civileme wrote:
> Oh My.... It happened right here in the main office.
>
> I have been printing copies of responses to my recruitmet notices using KMail
> and CUPS
>
> First of all, KMail starts off with a bad attitude. It comes up pointing at
> a printer from a list of available printers and the 'OK' button is grayed out.
>
> To solve this, simply flip it to file printing then back to printer
> printing... The OK becomes active. You have to do this EVERY session.
>
> Next, my emails were beheaded--the very upper portion was chopped off.
>
> This was due to a mental lapse--mine. The printer is set for A4 and is
> loaded with A4 paper and KMail is expecting A4 but the intervening cups
> server it was pointing to by default had the information that it was a
> 'Letter Size' I pointed to the right server which knew the printer was A4
> and the print cleaned up right away.
>
> Does any of this seem familiar? I believe I have seen posts about it.
>
> I still find that more than 90% of the bugs I think I find have their tiny
> little fingertips on the sensitive keys of my very own keyboard.....
Hey don't beat yourself up so much! ;) There are many levels of bugs,
maybe 90% of the ones you find are not considered problems by the most
elite but lets go back to the whole reason computers exist *at all*:
They (are supposed to) make our lives easier.
Which means having to flip some mode to activate the printer option
EVERY time you use a program, and having to remember that the last mode
you left the printer in will chop off 2/3s of your current output,
runs counter to The Goal.
btw, the degree to which a vendor can handle the small stuff these
days is what can set them apart from the hordes. So far Mandrake
seems to be doing a relatively smashup job.
duane
