On Sat, 31 May 2003, Sam Ewalt wrote: > Hand fax to friend, get cup of coffee > and cookie and shoot the breeze with friend while he sends out > fax. Total elapsed time: five minutes. Strain on mental resources: > zero. Cost: one dollar per page.
Here it would have been $7 ($6 for the initial page, $1 per each additional page), after a some-teen mile drive to the nearest "office store." In your shoes, I'd probably do it your way, except skipping the coffee and cookie. > For me to acquire the expertise to apply Steve's method would > take considerably longer. You could download the binary instead of the src.rpm thereby cutting out the build step. You could even enter the phone number correctly the first time, cutting out one more step. ;-) The rest... you pick up in no time. > I'm sure that effort would be beneficial > in the long run, but in the short run I get my fax sent and enjoy > a little fresh air. That's simplicity! Of course the real point was that Windows makes easy things difficult... and every once in a while I just have to rejoice in the fact that I don't live in that frustrating Windows world. :-) -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
