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2000-04-01

 


 

Adding a bit of drizzle to the cocktail called weather but the rest remained the same gray haziness of yesterday. With the same 4°C to boot (rising to just under 10°C in the afternoon).

On my shopping trip I only bought a network cable. The smallest (shortest) cables available are 5 meter but they were sold out so I got me a 10m cable. Most of my computers are close together so I would do fine with cables of 2 or 3 meter. But I haven't seen such short cables around here. I have made my own cable a few times but that is a fiddly difficult thing to do, especially with the Cat-5 cable, because the wires must be inserted into the RJ45 plug in the right sequence before squeezing them shut. My first few attempts resulted in wasted plugs and cable. It is much easier to buy the cable pre made. And you are sure the cable is wired correct as well. I only wish they would sell shorter cables, straps only organize the cable clutter a bit.

I had a long 'siesta' (sleeping from 14h00 until way after 17h00) catching up on missed sleep during the week.

My brother wanted a print out of the photographs I took of his garden last week. He wants to set up a small greenhouse but he needs a building application for it. This means he needs to turn in a map with a few photographs.
Up to now I had no printer set up on the attic but I have a Cannon BJC-70 bublejet printer sitting there. This is a slow, medium quality inktjet printer with either a 'large capacity' black cartridge or a 'small capacity' 4-colour cartridge (one black tank and one tree colour tank). The best feature of this thing is that it is portable, the main reason for buying it. The worst feature is that it eats ink cartridges for lunch, supper and dinner.
After hunting down the driver disks ( took me about three hours but I did some welcome cleaning up along the way so it wasn't wasted time ) I asked Win98 to install a new printer and it didn't even ask for the driver diskette. Installation went fine.

In the end the prints were worthless because the colour ink had dried up. I never used to print much in colour and I didn't use the printer for about a yaer so that didn't surprise me one bit. I must have some replacements lying around somewhere here.
Maybe I find them tomorrow.

 

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