UPS: "Do not connect laser printer..."

If you remember the '60's, you probably weren't participating. >:->

Cheers! Rich

In this case the printer is next to the server, the computers are spread over two floors and several rooms. And to top it off, I'm partially disabled, so just getting up and walking over the printer, even if I were next to it, is difficult.

Oh and BTW, the power switch is behind the printer, which would have to be pulled out from the shelf it is on with one hand while the other reaches behind it feeling around. For most of us, this would require an extra person, sort of like the LED watch from Saturday Night Live that required you to push

Geoff.

Doesn't that require sulfur, or is that just rubber?

Geoff.

The main power switch on the printer itself makes its off current zero. You can build a small bluetooth device that fires a solenoid and a rod to turn it on via network call if you want, and have someone else turn it off for you. That could be lower consumption. :-)

It was a Star Trek joke, actually.

No, it was actually used as a term to define the polymerization (the actual term) of any polymer based media for many years.

Now, we know the term is 'polymerization' (with the exception of the original definition for the term), so nobody knows much more about the term 'vulcanization' beyond its original use, which most certainly was for rubber, and required Sulfur.

So, it was loosely used to refer to the 'hardening' of just about anything 'wet'. Not correctly, and not in large circles, but it was used.

"Fixing" was a term that was already in place, and related to paintings... works of art. That would have been the term until someone cited the fact that at the microscopic level the pigment particles were actually 'fusing' to the paper fibers.

Otherwise, everyone would call it a 'fixer' and the process would be 'fixing'.

Don't know what that is either. We always used ammonia water, so the carrier was - water. Iodine isn't soluble in water but it is in alcohol. Alcohol replaces the water in the NTI, so...

I was the property master for the marching band. One of the previous PMs was given the task of duplicating some keys for the building when it was new. The keys were stamped "do not copy", but no one ever looked. The key was passed down from PM to PM thereafter. Only PMs ever knew the key existed.

I "passed it on" when I graduated. I had an outdoor key (had access to all the indoor keys as part of my job) to our EE building in college, acquired much the same way. Even though the university thought it was a "secure" lock, the key blank was identical to a common house key.

My kid is 30 now. ;-) I usually listen to Bill Bennett on my MP3 player, though Moody Blues, Doors, ELP, and BS&T are on there too. ;-)

Too young. ;-)

Nope.

Too cryptic for me this time of night ... A blunt what ... ? Knife ? Instrument ? :-)

Arfa

I remember the sixties very well Rich, but just about 4 years too young to be participating in *that* way ... !

Arfa

And we have the brass neck to lecture *our* kids about responsible behaviour !! When I relate some of these tales of schoolboy pranks to my kids, they can't believe what a bad lot we were back then ... :-))

Arfa

Simply repeating the common pattern of the last few thousand years, I think. The younger generation is *always* reckless and irresponsible, hell-bent on disaster, and disrespectful of the wisdom of their elders (from the POV of the elders), and the elders are conservative hypocritical stick-in-the-muds who have forgotten how to live and who are obviously guilty for completely yngvi'ing up the world (from the POV of the younger set).

It's been that way at least since Aristotle, and probably a whole lot longer than that.

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Interesting. Both of mine are on continuously. And both park the heads in sealed cups. Proper head parking is known to make a big difference. Must be why printers that do not cap the heads combine the print head into the ink cartridge.

Damn. I forgot the era.

A DOOBIE!

If you remember the '60s, you didn't do drugs.

Errr, nope, not with that one either ... An 'Americanism' that I'm not familiar with, maybe ? ):-|

Puzzled Arfa ...

I suspect you speak the truth Dave ...

Arfa

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Sorry, but I disagree. The US has been on a downhill path ever since it decided, after WWII, that children would rule this country.

Interesting. Both of mine are on continuously. And both park the heads in sealed cups. Proper head parking is known to make a big difference. Must be why printers that do not cap the heads combine the print head into the ink cartridge.

So, how old are your Epsons ? None of the ones that I owned ever parked properly. I wonder if they stopped doing it on later or cheaper models, for some reason. OTOH, my HPs have all parked to a sealed area, yet some of them have had the heads on the cartridge, and some haven't. The 5180 that I currently use, has external heads, but they have never clogged as long as I have owned it, so yes, correct parking is definitely significant in this.

Arfa