knuttle wrote:
it may be that the printer has to be attached for it to be cancelled. ie
it is in the printer, and the computer has not been told else otherwise.
It sounds like an HP printer to me. I've seen this behaviour before,
your suggestion has been the solution.
May I take this moment to have a rant against insufficient testing?
Things like that require breadth of outlook in the programmer; not just
an appreciation of the immediate environment, but an ability to walk
around it and employ reason and foresight to forestall the likely user problems.
This ability seems to me to be coming rarer and rarer with the current generation. OK, so you find and angel now and again; someone who
displays all the optimal qualities and abilities, but they are an
exception to the norm. Dull wits are the norm.
Dull wits are especially observable in the receptionists of the NHS
telephone service. They are used to keep the public at bay. Some poor
sap gets given the job of phone-answering, while all the sick people
phone in and ask for help; but she hums and ahs, and displays the
cerebral abilities of a microbe. And the callers just give up and ring off.
And when I turn up at the dentists office or GP surgery, the bird-brain
in reception has two other women beside her who are bright and normal.
So why is the dim spark answering phones? Because that allows the two
others to sit and chat together, occasionally answering some doctor's
call from their workplace.
Dull-witted receptionists can even employ the telephone-answering
service which progresses through "you are no 5 in the queue, you are no
4 in the queue..... down to no 1; when you hear a click followed by "you
are no 5 in the queue" ....
Poor stressed-out NHS employees! Having to abuse technology to keep the
sick people at bay!
Ed
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