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Eliminate the HP 6100 printer's self-restoring dock icon
Authored by: Jay on Feb 20, '04 12:34:11PM

What an annoying Windows-y problem. This alone will steer me clear of HP products.



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Eliminate the HP 6100 printer's self-restoring dock icon
Authored by: cawaker on Feb 20, '04 12:44:12PM

Yeah I'm with ya on that one, if any app forces itself on me, I'd avoid it liek the plauge.



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Eliminate the HP 6100 printer's self-restoring dock icon
Authored by: semios on Feb 20, '04 05:33:52PM

It nicely illustrates a key difference between Macintosh and Windows culture. In so far as what is acceptable, indeed expected, on the Windows side of the fence is found completely unpalatable on the Macintosh side. There was a great article on this, but I can't seem to find it again.



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Eliminate the HP 6100 printer's self-restoring dock icon
Authored by: jason [thebox] on Feb 21, '04 11:39:04AM

yeah that HAS to be annoying..

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Eliminate the HP 6100 printer's self-restoring dock icon
Authored by: thornrag on Apr 04, '04 01:17:40PM

It doesn't stop there. Not only is their software pushy, intrusive, and belligerent, it's the least-flexible *printer driver* I've ever seen on the Mac.

Laptop users be warned: don't expect to happily plug and unplug your *USB* printer and your Powerbook. It's a documented issue that if you unplug your HP USB Multifunction printer, the software loses its connection to the device and the only way to restore it is to reboot!

It's freaking USB! How is it tolerable that what should be a hot-pluggable device is not in fact hot-pluggable? It's utterly unworkable for portable users. And of course, you won't find out until after you set the damn thing up.

Where is the outrage? It's as if our society has been beaten into submission to accept third-rate products like this. The revolution of lowered expectations is well underway. UGH.



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Eliminate the HP 6100 printer's self-restoring dock icon
Authored by: thornrag on Apr 04, '04 11:42:45PM

And let's NOT forget that the installer refuses to do a thing unless you QUIT ALL RUNNING APPLICATIONS, even in OS X! There's so little reason for this that it boggles my mind. I've sent HP a couple of complaints just because it crosses my mind how irritating it is. And now I'm trying to set up my girlfriend's computer, and I'm embarassed for her to have to witness this travesty. "hey! You can install without restarting things, not like windows!"

Except, WAIT....

The software sucks as bad on the MAC as it does in WINDOWS!

::pulls out hair screaming::



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