163Mb download for a printer driver?

[billyskank]

I just went to the HP site to download the Vista driver for my all-in-one 1317 series printer/scanner/copier. One hundred and sixty-seven megabytes to download.

:wtf:

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Billy!

:bounce:

:hi:

[billyskank]

2. Hello 'baby

:hi:

[Parche]

3. Scanner

Now you can scan all the porn for me!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[billyskank]

5. No, that's for scanning my drawings.

Porn comes from the internets nowadays. :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. I have less porn than that.

[billyskank]

6. I don't.

Oh, wait. :hide:

[LaraMN]

7. That is ridiculous!

Admittedly, I know neither what a megabyte or a printer driver are, so you may attribute as much passionate emphasis to that assertion as you deem appropriate.

:P

[billyskank]

11. It deserves righteous indignation

at the sorry state of bloatware in the 21st century. :hi:

[Deja Q]

8. Probably includes control panel software and other knick-knacks...

Silly, but even XP drivers come that size too, especially for multifunction devices.

[billyskank]

12. It did. I went for the "custom" installation "for experts only."

I kept the driver checked and the driver for the scanner and, er, unchecked ALL THE REST OF THAT SHIT.

:)

[DS1]

9. I knew it would be HP

[billyskank]

13. I'm too used to Linux

Where you have to build everything with your bare hands but at least the software does only the job it's meant for and doesn't give your credit card number to the NSA.

[KitchenWitch]

10. That seems a rather large file, by like 2 orders of magnitude

:wtf:

[billyskank]

14. That's what I thought

Installing the printer driver, that'll be a two minute job, right? :crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

15. Hope you are not on dialup!

:scared:

[billyskank]

16. No, downloaded it in about ten minutes

but it took ages to install. I wonder what it was doing. :scared: