Linux Useablity

[Brian Densmore]

Yep! Have this problem everytime I have to reconfigure CUPS.
On the interesting side, while I was nmap-ping [wink] my new 
server (yes, I'm debugging my firewall rules) from home
running ethereal I noticed my desktop advertising the CUPS
shared printer on that machine (only to local LAN machines).
Oh yeah and while we're ranting, what's with the man page on
tethereal? YIKES! How many pages is it? I gave up after about
30,000 lines. While I'm on the subject of man pages, anyone know
how to navigate in them other than up/down/scroll xx lines? I 
suppose it's a vi interface? God, I hate vi! I need a beer.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:20 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Linux Useablity
> 
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
> 
> ESR addresses some issues on GUI useablity that got sparked 
> by his attempt to share a printer between two PCs on his 
> network via CUPS.   Very good read.  Are the programmers out 
> there listening?   I would have thought that some of this 
> would have come up in the Gnome and KDE useablity studies.
Programmers don't listen, especially about printers. That's
a hardware problem. Go get a *#!@%~^ BOFH. ;')