Try going to the printer vendor's web site, downloading the latest Vista driver, and reinstalling it.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
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Tom Scola - Nov 22, 2008 2:06:47 pm PST #8110 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Polgara - Nov 22, 2008 4:20:23 pm PST #8111 of 25501
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
HP insists my printer is Vista compatible and therefore didn't make a new driver, and yet I see lots of people complaining about the same problem I'm having. So far none of their solutions have worked for me, although it's powered off now because it just kept going and going and going. Maybe a day with no juice will reset it?
dcp - Nov 22, 2008 4:22:34 pm PST #8112 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
What model printer? And did it still print okay from the other computer on the network?
Polgara - Nov 22, 2008 4:32:09 pm PST #8113 of 25501
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
HP inkjet 5550. It did print ok from the XP computer, until the latest tests, and now all it'll print is the gibberish, hence the time-out.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2008 2:25:35 pm PST #8114 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know, all this time I thought "sudo" meant "super-user do" but it really means "switch users during operation." Boringer.
Tom Scola - Nov 23, 2008 2:27:23 pm PST #8115 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Says who?
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2008 2:47:36 pm PST #8116 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You disagree? I think super-user do makes more sense, myself.
Speaking of which, I'm trying to follow their instructions to install Alfresco, and I'm coming up blocked when I try to do apt-get install xvfb because I get the error Failed to fetch http:/ /security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xvfb_1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3_i386.deb. Which is reasonable, because it's not there. 8.4_i386.deb is there, though. Anyone know anything about this "dummy X server required for openoffice.org"? Should I be upgrading my version of Ubuntu from 7.10? The Alfresco install instructions say they are for 7.10.
Wait...I ran apt-get update and everything seems to be fine now. That's kinda cool. I wish I knew why it worked. Time for more research.
Tom Scola - Nov 23, 2008 2:55:28 pm PST #8117 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I call bullshit. The Official Sudo page tends to agree with me.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2008 2:58:17 pm PST #8118 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I will echo your bullshit, then. I like it your way better. Not going to touch the wiki, though. Just cross my fingers that the Alfresco install works without my faith.
Gris - Nov 23, 2008 3:34:39 pm PST #8119 of 25501
Hey. New board.
The only reason I'd disagree is because you can sudo (or su) to any user. Not just a super-user. I use "su" to switch to other non-super users all the time, and can easily imagine doing the same with sudo.