Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dominus omus.
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> Espi
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Steven M. Caesare 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> A moment of silence to mourn what has become of the company that used to
>> make the LaserJet4 and my trusty DesignJet550C
>>
>> -sc
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:12 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: [OT] The infection continues to spread (HP)
>>
>>  The suck which has infested HP for the past several years continues to
>> spread.  We just today took a delivery of a brand new DesignJet T790.
>> $4500 wide-format printer.
>>
>>  The control panel UI is slow and often doesn't respond to finger
>> presses.  It does, however, have lots of high color graphics and
>> animations.
>>
>>  Web UI has two different credential schemes depending on what page
>> you're on.  Some pages want you to leave the username field blank; other
>> pages want you to use "admin" for the username.
>>
>>  Won't load paper.  Seems like it's not actually trying to feed.
>> After trying to a bit, it says "Edge of roll not found".  Prompts me to
>> lift the lever and unload paper.  I lift the lever.  New message:
>> "Lever unexpectedly lifted".  Lather, rinse, repeat.
>>
>>  Support guidance says load the latest firmware.
>>
>>  Look for firmware.  It's not under "Download drivers and software".
>> Eventually find it under a howto section.
>>
>>  309 MB file!  Get download started.
>>
>>  Since I'm downloading, decide to grab drivers.  Check under "Download
>> drivers and software".  Don't see drivers.  Mainly just this "HP ePrint
>> and Share: Easy printing" thing.  That claims to be a radical new
>> technology that lets me print without drivers or software.
>>  To use it, all I have to do is download and install this software.
>> Umm...
>>
>>  Eventually find drivers under some other howto page.
>>
>>  Firmware download finished.  It's just a binary blob, no checksum
>> info, no wrapper like ZIP or anything.  I just have to hope for the
>> best.  Takes several minutes to load.  Since then the machine's gone
>> offline and hasn't come back.
>>
>>  I'm dreading the day the corruption reaches the ProCurve division.
>>
>> -- Ben
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