tried several bottom-shelf Lexmark inkjets, a couple of the Canon portables (BJ-10e and a BJC-80) and an HP Deskjet 320 as well. Ended up hooking up a Brother HL1030 (laser with manufacturer-supplied CUPS driver) and a HP Officejet 6210 MFD (ran through HPLIP), the other gear is gathering dust and spider colonies in a closet somewhere - can't even give the bloody things away...

they probably won't be seeking permission, they'll more likely be tasking the system as the political landscape changes. Exchanges switching to IP-PBX from traditional PBX would make the task far easier, they'd just intercept the trunk via the Internet and pull the whole lot in one go instead of having to locate a specific physical point to carry out the intercept. This latest revelation sure is a step up from simply logging call endpoints and durations, though. We're into tinfoil territory here (though I do know from observing it myself that the police can access cellular location data - which in 2010 was accurate to 3 metres 24/7 and retained for well over a year - for use in evidence, and they apparently don't need a warrant to do it (R -v- Stafford A (arson, attempted quadruple murder))).

I love Zipslack... still use it on a positively ancient Dell CP (Pentium MMX) laptop. It's handy when all I want to do is type and don't need to be hearing the fan (which hasn't worked since ever and that isn't an issue anyway as the processor barely gets warm).

Yeah, most of those popped into my head one second after I hit "send"(!)... but speaking from my own experience, I've never been able to get a Winprinter working under CUPS (maybe I'm being 'tarded about it). As to graphics, I wasn't even going to pick up the whip if it wasn't an ATI/AMD or NVidia chip (OK, the drivers are proprietary for both, but I'm not bitter - I even managed to get Beryl running on an upgraded Rage Pro). Trying to get anything near "accelerated" on any other graphics chip was for me, like pushing a cow backwards up a staircase.

it's called reference frameworks. By the time you get to Userland, a Creative soundcard looks to the software identical to a Turtle Beach. This would be impossible without a reference. One obvious example is DirectX. What you want out of the arse end of the driver layer is a device interface that's compatible with DirectX. What happens between the driver layer and the hardware is entirely up to the manufacturer, but the DirectX compatibility is a certain requirement for even the slightest hope that you'll even get a peep out of it in Windows. And one of the reasons why the Linux driver model, at least from my own personal perspective, is horribly broken. Is there a reference framework for *anything* in Linux?

The problem is one of the continued and rampant upward flow of monetary wealth and the specious notion that everybody has to earn a living - read: "everybody who is not moneyed should be employed in drudgery for drudgery's sake". One day those exploited workers who are still alive will down tools and give the fat lazy cunts the biggest finger the world has ever seen.

I look forward to that day.

Mike Jittlov.

"...has me even more convinced than ever that my money is not safe in the hands of others."

All marketing is deceit. That's the point of it.

Prime example right there; another one is these ads for DVD/BluRay movie releases: "OWN IT NOW!" No - you don't "own" it, you have merely bought a limited and revocable license to view the content. The movie is still owned by the copyright holder, which is why they're still bitching about format shifting and not only trying to reverse SCOTUS decisions on it, they're making it ever more difficult to pull it off by going for DeCSS developers with all but tactical units on dawn raids and six year old girls on Gramma's broadband connection.

Oh, not marketing here, this is purely anecdotal: I have a 3G connection on an "all you can eat" pay-as-you-go plan. I regularly pull upwards of 20GB/day, often more, and as far as I can determine I've never been capped or throttled. Not in over five years on the same plan. I wish I could work out how to pool daily packet statistics on Windows 7 (which I've been using since March 2011 - and the warranty on the laptop expired today), but hey, you'll just have to take my word for it :)

my legal file is more than 5GB. In fact, that would just about cover the preliminary court bundle from 2008. Hell, the audio recordings run half a Terabyte.

your average user will probably never fill the 8GB memory in their phone with all the irreplaceable data they commit to digital their entire lives. That's what these "unlimited" plans rely on; average users having no more than 8GB of data to back up. Sure, there'll be some dick with 8TB, but if you've built for 1000 customers and just one kills your storage then you've got to do something. "Fair using his ass" is only fair!

(OK, vastly oversimplified things, your average cloud provider will probably have built for a million potential customers - 8PB total storage with multiple failover and power contingencies up the wazoo, but again, bump up the stats - it'll only take a thousand 8TB dicks to kill *that*. I'd like to know how Google are doing it, my byte clock is showing 14.2GB of "free" storage right now that I don't use, I guess the other 800MB is my mailbox, and their platinum plan is $800/mo for 16TB).

20TB for me is at maximum shy of 60 hours of "decent"* quality video.

I shoot lots of uncompressed *QHD (720p) and 625 PAL footage. That takes up a LOT of space. 370GB/hour and 93GB/hour respectively. Yes, I am poor and can't afford a 1080p DSLR much less a Red 4k, yet I never delete a single frame. All that raw footage is copied twice, one goes straight into storage, one is the working copy, and the original stays on the camera until the production is finished.

I will burn a 2TB drive on a day's shoot without even thinking about it.

I'm not even going to try and estimate how much stock footage I have (several TB), never mind how many drives I have it on (a walk in wardrobe with a custom pop-rack and several dozen drives ranging from 200GB to 2TB). All I know is, I have a stack for personal use and a stack for work, and when a job comes in the first thing I do is buy a new drive for running backup. Pretty much guaranteed it'll get filled.

the World is more than Downtown Seattle, yanno?

(BTW, I get better than 2MBit on my cellphone).

I don't watch TV, there's too much violence.

I was just reading Dickens.

short answer: yes.