[…]
Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny
all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The
config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking
thing to say yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take
2-3 days just to get over this hurdle.
How can people actually go around installing linux on people's
computers as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this
bad?
On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:
[…]
Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny
all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The
config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking
thing to say yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take
2-3 days just to get over this hurdle.
I solved this problem by replacing the contents of every <Location>
block with:
Order allow,deny
Allow localhost
Allow from fd69:0:0:0:*
Allow from 192.168.69.*
How can people actually go around installing linux on people's
computers as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this
bad?
It's not bad at all if you use a distribution with a better default configuration, pre-installed drivers and a pre-installed GUI for setting
up the automatically detected printer in less than 5 clicks.
Unless you have a printer from a shitty company, of course.
Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood
Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.
On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:
[…]
Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny
all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The
config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking
thing to say yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take
2-3 days just to get over this hurdle.
I solved this problem by replacing the contents of every <Location>
block with:
Order allow,deny
Allow localhost
Allow from fd69:0:0:0:*
Allow from 192.168.69.*
How can people actually go around installing linux on people's
computers as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this
bad?
It's not bad at all if you use a distribution with a better default configuration, pre-installed drivers and a pre-installed GUI for setting
up the automatically detected printer in less than 5 clicks.
Unless you have a printer from a shitty company, of course.
On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote:
Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.
YMMV. But if your neighbouhood Kinkos is fifty miles away your mileage
most definitely does vary :-)
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 21:40:25 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote:
Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying >> > cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood
Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD
whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.
YMMV. But if your neighbouhood Kinkos is fifty miles away your mileage
most definitely does vary :-)
What is a Kinkos?
--
Regards,
Peter.
Ok. I'm going to have to do it. I'm going to have to get my blessed
printer working.
It is the finest laser printer money can buy. God himself uses it to
process the paperwork involved in assigning souls to either heaven or
hell... What I'm saying is that the printer is such an immaculate
example of printing perfection that linux is going to give me absolute
hell getting it working.
I will be sthocked if I can get it working in less than two weeks
working full time and without influcting a migraine and/or an ulcer on myself.
(meanwhile, Windows can print to the thing effortlessly....)
Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The config
file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking thing to say
yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take 2-3 days just to
get over this hurdle.
How can people actually go around installing linux on people's computers
as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this bad?
2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously
dislike it.
A couple of things to remember:...
Gentoo IS a pita to install and run compared to most other distros -
On 10/09/2022 01:18, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously
dislike it.
snark :-)
A couple of things to remember:
Gentoo IS a pita to install and run compared to most other distros -
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