It's often said that ignorance isn't an excuse. I'd argue against that in many cases. Ignorance is an excuse where it would take 3-4 years of learning about IT to be aware of what's going on under that case.
I not sure I can agree although it sounds reasonable. How long does it take to go through law school? If I do something that seems reasonable and it turns out to be illegal, I'm screwed. The only way to know for sure is to become a lawyer and even then laws aren't static.
It doesn't take four years to teach someone the basic concepts of safe computing, it's that users are to lazy to actually learn something as it takes away from there TV time. I have seen a couple a freely available pages on the net that teach is in less than an hour but you have to read it. Ok well maybe it was an hour a day for a week, still much less time than learning how to drive a car. (I'm just talking about safe computing)
Sorry, I don't mean to sound angry, I have been doing tech support for over 16 years now and the majority of "problems" are just people who can't take the time to RTFM and not actually a problem at all.
Trying is the first step towards failure. H.J.Simpon
This is not a complete guide to UNIX printing but there are many interesting pages on howto setup many different versions of UNIX to print to network printers. The Solaris LPR/LPD page has has the most detail.
All the notes are based on Canon network printers as that is where I work.
http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/unix/index.html I hope it can be of some use
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It's often said that ignorance isn't an excuse. I'd argue against that in many cases. Ignorance is an excuse where it would take 3-4 years of learning about IT to be aware of what's going on under that case.
I not sure I can agree although it sounds reasonable. How long does it take to go through law school? If I do something that seems reasonable and it turns out to be illegal, I'm screwed. The only way to know for sure is to become a lawyer and even then laws aren't static.
It doesn't take four years to teach someone the basic concepts of safe computing, it's that users are to lazy to actually learn something as it takes away from there TV time. I have seen a couple a freely available pages on the net that teach is in less than an hour but you have to read it. Ok well maybe it was an hour a day for a week, still much less time than learning how to drive a car. (I'm just talking about safe computing)
Sorry, I don't mean to sound angry, I have been doing tech support for over 16 years now and the majority of "problems" are just people who can't take the time to RTFM and not actually a problem at all.
Trying is the first step towards failure. H.J.Simpon
This is not a complete guide to UNIX printing but there are many interesting pages on howto setup many different versions of UNIX to print to network printers. The Solaris LPR/LPD page has has the most detail.
All the notes are based on Canon network printers as that is where I work.
http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/unix/index.html
I hope it can be of some use