To Patrick Shanahan, et al: I have been trying to get SuSe to work for several months, now and have been asking questions of several different people, to no avail. Linuxprinting.org is fine EXCEPT it does NOT give installation instructions that are understandable nor usable, by me!!!! Now, you get off your ego-centric high horse and put your alleged money where your mouth is and tell me which driver will work, and a clearcut installation instruction, leaving nothing out or to the imagination! I doubt you are any more up to the challenge than any of the rest of them. And, I got news for you, Mandrake works with the Canon BJC-2100 as I received a message from a person using them together!! I am not whining, but am tired of people like you who could do something positive to help Linux beat out Windows but won't!!!!! >:o -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
On 10/30/2003 09:58 AM, Old Sarge wrote:
I have been trying to get SuSe to work for several months, now and have been asking questions of several different people, to no avail.
You do mean printing don't you? IIRC, you need help with a Canon 2100, correct? May I suggest stay on topic. 1. Download and save- http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi?driver=gimp-print-ijs&printer=Canon-BJC-2100&show=0 Next, using Yast, Hardware, Printer, Configure, Choose the connection method (i.e. USB, parallel port, Samba, etc.), Next, verify it is set correctly, then Next, Choose Use non-Yast2 ppd file, and navigate to where you saved the file in step 1., then Next, Check over the choices and change as needed, then OK. This all assumes you have installed CUPS already. Now try to print. It should print. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
On Thursday 30 October 2003 01:58, Old Sarge wrote:
To Patrick Shanahan, et al: I have been trying to get SuSe to work for several months, now and have been asking questions of several different people, to no avail. Linuxprinting.org is fine EXCEPT it does NOT give installation instructions that are understandable nor usable, by me!!!! Now, you get off your ego-centric high horse and put your alleged money where your mouth is and tell me which driver will work, and a clearcut installation instruction, leaving nothing out or to the imagination! I doubt you are any more up to the challenge than any of the rest of them. And, I got news for you, Mandrake works with the Canon BJC-2100 as I received a message from a person using them together!! I am not whining, but am tired of people like you who could do something positive to help Linux beat out Windows but won't!!!!! >:o -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
Sorry to hear you are suffering from arthritis, which I hope improves speedily. The rest of your mail reads rather like a troll, but assuming it isn't, please consider the fact that anyone on this list who has attempted to help you fix your printing problems is doing so on their own time and pro bono publico - taking a pop at them for not helping you as much as you would like is both rude and pointless. SuSE does 'work' - no idea if it works with your individual model of printer, but then this is a reminder that the way to proceed in setting up an IT system is to decide on the OS and other software you think will do the job you need, then buy appropriate hardware. On the other hand if Mandrake works with it, then so will SuSE - you need to put in the work, that's all. -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
The Wednesday 2003-10-29 at 17:58 -0800, Old Sarge wrote:
Now, you get off your ego-centric high horse and put your alleged money where your mouth is and tell me which driver will work, and a clearcut
This is outrageous. :-/ Nobody pays me, nor anyone in this list, for helping you or anybody else. We are all people writing in our own free time, for whatever reasons. We are, lets say, volunteers, not SuSE help center people. I will no longer try to help you. I'm tempted to delete the emails on my mail queue to you... :-((( -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2003-10-29 at 17:58 -0800, Old Sarge wrote:
Now, you get off your ego-centric high horse and put your alleged money where your mouth is and tell me which driver will work, and a clearcut
This is outrageous. :-/
Nobody pays me, nor anyone in this list, for helping you or anybody else. We are all people writing in our own free time, for whatever reasons. We are, lets say, volunteers, not SuSE help center people.
I will no longer try to help you. I'm tempted to delete the emails on my mail queue to you... :-(((
<de-lurk> Sorry if this is getting OT, but we had to put up with Old Sarge on our LUG mailing list just over a year ago. We had to remove him due to constant abuse and borderline prejudicial remarks: http://www.taclug.org/pipermail/taclug-general/2002-September/002890.html http://www.taclug.org/pipermail/taclug-general/2002-September/002896.html Mr. Boyle is a troll with not much respect for the (free) efforts of others and prolly belongs in a procmail rule. ;) Sorry again if any of the above was deemed inappropriate. Just couldn't bit my lip any longer. :) </delurk> Ken Hughes
The Friday 2003-10-31 at 15:36 -0800, Ken Hughes wrote:
Mr. Boyle is a troll with not much respect for the (free) efforts of others and prolly belongs in a procmail rule. ;)
Sorry again if any of the above was deemed inappropriate. Just couldn't bit my lip any longer. :)
Thanks, I appreciate your comments. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Friday 31 October 2003 07:30 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2003-10-31 at 15:36 -0800, Ken Hughes wrote:
Mr. Boyle is a troll with not much respect for the (free) efforts of others and prolly belongs in a procmail rule. ;)
Sorry again if any of the above was deemed inappropriate. Just couldn't bit my lip any longer. :)
Thanks, I appreciate your comments.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos, I see you giving aid to many who seem a bit unappreciative but none more so than this Old Sarge guy. And that brings me to hijack this thread and ask for advice on creating a /dev/null for such people. I'm using Kmail and just sending them to the trash is to kind. I , and I'm sure others, will appreciate any advice you may have on creating such a filter. You can use Old Sarge as a great example of someone who deserves the /dev/null file. Best regards, Richard
* Richard
Carlos, I see you giving aid to many who seem a bit unappreciative but none more so than this Old Sarge guy. And that brings me to hijack this thread and ask for advice on creating a /dev/null for such people. I'm using Kmail and just sending them to the trash is to kind.
Depends on what you use as a MDA, using procmail: :0 * ^From.*jboyle@harbornet.com /dev/null or using postfix: create header_checks per instructions in main.cf /^From: jboyle@harbornet.com/ And there are several other methods I am sure will be offered by more knowledgable linuxers. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
The Friday 2003-10-31 at 22:04 -0600, Richard wrote:
Carlos, I see you giving aid to many who seem a bit unappreciative but none more so than this Old Sarge guy.
I don't mind lack of appreciation, now and then; that's not my motivation. But what he said felt like insult, so I got a bit into flames ;-)
And that brings me to hijack this thread and ask for advice on creating a /dev/null for such people. I'm using Kmail and just sending them to the trash is to kind.
For deletion, I would use procmail, as Patrick said. I don't use kmail much, so I'm unsure, but I think it has powerful filters that could be used for that. For the list mail, I'm using Pine, and I want to investigate the "scoring" method it has. The idea would be to mark those emails as "to be ignored" somehow. There is an old reader, golded, used for Fidonet, but also for inet email, that can mark messages as coming from a "twit", and they are shown blank. That would be preferable than deletion, which is like applying censorship: I'm prejudiced against that. If a "twit" writes I do not want to remove "evidences". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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