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jackdoetoday at 6:19 PM1 replyview on HN

I have seriously dealt with this for 30 years, from before cups existed, and as I said I have forgotten more about lpd and cups than most people know.

You have no idea how much I don't want to understand.

I am not being witty for comedic effect.


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kami23today at 9:02 PM

I have this same attitude. I've been a linux user for 24 some years I don't need to know why Linux broke, just fix x and move on.

I used to spend hours debugging video card issues and other modifications I've liked to make over the years and being able to describe my ideal system admin setup I could get onto what I actually wanted to do.

Heh, thinking about it now, I broke a MBR on a Windows install as a kid and if I would have had these tools I would have been able to fix it immediately, but back then it took me using enough Linux booted off live cds to learn debugging techniques to fix the MBR. And debugging is one of my best skills.