Up to your typical standards of excellence, I see?
Point out the 4200 drivers, please.
You didn’t ask for specific ones, dumbass. You’ll note that TeaElle was not addressing a specific Lexmark model. You asked for Mac and/or Linux drivers for Lexmark, and I gave them to you. But, since you’re so fucking smart, you can write your own Lemark driver for Linux, right?
Your calling El Cid a dumbass is like a Kia calling a Bentley a jalopy.
Yes, I’d expect that from the likes of you.
Your calling Q.E.D. a Kia is like a Pinto calling a Bentley a jalopy.
Do you even read threads anymore, or do you just skim for any opportunity to swing in on your Banyan Vine for a well-timed rescue?
I shouldn’t have to explain this to you, but I encounter a torrent of user issues on a daily basis and have never come across a Mac or Linux driver for this Lexmark multi-function machine. Unless TeaElle can direct me to a download, her post was just a snarky little drive-by.
As was yours.
And yes, I can code. In fact, right now I’m writing a program that can actually make something useful of your 10,000+ posts.
[…shrug…] And I’d expect you to call fellow posters who ask questions dumbasses. I guess that makes us even.
A nice scarf, perhaps? In black and gold?
Granted and granted. But so was your reply to hers. You got replied to in kind. Funny how that works, eh? FWIW, I’ll apologize for the “dumbass” remark. You just happened to trip my Snark-O-Meter today.
Can it be blue? I like blue.
On the other hand, I had a different issue with my Mac, mainly that neither of the two devices would talk to one another, no matter what I did, and that Lexmark had no ability or apparently intention of solving this problem. So, you know, experiences may vary; but I personally hate the bastards.
–p
I’ll join in with the applause for a superb rant, but next time print to a $#@!@#@ PDF file and transfer it to your Mom’s (or whoever’s localhost already-connected) computer if your computer needs a driver other than the ones the OS already comes with.
A few quick points:
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There was no “expert mode” – I told WinXP to get the drivers because the autorun.inf on the CD installs everything, as does the SETUP.EXE; so, no expert mode that I could see.
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The CD was the Win9x/2000/XP CD that comes with the printer/scan/fax/copier.
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The mother-in-law only has dial-up through AOL (don’t get me started) so downloading my own drivers seemed like more hassle than it was worth.
Thanks all for the commiseration. And you two kids up front: if you don’t cool down, I’ll throw a bucket of cold toner on you… and then charge you Lexmark’s prices! 
Thank you! They were beginning to get on my nerves.
Get an Epson.
I´ve had mine (and Stylus 600) for 6 years or more and still prints like the first day, cartdriges are dirt cheap and it doesn´t muck your machine with the junkware you described.
Yep, Epsons are more expensive, mainly because of the piezo-electric nozzles instead of the crappy bubble jet type used on the Lexmark cartdriges. But boy, is it work the extra money on the long run!
Liberal, what is it wth you and QED? You’re both high performing posters, why all this bitch slapping? Did I miss the thread where he burned your crops, raped your pets, and drank your last beer?
That would have made it easy to turn the other cheek… but it turns out that QED actually drank his crops, burned his pets, and raped his beer.
I keed, I keed!
I believe it came to a head on 27 October, when he called me stupid for making this rather common sense assertion: “If we were fighting ignorance, we would not demand empirical evidence for metaphysical claims.” He then asked me whether I meant that “claims of the paranormal are somehow above the scientific method”. It is as though I asserted that we should not use a hammer to saw a board, and then was asked whether I meant that saws are somehow above hammers. I proceded patiently to explain at quite some length and, despite never quite admitting his error, he eventually apologized. We had no real animosity since that time until now when, suddenly, he could not stop himself from hijacking this thread to attack El Cid, one of the board’s most intelligent posters, for no good reason other than having a snit. And it was the exact same attack for which he had apologized — calling someone else stupid. I defended El Cid, and I will do so again whenever some other Neanderthal calls him stupid.
Read this thread again. For that matter, read the other thread again. Your version of events is a load of disingenuous crap.
I could make a hat… or a brooch… or a pterodactyl!