[ale] Another aha moment

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Mar 10 20:23:42 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:11, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> So a few days ago, my wife became unable to print web pages on her (our)
> Debian 2.2 system. She could still print text without any problem.
> I had carefully set it up, written a small script to process the
> postscript output of  Opera 5.1 with gs(1), and had image print working
> for several months.
> 
> Last weekend, I double-checked all the software and it looked ok. I
> looked at the cable on the printer side and verified that it was firm. 
> I looked once at the cable plugged into the 
> computer, and it seemed OK. 
> 
> After a large amount of uxorial prodding, I sat down Friday night to
> figure out the problem. I again checked the software. Then I actually
> jiggled the cable on the computer side and observed that it was loose. I
> jammed it back in and verified that the screws were tight.
> 
> That did the trick, and my antiquated software/hardware setup once again
> produced  the wondrous art available at the subgenius site
> (http://subgenius.com)
> 
> Moral: If something suddenly stops working where it was working before,
> it's hardware.

Or Micro$oft
> 
> -- CHS
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