Sys Admin Woes: Common Problems
[The Search for A Good Story] Picking up where I left off just yesterday, and perhaps even inspired this wonderful post from Tony, here is a humorous, tongue-in-cheek (but 100% true) rundown of common problems sys admins face on a daily basis: I cant print If there is ever a phrase that will chill the warmest of Sys Admin hearts, it is this one. I dont know who out there designs the printers that HP and Epson and Lexmark manufacture, but somewhere theres a room in hell waiting for them full of old Full House episodes, rapists and razor blades.
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[Furl.net] LookSmart's Furl - The cpascopr Sysadmin Archive: Last May, a Consumer Reports study of off-brand inks compatible with H.P., Epson and Canon printers came to a similar conclusion, finding that off-brand inks tended to fade, failed to accurately reproduce colors and tended to clog print heads. But in November, Staples announced that results of tests conducted in conjunction with the Rochester Institute of Technology concluded that the company's house-brand cartridges "perform equal to their brand-name counterparts at a better price." The Staples cartridge line includes new house-brand cartridges compatible with many Epson and Canon printer models, as well as remanufactured Hewlett-Packard cartridges.
[Sunhelp.org] SunHELP » Printing: EasyCopy from autoGraph International is a complete image communication software package for UNIX. It provides screen capture, printing with support for PostScript, PCL, CGM, RTL, and other printers, image viewer and browser, file format conversions, support for vector graphics, E-mail interface, and more.
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[Fortunecity.com] CURRICULUM VITAE: Network support and administration (LAN Manager, TCP/IP, UDP, NFS) - monitoring with a sniffer device, X11, Motif, OpenWindows Support, User account maintenance, e-mail maintenance and support (MSMail, MsExchange, Route400), MsExchange server/workstation installations and configuration, directory synchronization, mailbox recuperation, user training and support, general user account maintenance, Windows 3.51 and Novell Server support, Internet support, Netscape support, MSOffice Support, Lotus Notes, Operator duties (backups, restorations), Shell scripting (Bourne, korn and C shell), Printer installation (s/w) and maintenance (local and n/w) Oracle database maintenance (unix-wise), Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT Upgrades, patch and package installations on UNIX, Hard Disk and external device (UNIX) installation, configuration and
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[Oreillynet.com] Jaguar: Printing with CUPS: The people at Easy Software products say that I would need to purchase a several hundred dollar support license to answer a few simple questions that I have about adding my HP printer via the web interface. (I few hundred dollars that I don't have)
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Epson, Home Office Printers
Posted at August 03, 2005 10:28 AM