From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:55:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26462848-1442-965e-8673-792e56bb0ea5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1787002.lh9CXKbaV1@peak>
On 30/12/2017 02:44, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 29 December 2017 16:45:33 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
>
>> (Plus, of course, so much development is done for the American market,
>> so they don't realise how hard it is to get a change like A4 to stick :-(
>
> Damned colonials. It's like the baseball "world series": no-one outside
> north America plays it
[random OT factoid]
baseball is hugely popular in Japan. Rugby too :-)
[2nd random OT factoid]
It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News
of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado)
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-30 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-21 14:20 [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page? Mick
2017-12-21 15:16 ` tuxic
2017-12-21 18:00 ` Mick
2017-12-21 17:01 ` Jack
2017-12-21 18:28 ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:18 ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:24 ` Jack
2017-12-21 22:35 ` Mick
2017-12-21 22:46 ` Jack
2017-12-21 23:01 ` Walter Dnes
2017-12-21 23:20 ` Mick
2017-12-22 16:30 ` Mick
2017-12-27 19:45 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored Mick
2017-12-27 23:53 ` Mick
2017-12-28 6:14 ` Taiidan
2017-12-29 13:51 ` Mick
2017-12-29 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-29 14:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-29 15:01 ` Mick
2017-12-29 16:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-29 16:45 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 0:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-30 12:55 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2017-12-30 14:32 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 15:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31 2:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31 11:11 ` Wols Lists
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