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Article #620633Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
From: Peter Flass
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:55
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:55
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-02-13, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> On 2018-02-13, J Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 13 Feb 2018 05:25:14 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2018-02-12, Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Are you kidding? They would have to know enough to talk to the >>>>>> experts who do the work. Chemistry and physics in the real >>>>>> world have rules, no matter how the software is written. >>>>>> If the software messes up just a little bit w.r.t. the >>>>>> chemistry of cement, the entire batch has to be dumped. >>>> >>>> Sort of like Windows: re-boot, re-format, re-install. >>>> And people accept it. >>> >>> And we have another one who hasn't used Windows in 20 years. > > I had to do the "Microsoft dance" to get my "new" printer to work all > of about 3 weeks ago. On my Linux box I clicked "Add Printer", > answered a couple of questions and it works just fine. On Windows > there were several reboots and it still doesn't do duplex properly. > > Worse. Wife has an old computer running Vista. I moved an old HP into the condo to run on Linux as a shared printer, which works just fine. At home wife's computer usually uses another printer. When I wanter to set hers up to use the shared printer windows wanted to install a driver for it. Cue hours of spinning wheels attempting to download driver. At one point I let it run all night and it still got nowhere. -- Pete
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