Nat!'s Web Journal: March 2004 Archives

March 2, 2004

Har har

Posted by Nat! on March 2, 2004 1:46 AM | Permalink

Spent some time updating and revising two Optimization articles

Eventually I'd like to rewrite them all and bring them uptodate. Especially the Sampler article needs to be updated to Mac OS X finally and Shark ought to mentioned/shown as well.

Check out the newest revised article at: http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/artikel/Optimization/opti-7.html

Posted by Nat! on March 2, 2004 11:47 PM | Permalink

March 4, 2004

Products that suck

The Epson Stylus Photo 810

This printer has one purpose in life: to waste my ink as quickly as possible. Even at discount prices of €25 for color and €29 for black, this is no losing proposition for the Seiko/Epson corporation.

Turn on the printer, it cleans its inking system. What does it use for cleaning ? My ink.
Did I leave the printer unused for more than a few days ? Ghastly stripes appear on my printout. That necessitates some cleaning. This wastes more of my expensive ink.

If you think one pass of cleaning and test pattern printing is enough, think again! Ten passes of cleaning/printing test patterns is no unlucky exception but the norm.

Doing this wastes approximately 10 % of the ink! Or € 5.
I pay €5 everytime I want to print something at regular EPSON prices, because I print very rarely, just because Epson´s technology sucks.

No matter if only one pixel is missing of one color, each cleaning operation cleans ALL colors. The waste is enormous and intentional.

Luckily there is some third party product ink available, where Certtone is apparently the cheapest. The cleaning operation is now cost-reduced to a bit more than € 1, with prices of €5.60 for black and €6.50 for color. Now this is still way too much, but the pain is definetely less.

Actually technically this product doesn't suck, it blows!

Posted by Nat! on March 4, 2004 11:44 PM | Permalink

March 12, 2004

Damn!

... I thought I had a guaranteed money making idea, but the domain was already taken. Now I have cartons of unmailed SPAM, which I need to get rid off. Should have checked the internet earlier. Damn, damn!

Posted by Nat! on March 12, 2004 8:51 PM | Permalink

March 19, 2004

Fixed the VfL Bochum iCal URL

webcal://muller.mulle-kybernetik.com/public/VfL-Bochum.ics so it doesn't need as password anymore.

Posted by Nat! on March 19, 2004 10:29 AM | Permalink

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