On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 11:04:58 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
Not a question.
I found on the grass between the sidewalk and the curb, in front of a
house, a printer-copier-scanner-fax.
It looks pretty nice except there is a powder bigger than flour and
smaller than salt, and light brown, in the input tray. I'll clean it
off so it doesn't get in the mechanism. Maybe it did already and that's
why he's throwing it away.
But the reason I'm posting is I connected some house current and the
date/time in it was 3 hours later than here. I'm in the Eastern Time
Zone and I think anything 3 hours east of here is in the middle of the
Atlantic!
Well, except for Greenland and Brazil,
and probably French Guiana and a little Suriname
It just misses St. Johns in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Maybe he came from Greenland.
Laser or ink-jet?
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:50:16 -0800 (PST), Marilyn
Manson <comawhiteknuckles@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 11:04:58 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
Not a question.
I found on the grass between the sidewalk and the curb, in front of a
house, a printer-copier-scanner-fax.
It looks pretty nice except there is a powder bigger than flour and
smaller than salt, and light brown, in the input tray. I'll clean it
off so it doesn't get in the mechanism. Maybe it did already and that's
why he's throwing it away.
But the reason I'm posting is I connected some house current and the
date/time in it was 3 hours later than here. I'm in the Eastern Time
Zone and I think anything 3 hours east of here is in the middle of the
Atlantic!
Well, except for Greenland and Brazil,
and probably French Guiana and a little Suriname
It just misses St. Johns in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Maybe he came from Greenland.
Laser or ink-jet?
Ink jet. It's very nice, HP OfficeJet 4360.
this is why I asked in another thread about electrostatic rags. It has
in the paper tray a lot of powder and I wanted the rags to get it out of
the corners and crevices. But I got impatient, and Cindy says it's a
gimmick anyhow, and in my own rag box I found a flannel sleeve from a
robe I never owned. It's red with greyish frogs on it. Where did I get
that.
I cleaned some but had to remove the paper tray. It took more than an
hour and I didn't get absolutely everything. I used jumper wires to
connect the power, and by golly it works. One of the reviews complained
he had to get within 3 feet of the wifi to connect, but mine did fine
from more than 30 feet.
Also, I haven't tried but it also lets you print directly from your cell phone, and probably to scan into your phone. Plus get this, you can
register at HP for an email address for the printer, send an attachment
from anywhere and it will print that. I suspect/hope the PC doesn't
even have to be on if the printer is wifi connected to a router,
although I'll never have any use for this. If you're a traveling
salesman, or someone who travels for business and wants a paper record,
it would be great. Any other uses?
The big problem seems to be the cost of the ink. They are about $37 for
a black and a tri-color. Unlike the Espson and the Brother I have,
which I was surprised to see work fine with cruddy 3rd-party ink, HP is really insistent on their ink. One of the printer utilities with 6 tabs includes warnings about ink in 4 of them, encouraging notifying t heir
fraud department if you end up with counterfeit cartridges.
Another tab has a way to keep your cartridges from being used in another printer. Were people stealing cartridges? But at least you can print
with only one of them if you take out the empty one.
You can buy an ink and syringe set that costs only 18 dollars and they
say is good for 5 or 10 fillings, probably 5 because there was something about air being left in the cartridge, but that's still 1/10th the
price. However if you let the cartridge get empty, it knows about that
and cancels itself. You have to refill before it gets empty, and even
then I think it threatens you that the level indicators may not work
after that.
But the other problem is that I'm connected to the PC control panel, the
ink level indicator, probably printing, but not for scanning. It won't
scan (and this one has no SD slot in it so it can only scan to the PC,
not to memory). When you even start to scan it says I'm not connected,
and eventually it hints that I should register with HP! I wonder if
this is so they can send you threatening emails if you use bad ink cartridges. But even registering didn't work yet. I'll see if it
works after restarting the PC and the printer. One of the instructions
for something (not this) was to unplug the printer for a while. (For
this they wanted you to uninstall everything, at 3 places, and reinstall
it all. Maybe later. (and of course I already have a good Brother
all-in-one. )
Another annoyance is their stupid webpages that have one or even two
pop-up boxes that interfere with reading the page, and they show up
every time for every page, even I think if you looked at the tab before
and it reloaded when you came back. I wrote to them last year when I
got an HP computer about how annoying this is but they haven't changed
it. I wrote a firmer message this time.
Also installing the software looked simple, one big .exe to do
everything, but then they came up with something else and I think a
second thing. One was software from MS. It was confusing.
(I had to install on the laptop software for the Brother printer, and
that really was simple.)
This printer may predates win10, but i'm sure that's not the problem.
The printer might have been pulled out for a "failure to pay rent",
rather than being removed because it wasn't wanted any more. We've all
seen apartments with sofas and chairs on the lawn, from evicted tenants.
The tenants never seem to pick up the furniture, which suggests it could
be rental furniture and actually owned by a store.
While the powder might be recognizable (toast crumbs or cracker crumbs), >there is a world of possibility. Nobody thinks of the waste removal people >and they could leave just about any "chemical challenge" on the side of the >road.
Not everyone is your friend in society.
On 1/3/2022 6:52 AM, micky wrote:
If your property is put in storage, try to move it into your new home as
soon as you can. After thirty days it can be difficult to recover
property which has been placed in storage."
The materials I've seen outside apartments, it is not
clear what the conditions of removal were. Maybe the
tenant just left, did not renew lease, and left "garbage"
in the unit, which was subsequently left on the street.
Some places, you never see this happen. Other places,
it's happened multiple times.
And the material can sit outside for longer than a month.
