This morning I went down to pick up some printing and found our Xerox printer flashing a 005-285 error code. The document feeder was not feeding paper, so I had a look and found that this is the error:

Xerox Error Code 005-285: An error occurred in the document feeder. Contact the Xerox Welcome Centre

I’ve restarted [...]

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Recently we acquired a nice Tandberg Video Conferencing system, we normally stick with the Sony range as its menu interface is very easy to use, but we decided to give Tandberg a try. What a beast, great slick menu system, loads of options, built in MCU (Multipoint Conference Unit), 2 XLR mic inputs (Phantom [...]

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I recently got a new blackberry 8800 and have been trying to get it to syncronize the data with my Thinkpad T60 (running XP Pro) via bluetooth. Mainly so that I do not have to carry a cable around with me all the time as that really defeats the object of having bluetooth in the [...]

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I have been having problems with a Canon I350 on a sony vaio running XP Professional - it keeps disconnecting and saying the printer is offline - even when it is clearly online. After checking all the connections no problem was apparent.
After further investigation it seems that the only solution is to delete the printer [...]

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Over on Take My Tech the author is giving away his tech gadgets, movies and video games.
Not only is he giving the stuff away, but he is also paying for the shipping. There are currently 24 items for giveaway and a random commenter will be drawn for each item when the comment count reaches 100.
He [...]

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Tonight at 8:30 I got a call saying that the projector is not displaying the picture, it just continually searches for an input, going through Scart, VGA 1, VGA 2 and USB.
There are several things that you need to check that could be causing the problem.
Check that the cable is plugged into the correct [...]

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