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Wednesday 30 July 2008, 3:18 PM
Please README a story, daddy?
Linux blogs elsewhere have uncovered a very nice little bedtime story, contained in the readme file for Gnome's printer manager.
"Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He was a lonely printer, because nobody knew how to configure him. He hoped and hoped for someone to play with," begins the story, contained in the gnome-cups-manager , and reported by fsckin w/ linux.
The poor little printer remains unhappy, "jamming paper (for that is what little printers do when they are confused)", until a girl - called gnome-cups-manager - comes to play with him, after which the happy little printer can print to its heart's content.
If I'd known README files were this good, I'd have read more of them.
"Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He was a lonely printer, because nobody knew how to configure him. He hoped and hoped for someone to play with," begins the story, contained in the gnome-cups-manager , and reported by fsckin w/ linux.
The poor little printer remains unhappy, "jamming paper (for that is what little printers do when they are confused)", until a girl - called gnome-cups-manager - comes to play with him, after which the happy little printer can print to its heart's content.
If I'd known README files were this good, I'd have read more of them.
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