Chris's Random Ramblings
We've been looking around for a black and white network multifunction laser printer for a while, and finally got around to getting the Brother MFC 7820N a couple of weeks ago.
Importantly, it has really good Linux support with drivers available for download from the website. And even has packages in rpm as well as deb format. Setting up network printing was very easy and faxing direct from the desktop was pretty straightforward as well. There's a little program you can run on your machines so that they register with printer. So when you want to scan something you can then choose whilst at the printer which machine/account you want to send it to.
The only oddity is that for some strange reason the phones all ring in the house when sending a fax. Probably something to do with a wierd interaction between the printer and the voip box, though I haven't found the source of the problem yet.
What do you do if:
- You love water
- You're a cat
- You love watching air bubbles in your automated water bowl
- but can't drink or splash the water out fast enough?
If you're a little leopard you might jump into the clothes hamper, drag out a sock and leave half of it in and half of it out of the bowl so the water drains out by itself.
I don't remember teaching her about capillary action....
Michael wrote an interesting blog entry about Australia's GHG target under the Kyoto protocol. I've often wondered how Australia managed to negotiate an increase of 8% from 1990 levels when it appeared that other countries were reducing their emmissions. So this time I actually read some of the report on what the EU countries have achieved that he linked to.
Assuming I'm reading it correctly there are a number individiual countries within the EU-15 who have target increases higher than Australia - Ireland (+13%), Spain (+15%), Greece (+25%), Portugal (+27%). Sweden's target is less than Australia's but is also an increase on 1990 levels (+4%). A bit scarily, even with those targets its estimated that Ireland, Portugal and Spain won't make their targets. The report indicates that the heavy lifting of actually reducing GHG emmissions are being done by countries like Luxemburg (-28%), Germany (-21%) and Denmark (-21%).
So in that context, Australia having an 8% increase target doesn't look quite so odd, though I do agree with Michael that given Australia was able to make the target anyway not ratifying Kyoto doesn't make much sense.