On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brian C. Huffman wrote: >> Alright I hate Microsoft. I really do. But here I am at 11:45pm on >> a Sunday night and my wife needs to print a paper for tomorrow. >> >> My Fedora cups / samba server worked before and now it doesnt. Was >> it an update that broke? I dunno. But this is why RedHat / Fedora is >> never going to take the upper hand. Reboots on both platforms, a bunch >> of tcpdumps and still no idea. No real user should have to go through >> this. Sure Ill figure it out. But is that what someone wants when >> theyve got a paper to print thats due tomorrow? >> > Sorry to hear about your problem. Yet, your post sounds a bit of knee > jerk reaction and a bit of venting. Neither of which does anyone any good. > > To counter your reaction....I've been using RHEL for quite a few years > and never had a printing problem. Well, maybe that isn't quite > accurate. I did have a few problems about 2 or 3 years ago when I > changed my printer configuration and forgot a few tricks or maybe the > tricks changed. Too long ago to recall. > > Anyway, that doesn't mean that updates in Fedora don't break things from > time to time. But, when it does happen it is a good idea to report the > problem (a bug or on this list) and then report the fix. Just > venting...and not giving any clues is just not being helpful. Some may > even consider it to be whining. > > FWIW, instead of venting....maybe you could have told folks what your > problem is/was and they would have responded with "Oh, yes, I've seen > that...the fix is....". or irc://freenode.net/fedora , often the fastest way to a fix -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
