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-I just need to rant and get this off my chest...
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<kinko> I've just got off the phone to my sister and mother. They live in Chch.
- <Linx
> ok
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<kinko> They are running Debian that I remotely admin, although they
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rarely have problems. (The biggest problem we've had so far is the
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disk filling up).
- <kinko> Anyway, my sister couldn't print from abiword. They've
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recently bought a laser printer and I set it up remotely.
- <kinko> she said it used to work, but now it only prints the test
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page.
- <kinko> Took about half an hour of me going through all the syslogs
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and xsession logs, couldn't find much wrong. Old error messages from
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months ago, etc.
- <kinko> I walked her through opening up a doc in abiword and
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printing it.
- <kinko> Turns out that mum had put some used paper in the printer to
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print out drafts on the back. The paper comes out of the printer
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upside-down.
- <kinko> My sister was looking at the wrong side of the paper and
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thinking the printer was fucking up!!!!!
- <kinko> FFS !!!
- <kinko> despite the fact they've had the printer for months now and
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have used it successfully....
- <kinko> and then they thought it was funny that they'd wasted half
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an hour of my life trying to trouble-shoot it
- <Linx
> lol
- <Linx> oh well
- <Linx> what do you expect for family members
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<kinko> since they're on dynamic ADSL I wrote a little script that
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queries the ADSL modem to determine their IP address so I can log
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in. The icon for this button is a computer on fire....
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+<tt>
<kinko> I've just got off the phone to my sister and mother. They live in Chch.
+<br
><kinko> They are running Debian that I remotely admin, although they rarely have problems. (The biggest problem we've had so far is the disk filling up).
+<br>
<kinko> Anyway, my sister couldn't print from abiword. They've recently bought a laser printer and I set it up remotely.
+<br>
<kinko> she said it used to work, but now it only prints the test page.
+<br>
<kinko> Took about half an hour of me going through all the syslogs and xsession logs, couldn't find much wrong. Old error messages from months ago, etc.
+<br>
<kinko> I walked her through opening up a doc in abiword and printing it.
+<br>
<kinko> Turns out that mum had put some used paper in the printer to print out drafts on the back. The paper comes out of the printer upside-down.
+<br>
<kinko> My sister was looking at the wrong side of the paper and thinking the printer was fucking up!!!!!
+<br>
<kinko> FFS !!!
+<br>
<kinko> despite the fact they've had the printer for months now and have used it successfully....
+<br>
<kinko> and then they thought it was funny that they'd wasted half an hour of my life trying to trouble-shoot it
+<br
><kinko> since they're on dynamic ADSL I wrote a little script that queries the ADSL modem to determine their IP address so I can log in. The icon for this button is a computer on fire....
+</tt>
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