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Meh,
Step 1) Print them on a regular sheet of paper.
Step 2) Carve them out with knife.
Step 3) Clear packing tape to affix address label to envelope.
Same process for handling the return address.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Another old printer story: Philips is a lesser known printer manufacturer. First time I saw a Philips printer was when we started selling one with our office automation software and our own machines. This printer was unique in that it used powder like a laser printer, but didn't fuse it to the paper by heat, but by pressure. The paper was fed between two polished steel rolls, forced together with high force. One important sales point was that you could use any preprinted, multicolor letterhead or whatever: The colors would not be affected, since no heat was used.
Yet one of our customers got really upset after the printer was installed: Trusting that colors would survive, they had had printed lots of business letter paper, not only with a colorful company logo, but on a really distinguished paper quality with a structured surface (somewhat resembling proper watercolor paper). When the sheets came out from the steel rollers, the nice structured surface was rolled so flat that it was shining. All that structured high-class appearance had vanished. (Even plain copying paper got more shiny after being through the high pressure rollers.)
The customer complained to us, insisting that we pay at least part of the extra expenses for that fancy paper, but I believe our managament flatly rejected it. Maybe the customer then turned to Philips to complain. In any case: This is the only printer model I ever saw using pressure fusing. Maybe they had lots of customers complaining about too shiny printouts.
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Well - I can help you with one problem:
Address the envelopes . . . . . . . by . . . . . . . hand !
If there's too many to do then you're sending too many cards.
Q.E.D.
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Well, I guess I could start culling the herd of Herself's family ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Given custody of corroded talking tree? (9)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Entrusted.
ENT - talking Tolkein tree thingy, + RUSTED = corroded.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Is absolutely spot on, old chap!
You are up tomorrow.
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Sorry all stuck in meeting will try and post one later - unless OG wants to do one
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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OK - I'll stick one up.
Bloody work getting in the way of important stuff ...
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Well, I know Calculus, so all of you can shut up for TEN years!
And pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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New Initiates Had To Spend Five Years In Silence
Can I apply that to junior programmers that the company hires?
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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And drape your cubicle in sheets, that no one may pass through but you and your select inner circle
(To-ga! To-ga!)
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"sssstawburries"
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"ppphono"
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modified 16-Dec-18 22:29pm.
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Obligatory XKCD: Listening[^]
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Hello all,
Some time in the last few months, I remember reading something of a rant about how difficult it was to add features to Oracle - something about having tests run for hours to days, hundreds of feature flags, causing completely random things to break, having to add hundreds of your own tests, and having to wait weeks for management approval after additional testing.
However, I can't seem to find it anymore. The only other clue I have is that I got to it through a link from the "Daily News" email.
I tried searching on the site, but I can't seem to find it.
Can anyone point me to where this was?
Thanks!
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You're looking for an Oracle rant, and need to go back months?
You're just on the wrong site.
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I am referring specifically to a rant by a former Oracle employee about developing the database engine itself, not to a rant about using it.
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It doesn't sound familiar to me; I'm guessing it came somewhere other than the insider news.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I’ve replaced spinning hard drives (HDD) for SSDs in several computers recently and the difference is amazing. An SSD on a SATA interface is about 10 times faster than a 7200rpm HDD and about 13 times faster than a 5400rpm drive. On my wife’s 2012 laptop (Intel i3-2350M CPU running at 2.3 GHz with 4GB of DDR3-1333), I replaced the original 5400rpm HDD with an SSD and the computer is around 10 times faster. It boots in seconds rather than minutes (Windows 10 Home) and there’s no waiting for web pages to load, no pauses in videos, and so on. I’ve now done the same thing for three of her friends. Prices on good SSDs are incredibly low on Amazon right now. I’ve been using Samsung 860 EVO or SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs.
To make the swap, you typically need just three things. The new SSD, a USB 3.0 external disk enclosure and disk cloning software. USB 3.0 enclosures from Sabrent or Inaco are in the $10 range. I’ve used the free versions of EaseUs Todo Backup or Aomei Backupper or Acronis TrueImage to do the cloning. Put the new SSD in the enclosure, clone your existing drive to the SSD and swap out the HDD. A serendipitous advantage is that, after the swap, you can put the old hard drive in the enclosure and use it for backups. Total cost can easily be under $100 depending on the size SSD you need.
With GHz CPUs and memory, if you're still running off a HDD, you're probably losing 75% or more of your computer's potential.
Note: I just refurbished by own desktop computer with an Intel H270 chipset motherboard and an M.2 SSD with a PCIe x4 interface (Samsung 960 EVO). The configuration is 3 times faster than hooking an SSD up to SATA, but you need a compatible motherboard and SSD, obviously.
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matblue25 wrote: The new SSD, a USB 3.0 external disk enclosure and disk cloning software. USB 3.0 enclosures from Sabrent or Inaco are in the $10 range. Nowadays you don't need an enclosure to clone a drive, there are usb3 cables available which will plug straight into the SSD. They make the process of cloning a drive a lot faster: EkoBuy® USB 3.0 to 2.5 inch SATA III Hard Drive: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Saves a couple bucks (or quid).
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Also means that you don't have to fiddle with getting the drive into and out of an enclosure.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Sure, they're awesome for ridiculously quick file access. Now price a system for a nice 32TB RAID. I suspect the spinners are still going to come out on top.
Different tools for different jobs.
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