rizlared wrote:Okay so I have worked as a computer Engineer for most of my working life, so you could say I know my way around them, yes I get baffled by certain MS Windows problems but stay sane as these problems are also insurmountable by the original programmers, and if these mini icons of advanced mathematical calculus can’t fix it how can someone of normal intelligence, but I digress.
Being of a logical mind I decided to print some pictures for a friend, these were some taken on my Nokia phone, mainly of sunset’s, landscapes, Autumn leaves etc, via Bluetooth, so, I set up the printer set, up my phone and after pushing some 2,000 key strokes got to the print menu and there was the printer, Epson R360, Brilliant, pressed print and waited, and waited and waited and then the phone notified me that the pictures were printed, “No” I told the phone, “they haven’t” so I tried again, same result, phone said they were printed but nothing, not even a Chirp came from the printer, it just sat there like a Mere cat surveying the veldt, motionless, awaiting some large cat to emerge from the long grass.
Now when it comes to electrical devices I am not a fool, I have experience, knowledge gained from many years of trial and error, so I knew that I had made some mistake in setting up this Bluetooth connection, but some 5 hours later, now bereft of what hair I started with, I was still at a total loss, it said they had printed and yet nothing was produced. So I did what any sane man would do under these circumstances, I gave up!
I went outside and lit up a well deserved ciggy, here in sunny England we have this quant mania for leaning on the garden fence and putting the world to rights with the guy next door, so I did just that, bemoaning that when it comes to gadgets its always one step forward and two steps back, my neighbour, a friendly sort, works in Security and has a thing for golf and knows FA about computers, nods his head in a frustratingly knowing way as I regale my story of a wasted afternoon, when I finish, he looks at me and says “I think I can help you there my friend” I of course, am far to polite to say “Yer right so you know better than me” although the thought did cross my bewildered mind. Okay I reply, he disappears inside his house and reappears some moments later, clutching a huge wad of papers about half a ream I would guess.
He hands them to me, saying “ Are these your pictures? I think you own me some paper and ink”
And they were!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now the question is,how did they end up on his machine.Bet Billy Boy Gates could answer that one.