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Just as you get to thinking...

...that everything worthwhile has been invented, a new way is discovered of producing constructive results when adult stem cells are deployed against 72 different diseases (so far). Eddie doesn't miss many tricks, & seems to have hit on a brilliant way to improve your health... so... do what I'm doing — take a good, long, hard look at what has a 90-year-old bloke so interested in longevity.

There is more than one way to skin a printer

Issue: reinstalling MSWinXP on a workstation, driver to operate hp 1022n printer over the LAN required, staff don’t know if the printer arrived with a disc — & if it did, have no clue where it would be. Remedy, download 2MB driver file (.EXE) from hp, run it. “Turn the device on & plug it into the USB socket.” Oops. [Cancel] Consider downloading the 370MB full driver suite over a slowish ADSL link with limited quota. Hmmm. Try adding a printer anyhow (after defining a TCP port on 192.168.42.25) in case a LaserJet II or the like is close enough to start with, discover that the EXE had installed a 1022 driver anyhow. Wow! It’d accidentally done something useful!