On Sunday 17 June 2018 10:36:38 dep wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fixed. Dunno what changed, not a clue. I just deleted the printer > > from the cups menu, then re-added it using the same foomatic driver. > > It now works from kmail... That faint scratching sound? Me, > > scratching head. One of those thing that make you go "huh?". Like > > trying to put the deck drive belt back on a 20 year old John Deere > > rider, without a threading diagram. Way too much exercise for an old > > fart, but somebody had to do it. Extra tum's for the calcium, a big > > B12 pill and some quinine in the night to stop the leg cramps a > > geriatric old diabetic is prone to. Walking slowly & carefully this > > morning. > > back in the old days of kde-1.x i had what i called "the linux > nine-hour rule." it was this: any change to a linux system, no matter > how big or small, took nine hours. later, about the time of ted hat > 5.1, this was changed to a new rule: "i don't know -- i did some stuff > and then it worked." this was invoked when one was asked how a problem > got solved. > > you seem to have confirmed that the secobd rule is still in force. > > dep > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because > privacy matters. Having lived thru red hat 5.0/5.1, I now believe its one of the physical laws of the universe. 5.1, FWIW, was actually a quite usable distro. If whatever you wanted wasn't available, there was always bash. I still have little bits and pieces of it making my life a lot less work. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
