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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/3/2014 7:18 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
"Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 6:22 PM, Tim wrote: On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:42:59 PM UTC-6, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... What is a 'hard reset'? When you have to power off your PC because it doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse input. I've had to do that with my old box. even unplugged it for a day. That helped. Just needed a rest after a hard fought debate with Harry. :-) You want a tonic? Funny you said that because a friend and I were just discussing "tonic". Growing up here in MA it was almost always used to refer to a soft drink like Coke or Pepsi but it's use seems to be fading with younger generations. If I asked a 14 year old or even a 20 year old if they wanted "tonic" they wouldn't know what I was talking about. "Soda" or "Pop" hasn't caught on though as used in most parts of the country. The soft drinks up here are now referred to by name, i.e. "I'll have a Pepsi" or "Coke" or whatever. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
F.O.A.D. wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote: Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money. True, Mavericks was a free upgrade but not without some disappointments. It will not run some popular programs that previous versions of the Apple OSX ran. An example is Pro-Tools 9. I had a brand new, unopened box with Pro-Tools that I was looking forward to installing in the iMac once I became familiar with it. Pro-Tools is a professional grade audio recording software package. Pro-Tools isn't cheap. The current version is $699. I decided to install my copy only to find out that Mavericks (which I upgraded to a month ago) won't run it. My options are to revert back to the older, 10.8.5 OSX (whatever they called it) or go out and purchase the newer version. I'll stick with the full Garage Band for now. That all said though, I like the iMac. Nice display and is faster for some of the things I like to do with audio and video. For many purposes though I still think it's an overgrown, high priced iPhone. :-) There isn't one windoze app I used to use that I haven't found a better replacement for on my macs. Even the Mac version of ms office suite runs better. The photo apps are better. The big database manager I use is better. I am sure there are better windoze apps out there but I don't use them. P.s. My new Mac is "preparing for shipment" but from where I don't know. Could be china, the USA, or Ireland . When Mrs.E. bought the iMac for me she also bought the MS Office Suite. I haven't installed it yet. She also bought one for herself and installed it on her iMac. My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/3/14, 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote: Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money. True, Mavericks was a free upgrade but not without some disappointments. It will not run some popular programs that previous versions of the Apple OSX ran. An example is Pro-Tools 9. I had a brand new, unopened box with Pro-Tools that I was looking forward to installing in the iMac once I became familiar with it. Pro-Tools is a professional grade audio recording software package. Pro-Tools isn't cheap. The current version is $699. I decided to install my copy only to find out that Mavericks (which I upgraded to a month ago) won't run it. My options are to revert back to the older, 10.8.5 OSX (whatever they called it) or go out and purchase the newer version. I'll stick with the full Garage Band for now. That all said though, I like the iMac. Nice display and is faster for some of the things I like to do with audio and video. For many purposes though I still think it's an overgrown, high priced iPhone. :-) There isn't one windoze app I used to use that I haven't found a better replacement for on my macs. Even the Mac version of ms office suite runs better. The photo apps are better. The big database manager I use is better. I am sure there are better windoze apps out there but I don't use them. P.s. My new Mac is "preparing for shipment" but from where I don't know. Could be china, the USA, or Ireland . When Mrs.E. bought the iMac for me she also bought the MS Office Suite. I haven't installed it yet. She also bought one for herself and installed it on her iMac. My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Brother has some decent and really inexpensive laser printers. -- Thereβs no point crying over spilled 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. === As long as her computer is on the network, and as long as her printer is capable of being defined as a "network printer", it should work fine. You just have to go through the "add printer" process and look for it on the network. I use my wife's printer like that all the time. On the other hand, printers have gotten really cheap and you'll find it more convenient to have your own if you use it a lot. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
F.O.A.D. wrote:
F.O.A.D. wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote: Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money. True, Mavericks was a free upgrade but not without some disappointments. It will not run some popular programs that previous versions of the Apple OSX ran. An example is Pro-Tools 9. I had a brand new, unopened box with Pro-Tools that I was looking forward to installing in the iMac once I became familiar with it. Pro-Tools is a professional grade audio recording software package. Pro-Tools isn't cheap. The current version is $699. I decided to install my copy only to find out that Mavericks (which I upgraded to a month ago) won't run it. My options are to revert back to the older, 10.8.5 OSX (whatever they called it) or go out and purchase the newer version. I'll stick with the full Garage Band for now. That all said though, I like the iMac. Nice display and is faster for some of the things I like to do with audio and video. For many purposes though I still think it's