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Here are two:

1) I bought a new printer (an Epson Stylus C82) for my desktop Slackware 9.0
system. I had been running an HP 660C printer on /dev/lp1 (/dev/lp0 has
my Epson LQ570 dot matrix printer), but I wanted a better printer for
printing digital photos. Uncabled the HP, cabled the Epson. Changed the
print filter (moved to the gimp-print plugin for ghostscript), defined
a couple of new print queues (one for regular print, one for photo print)
and restarted lpd. Everything worked, no problems.

2) Got a call Thursday afternoon: "We have to switch your server over from
token ring to ethernet. Today." 'S all right, I had an ethernet card
installed already. "OK", I said, "just cable it up, and I'll switch the
software." A quick "ifconfig" and the ethernet NIC was configured to it's
address. Forgot to mention, I was 30Km away, and telnetting in to the box
(yes, telnet. I don't have putty on my home box, the work machine is
accessable only through the corporate encrypted VPN, and my employer
doesn't feel that I have anything to hide from him (and sometimes snoops
just to make sure) ). This AM, when I visited the server room for a quick
visual inspection, the server was humming away, both NICs conversing. No
reboot, no mess; Slackware 9.0 on that machine as well.

Dontcha just love it when things just work. No reboots, no BSOD, no need to
even be onsite; it just works.

--
Lew Pitcher

Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.

Lew Pitcher wrote:
> Here are two:
>
> 1) I bought a new printer (an Epson Stylus C82) for my desktop Slackware
> 9.0
> system. I had been running an HP 660C printer on /dev/lp1 (/dev/lp0 has
> my Epson LQ570 dot matrix printer), but I wanted a better printer for
> printing digital photos. Uncabled the HP, cabled the Epson. Changed the
> print filter (moved to the gimp-print plugin for ghostscript), defined
> a couple of new print queues (one for regular print, one for photo
> print)
> and restarted lpd. Everything worked, no problems.
Hows about the printing quality ? Is ok,good or excellent ?


>
> 2) Got a call Thursday afternoon: "We have to switch your server over from
> token ring to ethernet. Today." 'S all right, I had an ethernet card
> installed already. "OK", I said, "just cable it up, and I'll switch the
> software." A quick "ifconfig" and the ethernet NIC was configured to
> it's
> address. Forgot to mention, I was 30Km away, and telnetting in to the
> box
> (yes, telnet. I don't have putty on my home box, the work machine is
> accessable only through the corporate encrypted VPN, and my employer
> doesn't feel that I have anything to hide from him (and sometimes snoops
> just to make sure) ). This AM, when I visited the server room for a
> quick
> visual inspection, the server was humming away, both NICs conversing. No
> reboot, no mess; Slackware 9.0 on that machine as well.
>
> Dontcha just love it when things just work. No reboots, no BSOD, no need
> to even be onsite; it just works.
>
Good job