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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:08 
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I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting


Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting


Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.

It was (maybe remains to this day?) British police’s biggest ever manhunt. It was much hyped and over-sensationalised (they got the survival guy... not the Bear chap... the cuddly one who likes to carve spoons...) involved at some point. There’s no doubt the news stories and reporting style was ridiculous at points, but the scale of the operation that was put in place to track and apprehend this guy was newsworthy. Not of interest to me, or you by the sounds of it, but it would have been perhaps stranger if Britain’s biggest ever manhunt wasn’t a sizeable news story.

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Oh gosh, just remembered the Gazza bit.

I’m surprised they didn’t get URI Gella planting crystals in the corners of the Moat field.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting


Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.

It was (maybe remains to this day?) British police’s biggest ever manhunt. It was much hyped and over-sensationalised (they got the survival guy... not the Bear chap... the cuddly one who likes to carve spoons...) involved at some point. There’s no doubt the news stories and reporting style was ridiculous at points, but the scale of the operation that was put in place to track and apprehend this guy was newsworthy. Not of interest to me, or you by the sounds of it, but it would have been perhaps stranger if Britain’s biggest ever manhunt wasn’t a sizeable news story.


I think my hatchet is endorsed by Bear. Anyway, yeah, I agree. It was big news and a developing story and I think that if journalist didn't make those calls, hey would be asked why? There's a lot of dead (ho ho ) air to fill a lot of the time.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I bought a laser printer for £50 t'other day, as my inkjet printer had dried up ink...again...after printing about 2 pages a month or so ago... It was £25 for more ink, that would dry up again through low use. Didn't want to get on that merry go round again, so looked for other option.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Xpress ... B00YU62KR6

Cost me £50 from ebuyer, ink lasts for 1000 pages (against 200 for an inkjet), ink doesn't dry out, replacement ink costs £10, it's tiny, it's quiet, super easy to setup, wifi enabled, spits out a page every couple of seconds, it's bloody brilliant.
Only downside is that it is black and white only, but other than that I can heartily recommend it, should have bought one years ago.

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Oh, that’s interesting! How come tge I k doesn’t dry up? That’s always been my issue with printers, too.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Laser printers don't actually use ink, they use toner, which is a dry powder to start with, so can't get any drier! :)
They use heat to melt the toner onto the paper I think, or magic, one of the two.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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It's a laser printer. It doesn't take ink, it takes toner. Toner lasts forever as it's just a dry dust.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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My reply had more magic, it was objectively better.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I bought a laser printer for £50 t'other day, as my inkjet printer had dried up ink...again...after printing about 2 pages a month or so ago... It was £25 for more ink, that would dry up again through low use. Didn't want to get on that merry go round again, so looked for other option.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Xpress ... B00YU62KR6

Cost me £50 from ebuyer, ink lasts for 1000 pages (against 200 for an inkjet), ink doesn't dry out, replacement ink costs £10, it's tiny, it's quiet, super easy to setup, wifi enabled, spits out a page every couple of seconds, it's bloody brilliant.
Only downside is that it is black and white only, but other than that I can heartily recommend it, should have bought one years ago.

I give it 9.2 troopoints


I love my Samsung laser printer. I went for this one as I wanted an all-in-one, but it's been great so far and the third party toner cartridges cost less than £15 on eBay.

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I was very disappointed the first time I learnt that they don't work by using lasers to burn text onto the paper.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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My mate just gave me this old one from his work, it used to work at Aldi, I can't lift it on my own, it does literally everything including stapling and it's got about 2 years worth of toner in it.

He reckons if he put it on eBay he'd only get £50. I'd say that's worth a punt if you've got the space.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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devilman wrote:
I love my Samsung laser printer. I went for this one as I wanted an all-in-one, but it's been great so far and the third party toner cartridges cost less than £15 on eBay.


I was tempted with that one, but it was over twice the price and I wasn't working at the time :) If I knew how quickly I was going to get a contract, i'd have probably bought that one instead!

I've still got my old all-in-one inkjet which I can use to scan, so it's not the end of the world.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I've got an old Laserjet 5N (from 1996!) that I rescued from the knackers yard at work. I only print very occasionally, but it works great when I need it.


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I'd like a printer that can print onto CDs but I'm not sure one even exists? Well, an affordable one anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I'd like a printer that can print onto CDs but I'm not sure one even exists? Well, an affordable one anyway.


https://www.printerbase.co.uk/canon-pix ... inter.html

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I'd like a printer that can print onto CDs but I'm not sure one even exists? Well, an affordable one anyway.

