll just pay shipping (it's new, sealed...).

(Since Tim had such good success...) Selling for noise level reasons really, and because I don't need the extra CPU power any more. CPUs: 2x Athlon 1700+XPs. No pencil trick needed to get them to work in MP. Motherboard: Tyan Tiger MP (2460) with latest BIOS. 4x 64bit slots, 2x 32bit PCI...

:mrgrn: Oh yeah? I got a Lexmark Optra S 2455 24ppm printer with the LAN card and 20MB of RAM for AUD240, including a partially full 14K toner cartridge. And less than 80,000 pages on it (monthly duty cycle is 100K pages...). I also just bought 4 Intel Pro 100/B LAN cards for AUD10 each, plus...

There's been all manner of invective poured over puns; I kinda like them myself when used sparingly. My apparent lack of taste in the humour department is also upheld in my enjoyment of well written sarcasm ("the lowest form of wit," it has been said).

To be honest Bill - and I'm not necessarily saying it's a bad thing - you're really looking to create a personal forum where you and a few handpicked others can have an organised debate. No problem with that, but wouldn't it be easier to take it elsewhere rather than a public forum? I'm afraid...

Yep, me too. But what interested me in the article was this: What facilities are being built for members of particular religions? The government isn't out there building churches, is it?

Yes, and with the treatment of the prisoners in Cuba I fear the US has even found a way to give itself immunity from its own constitution. Bill, have a read of this week's Economist. There is a good series of articles on human rights post September 11. It's a much more interesting read than the...

Looks like a sheep date. What do ewe think?

If you leave aside food/drink companies, Accor perhaps. (Largest manager of hotels and resorts in the world.)

Yes, another vote here against futons. I only weigh about 85kg but even an expensive futon is uncomfortable and high maintenence (you have to air it every day, and it's heavy to lug around.

If you run a mail server from home, most mail servers will reject your mail because it comes from an IP block allocated on a dynamic basis. In general, not a good idea. Outgoing mail has to go via port 25. Incoming mail has to arrive via port 25. You don't have much choice on those.

Sorry, more detail. A CNAME record allows you to point a FQDN (ie. whatever.yourdomain.com) at a specific IP address. An MX record tells mail servers where to deliver the mail for a particular domain. Zoneedit allows you to forward name@yourdomain.com to somewhere else. Zoneedit also allows...

Zoneedit does everything you want and is, to all intents and purposes, free. Basically if you get more than a million DNS requests for your name in a year, they start to charge you. Bear in mind that's 2,739 requests a day, so if your website is getting more than 2,700 unique visitors a day...

Well, one counter-argument to that idea is that I snap my fingers continuously to ward off tigers. Sure enough, I haven't been attacked by tigers (ie effect may not have a direct relationship with cause). Two, there haven't been any hijackings of Australian airliners either, but we didn't have...

University of the Third Age. Basically, an Australian university aimed at people in their 60s and older. My dad also runs a course on international relations at the ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy, in Canberra) and one at Monash University (Melbourne).

Since no one responded, I'll just say I found that an interesting article, thanks for drawing our attention to it. The writer doesn't seem to have tried very hard, really (perhaps understandably if the Russian Mafia was going to become invovled...). I have no doubt it is possible to build a...

When your top marginal tax rate is 48% and you also have a 10% sales tax on everything you buy, come back and see me. :) Yes, the GST in Australia was supposed to simplify the tax system too, but it didn't. Even if it did, it's irrelevant - the issue here is creating a tax system that is as fair...

Why isn't there an option in the poll for "I just read the posts, I don't bother with the sigs"?

Why should a rich person pay lower consuption tax on a $2M house just so a low income person can pay a lower tax on a $50K house? But then how do you decide what is the appropriate consumption tax rate for individuals? What's in the consumption tax and what's not? Who decides? How complicated...

No, he was an Australian diplomat for 36 years. Served in the Philippines, Cambodia, London, Paris, Ankara (set up the Australian embassy there in 1968), did a thesis at the London School of Economics for 18 months, then was Australian ambassador to Denmark. He was then Special Disarmament...

My point is that where eg. my top marginal tax rate is 48%, 81% of the Australian taxpaying population pays a top marginal rate of 30% or less. Taking away a 30% or less tax rate has a comparitively smaller effect on their ability to spend compared with me. Yet I wouldn't spend much more than...

