Re: The 39 Steps
tied in knots by cups
Out of curiosity, how is CUPS these days? I remember trying to set it up some 10 years ago or so and it still ranks as the most rage-inducing, user-hostile experience I've ever... well, experienced.
I blocked most of it from my memory (happens with seriously traumatic experiences, I'm told) but it had some kind of admin account that was totally different from the system accounts that I didn't know the password to, and I needed to configure it by pointing a browser atmy own machine (?!?!) because it ran its own pseudo-webserver (?!?!?how is any of this needed for bloody printing?!?!?) and something about queues (?!?!?).
It was a wired network printer. I had its static IP and its model, that's all that should be necessary for me to input. I couldn't even get that far. I never did get it to work, and I went back to Windows where it still works fine.
The whole experience spooked me so badly that, although I do run Linux on my laptop, I haven't even tried to set up printing on it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
