Edit: I've added a link to a lovely zoomable map of IP address allocations to the bottom of this post.
What with the ipcalypse being well and truly upon us I thought I should see how the final IP allocation distribution has ended up. By continent, that is. The data was trivially easy to find, so I stuck it in a spreadsheet and generated a graph:
Back in 1998 our old trusty HP LaserJet MP5 broke and we replaced it with an HP LaserJet MP6. Over the decades it has provided its humans with reliable Mac OS and Linux printing joy and one of the cats with a warm place to sit in winter and - once - an emergency litter tray.
The cat wee didn't kill it though and after a clean up it provided close to another decade's worth of (slightly smelly) prints.
Sadly it's now running low on toner and it would seem that obtaining new toner cartridges for it is no longer a matter of simply popping down to OfficeWorks. Time then to go shopping for printers.
After an unnamed vBulletin website fell over for the umpteenth time overnight, I suggested to its owner that we upgrade the Linux install that runs it to something vaguely recent. That would allow us to make use of the varnish cache to speed things up.