MarkTBSc - Slashdot User

Comment Key Tools (Score 1) 763

by MarkTBSc on Friday May 07, 2010 @03:52AM (#32123450) Attached to: How Do You Handle Your Keys?

Instructables has a very nice key holder/thing made from a bicycle multi-tool. It doesn't have the nice Leatherman pliers but personally I prefer it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Friendly-Folding-Keychain/

Comment Chuff Chuff Chuff... (Score 1) 120

by MarkTBSc on Friday January 08, 2010 @04:42AM (#30691996) Attached to: Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor

It's amusing. I work at a British research establishment that used to do work for the Royal Navy. We had a little set of toy train tracks set up in the garden to help with our work on missile targeting systems.

Comment Bluetooth Battles Wifi Woes (Score 1) 519

by MarkTBSc on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:17AM (#27769271) Attached to: Bluetooth Versus Wireless Mice

I've been using a Logitech wireless trackball for a while and it's just fine for me, but I'd probably still recommend Bluetooth. We had an incident at work recently where a new WiFi network took up a huge proportion of the available 2.4ghz spectrum and killed the mouse we used for seminars stone dead. Bluetooth has more advanced signal processing and we've replaced the old mouse with one of those.

Submission + - The great HP disappearing toner caper

Submitted by

MarkTBSc

on Thursday June 12, 2008 @05:12AM

MarkTBSc writes: "Several months ago, my company completed its periodic replacement of all its printer systems and converted from Lexmark to HP exclusively. Many of us who had to handle jams, refills and other problems breathed a collective sigh of relief as the problem children were hauled off for recycling. However the new additions have had me scratching my head and thinking not entirely happy thoughts. Anyone who has had the task of refilling a printer knows that inks and toners don't deplete at the same rate. The Black will usually go first, then maybe Cyan or Magenta and then Yellow... Yet for some reason, this laserjet runs down its colours *precisely* in lockstep. Black runs out at its own rate, but the three colours — according to the supplies status page — are always precisely equal. This, of course, leads to simultanious replacement of toners that cost over £150 each. Has anyone else run into this problem? Is it just corrupt monitoring software, shoddy engineering or... Something I won't mention for having my bottom sued off. The stuff costs more than vintage champagne, could someone be drinking it?"

Comment Sony C1 (Score 1) 250

by MarkTBSc on Monday May 19, 2008 @03:47AM (#23459468) Attached to: What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook?

My personal emergency PC is a Sony Vaio C1 Picturebook. The VFK model with bluetooth. 650Mhz, 128mb of RAM (upgradable to 192mb) and a standard, easily replaceable 2.5" ide hard disk. Not the speediest machine in the world but I gave it a bit of a kick by installing Xubuntu. The only downside I'd say is the size of the screen. At 1024x480 I sometimes have trouble fitting entire dialog boxes onto the sceen. However I think there's a better version... Possibly the C1M, that had an 800Mhz processor, 256Mb of RAM and a 1280x800 resolution screen. The size of a hardback book, I'd heartily recommend it.

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