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| schestowitz | >>> Attached is one quadrant of the workspace here. The other three are not | Mar 11 05:30 |
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| schestowitz | >>> much better but with different gear. :( | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> There ought to be better ways to hide if not reducing the level of | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> wiring. | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > I could use a thin cloth for a removable cover but as for reducing the | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > wiring, it is about a thinned out as it can be for this week. I can | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > make it look a little better by powering down and rethreading everything | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > but that only lasts until changes are needed. Believe it or not I've | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > trimmed way back. | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | If pressed against a wall you can hide a lot of the wiring, which might also make it safer (fire hazards). I spent weeks optimising mine over here... I am not 100% happy yet and I think of making a little safe/bunker at home for external backup drives (in case of burglary/raid/fire). Any pointers on that? | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> I use table maps/cloths to conceal some and made braids of some. | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> It takes some time and effort, but eventually you want one main | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> keyboard, one main mouse and only displays, physical volume controls | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> etc. The neck can do the work the hands otherwise do if you get enough | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | >> displays. | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > I tend to operate out of a single machine and the extra mouse is | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > temporary, as are the extra keyboards (not pictured) which depend on the | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > tasks. The big space hog is the laser printer. I'm glad to have a | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > printer finally but quite unhappy about the space it takes and even more | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | > about the proprietary driver it needs. | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | Rianne shelves her HP printer (cost 29 pounds IIRC, cartridges for black -- the only one she uses -- are about 2 pounds on ebay) under a cabinet we bought also for about 29 pounds, so unless used it is out of sight. Except in office environments I doubt they're used much, they just take up space. | Mar 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | I seem to remember that Linus got a 3d printer for one of his kids. | Mar 11 05:30 |
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| schestowitz | Re: New EPO mini series - Teaser | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Here's some material for a new EPO mini-series consisting of: | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Teaser | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express connection | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Part 2 - Behind the scenes at Topić IP d.o.o. | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Part 3 - How to become a European Patent Attorney without passing the EQE | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Part 4 - The role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > Epilogue | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > The Teaser is attached. | Mar 11 05:51 |
| schestowitz | > The rest will follow. | Mar 11 05:52 |
| schestowitz | >>> But the choice of an ink jet printer is IMHO a costly mistake. | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> He can afford it. Check his work history. | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | > Ink jets are always mistakes, even not counting the money. That they | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | > are also expensive ripoffs to operate just makes the exceedingly poor | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | > quality of print and slowness that much more grating. | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | She mostly prints postage labels. | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> Rianne and I are still saving to merely buy the house this year or next | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> year. Maybe after that we can even spend more time on the sites (if the | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> economy doesn't collapse... causing massive inflation). | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> We don't have many expenses; the bread we feed to ducks and geese | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | >> (sometimes swans) here is like a million times cheaper than one child. | Mar 11 06:40 |
| schestowitz | > I think the current costs run at about 250k EUR to raise one to age 18. | Mar 11 06:41 |
| schestowitz | > That's not counting any special expenses or accidents nor the support | Mar 11 06:41 |
| schestowitz | > fees from age 18 to adulthood, should adulthood be reached. | Mar 11 06:41 |
| schestowitz | So parents work harder. Die younger. | Mar 11 06:41 |
| schestowitz | >> If pressed against a wall you can hide a lot of the wiring, which might | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | >> also make it safer (fire hazards). I spent weeks optimising mine over | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | >> here... | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > My method is that when I access the wiring, I rethread the data lines on | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > top of everything and the power lines as far underneath everything as | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > possible. The layout is not static over the course of a day so taking | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > an hour every day to unplug and rethread is a waste of time for me. | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | >> I am not 100% happy yet and I think of making a little | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | >> safe/bunker at home for external backup drives (in case of | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | >> burglary/raid/fire). Any pointers on that? | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > Firesafes are usually rated for paper, not a mixture of paper and | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > plastic and certainly not magnetic media. Adding thermal ballast would | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > help but take an enormous amount of the storage capacity away as well as | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > add massive weight. Though on second thought maybe the ballast does not | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > have to be in the safe itself. Still it ought to be a supplement to | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | > off-site backup. | Mar 11 06:44 |
| schestowitz | I was thinking underground of near garden. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>>> I use table maps/cloths to conceal some and made braids of some. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>>> It takes some time and effort, but eventually you want one main | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>>> keyboard, one main mouse and only displays, physical volume controls | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>>> etc. The neck can do the work the hands otherwise do if you get enough | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>>> displays. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>> I tend to operate out of a single machine and the extra mouse is | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>> temporary, as are the extra keyboards (not pictured) which depend on the | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>> tasks. The big space hog is the laser printer. I'm glad to have a | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>> printer finally but quite unhappy about the space it takes and even more | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >>> about the proprietary driver it needs. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >> Rianne shelves her HP printer (cost 29 pounds IIRC, cartridges for black | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >> -- the only one she uses -- are about 2 pounds on ebay) under a cabinet | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >> we bought also for about 29 pounds, so unless used it is out of sight. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >> Except in office environments I doubt they're used much, they just take | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >> up space. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > Ours is too big for that and weighs in at about 40 pounds aka ~ 18 kg. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > I am tempted to move it into a cupboard, except that most of the | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > cupboard is already in use. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | >> I seem to remember that Linus got a 3d printer for one of his kids. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > I intend to rent access to a 3D printer if I ever have need for one. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > There is just too much overhead and now that the sw patents have expired | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > rapid development. The 3D printer will be obsolete by the time you get | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | > it unboxed. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | Except for education I can hardly see the practical benefits. | Mar 11 06:45 |
| schestowitz | If pressed against a | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> But the choice of an ink jet printer is IMHO a costly mistake. | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | >>>> He can afford it. Check his work history. | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | >>> Ink jets are always mistakes, even not counting the money. That they | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | >>> are also expensive ripoffs to operate just makes the exceedingly poor | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | >>> quality of print and slowness that much more grating. | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | >> She mostly prints postage labels. | Mar 11 07:37 |
| schestowitz | > Then a laser printer is the right choice to keep the labels water | Mar 11 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > resistant. By the way, speaking of labels, that reminds me of Russell | Mar 11 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at World Label. He did a lot for open standards back in the | Mar 11 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > day so you might check about his products rather than Avery. | Mar 11 07:38 |
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