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Printer Cartridges From Inkers

October 31, 07 //
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Printer cartridges are one of the fastest-finishing (what with people like we have in CW who send 200 pages for printing ‘by mistake’ ;) ) that you’d have lurking around your PC, and it makes sense to make some good deals on them. Original printer cartridge costs are quite exorbitant, which can burn a hole in your pocket in the long run.

It’s places like Inkers which come to your rescue at these times. These guys make high quality compatible ink and toner cartridges for a variety of printers, copiers, multifunction devices (MFDs) and fax machines, and it’s quite a huge list which you can check out on their site.

Inkers also offers free shipping to US locations; and in case you were worried about anything going wrong, also offers one year guarantee on their products. So do start saving, now…

Jack Kilby Science Quiz Sample Questions

October 30, 07 //
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There’s a whole quiz archive on the Jack Kilby Science Quiz, thanks to Prateek Vijayavargia; unfortunately I haven’t edited it yet. So for all those people going tomorrow for this year’s edition, here are some sample questions which might help you. These are from the organisers’ themselves (I think).

  1. Although we associate Vatican with religion, it also owns a couple of fine observatories. There is one observatory in the papal summer residence. It was built to aid the development of what? The Gregorian Calendar
  2. Before calculating machines became popular, in large engineering activities, women were employed to manually do the calculations. What were these ladies called? Computers
  3. Mho is the unit of measurement of reciprocal of what? Ohm (resistance or impedance)
  4. The word describes the whorl of petals in a flower. It comes from the Latin word for crown and is now well known because of a very popular model of car. What word? Corolla
  5. This is the thin, transparent tissue that covers the outer surface of the eye. More known because of the itching ailment that affects it. What is the tissue called? Conjunctiva

Archive coming soon!

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