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I just need to rant and get this off my chest...

08pm? <kinko> I've just got off the phone to my sister and mother. They

live in Chch.

08pm? <Linx> ok 08pm? <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).

09pm? <kinko> Anyway, my sister couldn't print from abiword. They've

recently bought a laser printer and I set it up remotely.

09pm? <kinko> she said it used to work, but now it only prints the test

page.

09pm? <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.

10pm? <kinko> I walked her through opening up a doc in abiword and

printing it.

10pm? <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.

10pm? <kinko> My sister was looking at the wrong side of the paper and

thinking the printer was fucking up!!!!!

10pm? <kinko> FFS !!! 11pm? <kinko> despite the fact they've had the printer for months now and

have used it successfully....

12pm? <kinko> and then they thought it was funny that they'd wasted half

an hour of my life trying to trouble-shoot it

13pm? <Linx> lol 13pm? <Linx> oh well 13pm? <Linx> what do you expect for family members 14pm? <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....

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