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Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple
Renegade:
Because now you get to chase down an intermittent outage issue caused by a renegade protocol.
-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 10:32 PM)
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Hey! I resemble that~! :)
Darwin:
Heh, heh - that comment about networking resonates - my mum's friend, who is 71, went to buy a printer but was turned off because it was wireless and she doesn't have wireless... Doh! I've been trying to get her to replace her ancient HP inkjet for YEARS because troubleshooting its issues with OSX have been driving me crazy... Sigh :(
Darwin:
I just came across this post: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
doing a totally unrelated search but thought it *might* resonate here. NB language NSFW or children.
Stoic Joker:
Because now you get to chase down an intermittent outage issue caused by a renegade protocol.
-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 10:32 PM)
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Hey! I resemble that~! :)
-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 10:42 PM)
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I knew I was going to get nailed for that, but I just couldn't thing of a applicable synonym at that time of night.
Heh, heh - that comment about networking resonates - my mum's friend, who is 71, went to buy a printer but was turned off because it was wireless and she doesn't have wireless... Doh! I've been trying to get her to replace her ancient HP inkjet for YEARS because troubleshooting its issues with OSX have been driving me crazy... Sigh :(
-Darwin (May 02, 2011, 10:56 PM)
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She didn't belive that you can still just use USB (which is required for setting up the WiFi) with the "WiFi" printer? Load the printer with sandpaper and then print a phonebook ... The issue should then solve itself... ;)
I just came across this post: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
doing a totally unrelated search but thought it *might* resonate here. NB language NSFW or children.
-Darwin (May 03, 2011, 11:12 AM)
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hehe
Darwin:
She didn't belive that you can still just use USB (which is required for setting up the WiFi) with the "WiFi" printer? Load the printer with sandpaper and then print a phonebook ... The issue should then solve itself...
-Stoic Joker (May 03, 2011, 12:02 PM)
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;D Good one, I might just have to try that!
I could have gone back and killed the salesperson (and rue the fact that I didn't go with my mum's friend into the shop) - I find salespeople these days really ANNOYING. All the old bird wanted was an $80 HP Laserjet and she walked out empty-handed because the salesperson couldn't stop talking up all of the features, including the built-in wireless networking. My mum's friend is technophobic to the point of anxiety, and she concluded that you have to have wi-fi to connect the printer (and not that you have to have USB connectivity to connnect to a wi-fi network). Grr... I ran into an officious little turd of a salesperson like that myself at The Source (a pale version of Radio Shack in Canada) who tried to impress me with his networking chops. All I wanted was a Network Switch. He asked what I wanted to do with it, and after I told him (run 50 feet of cable from my wi-fi router's LAN port under my house to the switch to connect my TV, blu-ray player and xBox to my network), proceeded to tell me that what I wanted to do wouldn't work. He wanted to sell me either a secondary router or some other EXTREMELY expensive contraption. I know that the LAN router would have worked, but that's not the point. I can't stand being fed techo-mumble that serves only to (try to) assert the salesperson's credbility with the customer. Can't remember the details of his argument, but needless to say Futureshop got my business and I've been happily networked for a couple of months now.
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