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Xerox Phaser 6500DN Faded Printing

Symptoms

I changed out my toner and over time some of color was not the correct shade, or not present at all.

Solution

  1. Shake the toner cartridge to ensure that the toner isn't bunched up.
  2. Check to see if the auger is in the correct position

    1. Remove the Drum Unit – You must remove the...


Automatic Cleaning

I don't like cleaning, or just about anything else that is repetitive, I like to leave repetitive tasks to automation. Therefore I was excited to discover that git can keep your branches and tags from remote repositories clean automatically with the git fetch --prune. I have taken to adding it to...


Finally one of the cool kids

Libreoffice Online

I am a huge fan of Nextcloud as my service of choice for just about everything. Many years ago they added integration for Libreoffice and OnlyOffice, even including allowing multiple people to edit the same files in real time. This is a feature I was fascinated with, but every t...


Use the wrong tool

This may seem like weird advice since I have a previous article extolling the wonders of using the correct tool for the correct job. As my may have guessed this post is about when the correct tool for the immediate task is different than the tool for the finished product.

Shortly after starting...


ls as Hello World

From the Go Time Podcast, it was discussed when you should write a CLI (command line interface) app in a full featured language instead of writing a shell script. The proposal of one of the casters was to rewrite common tools in the language you are trying to learn. I completely agree with this st...