A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Fri May 4 19:31:57 EDT 2007


Just leave the haggis behind... ;)

Cheers,

Luis.


On 4 May 2007, at 19:28, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Stephen Barncard wrote:
>
> "Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to
> put yourself
> though this? These days when $250 will buy you a
> networkable color
> printer that you plug and play?"
>
> There are 4 interesting points about his remark:
>
> 1. I have a very nice Epson Stylus Photo R200 that
> does everything we all want it to in my family via a
> crappy Edimax printer server (c.f. earlier postings
> under this heading).
>
> 2. I earn about $400 a month: i.e. about 4 times the
> Bulgarian average (!!!!), or about the same as a
> skilled surgeon. I have "expensive tastes" - i.e.
> piano lessons for the kids, internet connexions, and
> so forth - save nothing.
>
> 3. This posting had NOTHING at all to do with my real,
> or imagined printing problems (there was a few side
> remarks about how I might use an ancient Mac Laser
> Printer - not because I didn't have another printer (I
> have 2 here in Bulgaria) - but because I don't like
> seeing machines lying idle and going to waste - and
> because I'd rather driop my beverage of choice all
> over a laser-printed sheet of paper than one from an
> inkjet) - it started with an idea about how to stream
> video into a RunRev stack without having to use
> videoGrabber and QT/Windows Media. Inevitably (with
> types like myself on board) it went badly off topic
> into various nutty and not-so-nutty discussions about
> how to utilise old stuff that at present resides in my
> attic in Scotland and badly needs liberating.
>
> 4. Some of us ARE daft insofar as we don't see money
> as the b-all-and-end-all, and I spend hours and hours
> of my time working for free in a country that as a
> charming diplomat once told me "is totally f****d" in
> terms of infrastructure, morals and educational
> chances for all but the richest kids - why? well, not
> because I am daft, but because I passionately believe
> that it is rather nice to give kids a chance of a
> level playing field - what they do with it, is, by and
> large, another story all together.
>
> That is why I am going back to Scotland in the summer
> to dig out all my old Macs from the attic and drive
> them back here in a tatty old Citreon - so that
> instead of gathering dust, they can be put to good use
> helping kids with brains (and, frankly, parents with
> rather smaller brains) get a leg up in life. The small
> amount of "spare" money I have will pay for that trip
> rather than any fancy printers and so on.
>
> I'm sorry Stephen if that all sounds pompous and
> self-righteous - its certainly not meant to - but
> sometimes I have a feeling that not all people realise
> that time isn't always money - sometimes it can be
> other things.
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
>
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