With all due respect, that's a silly idea. Consumption taxes hurt those in lower income brackets much more than the rich. You feel pain paying income tax because you have a high income and therefore it seems like a lot of money. Consumption taxes you don't notice. For poor people, it's the other...

This is a transcript of the speech my father gave to U3A, I thought some might be interested. Whose war on whose terrorism? 12 August 2002 Eleven months ago 4 passenger aircraft took off from the east coast of the United States, with enough fuel to take them to California. Teams of...

I can do the first few just using grep. The issue is the count of each PDF file downloaded - as I said, maybe something like Analog is better but I can't see the option to give stats on just one type of file.

My idea of a pleasant social situation doesn't include me coughing more or less continuously through the whole occasion and then having my clothes smell of smoke for days afterwards. But that's just me. :wink: Seriously though, I don't understand how smoking is a social activity unless you...

Except obviously you can actually download those seperately. Well, anyway, you get the idea. :mrgrn:

The NVIDIA drivers for the mobo include all the required drivers, you can't download (for example) the IDE drivers seperately. Sort of like the (ugh!) VIA 4-in-1s.

I'd like to write a gawk (or whatever) script to parse a web server log file and produce a very basic report once a month. The program would go through the log and extract all the lines which show a PDF file being downloaded. Then delete any GETs from 2 specific IP addresses. Finally, it would...

Never understood that idea, myself.

No, I only have a Tyan Tiger MP and a ECS K7S5A, plus some ancient (P166 era) Intel boards around the place and of course my Sun Ultra 5. And various touchscreen or handheld units... but anyway, the point is no, no NVIDIA mobos.

Great job Tony. I think I've done some many congratulations on your various posting milestones I'd just be repeating myself if I wrote another appreciative screed. So just re-read a previous one, and that way we can avoid "that orange tart" from getting too inflated an opinion of herself.

They make reasonably good spreakers too, surprisingly.

"Real" in a Microsoft sense.

I've found the best thing to do is run Windows Update Services on a server, so your client machines only get the updates you want, plus you only have to download each one once. Minus points : - The system requirements for the server itself are pretty fierce. ("An Intel X-86 or compatible...

In case this thread gets used as a reference on an ongoing basis - like I just used it - I'll state for the record that at home we have an NEC Superscript 870 and a Lexmark 2420 with a network card. We're extremely happy with both. The Lexmark is blazingly fast and seemingly indestructible (we...

My father was in the market for this sort of printer until I managed to find a site that has a hacked driver that supports 2000/XP for his Canon Multipass L60. Until then it looked like he would be stuck at Win98 until he changed printers - Canon really are a bunch of so-and-sos for not...

Is it possible that the sectors have been remapped by one of those dreadful bootloader products that Ontrack and others made? I dunno, prehistoric hardware is not really my forte.

Thanks for dropping by David!

If you look through the license, it's even simpler than that. You can look at the code, but you can't actually use it or change it. Hmmm. :roll:

XP is fine. Trouble is, you can't run a server with it, so you're pretty much relying on MS sorting out the issues with the server versions of XP within a month or two of shipping them (unlikely).

The lease is much more likely to be because that way your workstations and PCs are opex rather than capex, a result of the blinkered view that capex = bad, opex = good that continues to blind analysts and company managers because they don't understand basic finance and accounting. (These are...

I'd prefer it if you just served your drinks in a glass, barkeep.

I read SR from late 1998 and joined the forum in I think June 1999. I was rather tentative about participating then because everyone seemed to know a heck of a lot more than me about pretty much everything. I do remember the glory days of the great Greg vs. Promise debate, the IDE vs. SCSI...

(b) should give you a clue who .Nut is.

Well, Exporer's Gary again. You can always tell by (a) his areas of knowledge and (b) his location field.

I'm afraid my time's full already. SF is the only board I participate in now, and it's tough finding even the time to do that.

Mark, Australian cable (and ADSL) suppliers simply do not work like that. The cost of hauling bits across the Pacific is such that they cap throughput and also cap downloads. Remember that Australia is about the same land area as the US with a 14X smaller population. Building an undersea cable...