That is cool, LeN. Apparently I have the wrong service for my neighbourhood.
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§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 2:19:15 pm PST #6551 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
JZ - Jan 12, 2006 2:58:16 pm PST #6552 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Probably excessively dull question:
Zmayhem has come into a small bit of money, just large enough that even though most of it will go toward debt reduction, we can set a very small bit aside to get a color printer/scanner for our G4. After slogging through a metric shitload of printer listings and user comments at Apple and epinions, these four appear to be both affordable and reasonably well-liked by the people who've used them. Does the hivemind have any recommendations/HELL NOs from this list, or printers we haven't looked at yet but should?
Many, many thanks. Printer choice is possibly the least exotic and exciting tech dilemma ever presented to the hivemind, but I trust the hivemind much, much more than my own.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2006 3:16:09 pm PST #6553 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aww, honey, your links timed out.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 3:18:02 pm PST #6554 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh yeah, the Apple store is annoying in that way.
Jessica - Jan 12, 2006 3:21:19 pm PST #6555 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
HP printers do NOT play well with Macs, in my experience. It's possible to make them get along (we bought an HP all-in-one before we realized this), but it's not fun.*
(If the printer is going to be plugged directly into the computer, you're probably fine with whatever, but if you want it to network, you'll be in for some troubleshooting.)
NOTE: I have just come from happy hour, so my advice may not be the most coherent at this time.
[eta: For values of "not fun" which equal "not cheap." The solution we ended up with was to buy an Airport Express and use it as a print server.]
NoiseDesign - Jan 12, 2006 3:33:54 pm PST #6556 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, I've got an HP all in one that is on my network and it's always been tempermental. It's got built in wifi that has never worked right with my Macs so it ended up with a net connection that seems to need constant babysitting. It may be better if it were directly connected. I've also got a Canon ip3000 that has been great and has just worked, with no worries.
beekaytee - Jan 12, 2006 3:40:46 pm PST #6557 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
Huh. My hp 4215xi all-in-one has always worked perfectly with my eMac. Better, in fact, than my old Epson that came with a Mac purchase.
Jon B. - Jan 12, 2006 3:50:13 pm PST #6558 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Huh. My hp 4215xi all-in-one has always worked perfectly with my eMac.
Is it networked or plugged directly into your computer? The folks above have only had problems when it was networked.
Wolfram - Jan 12, 2006 4:20:51 pm PST #6559 of 10003
Visilurking
Does anyone know why a PS2 game from America wouldn't work in a Playstation bought in Ireland? I thought they weren't regional?
PS2s made for UK/Europe and presumably Ireland are part of the PAL system, whereas PS2s made for the US are NTSC/US and Japan has NTSC/JAP. The games are coded to go with the systems. That may be why it isn't working.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:55:33 pm PST #6560 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
PS2s made for UK/Europe and presumably Ireland are part of the PAL system, whereas PS2s made for the US are NTSC/US and Japan has NTSC/JAP. The games are coded to go with the systems. That may be why it isn't working.
Oh. Duh. I was thinking of the PSP. Sorry.