30 years...

[brutal]

AND WINDOWS STILL CAN'T RELIABLY PRINT OVER A NETWORK CONNECTION!!!!!!!!


[Bang][Bang]
[UZI][UZI]
[pileoshit][pileoshit]
[Rant1][Rant1]
[AR15][AR15]

[MG][MG]
[russian roulette][russian roulette]
[fyou] WINDOWS!

[TFOGGER]

I feel your pain. I have a network printer at home that works about half of the time...

[Bailey Guns]

Give Bill Gates a break. It's just a bug or two left to work out.

Just to keep it in perspective, men haven't figured out women and it's been a couple million years. Not sure if that says more about men or more about women.

[Irving]

Have you tried Monster cables? Make sure you get the gold connectors.

[brutal]

Have you tried Monster cables? Make sure you get the gold connectors.

THAT'S THE PROBLEM. THIS COAT HANGER WIRE CAN'T HANDLE THE BANDWIDTH.

P.S. Windows (and Chrome for that matter) also isn't smart enough to warn me when I'm still typing in ALL CAPS!

[ray1970]

Who prints stuff anymore anyways?

Printing uses paper. Paper comes from trees. Less trees leads to climate change and global warming. Climate change and global warming is bad for baby seals and dolphins. Every time you hit that print button you are killing cute, innocent animals. If you print enough stuff who knows what could happen. Unicorns could become extinct.

[fail]

[BushMasterBoy]

Eric Snowden warned us...

[izzy]

Switch to linux, then print 2 copies.

[hurley842002]

Huh, I've never had an issue, granted my printing is usually only a few pages at a time.

[def90]

My HP printer fails just the same whether it's a network connection or a straight USB connection.. as does every other HP printer I have ever dealt with.

[cmailliard]

I bought my wife an 8.1 laptop last year and I still cannot figure out how to add a printer, it is now a doorstop and she is using my old MacBook Air. I have been on a Mac for the last 4 years and love it. Yes it has issues as well, but nowhere near the issues that Windows has.

My last year at JeffCo I was using a $300 Chromebook that worked better than any of the Windows machines in the building. Even after IT said I could not print and they posted on the support page "Printing is available on Google Chromebooks" I was up and printing in under 3 minutes from anywhere in the building. I posted how to do on our Learning Management System and other teachers were able to do the same thing. IT still kept telling people you could not print from a Chromebook. I had all 60 of my students printing from their Chromebooks as well (when needed). I was pretty much paperless my last year. A $300 web-based machine kicked the shit out of a crapware IT bloated POS Dell.

Windows is flaming bag of dogshit on the porch of life. The only reason it is still used in the corporate world is it allows IT to be needed. If shit didn't break all the time there would not be much of a need for support tickets, waiting on hold, and beating your Dell into the drywall.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Mac.

[roberth]

Windows....the worlds biggest virus.

Hey Brutal - it ain't a bug...its a feature!

[Gman]

I don't have printing issues on Windows or Mac. I can however scan to PDF with my Windows PCs, which is something I can't do on Mac.

Who is going to be first on their block to upgrade to El Capitan tomorrow? Good luck!

[Big E3]

Eric Snowden warned us...

Is that Edward's brother, and what does he know?

[BushMasterBoy]

Is that Edward's brother, and what does he know?

His evil twin...lol...my bad

[hatidua]

I can however scan to PDF with my Windows PCs, which is something I can't do on Mac.

scan - open scan in PS - save as .pdf

[ben4372]

My biggest fault with MS and the Windows way is the way it spread to the rest of the world. Even car are being sold in a beta state. And for all the Apple fanboys, of which I may be one day. My work iphone gets an IOS update once a month. Car dealers are always checking and updating vehicles. Windows has made it acceptable to release a product that is only 80% finished. All with the promise of an update to fix what should have never left the factory.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I don't have printing issues on Windows or Mac. I can however scan to PDF with my Windows PCs, which is something I can't do on Mac.

?!?!? I can scan to PDF on my Mac using my HP All-in-One, been able to do that since Snow Leopard. The only thing I've seen that I could do on Windows and not on Mac was easily edit (in bulk) the EXIF information on my pictures.

I'm almost never the first one on the block to adopt a new product and not going to start now. I prefer the Mac to Windows but I saw no reason to upgrade to Yosemite and still don't.

[brutal]

Who prints stuff anymore anyways?

