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20 pg 245 footnote2.

Of course people print out web pages; how else do you read them in the toilet?

20.1.2 pg 432

Re printer naming. Get people used to the idea that the printer belongs to the physical location and not to the group that uses it. That way if the group moves (not an unheard of situation; too many office relocations in this place!) the printer stays behind, and anyone not affected by the move won't have to change anything. This process is aided by having identical printers in each location.

20.1.3 pg 432

Other "peer to peer" issues include "how to cancel a rogue job if you can't find the machine that's spooling to the printer?!" and potential starvation of a client; if there are 10 machines all trying to print to the same printer and the printer can only handle one connection at a time then the other clients will backoff and retry. Typical dining philosophers problem. Having a central spooler avoids this. Basically "peer to peer" isn't scalable.

-- StephenHarris - 22 Aug 2006