an overgrown, high priced iPhone. :-) There isn't one windoze app I used to use that I haven't found a better replacement for on my macs. Even the Mac version of ms office suite runs better. The photo apps are better. The big database manager I use is better. I am sure there are better windoze apps out there but I don't use them. P.s. My new Mac is "preparing for shipment" but from where I don't know. Could be china, the USA, or Ireland . USA assembly...from apple facility in California . |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/3/2014 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote: Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money. True, Mavericks was a free upgrade but not without some disappointments. It will not run some popular programs that previous versions of the Apple OSX ran. An example is Pro-Tools 9. I had a brand new, unopened box with Pro-Tools that I was looking forward to installing in the iMac once I became familiar with it. Pro-Tools is a professional grade audio recording software package. Pro-Tools isn't cheap. The current version is $699. I decided to install my copy only to find out that Mavericks (which I upgraded to a month ago) won't run it. My options are to revert back to the older, 10.8.5 OSX (whatever they called it) or go out and purchase the newer version. I'll stick with the full Garage Band for now. That all said though, I like the iMac. Nice display and is faster for some of the things I like to do with audio and video. For many purposes though I still think it's an overgrown, high priced iPhone. :-) There isn't one windoze app I used to use that I haven't found a better replacement for on my macs. Even the Mac version of ms office suite runs better. The photo apps are better. The big database manager I use is better. I am sure there are better windoze apps out there but I don't use them. P.s. My new Mac is "preparing for shipment" but from where I don't know. Could be china, the USA, or Ireland . When Mrs.E. bought the iMac for me she also bought the MS Office Suite. I haven't installed it yet. She also bought one for herself and installed it on her iMac. My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. PDF's for sure.. As to writing them Kingsoft does it I think I will check. Our printer is a Brother, it's wireless and we found ink on Amazon for about 4 dollars a cartridge.. Yes, not a misprint... It is a workhorse, scans, copies, etc... |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/3/2014 9:54 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:42:59 -0600, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... What is a 'hard reset'? When you have to power off your PC because it doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse input. I can't remember the last time I had to do that on XP. It was not uncommon on W/98 but usually when you were screwing with new hardware and drivers. I just loaded a W/98 machine Saturday. I had one of those. It turned out to be a bad, on board LAN adapter. I just plugged in a card and epoxied a blank RJ45 in the board hole so I would not forget ... again. ;-) It is my new MP3 player. BTW if someone finds a newer technology MP3 player that will run from my Seeburg wall box I'm listening. It needs to run from a num pad. Don't know about that, but I bet there is a 4 dollar and 99 cent MP3 player on Amazon that will run, *despite* your Seeburg Wall Box...:) I know you guys love to see who can be the biggest Luddite, but there is a point where it isn't much more than folly.. Not that there is anything wrong with that..:) |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:45:54 -0500, wrote:
If there is one thing I really miss from DOS and W/3.x it is that we lost the RAM drive capability. At a certain point you get better performance using RAM to cache your hard drive than to just give it to the OS to use. That is particularly true in a data intensive application like dBase. === Ask and you shall receive: http://www.pcworld.com/article/26091..._ram_disk.html Of course all of that is predicated on having lots of RAM and a more or less recent version of Windows, preferably a 64 bit version which can leverage more than 4 gig of RAM. The newer machines with lots of RAM and more up to date versions of Windows also do a good job of creating a virtual cache. Of course the controller board for newer hard disks usually has a fair amount of cache built in. With all due respect, a lot has happened since Win 3.2 and Win95. I could offer you a good price on an 2 x 4 processor server blade with Win-7 64 bit professional pre-installed. The fans are a tad noisy but tolerable. Power consumption running all 8 processor cores flat out is about 175 watts. The speed is amazing with applications that can multiprocess. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/2014 2:25 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:52:19 -0500, KC wrote: On 2/3/2014 9:54 PM, wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:42:59 -0600, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... What is a 'hard reset'? When you have to power off your PC because it doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse input. I can't remember the last time I had to do that on XP. It was not uncommon on W/98 but usually when you were screwing with new hardware and drivers. I just loaded a W/98 machine Saturday. I had one of those. It turned out to be a bad, on board LAN adapter. I just plugged in a card and epoxied a blank RJ45 in the board hole so I would not forget ... again. ;-) It is my new MP3 player. BTW if someone finds a newer technology MP3 player that will run from my Seeburg wall box I'm listening. It needs to run from a num pad. Don't know about that, but I bet there is a 4 dollar and 99 cent MP3 player on Amazon that will run, *despite* your Seeburg Wall Box...:) I know you guys love to see who can be the biggest Luddite, but there is a point where it isn't much more than folly.. Not that there is anything wrong with that..:) The wall box is just a novelty thing but I like it. