Re: Question about the ADF of a scanner.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: Michael ODonnell wrote: feed rollers on some scanners and printers. Basically, they get glazed and cannot pull the paper. Cleaning the feed rollers helps sometimes. Typically I use alcohol to clean them and then, if I'm still having a problem, a very, very mild abrasive I'll second that and as an aside I'll comment (having run printing presses and mail processing equipment in a previous life) that automated paper handling is a problem that gets %0.01 of the respect it deserves. Considering the essentially infinite combination of infuriatingly subtle variables (static electricity, fiber quality, temperature, moisture [ambient as well as absorbed], friction coefficients, roller degradation, fouling by dust/grease/fibers, etc, etc) it's a fscking miracle printers work at all, never mind that most of the time you don't even have to think about them. Amen. I've worked in out of the printing publishing industry for about thirty years. Good pressmen have amazed me getting good print out of poor ink and lousy paper and quirky presses. I ran tests for a company developing a color printer ink jet in 1988. They had an issue with jams when wear started. We tried alcohol increasing the force onto the rollers, It required a redesign of the paper path. With the new path you could crumple the paper, flatten it, then feed it at 300 dpi. You could feed a piece of cloth through and get a decent print onto it. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Boston Linux Meeting tomorrow, March 18, 2009 Doc Searls on Vendor Relationship Management
When: March 18, 2009 7PM (6:30PM for QA) Topic: Doc Searls on Vendor Relationship Management Moderators: Doc Searls, Senior Editor, Linux Journal Location: MIT Building E51, Room 395 Doc discusses Vendor Relationship Management (VRM), the antithesis of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Where vendors use CRM to manage relations with customers on the vendor's terms, VRM is intended for use by customers to manage relations with vendors on the customer's terms. For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51 parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or on Amherst St. We will adjourn to the Cambridge Brewery for our after meeting meeting. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: OT? Shipping issues?
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:42:38 -0400 Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: My favorite story was when our regular man-in-brown sheepishly brought in what appeared to be an accordion made of metal - the sole surviving piece of the server that had fallen out of the back of his truck and was slammed by a tractor trailer into oncoming traffic where it was hit by a dump truck and knocked into a swamp where it sank. They did not dispute the claim. I'm shocked. They didn't argue over whether the packaging met their specifications? Amazing. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: OT? Shipping issues?
On 03/16/2009 09:42 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote: My favorite story was when our regular man-in-brown sheepishly brought in what appeared to be an accordion made of metal - the sole surviving piece of the server that had fallen out of the back of his truck and was slammed by a tractor trailer into oncoming traffic where it was hit by a dump truck and knocked into a swamp where it sank. They did not dispute the claim. Did it burn down and fall over first? Uhm, getting back on topic, I've been getting frequent shipments to my house via all the major shipping companies (*shakes fist at slickdeals, newegg, and amazon*). The only problem I had was a box that sat on my porch and got wet, but my porch is open so it was in the safest location it could be during that time, and the contents were wrapped in plastic anyway and was fine. -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: OT? Shipping issues?
Dan Jenkins wrote: Ben Scott wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery companies have been damaging packages. Other than the Recently part, your experience matches mine. Shipping eats boxes, but this isn't news. My favorite was a story told to me at UNH, where a rather expensive new computer arrived with holes in the box and BB shot rolling around inside. Apparently, someone had used it for target practice. This was no more recently than 1996. To be honest we've had largely good luck in shipping, except for a few instances. My favorite story was when our regular man-in-brown sheepishly brought in what appeared to be an accordion made of metal - the sole surviving piece of the server that had fallen out of the back of his truck and was slammed by a tractor trailer into oncoming traffic where it was hit by a dump truck and knocked into a swamp where it sank. They did not dispute the claim. Nothing in the last twenty years has equaled that, so I consider the other incidents minor annoyances. -- Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ And now for the rest of the story... Fedex has a policy where they need to inspect the package for damage. So they picked up the package from the recipient in Florida. They then inspected it but ignored my instructions to return it to the delivery point. They instead returned it to the authorized shipping point here in Manchester which is a Mailbox type operation. I didn't find this out until I called Fedex and they told me the package had been dropped off in Manchester yesterday. Here's where it starts to get good - Fedex tells me that I can't file a claim. They say the Mailbox place needs to do it. I stopped at the Mailbox place and when the nice lady (she really is nice) handed it to me I heard a clunk. I told her I needed to open it up and see what was making the noise. When I took the side panel off I see the 1 TB 3.5 inch hard drive laying in the bottom of the case! They had managed to rip the hard drive and it's retaining sleeve out of the case. The drive had it's Sata signal cable connector sheared off. The CMOS battery mount on the motherboard looked like a rear ended car and the battery was in different part of the case. The motherboard also has a number of crushed header connectors (USB). So on the way back to Manchester Fedex more or less totaled the system. To add insult to injury I'm now stuck waiting for the Mailbox place to make the claim... -Alex P.S. Although I haven't had a chance to test yet the only things that survived where 4 memory modules, the CPU chip and the fan/heat sink. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Question about the ADF of a scanner.
