I was short of technical staff and all my teaching staff were busy so I set to to install the new workshop of 20 computers. No network before that time. So feed disk 1 into computer 1 start install, when it asked for disk 2 start that off and put disk 1 in to computer 2, ……. Till all the computers were installing and all disks in use…… took most of a morning.
Then repeat for photoshop, illustrator, freehand, all day just to install software in the room.
Not something I had to do often, and thérapeutique I think or just mindless
Ok. As you nerds dispite not understanding how installation on Fedora works and just started a discussion I had to find out myself (parents: talk to your kids)
I never use the brother script.
I prefer to follow the instructions one step at a time. Then you can diagnose problems.
The most common problem is the .deb ( or rpm) files supplied by brother do not always install the brother libraries in the correct location.
Very few people on this forum use Fedora. We are mostly Debian and derivatives.
Please forgive us for interrupting your personal thread “dispite” (sic) - some of us have been using RPM based distros since at least Y2K, some earlier…
As mentioned - above - if you cared to scollback - RPM files are not the answer - and Brother ONLY do 32 bit “i386” drivers… I very much doubt you’re running a 32 bit Fedora system…
Good on ya sport - but can you actually print?
I thought you understood install on Fedora? You’ve just installed 32 bit drivers - good on you!
Didn’t you ever hear about “yum” - and now it’s been replaced with “dnf”…
Sorry - but managing headless systems based on RHEL - this is my bread and butter…
There is years of knowledge and experiences on the site. We all run different hardware and systems we may not cover every eventually but we try very hard.
If you have read a lot of the threads on this forum, you would find out that the comments posted do not always provide useful information nor follow the subject title.
The thread sometimes becomes a discussion among friends who enjoy the company of each other. The moderators do not seems to mind the “nerds” posting on this forum as long as it is in a friendly manner.
After you have mentioned this, for me as a Usenet veteran, this dynamic topic change is mostly somewhat strange, even if it seems to be part of this forum’s culture.
A topic starts about Linux but ends with a discussion about Australian cars and motors.
You have observed quite astutely.
It has grown more like that recently… I think most of us are not lovers of regulations.
If it were a football match one would say “let the game flow” rather than keep blowing the whistle.
I am happy to split a topic if it is diverging to a different Linux question… but I dont know what to do with divergent chatter. Maybe we treat it like background noise and try to keep the signal greater than the noise by inserting topic summaries.
Sometimes the dynamic discussion is more illuminating than the original topic. I dont want to kill that.
As I said, it’s part of the culture here, and I can live with it. My problem is that I mute topics out of my interest. After contributing to a Linux topic, that topic gets subscribed. Whenever the discussion goes down to the impact of the price of a pint of beer, I’m out. Even if the initial or title topic is still of interest.
That is Fine. You do not have to linger for the ‘happy hour’ … Australian expression for having a beer after work
We could ban all natter, and end up as dry as an academic lecture hall.
We could allow anything and end up with topics full of rap music
I think our current balance is reasonable, and is largely due to the quality people we have… we did survive for about 2 years with no moderators at all.
What I might try is doing topic summaries when the discussion seems to be ending… any volunteers to do summaries?
Can I ask, what is your impression of the standard of contributioms on this forum .
You have seen other forums. How do we compare?
and geeks 
