On 31/12/17 10:34, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:26:26 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>>> Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally
>>> perfectly legit.
>>
>> I don't agree. In that case it should have been called the New York
>> World Series.
>
>
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:26:26 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally
> > perfectly legit.
>
> I don't agree. In that case it should have been called the New York
> World Series.
If they were paying for it, they could call it what
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:32:32 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 30/12/17 12:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > [2nd random OT factoid]
> > It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News
> > of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado)
>
> Actually it was the New York
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:32:32 +, Wols Lists wrote:
> [3rd random OT factoid]
> The News Of The World was a British tabloid, which shut down after the
> phone hacking scandal - a lot of their stories were obtained by hacking
> into celebrities, politicians, royals voicemails, and while it was
On 30/12/17 12:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [2nd random OT factoid]
> It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News
> of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado)
Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally
perfectly legit.
As usual,
On 30/12/2017 02:44, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 29 December 2017 16:45:33 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
>
>> (Plus, of course, so much development is done for the American market,
>> so they don't realise how hard it is to get a change like A4 to stick :-(
>
> Damned colonials. It's like the
On Friday, 29 December 2017 16:45:33 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> (Plus, of course, so much development is done for the American market,
> so they don't realise how hard it is to get a change like A4 to stick :-(
Damned colonials. It's like the baseball "world series": no-one outside
north America
On 29/12/17 16:13, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> The only "correct" place for papersize nowadays is in whatever the user
> is using to get something to print. And there are lots of those.
> Something like CUPS ought to make it all so much easier but I find CUPS
> just makes my life insanely difficult. So
On 29/12/2017 16:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 29 December 2017 13:57:31 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>> I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so
>> many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there
>> would be just one place to set it.
>
On Friday, 29 December 2017 14:30:43 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so
> > many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there
> > would be just one place to set it.
>
> And that would have to be /etc/papersize,
On Friday, 29 December 2017 13:57:31 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so
> many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there
> would be just one place to set it.
And that would have to be /etc/papersize, no?
> >
Hello, Mick.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 13:51:01 +, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:14:23 GMT taii...@gmx.com wrote:
> > For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some
> > poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without
> > any type
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:14:23 GMT taii...@gmx.com wrote:
> For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some
> poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without
> any type of notification.
Debugging cups and trying all conceivable combos of
For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some
poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without
any type of notification.
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