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On Friday, September 9, 2022 2:52:01 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Ok. I'm going to have to do it. I'm going to have to get my blessed |
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> printer working. |
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> It is the finest laser printer money can buy. God himself uses it to |
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> process the paperwork involved in assigning souls to either heaven or |
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> hell... What I'm saying is that the printer is such an immaculate |
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> example of printing perfection that linux is going to give me absolute |
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> hell getting it working. |
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> I will be sthocked if I can get it working in less than two weeks |
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> working full time and without influcting a migraine and/or an ulcer on |
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> myself. |
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> (meanwhile, Windows can print to the thing effortlessly....) |
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> Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny all |
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> attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The config |
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> file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking thing to say |
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> yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take 2-3 days just to |
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> get over this hurdle. |
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> How can people actually go around installing linux on people's computers |
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> as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this bad? |
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Two points. |
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1) Did you bother to research the Linux support situation before you purchased the |
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printer? World's finest printer or not, if they keep parts of the interface as proprietry |
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secrets then there is not much the Linux maintainers can do. |
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2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |
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