30 years...

[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.

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.