I saw one Lazy Boy that was sitting out with snow on it,
all winter. Classic Canadian goodness, a Lazy Boy covered
in snow. Why couldn't they have left a TV set, with
Monday Night football playing on it continuously.
So it would all look authentic.
Paul
If your property is put in storage, try to move it into your new home as
soon as you can. After thirty days it can be difficult to recover
property which has been placed in storage."
And the material can sit outside for longer than a month.
I saw one Lazy Boy that was sitting out with snow on it,
all winter. Classic Canadian goodness, a Lazy Boy covered
in snow. Why couldn't they have left a TV set, with
Monday Night football playing on it continuously.
So it would all look authentic.
  Paul
On 1/3/22 06:29, Paul wrote:
[snip]
And the material can sit outside for longer than a month.
I saw one Lazy Boy that was sitting out with snow on it,
all winter. Classic Canadian goodness, a Lazy Boy covered
in snow. Why couldn't they have left a TV set, with
Monday Night football playing on it continuously.
So it would all look authentic.
   Paul
Here, someone left a TV on the curb. It was a 40-inch rear-projection
TV (one of those with 3 CRTs). It stayed there for over a week before
the trash truck got it.
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:50:16 -0800 (PST), Marilynsnip...
Manson <comawhiteknuckles@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 11:04:58 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
Not a question.
I found on the grass between the sidewalk and the curb, in front of a
house, a printer-copier-scanner-fax.
Ink jet. It's very nice, HP OfficeJet 4360.
....
Also, I haven't tried but it also lets you print directly from your cell >phone, and probably to scan into your phone. Plus get this, you can
register at HP for an email address for the printer, send an attachment
from anywhere and it will print that. I suspect/hope the PC doesn't
even have to be on if the printer is wifi connected to a router,
although I'll never have any use for this. If you're a traveling
salesman, or someone who travels for business and wants a paper record,
it would be great. Any other uses?
The big problem seems to be the cost of the ink. They are about $37 for
a black and a tri-color. Unlike the Espson and the Brother I have,
which I was surprised to see work fine with cruddy 3rd-party ink, HP is >really insistent on their ink. One of the printer utilities with 6 tabs >includes warnings about ink in 4 of them, encouraging notifying t heir
fraud department if you end up with counterfeit cartridges.
Another tab has a way to keep your cartridges from being used in another >printer. Were people stealing cartridges? But at least you can print
with only one of them if you take out the empty one.
You can buy an ink and syringe set that costs only 18 dollars and they
say is good for 5 or 10 fillings, probably 5 because there was something >about air being left in the cartridge, but that's still 1/10th the
price. However if you let the cartridge get empty, it knows about that
and cancels itself. You have to refill before it gets empty, and even
then I think it threatens you that the level indicators may not work
after that.
But the other problem is that I'm connected to the PC control panel, the
ink level indicator, probably printing, but not for scanning. It won't
scan (and this one has no SD slot in it so it can only scan to the PC,
not to memory). When you even start to scan it says I'm not connected,
and eventually it hints that I should register with HP! I wonder if
this is so they can send you threatening emails if you use bad ink >cartridges. But even registering didn't work yet. I'll see if it
works after restarting the PC and the printer. One of the instructions
for something (not this) was to unplug the printer for a while. (For
this they wanted you to uninstall everything, at 3 places, and reinstall
it all. Maybe later. (and of course I already have a good Brother
all-in-one. )
Another annoyance is their stupid webpages that have one or even two
pop-up boxes that interfere with reading the page, and they show up
every time for every page, even I think if you looked at the tab before
and it reloaded when you came back. I wrote to them last year when I
got an HP computer about how annoying this is but they haven't changed
it. I wrote a firmer message this time.
Also installing the software looked simple, one big .exe to do
everything, but then they came up with something else and I think a
second thing. One was software from MS. It was confusing.
(I had to install on the laptop software for the Brother printer, and
that really was simple.)
This printer may predates win10, but i'm sure that's not the problem.
On 1/2/2022 11:49 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:50:16 -0800 (PST), Marilynsnip...
Manson <comawhiteknuckles@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 11:04:58 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
Not a question.
I found on the grass between the sidewalk and the curb, in front of a
house, a printer-copier-scanner-fax.
I wouldn't put much importance on the time zone. Some users never figure
out how to or care enough to set such things.
I have a step-brother who has
been asking me why his Windows XT laptop doesn't seem to work as well as it >used to and why he can't get software to install.
I gave up trying to
explain and offered him one of mine -- at least that one has W10 Home on it >and a processor with more than one core.
On 1/3/22 06:29, Paul wrote:
[snip]
And the material can sit outside for longer than a month.
I saw one Lazy Boy that was sitting out with snow on it,
all winter. Classic Canadian goodness, a Lazy Boy covered
in snow. Why couldn't they have left a TV set, with
Monday Night football playing on it continuously.
So it would all look authentic.
Paul
Here, someone left a TV on the curb. It was a 40-inch rear-projection TV
(one of those with 3 CRTs). It stayed there for over a week before the
trash truck got it.
In alt.comp.hardware, on Mon, 3 Jan 2022 11:14:38 -0600, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:
On 1/3/22 06:29, Paul wrote:
[snip]
And the material can sit outside for longer than a month.
I saw one Lazy Boy that was sitting out with snow on it,
all winter. Classic Canadian goodness, a Lazy Boy covered
in snow. Why couldn't they have left a TV set, with
Monday Night football playing on it continuously.
So it would all look authentic.
  Paul
Here, someone left a TV on the curb. It was a 40-inch rear-projection TV
(one of those with 3 CRTs). It stayed there for over a week before the
trash truck got it.
Well, that's pretty big. I love junk but even I wouldn't want that.
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