suse 8.2 networking

Collins Richey erichey2
Mon May 17 11:47:18 PDT 2004


On Tue, 13 May 2003 22:41:31 -0400
"Robert E. Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 10:28 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2003 12:17:17 -0400
> >
> > Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > Libranet 2.8 is out.  It now sets up printers during installation
> > > (as
> > >
> > > long as they are IEE 1284 compliant)
> >
> > OK, I could probably google for this, but what in the hell is an IEE
> > 1284 compliant printer?
> 
> IEEE 1284.  Parallel port printer.
> 

Wow, I can just see this question on an install menu:

1) Do you have an IEEE 1284 compatible printer?

Joe blow new linux user replies:

How the fsck would I know?

And it goes down hill from here.

<grin>

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo stable - ext3


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