Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED
On Wed 10 Jun 2015 at 22:05:23 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:09:42 +0200
> notoneofmyseeds <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > Another illustration of this:
> > >
> > > "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to
> > > someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself.
> > > Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an
> > > embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This
> > > works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners.
> > > One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk.
> > > Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear
> > > before they could speak to a human counselor."
> > Well noted. And many thanks. It's either this, or I walk away for a
> > while. But I find that hard to do, believing that, just one more try and
> > it will work; just a sec that turns into days.
>
> yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is
> a good thing.
>
> except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a
> free pass in my opinion.
>
> i have had similar miserable experiences setting up cups and my
> printer has a driver FROM THE MANUFACTURER FOR CUPS. does it work ?
> hell no. had to use the open source driver.
>
> in fact, it's broken right now because i refuse to step back into that
> quagmire.
The OP didn't have a problem with cups or cups-filters. Both did the job
they were designed to do.
What your problem is is essentially unknown.
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