Printing uses paper. Paper comes from trees. Less trees leads to climate change and global warming. Climate change and global warming is bad for baby seals and dolphins. Every time you hit that print button you are killing cute, innocent animals. If you print enough stuff who knows what could happen. Unicorns could become extinct.

[fail]

I know that's tongue in cheek.

However, I was printing load data from a spreadsheet I keep and like to make notes on paper while I work at the bench. This should be simple right? HP1020 printer shared from my Win7 "server." Printing from my (corporate image) Win7 VM running under VM Workstation. Randomly decides to print - or not. Frustrating. I don't recall it always being so stubborn. I think one of the recent VMware or SEP updates is fucking it up worse. Often, I print to pdf and pick it up elsewhere via dropbox, but in this particular case the xlsx spreadsheet doesn't format well in Open Office on my personal server, and the host OS on my corporate laptop doesn't have any firearm files synced via dropbox.

Yea, I have Linux VM's for specific things I need to do/use. Sadly, Windows is a defacto requirement for many of the utilities and tools required for the myriad of devices I work on. Some day, they'll all be 100% (functionally) browser based or easily usable via command line, and not need some lame tweaked out version of java as well, but until that day, I'm stuck with Winders.

In all seriousness, I'm also a firm believer that we are using renewable resources when we use wood and paper products. It's a self-maintaining industry that creates jobs and strengthens the working class.

[ray1970]

I know that's tongue in cheek.



It was the part about the unicorns that gave me away, wasn't it?

I fully agree with you that anything Windows fully sucks the big one. Other than having to deal with it at work I rarely have to use it. I find everything about it pretty much non-intuitive and difficult to do.

Windows is sort of like Glock. Their new products really aren't much different than the original and every time they announce something new it usually isn't what the people have been really wanting.

[ruthabagah]

Lets see: last weekend I had to install a new laser printer for the wife home office. Installation time on her work PC running windows 7: 45 min (had to find the proper driver, then install it and restart, then configure) Installation time on our home iMac through wifi : 30 seconds.... (No drivers, worked immediately will all functionalities).

get a Mac.

[StagLefty]

Windows 10 only does cursive-This reply is in cursive on my laptop, I never have to print any more [Sarcasm2]

[TFOGGER]

I believe Windows has had Random Print functionality since 95 came out, that is to say that it will send shit to the print spooler(an utterly obsolete concept when printers have gigs of buffer memory), and at some point in the next 6 months, it may or may not print, may or may not require you to restart the OS, network, printer, water heater, or political campaign, in order to print.

[cmailliard]

It's official - Microsoft just made the list of things I need to take care if I am ever diagnosed with a terminal disease. This has to do with Office for Mac, they removed the Publisher View in the 2016 version so now everything that was created as a table in that view is now one giant textbox. I cannot add or remove rows. Second time this has affected important documents (these 10 happen to be our checklists for Donning and Doffing Bio PPE). I really hate Microsoft.

[cfortune]

I bought my wife an 8.1 laptop last year and I still cannot figure out how to add a printer, it is now a doorstop and she is using my old MacBook Air. I have been on a Mac for the last 4 years and love it. Yes it has issues as well, but nowhere near the issues that Windows has.

My last year at JeffCo I was using a $300 Chromebook that worked better than any of the Windows machines in the building. Even after IT said I could not print and they posted on the support page "Printing is available on Google Chromebooks" I was up and printing in under 3 minutes from anywhere in the building. I posted how to do on our Learning Management System and other teachers were able to do the same thing. IT still kept telling people you could not print from a Chromebook. I had all 60 of my students printing from their Chromebooks as well (when needed). I was pretty much paperless my last year. A $300 web-based machine kicked the shit out of a crapware IT bloated POS Dell.

Windows is flaming bag of dogshit on the porch of life. The only reason it is still used in the corporate world is it allows IT to be needed. If shit didn't break all the time there would not be much of a need for support tickets, waiting on hold, and beating your Dell into the drywall.


Hitting the Windows key and typing "Devices and Printers" is hard ;)

[Gman]

I upgraded my Macbook Pro to El Capitan last night. Everything seems to be working, but I haven't tried to print yet.

I print so rarely that my cartridges tend to expire before they're empty. Print is dead.

[cmailliard]

Hitting the Windows key and typing "Devices and Printers" is hard ;)

Still harder than plugging in the USB and waiting 20 seconds, then clicking OK.

[davsel]

Email it to your iPhone and print from there. Works every time.

[brutal]

Email it to your iPhone and print from there. Works every time.

[hahhah-no]

All Android here, at least that's one working OS.