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Hand-held and snooted 430EX from camera top left.

The text on the barrel reads “Herbicide”
The brand name translates to something on the lines of “duo-exterminate” or “double-exterminate”

In this post I will describe how to share a Xerox 6125 or 6125N printer with a Linux machine through a windows host.

The Xerox 6125 (or 6125N) is an amazing deal - a 300$ network-enabled color laser printer.
Unfortunately, this great price tag comes with one major downside - absolutely no linux compatibility WHATSOEVER.
The Xerox 6125 uses a Host Based PDL and as opposed to most Xerox machines - does not support Postscript or PCL printing languages. Xerox has not released any proprietary drivers for it, and for this reason the Open printing database has categorized it as a paperweight.

There is, however, a way around this - if you have at least one windows machine on your network. By creating a virtual postscript printer, and routing its output to the Xerox 6125 through the windows driver - you can share the printer with any machine capable of printing postscript - namely any major Linux distribution (and mac-os X of course!).

Henrik Schmiediche has written a great guide to setting up a virtual gostscript printer on your windows machine - wich can be found here or mirrored in PDF format here.
Once you have set up your virtual postscript printer, and shared it over the network - set up your linux clients to print to it - either using the same driver as the virtual printer, or the generic “Raw Queue” driver (The HP Color Laserjet 4550 PS suggested in the article works great - make sure you use the postscript version of the driver!).

An old Latvian fishing boat, modified to serve as an example of the rickety boats Jewish immigrants used to travel to Israel during the British mandate.
A ship of this size could have carried as much as 350 immigrants.

30 Second exposure, natural lighting.

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I’ve recently run into a site called negedhaet.co.il this site calls for the erasable “FriXion” pen from Pilot to be banned in schools. The site links to videos of kids using the pen to cheat in exam appeals, forge medical documents, and modify attendance records. It also links to a petition for banning the pen, and to two relevant Internet forums. After noticing what appeared to be a consumer cation notice for the pen on one of the sites pages (bottom of page) - I became suspicious.

I guessed that the site was a campaign by Pilot trying to utilize the “Streisand effect” to promote the pen - generating great publicity for the product by calling for it to be banned. A quick check on internic.co.il revealed the domain to be owned by Niv Kantor. Another search revealed that Niv Kantor works for McCann Digital - an online advertising firm that touts modern advertising methods…

Looking to confirm this alleged correlation between the advertising agency and the Pilot pen company, I discovered that Y. Berman - the exclusive Israeli importer of pilot pens has indeed engaged into a $250,000 contract with the McCann-Ericksson advertising agency for an online promotion campaign of… the FriXion erasable pen!
Just to be sure, I checked the yellow pages - and indeed - McCann-Ericksson link directly to McCann Digital as their homepage - the trifecta is complete.