> John in Wales
> PS Jeremey I enjoyed -  " somewhere, something has gone horribly
wrong" !
> Thanks.
It was a caption on a cartoon Darren Branagh once sent me, which
featured human evolution, from a very stooped primitive ape (or was it
one of our local teenagers?) on the left to an upright homo sapiens in
the centre, then to a human stooped again in front of a PC -
"Something, somewhere, went horribly wrong". I haven't got the
original cartoon, but it's a bit similar to the one in Per Witte's
History page on his new website, if you can't visualise what I mean.

And in terms of "enjoyed":

> I think you have got that wrong - AOL is 100% spam free - they tells
us.
> What you are getting is "commercial services".
>
> Tony Tebby
:-)

Much like Windows has "features" I suppose (i.e. you stalled your car,
kindly dismantle the engine, and reinstall it)

Oh, back to the intended email subject...

Speaking of Windows "features", anybody got any ideas why my Epson
Stylus 880 is not recognised over USB after the latest reinstall of
Windoze 98SE? The Epson software prompts you to switch on the printer
and it detects (in theory) the printer whether it's on parallel port
or USB. Except it says it can't find the printer then goes ahead and
installs a parallel port driver which you can't change despite the
fact there's nothing at all connected to the parallel port. The
printer's the only USB peripheral I have, so I can't verify whether
the port is working or not, but (a) it used to and (b) it's probably
no coincidence this happens after a complete reinstall I'll bet!

USB cable tests OK with a meter, but of course no real way to verify
it without something to plug into the USB port.

Control Panel/System indicates an USB software presence somewhere in
the computer, so it seesm to realise there is USB and it's enabled in
the BIOS.

Strangely enough, for the time being I'm printing via sernet to
another computer from QPC2 on this computer, all very educational I'm
sure :-(

Wasn't life easy when I just had a QL and Gold Card! Aaaarghh! Anyone
got any ideas on this one?

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