** Reply to message from Kevin McLauchlan
The difference between:
a) Windows crashed/locked up and I had to spend 6 minutes waiting for it to reboot
versus
b) I told Linux to print my document and it stopped when the paper ran out and then I wasted an entire morning failing to find it in the documentation, asking other people who didn't know, and waiting for responses from mailing lists...
um , perhaps someone who can't figure out the printer has run out of paper shouldn't be left alone w/ a computer? Don't leave home w/o one . ( brain cells ) IF you are telling me in this example that the printer is 5 floors down ( or up) and you normally have to wait for the tea boy to bring you your printed materials anyway ? You don't care if the thing is out of paper. You probably wont notice anyway , as the tea boy is likely to be much slower or faster than the printer is , but 5 floors to navigate w/ all that paper ( the jobs that other folks managed to get printed before this , er , "crash". Surely not noticing the paper has run out is not something rooted in the OS .) -- j afterthought: I'm really easy to get along with once people learn to worship me.