* Posts by Alanex

4 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2014

Epson says ink pad saturation behind 'end of service life' warning on inkjet printers

Alanex

Never Again

I used to always buy Epson. I had Canon and HP but the quality wasn’t as good in my opinion.

My first inkjet was an Epson Stylus Colour II and I had no issues with it at all. I only got rid of it because I couldn’t buy ink for it any more.

My last inkjet printer was an Epson Stylus Photo PX700W. A good printer initially but when I stopped using it as much I started to get issues with pint quality. 3rd party inks seemed ok but on occasion the printer would reject them.

I don’t understand the problem of not being able to print in monochrome because a colour ink was empty?? I can understand that printing in colour might also require black but monochrome SHOULDN’T require any of the colours!!

The final straw is when I could no longer use the scanner unit because the ink was out. Seriously? So I now have a large piece of plastic junk that I can’t even use as a scanner unless I buy ink which doesn’t work because the printer hasn’t been used and has now dried up and probably needs a new print head. So I need to waste money on ink I can’t use just to use the scanner?

No. I now have a Brother latter printer with scanner unit.

Kindle Paperwhites turn Windows 10 PCs into paperweights: Plugging one in 'triggers a BSOD'

Alanex

Crashes and Telemetry

Just had a quick look on the forums linked to in the article. Why is Microsoft asking for dump files, system configuration files, etc when all this stuff is supposedly sent to Microsoft in their Telemetry to help them improve and diagnose Windows 10 issues? Surely they've been automatically sent all these crash reports along with the relevant system details to help them come up with a fix?

I don't get it.

Raspberry Pi 3 to sport Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE – first photos emerge

Alanex

Re: @Cynical Observer

I second the Odroid C1/C1+ not because of the Gigabit LAN but because I've lost 2 x Raspberry Pi 2's because apparently they don't like to be plugged in to PoE switches.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=771217#p771217

I've had a Banana Pi, Odroid C1 & Odroid C1+ running fine for a while now without any issues.

They may not have the same support as RPi but I've found no problem in getting a basic Debian running on both a C1 and C1+

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

Alanex

Eh...

No thank you.

The ONLY good thing about the redesign is that you haven't gone for the annoying 'loading more...' trend to load more articles as you scroll down the page. I hate those kind of sites where you can't bookmark your current location and any reloading of the page requires you to scroll and load, scroll and load, scroll and load until you get back to where you were.

So well done for not doing that but in every other way the site is horrible now.