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While this is a nice printer and seems decently reliable, it sure is expensive to keep the cartridges. Two quick tips, get the: Canon 0621B016 CLI-8 3 Pack C/M/Y Value Pack. Just $32 from Amazon Canon PGI-5 BK 0628B009 2-Pack Pigment Black Ink Tanks. $25 from Amazon gives you two…

I have literally no idea what this means and the disk looks good. Have run disk utility and the disk structure looks good. Also gettting strange lock ups on this iMac (late 2009) running Mac OS X 10.9.4. Strange. But serveral a second read: kernel: cksum: out of data by…

We’ve had two outages in the last two days. I’m getting a partition down message and it lasts for several hours. A chat with the bluehost live chat folks isn’t encouraging. They don’t know why the file system check is running nor do they have log file indicating what is…

OK, what kind of gear do you need for a 4 day trip, here are some notes from outdoorgearlab, backpacker.com and outdoor.com: Backpacks. They really like the Arcteryx Altra 64 is the best by a long margin with the main issue being its cost (but on the other hand, a…

It is hard to find reviews of these and most seem like junk. Monoprice does a budget set for $83, but Sound and Vision just did a review set and for not very much, you can get a nice sounding set of outdoor speakers: Niles OS5.5 Black (Pr) 5 Inch…

Well time once again to figure out how small and low power you can make something. Let’s look at form factor, chip set, processor, memory, disk, in that order for a basic Haswell system. Here are the recommendations for a Linux running Haswell simple single board computer (and following some…

We’ve tried this before and the graphics drivers are the big pain. Got an Atom processor and their GMA500 graphics were such a pain to get working. Linux users: watch out for last-gen Intel Atom It hit the market during the last few weeks. Last generation of Intel Atoms: CedarView…

Some kind of cool treats you don’t often see in the US, but thanks to Amazon, you can get them: Here in the Netherlands, it is apparently perfectly normal behaviour for an adult to merrily sprinkle some fruit or chocolate flavoured sprinkles on their bread at mealtime. from No. 3:…

We don’t use the Kindle too much, but pretty soon it gets reall cluttered. There are book loans from our library that don’t get cleared for isntance. YOu have to manually whack each one in the web app or just hide them from the Kindle app itself: If you are…

It is hard to find reviews of these and most seem like junk. Monoprice does a budget set for $83, but Sound and Vision just did a review set: We really liked the Niles OS5.5, and we thought the Definitive Technology AW5500 and the Klipsch AW-525 were both pretty good.…