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/judybar.jpg I have a bunch of commercial MP3 players. (3 in vehicles and 3 pocket style. I even had an Ipod for a week before we gave it to my father in law. They are all a pain in the ass if you want to hear a particular song. My wife has the "sync" in her Lincoln that you can talk to but it is set up to recognize her voice, not so much mine. I don't think it is any more distracting to punch a number into a 10 key than to try to get the Sync to understand what you want. I have 1800 songs or so and not one I don't like so I don't go searching.. Just like listening to a radio station with no commercials, and no **** music:0 Running MPXPLAY you can just punch up a song by number. I know there is a plug in for Winamp to do that too but it was pretty clunky and I gave up on it. BTW I looked this evening and there os a version of MPXPLAY that runs on XP now. I tried the Beta a while ago and it wasn't ready for the public yet. I may reload at least one of my W/98 machines to XP and take it for a spin. I played with it a little tonight and it looks good so far. 14 years ago when I first started with PC based players I had a pretty long Email exchange with Atilla the Hungarian (the developer) and at least one of my suggestions made it to the field. I have been running that version for 13 years or so. I ran native DOS 6.3 machines in my vehicles and in the W/98 DOS box in the tiki bar. (just for the improved networking) The DOS machines were great in a car because they went from "key on" to music in about 10-12 seconds The Blaupunkt in my car now takes that long and still does not have keypad support. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/14, 5:51 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/4/2014 2:01 AM, wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:45:01 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: So you are saying that if I cobbled up a machine from parts that would run the Apple OS they would give it to me? Yeah, you seem like a hackintosh kinda guy. You didn't answer the question. Does that free OS have to be tied to a serial number? I don't think so but not sure. When I upgraded from 10.8.5 to 10.9.1 (Mavericks) I don't recall the website asking for a serial number. It's possible that the download automatically seeks and finds it on the computer, but I don't know. I was a little nervous doing the upgrade because I was still not all that familiar with the iMac but it upgraded without a hitch. I have a copy on a thumbdrive somewhere in my desk of Mavericks. -- Theres no point crying over spilled 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:51:15 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/3/2014 5:54 PM, Califbill wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 11:13 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 2/3/14, 10:04 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january Or you could buy an upgraded motherboard with a fast 80286 CPU. Windows XP is still used in many non-personal computer applications like gas station pumps, ATM machines and other "transparent" applications. XP may be retaining a market share because the cost of upgrading both software and hardware to support Win 7 or 8 is expensive for these applications. As a user of XP, Windows 7 and 8 (and now an iMac) I think XP was (is) a very good and stable OS but Windows 7 has it beat hands down. Even this Vista machine runs faster and has more capabilities than XP, as good as it is. I think the vista machine would probably run XP a lot faster than your old machine. Maybe, but why? This Vista machine outperforms the Compaq I had with XP with basically the same CPU speed and RAM. Other than slow boots from a power off condition, I have no complaints about Vista. I rarely shut it down completely. I just put it in "sleep" mode. It has been stable and this HP Pavilion has had no hick-ups in 5 years, used daily. Many people expressed frustration and problems with Vista but I haven't had any issues or complaints. The Win 7 and 8 has some updated applications that are better than what is in this Vista machine, but I really haven't had any need to upgrade it. I'll just use it until it croaks. My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs Excellent text quality Very fast printing black text Very good monochrome graphics quality Excellent copy quality Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:19:35 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:
On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:14:06 PM UTC-6, HanK wrote: On 2/3/2014 2:49 PM, wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:49:45 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/3/14, 11:46 AM, wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:04:24 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january Microsoft has not given their business users any compelling reason to switch. If your mission is not significantly changing, why should you change your hardware and software? 99% of all real business applications ran just fine on Windows 3.1 on a 396. If you are just doing bookkeeping, inventory and point of sale, you don't need that much computing power. All of these flashy graphics do not actually add much to the average business man's operation. Hardware is pretty stagnant these days so I am not really sure why they need a different OS. Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money. The OS is not free, it is just bundled into the overpriced hardware. IBM did the same thing with the System 360, all the software was free including on site support ... until LBJ sued them over it. Apple gets away with it because they are still a small player. Most people do not get the retail version of windows anyway. They get it bundled with the software and it is about $35-40 that way based on what you can get a bare (or linux) system for. I don't even pay that. When you get an off lease machine the extra cost is negligible and you could reinstall that OS on a brand new machine if you wanted to. You just need the sticker ... or just the numbers. I am not even sure Microsoft is checking for duplicate XP installations these days. I do have a good W-7 number if I wanted to play with it but I have XP on that machine now. I have still not seen a compelling need to go to 7 or 8. I am not impressed with the idea that just being newer is always better. I just fired up a win 8.1 machine. So far everything is loading in flawlessly, even the 1999 Mapsource from Garmin. I'm in the process of loading the 2014 map data now. So far so good. Can you do that on a Win7? Sandy and I update our Garmins about every six months using Windows. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/2014 8:36 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:51:15 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 5:54 PM, Califbill wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 11:13 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 2/3/14, 10:04 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january Or you could buy an upgraded motherboard with a fast 80286 CPU. Windows XP is still used in many non-personal computer applications like gas station pumps, ATM machines and other "transparent" applications. XP may be retaining a market share because the cost of upgrading both software and hardware to support Win 7 or 8 is expensive for these applications. As a user of XP, Windows 7 and 8 (and now an iMac) I think XP was (is) a very good and stable OS but Windows 7 has it beat hands down. Even this Vista machine runs faster and has more capabilities than XP, as good as it is. I think the vista machine would probably run XP a lot faster than your old machine. Maybe, but why? This Vista machine outperforms the Compaq I had with XP with basically the same CPU speed and RAM. Other than slow boots from a power off condition, I have no complaints about Vista. I rarely shut it down completely. I just put it in "sleep" mode. It has been stable and this HP Pavilion has had no hick-ups in 5 years, used daily. Many people expressed frustration and problems with Vista but I haven't had any issues or complaints. The Win 7 and 8 has some updated applications that are better than what is in this Vista machine, but I really haven't had any need to upgrade it. I'll just use it until it croaks. My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. Pretty easy to fix. Right click on any section of the desktop. Select "View". You will see an item called "Show Desktop Icons". Make sure the box is checked. If you don't want the icons to show on the desktop, uncheck the box. Your wife or someone probably inadvertently "unchecked" the box. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs Excellent text quality Very fast printing black text Very good monochrome graphics quality Excellent copy quality Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes. What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get from each? -- Theres no point crying over spilled 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol. |
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On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 03:31:37 -0500, KC wrote: I have 1800 songs or so and not one I don't like so I don't go searching.. Just like listening to a radio station with no commercials, and no **** music:0 I have been doing that for 15 years. I never use the radio in my car and we have MP3s available anywhere in the house. I still have a lot of songs I don't want to hear all the time. My "all music" directory is 26.8 gig with 5,625 files and 1408 files in the "humor" directory but there are some duplicates in there. I keep around 1000 in a typical play list I do have a lot of really obscure stuff that I can pull out if it comes up like Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday records or the Vaughn Meader "First Family" album. At Christmas I can spool up 16 hours of holiday music without repeating a cut although some is not really family friendly. I am in the process of trying to make a central player that can be controlled from multiple locations.I already have anywhere with a TV covered, using the installed cable for the TV. (Put the TV on channel 69 and you have whatever is playing on the media PC in the living room). Attach that to a decent amp/speaker setup and you have something. The trick is controlling it. Our music is on our server. Accessible on I-devices and computers and TV sets and away from home via internet. We use iTunes. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:45:13 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/4/14, 2:01 AM, wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:45:01 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: So you are saying that if I cobbled up a machine from parts that would run the Apple OS they would give it to me? Yeah, you seem like a hackintosh kinda guy. You didn't answer the question. Does that free OS have to be tied to a serial number? Not that I am aware of. I've never had to type in a serial number when installing an Apple OS, and I've downloaded and installed the same downloaded OS on more than one computer. Further as I suggested the hackintosh community is running the latest OS on their non-Apple "mac" devices. I bet it senses the CPU ID when you connect and I am sure it looks when you install it. Even Windows XP and beyond does that. They used to match your PC profile to the database in Redmond and rejected activating the install if you had any significant hardware change. That seemed to go away on XP tho. You still get the nag screen but if you reenter the 25 digit code it takes it. If it did that it would not work on hackintoshes |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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On 4 Feb 2014 16:45:15 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote: wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 03:31:37 -0500, KC wrote: I have 1800 songs or so and not one I don't like so I don't go searching.. Just like listening to a radio station with no commercials, and no **** music:0 I have been doing that for 15 years. I never use the radio in my car and we have MP3s available anywhere in the house. I still have a lot of songs I don't want to hear all the time. My "all music" directory is 26.8 gig with 5,625 files and 1408 files in the "humor" directory but there are some duplicates in there. I keep around 1000 in a typical play list I do have a lot of really obscure stuff that I can pull out if it comes up like Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday records or the Vaughn Meader "First Family" album. At Christmas I can spool up 16 hours of holiday music without repeating a cut although some is not really family friendly. I am in the process of trying to make a central player that can be controlled from multiple locations.I already have anywhere with a TV covered, using the installed cable for the TV. (Put the TV on channel 69 and you have whatever is playing on the media PC in the living room). Attach that to a decent amp/speaker setup and you have something. The trick is controlling it. Our music is on our server. Accessible on I-devices and computers and TV sets and away from home via internet. We use iTunes. I have no problem tagging the songs on the network from a local player. I was just trying to get a central player that is controlled from multiple places. Right now I am playing with an old garage door opener receiver that hits the "next" button. It lets you spin the wheel from anywhere on the property. I am scouring the world for old Genie 9 DIP remotes ;-) Mr. Hobby. :) |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs Excellent text quality Very fast printing black text Very good monochrome graphics quality Excellent copy quality Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes. What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get from each? http://tinyurl.com/kkmz8yj |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:11:09 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/4/2014 8:36 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:51:15 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 5:54 PM, Califbill wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 11:13 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 2/3/14, 10:04 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january Or you could buy an upgraded motherboard with a fast 80286 CPU. Windows XP is still used in many non-personal computer applications like gas station pumps, ATM machines and other "transparent" applications. XP may be retaining a market share because the cost of upgrading both software and hardware to support Win 7 or 8 is expensive for these applications. As a user of XP, Windows 7 and 8 (and now an iMac) I think XP was (is) a very good and stable OS but Windows 7 has it beat hands down. Even this Vista machine runs faster and has more capabilities than XP, as good as it is. I think the vista machine would probably run XP a lot faster than your old machine. Maybe, but why? This Vista machine outperforms the Compaq I had with XP with basically the same CPU speed and RAM. Other than slow boots from a power off condition, I have no complaints about Vista. I rarely shut it down completely. I just put it in "sleep" mode. It has been stable and this HP Pavilion has had no hick-ups in 5 years, used daily. Many people expressed frustration and problems with Vista but I haven't had any issues or complaints. The Win 7 and 8 has some updated applications that are better than what is in this Vista machine, but I really haven't had any need to upgrade it. I'll just use it until it croaks. My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. Pretty easy to fix. Right click on any section of the desktop. Select "View". You will see an item called "Show Desktop Icons". Make sure the box is checked. If you don't want the icons to show on the desktop, uncheck the box. Your wife or someone probably inadvertently "unchecked" the box. Thanks! It worked! I also looked on the Microsoft site, came up with this: http://tinyurl.com/3cpx9k9 She's going to check on this 'InfraRecorder' application. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/2014 12:38 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs Excellent text quality Very fast printing black text Very good monochrome graphics quality Excellent copy quality Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes. What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get from each? http://tinyurl.com/kkmz8yj The Samsung *is* a good deal but unfortunately I'll need a color laser printer. They are not all that expensive either but probably lack the copy and fax features. Who uses fax anymore? I'll be making presentation material for handouts and will color to fancy them up a bit. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:00:31 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/4/2014 11:45 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard. Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box. I think your icons are gone tho. I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top. I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-) I doubt it. I'll betcha someone simply unchecked the "Show Desktop Icons" in the preferences for the Desktop. Right click on the desktop, select "View" then make sure the "Show Desktop Icons" box is checked. Well, she swears she did nothing of the sort. In fact, she has always sworn she's done nothing to cause any of the friggin' problems she has with her computer. I think the problem is 'clickitis'. Too much mouse clicking going on without the corresponding reading. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:04:07 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/4/2014 12:38 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs Excellent text quality Very fast printing black text Very good monochrome graphics quality Excellent copy quality Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes. What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get from each? http://tinyurl.com/kkmz8yj The Samsung *is* a good deal but unfortunately I'll need a color laser printer. They are not all that expensive either but probably lack the copy and fax features. Who uses fax anymore? I'll be making presentation material for handouts and will color to fancy them up a bit. I've had companies want a fax of my military ID card. They wouldn't take a jpg. So I had to trudge down to UPS to get the fax sent. Only $1, but a pain in the butt. An excuse for a motorcycle ride though. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/3/2014 5:20 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:02:20 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:48:52 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 11:13 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 2/3/14, 10:04 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january Or you could buy an upgraded motherboard with a fast 80286 CPU. Windows XP is still used in many non-personal computer applications like gas station pumps, ATM machines and other "transparent" applications. XP may be retaining a market share because the cost of upgrading both software and hardware to support Win 7 or 8 is expensive for these applications. As a user of XP, Windows 7 and 8 (and now an iMac) I think XP was (is) a very good and stable OS but Windows 7 has it beat hands down. Even this Vista machine runs faster and has more capabilities than XP, as good as it is. Who cares if it is faster, as long as the XP machine is going as fast as it needs to go? Most of the delay is in "calling home" on those applications, not handling the local transaction. Games and video processing are the main power hogs on a PC. If you are just "computing" your old 4.77 mz PC/XT went as fast as you needed to go. (Visicalc spread sheets etc) We ran a quarter million dollar business on one. I can't type faster than my machine can display. I figure that's good enough. If you browse and shop on the Internet XP's age will begin to show. Actually it has already. Graphic displays on websites are getting more and more complex and Win 7 and 8 simply handle them better. I could see that on the Compaq I had running XP before it died. I had this Vista and the Win 7 also when it worked. All three were basically the same in terms of CPU speed and RAM and all three were/are "Multimedia" models, supposedly optimized for multimedia, something a computer guru suggested to me when I was buying the XP machine years ago. He said that a computer optimized for multimedia (what the optimization is ... I don't know) would generally run faster and better for all applications and uses. I can't verify that except my laptops run a heck of a lot faster than my wife's Dell desktop. Then again, I am not sure how her Dell is populated in terms of CPU and RAM. If all you use your computer for is email and newsgroups, Win 3.1 would probably still work. :-) I think part of the problem with Win 7 was if you picked to run 64 bit and not 32 bit. Prevented a lot of legacy programs from running. Was a major shortfall for MS. If you ran Win 7 Professional, you could get an XP emulator, but not the Home version. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote: Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money. True, Mavericks was a free upgrade but not without some disappointments. It will not run some popular programs that previous versions of the Apple OSX ran. An example is Pro-Tools 9. I had a brand new, unopened box with Pro-Tools that I was looking forward to installing in the iMac once I became familiar with it. Pro-Tools is a professional grade audio recording software package. Pro-Tools isn't cheap. The current version is $699. I decided to install my copy only to find out that Mavericks (which I upgraded to a month ago) won't run it. My options are to revert back to the older, 10.8.5 OSX (whatever they called it) or go out and purchase the newer version. I'll stick with the full Garage Band for now. That all said though, I like the iMac. Nice display and is faster for some of the things I like to do with audio and video. For many purposes though I still think it's an overgrown, high priced iPhone. :-) There isn't one windoze app I used to use that I haven't found a better replacement for on my macs. Even the Mac version of ms office suite runs better. The photo apps are better. The big database manager I use is better. I am sure there are better windoze apps out there but I don't use them. P.s. My new Mac is "preparing for shipment" but from where I don't know. Could be china, the USA, or Ireland . When Mrs.E. bought the iMac for me she also bought the MS Office Suite. I haven't installed it yet. She also bought one for herself and installed it on her iMac. My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. You can share the printer through her iMac. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/3/2014 5:49 PM, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... Apple is giving away its OS to users with five and six year old computers. It's hardly bundled for those users. Oh, and I recently perused the web pages of two large Windoze computer suppliers for a laptop similar to mine and a desktop similar to what I ordered. There was less than $100 price difference either way, and what I saw from Dell and HP were rather clunky desktops or all in ones and laptops that are two generations behind in design. And of course, they run Windoze. Unless you get specific, this means nothing. If you want the Apple logo, you have to pay up for it. Simple as that. Not necessarily. Here's the Windows Vista laptop I am using right now .... :-) http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/Eisboch/DSC_8888.jpg?t=1391469190 LOL, |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/14, 1:04 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Who uses fax anymore? My banking/investment client in Baltimore. That's it, for me, at least. He sends corrections and changes for what I write for him on documents he faxes in. Grrrrrrr. -- Theres no point crying over spilled 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/2014 1:00 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/4/2014 11:45 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard. Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box. I think your icons are gone tho. I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top. I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-) I doubt it. I'll betcha someone simply unchecked the "Show Desktop Icons" in the preferences for the Desktop. Right click on the desktop, select "View" then make sure the "Show Desktop Icons" box is checked. I think that wizard has to be invoked. Also it doesn't clear the desktop. You are correct,,, again. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/4/2014 12:38 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs β’ Excellent text quality β’ Very fast printing black text β’ Very good monochrome graphics quality β’ Excellent copy quality β’ Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows β’ Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes. What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get from each? http://tinyurl.com/kkmz8yj The Samsung *is* a good deal but unfortunately I'll need a color laser printer. They are not all that expensive either but probably lack the copy and fax features. Who uses fax anymore? I'll be making presentation material for handouts and will color to fancy them up a bit. I was surprised at the low costs. Samsung does have all in one laser printers, but did dot say anything about Apple wireless compatible. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/4/2014 1:04 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/4/2014 12:38 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: F.O.A.D. wrote: snipped My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though. I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things. All the communications and documents I've received so far from the company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the software. Got this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it: CR's Take For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall performance. Highs Excellent text quality Very fast printing black text Very good monochrome graphics quality Excellent copy quality Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages Lows Less versatile than most Detailed test results PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality, as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute, costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages. SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation. CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen. CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network. That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes. What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get from each? http://tinyurl.com/kkmz8yj The Samsung *is* a good deal but unfortunately I'll need a color laser printer. They are not all that expensive either but probably lack the copy and fax features. Who uses fax anymore? Banks.. I'll be making presentation material for handouts and will color to fancy them up a bit. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/5/2014 1:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:15:58 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:45:45 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard. Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box. I think your icons are gone tho. I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top. I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-) No, Dick got it right. They're all back. OK that must be another "Vista" experience that Bill thought you needed to have. It's retained in Win 7 although the process is a little different. I haven't checked Win 8. It's just a simple option to either display all the icons on your desktop or not. With: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvbgi6zq2cxjt3w/with%20icons.jpg Without: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkg0qjl2wf3oebf/without%20icons.jpg |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
In article , says...
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:04:24 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january Microsoft has not given their business users any compelling reason to switch. If your mission is not significantly changing, why should you change your hardware and software? 99% of all real business applications ran just fine on Windows 3.1 on a 396. If you are just doing bookkeeping, inventory and point of sale, you don't need that much computing power. All of these flashy graphics do not actually add much to the average business man's operation. Hardware is pretty stagnant these days so I am not really sure why they need a different OS. Most applications are now moving into the Cloud/Web, there is no real need for lots of horse power on the average business users system. Also, the cost of developing a web/cloud based application is that it is immediately executabe on any OS that supports the browser. Fat PC's are dead. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:06:42 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/5/2014 1:09 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:15:58 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:45:45 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard. Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box. I think your icons are gone tho. I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top. I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-) No, Dick got it right. They're all back. OK that must be another "Vista" experience that Bill thought you needed to have. It's retained in Win 7 although the process is a little different. I haven't checked Win 8. It's just a simple option to either display all the icons on your desktop or not. With: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvbgi6zq2cxjt3w/with%20icons.jpg Without: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkg0qjl2wf3oebf/without%20icons.jpg It would seem unnecessary. Except for a few, most are placed there by the user, and if placed there during a program installation, they're easily removable. For my wife, it was a 'nightmare' when she lost all her icons (almost literally). She woke me about 1 AM, telling me she still couldn't fix the problem. I told her to wait until morning...we'd fix it. The next morning I right clicked everything I could think of, but somehow missed the 'Blank Spot'! |
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