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Needed a new printer for the business, and after some researching, i opted for the Samsung CLX-3175FN.
It is a colour laser mutli function printer with the regular fax, scan, and copy, too.
It was a brease to install and set up -- it is more compact ( less cubic space required ) than any other multi function printer in it's class, extremely quiet ( even when coming back from idle mode ) and i had it all up and running within minutes.
Compared to the old printer, nah, you cannot compare it -- the Samsung comes up with all the trumps.
The icing on the cake is if you purchase this little beauty before the 31/12/09, you get $70 cash back directly from Samsung.
Well, we finally sorted out the void in our lack of free to air tv, and got the digital antenna installed.
It works flawlessly and i highly recommend Jason from National Antenna -- unless i am mistaken, he covers a good portion of nsw. ;-)
Good price, good service, and a good bloke.
I am not fond of embracing new'ish socialising networks on the internet -- it took me many years to finally do up a blog (this one!) and i have been resisting the urge for a Facebook account since i heard of them and such.
Guess what i am doing tonight? Wifey has gone to bed and has her Facebook account open on my PC, and wants me to attend her growing crops in this FarmVille thing-o. Cool, huh?
I am very tempted to donate her stuff to her neighbours, haha. Or, write something silly (on her behalf) to her other friends, mwahahah!
We use VOIP (Voice over IP telephony) exclusively. A while back, I disabled the built-in voip in my router, and opted for a more custom (and robust) Asterisk voip server.
My ipv6 curiosity was aroused (again) when i read about a local ISP enabling native IPV6 support. My ISP doesn't have that feature yet (nor do most routers in non bridged mode too, for that matter) and i thought i would revisit the ipv6 tunnel scene again.
So i set up the tunnel, did up some custom server init scripts, set up the ip6tables firewall, and reverse ip stuff.
I also added an irc bouncer to the mixture -- just waiting for my vanity domain to resolve and all should be sweet! :-)
Been a long while since Windows 95 ( i don't count the gui's prior to that as gui's ) and now we have hardware accelerated desktops.
Great! Or maybe not.. it is summer here in Wollongong Australia and i opted to replace the default microsoft drivers for my 4870 with the ati catalyst drivers off amd's website. I don't normally mess with the settings -- heck, i dont even overclock for that matter -- and was alarmed when i saw my gpu core hovering around 95 degrees celcius whilst the pc had been idle.
I grabbed gpu-z for a second opinion and thought, ouch, something is wrong. Shut the puter down and did some investigating. Turned out to be a combination of dust around the near by fans and vents, and video card clean and re-insertion to fix it. I played some TF2 and it was circling around 45 C with load. Issue fixed.
This brings me to my point now -- i think we are at a stage with Windows where microsoft should have minute details to monitor such things as cpu and gpu core temps and such, in task manager by default. I mean, how hard would it be if they included an advanced button in the performance tab. I use task manager a lot and would find it handy to see something like that put in place!
