I have to say “I’m sorry”. The fact of the matter is that I’ve been holding back this secret too long and I have to share it. I was doing a search for ‘alternatives to ios’ and ‘alternatives to android’ and I was surprised to see that there are only super old articles and the content results from alternativeto.net (which…
Category: Technology
Bypass Empty cartridge Brother Printer to Keep Printing
If you are like me, you bought your Brother scanner printer because you wanted a decent scanner and perhaps the odd black and white print. Nothing more. That’s why you didn’t pay a lot. Well, built into the ‘cheap printer’ business model at Brother is a nasty little trick which says ‘When their colour cartridge runs out (which is really…
How to Reset/Purge Brother Printer Page Counter
So you have an ink cartridge and Brother decided that it was empty and you disagree and want to milk it further? One thing that might work for you is to reset the internal page counter. It’s fairly public understanding that printer companies have tech inside the machines that essentially tell it when it has printed enough and to print…
How to Eat a Digital Elephant One Bite at a Time
I can’t believe I didn’t blog this before but let’s put my regrets aside. So, you have come to realize that everyone who knows how technology works was right – it’s all spying on you. And, well, you don’t like it but – you don’t know where to start. You feel overwhelmed. Many people have these kind of feelings I’m…
View Your Mind: How to turn Xlink on
First of all, thanks a million to the creators of View Your Mind mind mapping software. It’s a great piece of useful free license software! Everything was going very well while I was using it. I especially found useful the xlink (xlinks?) feature. This feature will allow you to connect a visual reference from one branch to any other branch…
Ubuntu: The Relationship Between Freedom and Quality in The Software World
Unlike previous blog posts, I’m going to start this one with two exciting tables to get you thinking. In the first table, I increased freedom and in the second table, I decreased it so that we could look at the effect, if any, on other items. Sorry, they are just image screenshots: Someone sent me over this article written by…
What Message Does Your Email Address Send About You?
I have come back to this awesome comic for nearly 10 years now. I finally had to log it here because it’s worthy. I will eventually expand this to other areas of tech, but for now enjoy this!
The Future of Ham Radio: Freedom
This article on the ARRL website summarizes quite well the situation with ham radio – and radio in general. Although it is exciting to be part of a club of radio enthusiasts around the world, one must question whether the licensing system on its own is a hindrance both to freedom and innovation. The basic debate has these two sides:…
The Best Ever Apple iphone Review Video
Thinking of buying the next iphone? Make sure you review this important video to make sure it’s the right fit for you. If you find it’s not, be sure to research the Ubuntu phone which is built on a totally different philosophy.
How to Make Old HP Laserjet 1000 work with Ubuntu 16.04
EDIT: Sorry, I had one weird ‘-yes’ stuck in that first command a while back but have fixed it and this tutorial works again with copy/paste of commands. Sorry for any inconvenience. I’ll admit I should probably upgrade my printer but… it’s still alive so I won’t. Problem is that now it’s getting harder to install on Ubuntu. Hopefully this…