[TheForge] OS X

[John Husvar]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:05 PM, TristerK at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/9/2006 7:46:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> olayers at sover.net writes:
> Mac OSX
>
> andy....
> Feh, for makeing pretty pictures and buying overpriced DRM crippled  
> music,
> real men run Linux

OK, but whattaya call them of us what run Winderz XP Pro, OS X,  
Linux, and a couple flavors of unix?

Had the inestimable pleasure of "fixing" two of the  Winderz XP Pro  
boxes at work Wednesday, when our expensive "contract consultant"  
said he "didn't have time to do all the work" to set them up to use a  
Laserjet 2600n on the network (Well, not _exactly_ on the network: He  
has it shared on one machine instead of just sticking a cable in it  
to an open spot on the hub. God alone knows why -- well God and maybe  
him.:)

Took about 30 seconds each machine by knowing how to let XP do its  
own thang.

XP'll find any printer that's installed on any box or on its own  
address on a network, pull and install the proper drivers across the  
network if they reside on any other machine, and set itself up if you  
let it.

Zip, bang, swoosh! Use whatever printer you want now, guys! Network- 
enabled printers nowadays will sit happily in their own corners,  
waving and yelling: "Hi! Here I am! Use me!"

Ah the joy of having a MS-trained, USDA-Choice network expert in the  
family! My son, not me. He can do stuff with an MS or Mac (or even  
mixed-marriage) network that even Gates himself might not know about.  
There are many little backdoors or slick workarounds in XP and Server  
2003.

OB blacksmithing: Well, it did keep the carpentry guys from using  
their hammers on the machines.:)