don't you just love technology?

just for once, I needed to send an urgent fax.

this G4, Weatherwax, has decided for reasons unknown that she doesn’t have a modem (god knows what that lead with a phone jack on the end of it is, then ..). I really don’t have the time right now to do what needs doing, which is to reformat it, and apply Panther from scratch.

so we found a modem, plugged it into Detritus (linux server), ran a phone extension from the study to the server room. Then fired up Hylafax on Detritus.

then a quick Remote Desktop Connection to Magrat (my old XP box), and load up the Windows Hylafax client, copy the scanned TIFF file from Weatherwax’ desktop to Havelock’s (W2K server) docs directory, double click the file into ACDC, and print to Hylafax.

couple of moments later, Detritus mails me to say its done.

FFS – I’m going out to buy a fax machine tomorrow …