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Re: It costs how much?!!?! [message #22834 is a reply to message #22626]

Thu, 07 December 2000 07:55

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Nigel Wade (nmw@ion.le.ac.uk) writes:

> I think this is caused by commercial pressure to make
> Linux appear more and more like Windows ;-)

I'm sure everyone is as tired of my installation problems
as I am, but let me just share one more story of my trials
and tribulations last night.

In fact, I'm beginning to think Windows and Linux *are*
a lot alike. :-)

Last night all I wanted to do was move my nice HP Inkjet
printer from my Linux machine (where it was doing me no
good, since that machine *still* can't find a network),
to my machine that had the new Windows 2000 installed on
it (in about 10 minutes) last week.

This is a plug-and-play printer. Windows 2000 is a
plug-and-play operating system. I expected to be able
to plug-and-get-back-to-the-damn-Linux-problem. No luck. :-(

For three hours I futzed around trying to get my
trusty *other* machine (which this week has suddenly
decided to go into the ozone whenever I try to do
an anonymous ftp download...sigh) to recognize the
printer on the Windows 2000 machine.

In the end, I just said "Screw you" (have I told this
story before?) and re-executed the commands that were
*suppose* to have worked the first time I tried it,
and they worked perfectly. (Big sigh....)

I really do think I hate computers. :-(

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I've thought about selling all
my technology stocks, but looking at those huge losses
just makes me even more depressed.

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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		It costs how much?!!?! By: billybobsuzanne on Thu, 30 November 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Tue, 05 December 2000 22:43
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nick Bower on Tue, 05 December 2000 19:54
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:51
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:48
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:28
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:40
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:13
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Peter Clinch on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:10
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 07:55
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 December 2000 07:28
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
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