I used to print labels for CDs. It was a fiddly, annoying pain in the arse. We use a fancy DVD duplicator at work that makes beautiful printed labels (on printables discs, natch) but it's a pricey deal.


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Toner lasts forever as it's just a dry dust.

It's less dry if the cartridge explodes all over the place and someone tries to clear it up with wet wipes.

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I'd like a printer that can print onto CDs but I'm not sure one even exists? Well, an affordable one anyway.

I had a CD burner back in the day that could burn an image onto the top of (special) CD-Rs.

They had a name, but I can't remember it.

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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Toner lasts forever as it's just a dry dust.

It's less dry if the cartridge explodes all over the place and someone tries to clear it up with wet wipes.


:D Every office has a stain on the carpet where someone had an accident with the toner that one time. That shit don't come out.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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TheVision wrote:
I'd like a printer that can print onto CDs but I'm not sure one even exists? Well, an affordable one anyway.

I had a CD burner back in the day that could burn an image onto the top of (special) CD-Rs.

They had a name, but I can't remember it.


Oh yeah, I remember those, I think mine used to do it to. Never used it.

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Yeah I had a Lightscribe DVD drive in one of my old PCs.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Funnily enough I have a lightscribe drive on my desk at the moment. It's from my old PC and I'm wondering whether to install it in my new PC. The only problem is that the discs seem to be getting more expensive for it.

I have some on order from Amazon but they're out of stock... I'm guessing I'll never see them.


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They don't even make the drives anymore, according to wikipedia, so not surprising the discs are getting harder to find.

There seem to be a fair few discs on ebay though, might be worth stocking up :D


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Got any LightScribe CD-Rs?

Hmm... it's entirely possible that I have some at home.


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You're inspiring me... I think I'm going to bite the bullet and install it. Here's some of the discs I've done on it.


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YouTube is blocked in my office. What's not block though is YouPak, a proxy of sorts for YouTube. Currently if there's anything I want to see I just manually change the URL but it would be nice if there was a way to do that automatically. I can't edit the HOSTS file on my machine but I was wondering if anyone knew of a Firefox browser extension that would implement that sort of find/replace on URLs automatically?


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YouTube is blocked in my office. What's not block though is YouPak, a proxy of sorts for YouTube. Currently if there's anything I want to see I just manually change the URL but it would be nice if there was a way to do that automatically. I can't edit the HOSTS file on my machine but I was wondering if anyone knew of a Firefox browser extension that would implement that sort of find/replace on URLs automatically?


Looks like you can do it with a Greasemonkey script.

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I bought a laser printer for £50 t'other day, as my inkjet printer had dried up ink...again...after printing about 2 pages a month or so ago... It was £25 for more ink, that would dry up again through low use. Didn't want to get on that merry go round again, so looked for other option.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Xpress ... B00YU62KR6

Cost me £50 from ebuyer, ink lasts for 1000 pages (against 200 for an inkjet), ink doesn't dry out, replacement ink costs £10, it's tiny, it's quiet, super easy to setup, wifi enabled, spits out a page every couple of seconds, it's bloody brilliant.
Only downside is that it is black and white only, but other than that I can heartily recommend it, should have bought one years ago.

I give it 9.2 troopoints

I have that! Only wanted a B&W laser to make transparencies for my screen prints. It's a great little printer.

Mine was cheaper too!

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I'm not in Wirral tomorrow (work) but I am over the weekend if you would like to pop by


Oh, yes, that'd be ace.. I shall consult timetable and let you know.

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YouTube is blocked in my office. What's not block though is YouPak, a proxy of sorts for YouTube. Currently if there's anything I want to see I just manually change the URL but it would be nice if there was a way to do that automatically. I can't edit the HOSTS file on my machine but I was wondering if anyone knew of a Firefox browser extension that would implement that sort of find/replace on URLs automatically?

This one looks all right: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /url-swap/

I don't use Firefox though, so use at own risk etc etc.

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MaliA wrote:
I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting


Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.

It was (maybe remains to this day?) British police’s biggest ever manhunt. It was much hyped and over-sensationalised (they got the survival guy... not the Bear chap... the cuddly one who likes to carve spoons...) involved at some point. There’s no doubt the news stories and reporting style was ridiculous at points, but the scale of the operation that was put in place to track and apprehend this guy was newsworthy. Not of interest to me, or you by the sounds of it, but it would have been perhaps stranger if Britain’s biggest ever manhunt wasn’t a sizeable news story.