Tom Buskey wrote: I ran tests for a company developing a color printer ink jet in 1988. They had an issue with jams when wear started. We tried alcohol increasing the force onto the rollers, It required a redesign of the paper path. With the new path you could crumple the paper, flatten it, then feed it at 300 dpi. You could feed a piece of cloth through and get a decent print onto it. That's impressive. When I ponder the number of printers we've seen that jam when facing a 1/16" skew in the paper hopper... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Inadvertent HTML post to [Re: Question about the ADF of a scanner.]
I apologize for inadvertently sending a post in HTML. Not quite sure how that happened as all posts to gnhlug.org are sent as text, as are most of my emails to anyone, unless I explicitly override it. Sorry for any inconvenience. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Text vs HTML
Yet another apology, I found why I was posting in HTML, even though I intended to explicitly send in text to gnhlug.org. I am truly sorry for that, as I am aware both of the technical and the personal reasons not to do so as some members have a strong objection to HTML email. I use Thunderbird. It works well for me and does IMAP fairly well as well as being cross-platform, so I can use it from Linux, OS X and Windows, all of which I must use constantly. I explicitly configured sending to the group to be a text-only domain. Somehow I had an entry in one of my address books which indicated gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org preferred HTML. As I also had a separate entry in the same address book saying it preferred text, I am not sure how that happened. Even if Thunderbird is told the domain prefers text, it will override that if the address book says otherwise. As to which entry wins when there are duplicates in the address book, I guess the most embarrassing one must, by Murphy's Law. In any event, I have corrected the issue here, and will check the other computers I work from elsewhere to ensure this does not recur. (I shall now slink away in embarrassment.) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Text vs HTML
2009/3/17 Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com: Aren't GNHLUG lists configured that way? list_admin They're mainly configured with the stock defaults (except when they're not, heh). If consensus of the list membership is that HTML stripping should be turned on, it's easy enough to do so. Note that a few people complaining loudly is not consensus. :) I'm not exactly sure how we'd gauge consensus of the list. I don't think we can ask for a majority when we don't even know how many people we really have reading. FWIW, there are currently 273 apparently-working addresses subscribed to gnhlug-discuss. Addresses != people. /list_admin As an aside, I'd be in favor of Google changing the descriptions to non-standard and standard text personal_opinion (Somewhat playing devil's advocate here.) MIME multipart/alternative is well-defined; HTML is well-defined. I'm not sure why using those specifications as they were intended yields non-standard. The Internet is built on rough consensus and working code, and it seems HTML mail has achieved that more than many other things we're pleased to call standard. (Ever try to get two different IPsec implementations to interoperate? *shudder*) Don't get me wrong, I think HTML mail is overrated, usually annoying, often abused, and occasionally outright dangerous. But I'm also a big believer in it takes all kinds. I generally avoid posting HTML mail on this list because I know there are some who actively dislike it, it's mostly not needed, and workarounds do exist. But on occasion I've found it would have been convenient to just hyperlink something, rather than resorting to cumbersome manual footnotes and URLs in plaintext. /personal_opinion -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
