On 16.10.2018 11:29, Alessandro Selli wrote: > I find it amazing how often there is no one who knows anything> technical > about the printer, and I do not mean the list of printing or> shared filesystem protocols it supports or if it can take Postscript/PDF> files directly, but not even it's IP or whether at the given IP I can> find the printer itself or some PC acting as a print spooler. A couple> of times when I asked how comes no one knew anything about the printer I> was answered something like: "Oh well, it got setup by some guy years> ago, I was not even here when he did the job, and anyway nobody bothers> to know so long as it works". Somehow administering the printer is not> considered a facet of infrastructure sysadminship, it's instead like a> dirty floor: you don't wash it yourself if someone spilled their Double> Hot Chocolate mug on it, you call the janitor to clean up the mess instead. hmm, perhaps we should build some fancy product for that, something with the word "ENTERPRISE" written in very big letters onto it ;-)
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