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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Off with her head
Here come the calls for pushing Xerox’s CEO out the door. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/xerox-ceo-turnaround-plan-fails-again-2013-10-24
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Xerox Stock takes a beating
Lost about 10% yesterday after its 3rd quarter earnings report and outlook. Guess we all now know why a bunch of the insiders where dumping stock this summer. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-24/xerox-tumbles-after-profit-forecast-trails-analysts-estimates http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2013/10/24/xerox-stock-drops-after-earnings-report/3176699/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-24/xerox-tumbles-after-profit-forecast-trails-analysts-estimates.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-nsc-xerox-xrx-shares-cross-below-book-value-20131024,0,1965906.story http://www.rttnews.com/2208350/xerox-q3-profit-rises-tops-view-quick-facts.aspx?type=ern
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Xerox gets 96 Mill from the Navy
Navy inks a deal with Xerox for its MFP’s. Yeah! http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131023-909126.html
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Call yourself a ‘hacker’, and you could be in allot of trouble
After reading this, it basically says if you say you are a hacker, you rights in the US are no-existent. So…what if you join a “hacker space”. I have a feeling a whole bunch of folks are going to change … Continue reading
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When you don’t pay your engineer
Too funny of a video to watch. A rock band stiffed their sound engineer, and he (or she) got revenge. Just goes to show you should be nice to your techs. http://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-a-hardcore-rock-band-doesnt-pay-its-1451176531?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29
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Use a Motion Sensor to Automate Your Haunted House
Interesting hack where the author wires in a motion sensor into a powerline. http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-a-Motion-Sensor-to-Automate-Your-Haunted-House/
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iPhone (and others) book scanner
Nice simple idea to build a platform to put your phone on to scan in documents. Would I make this…no…I just snap the pic and worse comes to worse, use a real scanner. http://www.instructables.com/id/IPhone-Scanner/
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How Xerox profits off the poor
Actually how several companies (Walmart included) profit off government programs. There is two good articles here that basically point out that public companies that are running the programs for government may not be a good idea. As those companies could … Continue reading
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Xerox stockholders investigating Xerox Senior Staff/Board
Sounds like some unhappy stockholders are fed up with the senior folks at Xerox. http://empowerednews.net/nysexrx-long-term-investor-alert-investigation-of-possible-wrongdoing-at-xerox-corp/1845656/
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Upgrading cheap test leads
Good article on upgrading cheap test leads from China. I have a bunch of these myself and had to redo the clips on several sofar. Never thought about checking the resistance on the wire too. http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-Your-Own-Cheap-Test-Leads/