{"id":700,"date":"2008-06-29T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/700-canons-bad-dialog-weak-linux-support.html"},"modified":"2008-06-29T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T10:12:49","slug":"canons-bad-dialog-weak-linux-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/700-canons-bad-dialog-weak-linux-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Canon\u2019s bad dialog, weak Linux support"},"content":{"rendered":"

While installing Canon\u2019s MX700 all-in-one printer on Windows, I spotted this for my collection of bad dialogs:<\/p>\n

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Hint: if you ask the user a question, it\u2019s good to allow for more than one answer. Even if you close the dialog by clicking the x at top right, it still reboots the system.<\/p>\n

I was also interested to see whether the printer works with Linux. Canon doesn\u2019t offer Linux drivers. Nor does it seem keen to hear from customers<\/a> about this:<\/p>\n

\"Linux <\/p>\n

The CAPTCHA test always presents 8 zeroes, which it then rejects as invalid.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t quite given up.  There are Linux drivers for the Pixma MP520<\/a> which are rumoured to work somewhat. When I have a moment I\u2019ll give it a try.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: canon<\/a>, mx700<\/a>, pixma<\/a>, linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While installing Canon\u2019s MX700 all-in-one printer on Windows, I spotted this for my collection of bad dialogs: Hint: if you ask the user a question, it\u2019s good to allow for more than one answer. Even if you close the dialog by clicking the x at top right, it still reboots the system. I was also … Continue reading Canon\u2019s bad dialog, weak Linux support<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,52,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon","category-linux","category-software","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}