Totally agree... here I am still using my Mac for printing related
applications every day because I have no choice... too many things don't
work easily enough on Linux for me, much less the kids and family.
Geeks tend to forget there are people out there who are mere mortals, and
don't even know what a CLI is (nor should they need to!).
Why is that if i plug a printer.. pretty much any printer.. into my mac,
double click the install icon and ask it to print it will work. Can any
geek tell me why that is a bad idea? Is there some special priviledge
given to geeks because they spend an hour configuring drivers and
interfaces?
I'm not knocking linux... god knows, what it does well it does better than
anything. Just I think some geeks need a reality check.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Laurie Savage wrote:
> I guess it's OK for you office/IT types to trash your printers but out here
> in the land of chalkdust and sloooooooww internet connections and one
> computer per 25 students most of my work is in preparing document-type
> resources for students.
>
> Again if you look at domestic PC use, after games, chat, Hotmail(!) and inet
> browsing the things are used for document preparation - Johnnie's Assignment,
> lists, garage sale announcements, banners, birthday cards and every other
> template that Corel or MS have created!
>
> Applications that don't talk simply, without command line interference to my
> printer are just not good enough.
>
>
> Laurie Savage
> earth science @ orange high school
>
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> out of the oceans was a bad idea. Me, I say the stiffening of the notochord
> in the Cambrian was where it all went wrong, it was all downhill from there.
> - The Dean, University of Ediacara
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