[ale] [OT]Random thoughts and questions from a printer

[Thompson Freeman]

I'll happily concede the "Spaghetti Copper Award" to you. With all the
stuff camping on your desk, cleaning must be a nightmare!

I'm not sure that adding another machine in this case is much different
than purchasing one of the commercial network print servers, but still
worth thinking about.

Thanks for your thoughts. 

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Thompson Freeman wrote:
> 
> > I'll admit a bias against using switch boxes as I will normally forget to
> > reset the switch when I'm through, which confuses _everything_. (I leave
> > the inkjet on 24/7 so my children have simple access for printing school
> > work and such.)
> 
> You desktop sounds a bit like mine, but not as bad. (two mini towers,
> hpux workstation, three laptops and docking stations, scanner, two
> printers, 8 port hub, linksys cpu switch...).
> 
> I'd say it's time to throw together another box, say a 486 as a
> dedicated print server.  It will free up some hardware as well as cpu on
> your primary machine.  You can stick the printer server under the desk
> or something.  My firewall machines (2) and web server all sit together,
> headless, in the corner of my office, opposite my desk.  I've got a
> network cable running to a 5 port hub that sits over there with them.
> 
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