begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:50:41AM -0800: > Richard Reynolds said: begin [snip] [attribution lost] > >> Ask the printer manufactuerers why their printers aren't supported. > >> Did you check http://www.linuxprinting.org ? If the manufacturers > >> refuse to provide hardware information to Linux developers it's not > >> the fault of Linux it's the fault of the manufacturer.
Blame the consumers who buy such printers. [snip] > I have a very large HP color inkjet that works just fine in Linux, but > it's Postscript. I mostly seek out postscript printers because they > mostly just work. ...and the patent on Postscript has expired, so anyone can put a postscript engine into their printer. Printing is one of those things that ought to be nailed down now. Of course, there's probably some valid (read: slimy and underhanded) business reason for every printer requiring its own driver. [snip] > I don't begin to comprehend putting programs inside of spreadsheets, > but I'm not surprised the vb stuff doesn't work in Linux. VB is an > abomination to begin with, and you have to really want it to even have > a basic interpreter on a Linux system. "Hi, I want my system to support macro-viruses!" I'll take a pass, thanks. [snip] > > I dont need access for linux, I need a database that works with access > > data files, (changed the wording but that is what I meant) but I know > > how to make several other databases work so a converter would work > > if thats what I had to do. again if I choose to I can export from > > access but I sure cant expect a client to. and then I get the fun > > and joy of figuring out how to get it back into access. Could you show us where the specification for access data files is published? [snip] > > I gave up on no html, and for some non work *fun* stuff its kinda cool HTML is a great indicator for "I don't need to look at this". > > to have fancy stuff in my emails, I have a cool background with a > > pink ribbon that I have been using for a while now.... but not to > > lists, and not to work. > > I like to remove the top <html> tags when responding. Then the > correspondant gets to see all the crud they sent me. I typically > delete the html attachment that gets sent, which is a duplicate of the > text, adding nothing to the content. HTML is for the web, email is > intended to be plain text. HTML adds nothing whatsoever to email. Add in <blink>, and maybe <marquee> too. I wouldn't mind html in email if it were formatted to still be readable as raw text. This pretty much leaves GENERATED html out of the picture... > > I am talking data recovery, not undelete, also I have on several > > ocasions undeleted from ext2 but from in windows (what a JOKE) im > > also talking reading whats on a drive even though the OS cant. There are attributes you can set to aid in undelete. > I've seen Jim Sack do some pretty interesting things with binary > editors in Linux, so the tools are there, I just don't know much of > anything about them. Start with dd and the raw disk device. I'd *much* rather look at what's on the drive "even though the OS chants in a sing-song voice" with Linux (or any *nix) than with anything from Redmond. [snip] > > at no point did I say I was happy with outlook/exchange. however If > > I must connect to exchange (which i often do), tons of choices on > > MUA's but no great choice, its not always about how many to choose > > from. there are tons of choices for windows also, yet I use the M$ > > ones. That's because M$ didn't want to play nice with anyone else. Everyone else plays nice with each other... [snip] > Windows succeeds because it has the best marketing and the best > advertising, ...backed by predatory practices and monopolistic behavior... > and it gives away copies of it's software to CEOs, CFOs > and CTOs. When people lower down the corporate ladder suddenly can't > read the boss' documents/email/spreadsheets/powerpoint the upgrade > cycle begins again with a furor. Heh. I saw this from the other side once -- a secretary brought in the latest copy of Office, and started "accidently" converting the payroll files. Even though the company had decided NOT to spend the money on upgrading, it suddenly became rather important to do so. > I think Linux advocates get it wrong on this count. They should be > "selling" to the top of the corporate food chain. Then all the minions > would fall in line. :-) We can't tell the appropriate sorts of lies with a straight face. -Stewart "The minions don't have the financial motivation, either" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
