Goodbye Lexmark E342n! You served us well (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

Tomorrow we'll be paying a short visit to the Snow offices in order to return most of the computing equipment that I bought on their bill. There's only a minimal amount of stuff that we're buying from them, like the 500gb disk holding all of our backups. Even my first Apple laptop (my modded iBook that's been with us for over three years) is going back since the price tag is just a bit too high for us.

Among the stuff that's going back is an awesome laser printer, the Lexmark E342n. We've had this printer since May of 2006 and it's served us wonderfully! We printed over 25.000 pages on this thing and it just keeps on going. The B/W text quality is great and we've never had any complaints. 25.000 pages of work, school reports and fan fiction. :)

Oh yeah, we're also returning our VW Fox but in return we've already gotten the new car from my new employer.

Posted in: awesome , electronics , equipment , lexmark e342n , printer

Things found in the office printer (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

It amazes me, that people send stuff to the office printer and then just leave them there. I am not sure what goes through the mind of these people.

This is how I roll:

1. I need to print this item
2. I send the document to the printer.
3. I go to retrieve it.
4. Task finished.

This is the part I don't understand:

1. Someone says, "I need to print this item"
2. ????
3. ????
4. Punk finds it in the printer tray or next to the printer.

If it's something generic like printing out a mail with directions to an office meeting, or a snippet of public code, no big whoop I guess. But far too often I encounter things in the printer tray that are far too sensitive for what I'd define as "public knowledge." And it's not like they were *just* printed, I have passed by the printer for days to see some of the following left out, waiting for someone to pick it up, at the various companies I have worked at:

- Personalized medical instructions for some ailment ("Living with chronically draining pus...")
- Gaming stats or scores ("Red wizard needs food badly; Valkyrie has shot the food!")
- News stories of some random local event ("Local woman with wooden leg marries woodpecker")
- Porn (usually pictorial, but also erotic literature, "Softly, he grabbed her hot thighs...")
- Confirmation receipts of some on-line purchase ("Confirmation of your order from Dominatrix4Cheep.com: please keep for your records")
- Personal identity info (W4, credit apps, bank statements, etc)
- Sports betting pools (isn't this illegal?)
- E-mail I wouldn't have shared with anyone else ("John, my doctor has informed me to tell my past few lovers to please go to a clinic right away...") Posted in: angst , printer , work