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PDFs notwithstanding, I think we've actually moved backwards over the last thirty years, in terms of printing "just working". Fortunately, we now have teleconf

PDFs notwithstanding, I think we've actually moved backwards over the last thirty years, in terms of printing "just working". Fortunately, we now have teleconferencing to take our minds off of it.

jimbokun 7y ago
"Fortunately, we now have teleconferencing to take our minds off of it." "Does anyone have an HDMI to DisplayPort adapater on them? What's the phone number for this conference again? What? You only have Slack installed? No, we decided to start using Microsoft Teams for these. Can you speak up? I'm having trouble hearing you. Maybe try dialing in again?"
- fphhotchips 7y ago
  "Hey does anyone know the guest wifi password?" "Sorry, I was double muted" "Can you turn mute on? There's a lot of echo on your end" "Sorry, we're just trying to work out which mic works"
  - smoyer 7y ago
    We had to contact our desktop support group to program the bridge number into the conferencing telephone we use for our stand-ups every day because they'd disabled the ability to program it from the touch-screen and keypad. Cisco VoIP phones now have echo cancelling that I think is as good as the old Polycom Star Trek phones, but having them managed by CCM may be a step backwards. P.S. We're still manually dialing every day while waiting for our ticket to be processed.
quickthrowman 7y ago
Perhaps home printers are a wasteland, but the copy/printers and plotters at my work are pretty dang reliable, considering they do thousands of pages or thousands of linear feet a day sometimes.
- downerending 7y ago
  Indeed, but this is the "easy" case, and I suspect your IT guys/gals spent a considerable amount of time setting up and shaking the bugs out of this setup. It's not that printers are physically unreliable, although they certainly can be. It's the logical complexity of getting an image (or text) from one device via the myriad protocols, connectors (or wireless), page layout languages, etc., correctly onto the printer. And for added fun, even after RMSs long trek, some printers still aren't open enough to drive without secret software.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    You mean you can’t still just do: PR#1 To print?

PDFs notwithstanding, I think we've actually moved backwards over the last thirty years, in terms of printing "just working". Fortunately, we now have teleconferencing to take our minds off of it.

jimbokun 7y ago

"Fortunately, we now have teleconferencing to take our minds off of it." "Does anyone have an HDMI to DisplayPort adapater on them? What's the phone number for this conference again? What? You only have Slack installed? No, we decided to start using Microsoft Teams for these. Can you speak up? I'm having trouble hearing you. Maybe try dialing in again?"

fphhotchips 7y ago
"Hey does anyone know the guest wifi password?" "Sorry, I was double muted" "Can you turn mute on? There's a lot of echo on your end" "Sorry, we're just trying to work out which mic works"
- smoyer 7y ago
  We had to contact our desktop support group to program the bridge number into the conferencing telephone we use for our stand-ups every day because they'd disabled the ability to program it from the touch-screen and keypad. Cisco VoIP phones now have echo cancelling that I think is as good as the old Polycom Star Trek phones, but having them managed by CCM may be a step backwards. P.S. We're still manually dialing every day while waiting for our ticket to be processed.

quickthrowman 7y ago

Perhaps home printers are a wasteland, but the copy/printers and plotters at my work are pretty dang reliable, considering they do thousands of pages or thousands of linear feet a day sometimes.

downerending 7y ago
Indeed, but this is the "easy" case, and I suspect your IT guys/gals spent a considerable amount of time setting up and shaking the bugs out of this setup. It's not that printers are physically unreliable, although they certainly can be. It's the logical complexity of getting an image (or text) from one device via the myriad protocols, connectors (or wireless), page layout languages, etc., correctly onto the printer. And for added fun, even after RMSs long trek, some printers still aren't open enough to drive without secret software.
- scarface74 7y ago
  You mean you can’t still just do: PR#1 To print?