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fgs1963 wrote: Only that frequent immediate high speed access to terabytes of data is different than rare / occasional low speed access and the storage solutions for each situation should probably differ.
Right. My drives are just fine where they are; I don't need "frequent immediate high speed access". It's just that when I do, I don't want to go around reaching for a specific drive, hook up the power and USB cables, and then undoing that again after I'm done. That's the part I want to avoid. Leave them all connected, but physically powered down.
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This one[^] is available and might do the trick. Much cheaper than Sabrent.
Here is the Sabrent unit[^] that is available.
I don't have any experience with them but I'm guessing they work fine for your use case.
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I've always struggled with Outlook / Office / Microsoft / name de jour 365 and its contact management. I have a list of addresses. But they are sometimes referred to as contacts. Or folders. And some dialogs give you all your contacts. Some, when you select "All address books" show that you have no contacts. Or random AD addresses from 15 years ago.
So I'm trying to move all my personal accounts from Office, I mean Microsoft, work account to my personal account. I figured I'd just create a new contact list and apply a rule to any email that arrives and is in that contact list.
I feel like I'm in the worst sort of government bureaucracy:
Well, sir, it looks like you're trying to manage People, not Contacts, but be sure that you aren't looking at Addresses, unless you want to create a Group which provides its own email list and space for Conversations, but if you're trying to move a Person from Contacts you need to decide which List or Group, unless you want to move it to a Folder. Now: have you considered creating a Category for Person in your Contacts, but not your Addresses, and when I say Addresses, I mean the Global Address book and...
Head asplodes.
Whatever happened to a list of contacts. An "All" list, and then other lists based on need. And when I say "all" I mean: show me all contacts, not "all except the ones hidden in that random list under that subcategory in that obscure dialog that's so old it has Office 2010 styling".
I hate that a company with the vast, vast resources such as Microsoft won't invest the time needed to simplify the legacy baggage that's lying around. Or better yet: remove it. Provide a migration tool, and kill the old system. They want everyone on Azure, for everything, anyway.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well Sir
Ok, I see CP is not MS...
but nevertheless there is also this and that on CP since ... and not fixed ... to make it more comfortable
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Give me the resources that Microsoft has and everyone gets plush bean-bags
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Chris Maunder
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plush bean-bags and MS was born in mS.... was it like that?
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>>I feel like I'm in the worst sort of government bureaucracy
When that happens down South of you, we just hire a bureaucrat to fix it.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Start an OS project to do better, invite all members?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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We're not a committee, we're developers.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"We're all individuals!"
(small voice in the crowd) "...I'm not!"
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Chris Maunder
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So, we can't even do a spellchecker without war?
Come on, politics isn't allowed, and we have a codewitch and some vague gray jedi named "Luc"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You totally missed the Monty Python reference.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My completely unsophisticated approach: Create a text file, rename it to [some person's name].contact. Windows recognizes that file type and double-clicking it launches...some Explorer extension, I think...? This goes back to at least Vista, and still seems to be supported by Win10. Can't say I've tried 11. I treat that as my lowest common denominator, if you will.
Then I put these .contact files inside a single folder. That folder is under OneDrive, so it gets synchronized across all the systems where I run OneDrive using the same account.
I never, ever try to maintain separate contact lists in whatever apps I use that needs them. YMMV.
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I played around with MS's Graph API maybe 2 years ago. As I recall there's some contact data that can be stored there (under a user profile), and I'm pretty sure M365 uses that as a data source, so that might be a good place for it in the long run. I just might have to look into automating the transfer of my .contact files in there, if that doesn't already exist...
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My printer's so-called maintenance utility has a "Deep Cleaning" option, which is claimed to "unclog nozzles that cannot be cleared by regular cleaning". When you select that option, you're warned this can take a lot of ink.
I ran it a few times. I can hear the print mechanism moving around a lot. But the test itself isn't even trying to actually print anything (no sheet of paper ever gets pulled in or come out).
If that test is supposed to "take a lot of ink"...where's that ink going?
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Open it up and slide the head to the center of the machine - underneath where it normally docks you'll see a multicoloured piece of sponge.
It "uses a lot of ink" in cartridge terms, but trivial in real world - each drop expelled averages around 2 picolitres, so it takes a serious amount to form a puddle!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I did a project for a purveyor of expensive printer ink whose purpose was to measure the volume of the ink drops. It was not a fun project because dealing with that customer was a nightmare. They were easily the worst customer I ever had in almost forty years in the business. After a few more projects for them I decided I will never, ever buy another product of theirs and I haven't.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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dandy72 wrote: where's that ink going
Into their bank account I'd say. What a fantastic way to get people to accelerate their purchase of the item that is actually the revenue generator.
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Chris Maunder
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TBH this is probably the last set of ink cartridges I'm buying for this printer. I seldom print anything, and when I do, months have gone by since the last time, so even brand new cartridges have had time to dry up. It's an inherent problem for all ink-jet printers (prove me wrong), and I'm much happier with my laser ones.
But, laser printers can't print on CDs/DVDs. It's the only reason I still have something ink-based. But my patience is wearing thin.
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...somewhat like your ink supply?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, like my ink supply when it's simply left alone for months...
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dandy72 wrote: CDs/DVDs Optical media is still a thing? Retro!
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I had the same problem, and got so fed up I dumped the inkjet at the recycling centre and got a laser.
Now when I want to print, I plug it in, print, and unplug it - I don't have to wait 20 minutes for the damn heads to clean enough to print straight, or have to swap half the set of cartridges I fitted last time I used it as it no longer recognises them.
Domestic inkjets are a PITA and I want nothing more to do with them!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I haven't yet managed to get my donkey off the ground to buy myself a decent photo printer, but some day I will.
The last few years, ink jets have seemed to be the only serious alternative for large format (at least A3 width) and continuous media printing, and a liberty in media selection. (Some of the ink jet models provided printing on canvas, although they were in the expensive class.)
Which are the laser alternatives for minimum A3 with continuous 200 g/m2 paper? How does the color quality of these printers compare to the ink jet models?
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I don't use an A3 printer, so I can't really help you.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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