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HiddenSky - May 12, 2005 5:52:25 pm PDT #2878 of 10003

"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

I have the Epson Stylus R200, which is the cheapest ($100) CD/DVD capable printer in the Epson line. I love it. I'm using printable Ridata DVDs that I got in bulk spindles from Rima.com and I haven't had any problems. I also have some Memorex printable CD-Rs that look good.

Prints on photo paper also look good, and I've been using glossy brochure paper to print DVD inserts lately, and those look sharp, too.

§ ita § - May 12, 2005 5:53:37 pm PDT #2879 of 10003

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think it was an Epson in the store -- how is it for other stuff? Good photos?

eta: Oh, look! Thanks, hiddensky.

Tom Scola - May 12, 2005 5:56:51 pm PDT #2880 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I've got the R200 also. What HiddenSky said.

Strix - May 12, 2005 6:07:44 pm PDT #2881 of 10003

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

btefnet.net is down. Apparently, they got sued by the MPAA today.

Anyone know any alternatives?

le nubian - May 12, 2005 6:29:15 pm PDT #2882 of 10003

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

try...

isohunt.com

HiddenSky - May 12, 2005 6:32:38 pm PDT #2883 of 10003

"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

You're welcome, ita. For about $100 for the R200, it's hard to go wrong. I've noticed plain paper photo printing is a bit more vibrant on Epson's own paper, but that's one of the few quirks I've noticed, and it's not that surprising. Photo paper prints are great, though. It prints right to the edge, so you don't have white borders on photos if you don't want them.

Jessica - May 12, 2005 7:27:48 pm PDT #2884 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Can someone give me an example of a properly formatted RFC-822 time/date?

I'm trying to format the pubdate field of an RSS feed, and it's the only thing I can't seem to get validated. Reading this is just making my eyes cross.

§ ita § - May 12, 2005 7:34:00 pm PDT #2885 of 10003

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My items look like this:

<item>
<title>Barefoot updates for 12th of May, 2005</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 18:00:02 PDT</pubDate>
<link><![CDATA[http://barefoot.provocateuse.com/daily.php?date=20050512&stamp=180002]]></link>
<description>Barefoot and fancy free (1 new): elijah wood</description>
<author>barefoot@provocateuse.com</author>
</item>

using:

$pubdate = date("D, d M Y H:i:s T", $now);

Jessica - May 12, 2005 7:43:03 pm PDT #2886 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I could swear that's what I have now, but I'll copy-paste and try again.

(Huh...now it's validating, but I still don't see any items when I try to subscribe on Bloglines. Thunderbird claims to be downloading 4, but only shows me 1.)

Guess I'll fiddle some more tomorrow when my brain wakes up.

Volans - May 12, 2005 10:16:15 pm PDT #2887 of 10003

move out and draw fire

Windows Media Player question - it won't play any streaming media content from the internet. I can play files off of my computer or the other computer on the network, but nothing off the internet.

I've turned the firewall off

I've attempted to change my internet security settings to "Low" but they keep re-setting to "Medium."
The sites providing the streaming media correctly identify my player as Windows Media Player v.10, and say there's no problem.

Without the firewall on, I shouldn't have to define ports, right? Could it be a codecs thing? Or a conflict with Service Pack 2 (as so much is)?

The computer came with McAfee Security Center loaded, which I tried to eradicate from every nook and cranny of my system as it was preventing me from being networked, but is it possible there's still a remnant of it somewhere that's blocking WMP? I went through the registery pretty thoroughly.

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