[H-GEN] Colour printer with LInux

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> Wow.  I see a lot of Lexmarks that just plain don't work right.  I
> guess that's the fault of the crappy operating system that usually
> runs them?

Funny you should mention this.  I forgot to mention my wife's laptop
(running an MS operating system) was the only box to have difficulties
commicating with the printer.  The driver would just drop working randomly
and would need a reinstall - until the last time when the reinstall just
didn't work anymore.  IE has stopped working on that box too and after a
failed attempt to fix it was replaced with Firefox.  I hope to make the
house MS free soon as one laptop is taking more admin time here than 10
Linux boxes.  That's TCO for you.

> > The biggest problem I had was unwrapping the package to install the
> > driver.  Lexmark supplied the driver in an rpm package which was uuencoded
> > and wrapped in a shell script
>
> Wow!  Not a shar archive!

Actually it may have been a shar wrapper on uuencoding.  It was ages ago I
unwrapped it.

> > that _absolutely_ assumed the presence of a Redhat system.
>
> Hm.  Those who cannot learn from Unix ...

Exactly.  Some people who have migrated from windows world have brought
their culture of making assumptions with them.

Don't get me started on the OK button in a browser.  I think I'll just
submit a patch for firefox which disables OK buttons with a command line
switch.  Ok, I've got started on the OK button :)

The quick version:  Anything which forces my attention just so I can
acknowledge it, is a bad idea IMHO.  Mozilla and Firefox will grab the
focus and shift my pager window if a site times out why I am using
another app.  Annoying, and deadly to my crossfire characters if focus is
pulled while I am playing.  I now check that no mozilla windows are
timeing out before starting Crossfire.  The OK button is just a dumb idea
as far as I'm concerned.

Cheers,

Rob

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Robert Brockway B.Sc.
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