Driver fiends
Sometimes I’m very, very frightened for the future of humanity.
Usually it’s when someone posts another comment to my rant about HP printer drivers. Because invariably, these commenters have a remarkable combination of skills: they cannot read, but they’re perfectly capable of typing. (Touch-typists, perhaps?)
These people come to ask me for printer drivers.
I don’t know why they ask me for printer drivers. I never claimed to have drivers. I certainly haven’t found any combination of keywords about printer drivers that will make Google return my Web site before HP’s. (Yes, wonder of wonders, the people who built your printer do in fact also provide drivers for it. They suck, but they’re not that hard to find.)
And yet these people continue to ask me for drivers. Is someone playing some elaborate prank? Am I being punished by Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, for some past misdeed?
Or are there really that many idiots out there?
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” — Robert Wilensky
June 19th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
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June 20th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Just so you know, Carlos, I was specifically making fun of the people who post on my blog looking for drivers. (That now includes you.)
You might want to try the drivers that are readily available from HP’s Web site. Just a crazy thought.