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    Mon, 16 May 2005

    Info Sharks Sig PNG

    I was surfing the netdimes forum when I came across a message with an interesting signature.

    It was actually

    <img src="http://www.infosharkz.com/IS/sig.png" border="0" />

    which returned an image/png, captured here statically as:

    [ /misc | # ]

    DrayTek

    DrayTek make ADSL/Cable VoIP routers, and Internet Telephony Adapaters.

    warcom.com.au has many DrayTek products including Vigor 2100V (broadband router, telephone and POST ports) for A$189.00 +$9.00 delivery, and Vigor 2900VG (broadband router, 4-port switch, 802.11g, USB print server, twin FXS ports) for A$349.00 + $9.00 delivery, and VigorTalk (single FXS voice adapter) for A$149.00 + $9.00 delivery.

    [ /voip | # ]

    C65 Head Clean

    Ever wondered how much ink a head clean cycle consumes?

    # escputil -qur /dev/usb/lp0 -i
           Ink color    Percent remaining
               Black     47
                Cyan     64
             Magenta     84
              Yellow     74
# escputil -qur /dev/usb/lp0 -n
Running nozzle check, please ensure paper is in the printer.
# escputil -qur /dev/usb/lp0 -c
Cleaning heads...
# escputil -qur /dev/usb/lp0 -n
Running nozzle check, please ensure paper is in the printer.
# escputil -qur /dev/usb/lp0 -i
           Ink color    Percent remaining
               Black     38
                Cyan     60
             Magenta     80
              Yellow     70

    Ouch !! A head clean used 9% of the Black (costs $19.95) and 4% each of the Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow ($11.95 each). This comes to about $3.22 !!!

    [ /hardware | # ]

    Linksys

    Linksys make voice products including RT31P2 Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports and WRT54GP2A-AT Wireless-G Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports and PAP2 Phone Adapter with 2 Ports for Voice-over-IP

    PAP2 available index at shopbot.com.au

    Avaliable at OzTechnologies (other Billion, Draytek and Engin products too).

    At warcom.com.au PAP2 is A$99.00 + $9.00 Delivery, and WRT54GP2 (Wireless-G Broadband Router, 3-port switch and 2 phone ports) is A$180.00 + $9.00 delivery.

    [ /voip | # ]

    Sipura 2

    Sipura available index at shopbot.com.au

    Sipura SPA-3000 (with PSTN gateway) available at Voxilla Store for US$96.95 + $3.95 + UPS World Wide Express ($65.70). Ouch!

    warcom.com.au have several Sipura models for sale

    SPA 3000 from warcom.com.au for A$185.00 + $9.00 shipping.

    [ /voip | # ]