The Epson DX8450 is still painfull in that it doesn’t feed paper too well and the HP PSC2355 has completely given up the ghost, well it’s got a permanent carriage jam problem.

The cost of print catridges is so much I’m going to look at getting a laser printer that has very expensive cartridges but that do last for years with my kind of usage. If I get a laser without the scanning and copying functionality they are relatively cheap but that does mean that I will need to keep the old Epson connected so that it can do that stuff. Now which laser do I get?

On Linkedin I belong to a load of testing groups and I get email whenever someone posts a question. So many of these questions are banal beyond belief and some are just downright begging letters for others to brain dump testing knowledge on some hapless group members. I know it’s supposed to be a forum for people to share knowledge but jeez it’s so one way.

I’m starting to look into getting a new PC with Windows 7. I have installed 7 Ultimate on an old laptop but it runs like a dog and hasn’t got the hardware necessary to do the XP virtualisation thing. I might get some more memory for it. My old XP PC also runs out of steam soon enough after starting anything and the power supply fan starts up in a vain attempt at letting the processor do something. That PC also needs more memory and a bigger power supply. The Vista PC also needs more memory, currently with only 2 gig. When I start VM’s soon enough that PC’s power supplies fan starts up, so that PC also needs more memory. This could get expensive.