Yes, the story was newsworthy, but not reported in the gutter press way that they did it. I was really hoping that when they asked some random geezer on the street he’d say something like, “The guy’s a complete cunt and derserves to have his bollocks ripped off and stuffed down his throat, live, on the 10 o’clock news, but right now, while there’s fuck all happening, why don’t you piss off back to your camper van for a wank or something else to pass your time, instead of asking fatuous questions of people whose opinion isn’t worth noting down on used bog roll, you fucking tosser.’

Now THAT would be worth the license fee.... but I bet the director had a two second delay to cut off anything unsavoury like that, before it hit our screens.


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Poor quality press coverage can turn any story into a circus. I think it’s a problem when a big story breaks on 24hr rolling news. Nothing usually happens, so then they prioritise that and provide blanket coverage of a story which is only starting to develop, with no actual content or information, so then they go to ridiculous lengths to form a story out of hearsay. It serves nobody.

I think there was a place for 24hr news channels pre-internet, but more in providing a news program to those that couldn’t sit down to the news at the traditional prescribed times, but ‘big event’ coverage is mostly dead air filled with imbeciles.

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Bamba wrote:
YouTube is blocked in my office. What's not block though is YouPak, a proxy of sorts for YouTube. Currently if there's anything I want to see I just manually change the URL but it would be nice if there was a way to do that automatically. I can't edit the HOSTS file on my machine but I was wondering if anyone knew of a Firefox browser extension that would implement that sort of find/replace on URLs automatically?

This one looks all right: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /url-swap/

I don't use Firefox though, so use at own risk etc etc.


That one looked the part but I couldn't actually open the options for it for some reason. I tried a couple of others ones though and eventually got this one working:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo ... edirector/


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I bought a laser printer for £50 t'other day, as my inkjet printer had dried up ink...again...after printing about 2 pages a month or so ago... It was £25 for more ink, that would dry up again through low use. Didn't want to get on that merry go round again, so looked for other option.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Xpress ... B00YU62KR6

Cost me £50 from ebuyer, ink lasts for 1000 pages (against 200 for an inkjet), ink doesn't dry out, replacement ink costs £10, it's tiny, it's quiet, super easy to setup, wifi enabled, spits out a page every couple of seconds, it's bloody brilliant.
Only downside is that it is black and white only, but other than that I can heartily recommend it, should have bought one years ago.

I give it 9.2 troopoints


I have the same. It's ace. Apart from when the port for wireless printing keeps changing and I have to set the printer up on the PC YET AGAIN, but that is more likely user error than anything.


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Why does it get hotter at night when the sun has gone in, eh? I'm roasting here.


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Heat?! It's 31deg in Darwin (yay name!), getting up to 35.

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Heat?! It's 31deg in Darwin (yay name!), getting up to 35.

The amount of people (strangers!) that have asked me if that’s where Darwin was conceived! :rolleyes: :D

It was 28° here yesterday, so not cool by any means, but I don’t think it’s the heat that’s bothered folks, more the suddenness. We went from winter to summer in a day, with no sight of spring in between. There was no getting gradually warmer, it just hit us. I had a mad scramble to find a hat and suncream to send Darwin to Nursery in.

But I think it was somebody on here that spoke about Brits Miami g about the heat of summer last year, which is never thought of before. Houses here have always been built with the purpose of holding in heat, so inside it can get very uncomfortable. A few people on here will know that my living room has THE WORLD’S BIGGEST WINDOWS, which the sun hits the entire day, starting from the left and ending at the right. Yesterday it was 43° in my greenhouse living room, with the windows open throughout the house. Eek!

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Mimi wrote:
But I think it was somebody on here that spoke about Brits Miami g about the heat of summer last year, which is never thought of before. Houses here have always been built with the purpose of holding in heat, so inside it can get very uncomfortable. A few people on here will know that my living room has THE WORLD’S BIGGEST WINDOWS, which the sun hits the entire day, starting from the left and ending at the right. Yesterday it was 43° in my greenhouse living room, with the windows open throughout the house. Eek!


Exactly that. Our houses are built for dreary weather, they hold onto heat and nobody puts in air con. Live in a 1st world country in a hot climate and air con will be everywhere, so a bit of sun is less of an issue.


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Sony photography award thingy. The one of the Afghan guys on horseback almost looks like an oil painting, and the solo horse is outstanding too.


Love that storm cloud. Some crackers in there.

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