Mac OS X Continually Amazes Me
One of our laser printers at work broke today (Error: 79.00FE) and a co-worker has about 20 documents in her queue to print to it.
Being that it's the day before Thanksgiving and there's only two Interactive/IT guys here I have to put on my IT hat and help out.
I installed a different printer onto her Mac and opened up the new printer's queue. On a whim and a prayer (I never in a million years expected this to work), I clicked a document from the broken printer's queue and dragged it to the new printer's window.
I think my heart skipped a beat when the new printer's window highlighted its border in blue, the way Mac windows react when things can be dragged to that space. I dropped the item into the new queue and the newly installed printer down the hall spun into action.
After a select-all and another drag/drop, all the printer items going to the broken printer were in line to print on the new one.
I'm really impressed because I didn't think that the printer windows would allow that.
Apple, you continue to impress me.
Bonus points to the first commenter to point out how many times the word "queue" is in this post! 
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- Total distance: 341.54mi
- Total time: 101hr 30min 28sec
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November 26th, 2008 - 12:52
five. six, if you could the one in the tags..
December 2nd, 2008 - 18:15
Meanwhile, I can’t get Vista to recognize the Matshita DVD-RAM in my friend’s Compaq. I mean, it shipped with the damn thing after all. Vista’s superior “security” won’t even let me delete the registry key attached to the drive, and every time I add/remove the hardware via the GUI it creates yet another registry entry…
Thanks Microsoft and Matshita, together you make some SoftShit.
December 2nd, 2008 - 18:21
@Joshua David:
I absolutely despise Vista and understand your frustrations. I’ve used it enough to know that I’d probably blow my brains out if I had to use it on a daily basis. If I could no longer use OS X I’d switch to some Linux/GNU variant before ever going back to Microsoft.
Microsoft is never getting another penny from me when it comes to computers (gaming consoles is a completely different matter altogether!).
December 5th, 2008 - 22:32
@Mark
I love my Wii and my PS3, no way I’d waste my money on that loud, unreliable XBox 360.