If I close my eyes …
Dale(yes, it’s back to the doghouse)
ASCII Art
Dot-matrix printers, and the ASCII character set, combine to mark great computer drawing. The Mona Lisa ASCII art is the best example I ever saw. ASCII Man demonstrates animated GIFS,…
Font substituted for missing font
Fonts are not always free. People make a living out of font design. My first encounter was when I designed and implemented a series of barcode reader installations for a…
Sometimes it’s easier to rebuild a system to fix the underlying problem.
Customer reported an issue with some voice recording software, and our on-site support staff looked at it. Can’t find DLL And they escalated the call to me. Finally agreed a…
Nature does not like to sit idle
Seen when I was strolling around North Melbourne. Plant vine climbing a television antenna wire.
On corporate speak
I was a new employee trainer for 4 years, which means I could talk about my employers strategic direction and Customer Intimacy programs. Customer Intimate? I used to bristle at…
HP Office Jet Pro 7590
Occasionally a printer lands on my desk, for me to evaluate. There’s not much wrong with the OfficeJet 7590 except: standard black print cartridge only lasted 400 pages the install…
So, who overfilled the sand box?
Trams and trains use sand when the rails are slippery, so they can gain extra traction. Rails get slippery because of leaves, and in Australia, eucalyptus leaves dropping on them.…
HP still dragging their feet on the Universal Print Driver.
Folks might remember my post on HP Universal Print Driver - shame it doesn’t work with Novell Netware. Late November, HP plan to release an updated driver (v4.7) which will…