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>Printing

29 September 2009 ian Comments 0 Comment

> Why is it so hard to print? I have a bog standard HP Photosmart C4180 here running on an XP machine. It is shared as a windows printer. Jaunty works 95% of the time. Sometimes it just stops and wants a restart before coming back to life. Windows 7. Works about 50% of the time. Sometimes just nothing happens. The Windows 7 machine will sometimes think everything is fine but nothing appears on the XP machine. Sometimes it will…

>8 Things We Hate About IT

5 June 2008 ian Comments 2 Comments

>I just read this and noticed one of the comments at the end of it. Did you write the first draft of this article in crayon? The only point made here that even approaches a fundamental understanding with the current reality of actual IT experience is the fact that 75% of the guys are approaching 40 years of age and haven’t the slightest bit of motivation to learn new things. I find the idea that as you approach 40 you…