Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1110270834540.94...@wonkity.com, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: ... The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up a personal printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mark Felder f...@feld.me: You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go home and do the same with my

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:08:07 + (GMT) Thomas Mueller articulated: from Mark Felder f...@feld.me: You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:09:05 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 27 16:46:51 2011 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400 From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote: You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go home and do the same with my

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/10/2011 06:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 27/10/2011 à 13:34:50-0400, David Magda a écrit On Thu, October 27, 2011 11:32, Albert Shih wrote: I also recommend LSI 9200-8E or new 9205-8E with the IT firmware based on past experience Do you known if the LSI-9205-8E HBA or the LSI-9202-16E HBA

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote: You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't

Re: CARP related trivial question

2011-10-28 Thread Snoop
Thanks for replying Dave, that's the problem. There's no module and apparently it's supposed to be there. Ready to be loaded. :-O Mistake in the FreeBSD handbook? On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:14 -0700, Robison, Dave wrote: On 10/26/2011 12:20, Snoop wrote: Hi everybody, I've got a pretty trivial

Re: (8.2) share lib and ldconfig problem.

2011-10-28 Thread b. f.
Hello, 8.2 STABLE/i386 I'm hit by something strange. Basically ldconfig does not take care of some libs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg By sample I've updated icu (via portupgrade) and libreoffice does not start anymore. $ libreoffice /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicuuc.so.46

How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
Hi all Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file system type. Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. Many

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:53:44 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The program stops responding to further input until the printer has received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that they came up with lpd/lpr, which is

Re: rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Kryszkiewicz
Sounds like a well-thought out backup strategy. I've started to use your methods here, and I'm building ports I need at the same time, but the wireless here is not password protected so is incredibly slow as there are lots of leaches on the system. But while I'm plodding along, I have a few more

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:36:20 -0400, Jerry wrote: Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or just self-flagellation? Maybe you can also ask the other way round: BEFORE I buy a product, I ask:

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 Polytropon articulated: So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish the control codes for the sheet feeder and the ink

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote: Check out MOVED in the ports. There are numerous applications that are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want someone to contact. I realize that is not the Open Source way however. The thought of someone actually being responsible

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:14:26 -0700 Chuck Swiger articulated: On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote: Check out MOVED in the ports. There are numerous applications that are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want someone to contact. I realize that is not the Open Source

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 Polytropon articulated: So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net pontificated: I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the local pusher. I like my device specific codes to come from those best able to supply

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net pontificated: I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the local

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:46 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: P.S. If _anybody_ wants to accuse me of 'name-calling', note well that Jerry started it, and without any provocation. Mommy.mommy, come quick. The boy next door is picking on me. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net

header files?:: where?

2011-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
yes, i'm still messing with my curses pgm and have made some discoveries---among them, that xmodmap might be interferring with my configuration. anyway, anybody know where the following headers might be found/ #include gen_defs.h #include ciolib.h #include curs_cio.h #include keys.h

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: Remember the adage: You get what you pay for. That's often true - especially in the home consumer market you mostly get crap, this is what you pay for. But in some cases, you can't control _what_ you get just per payment, means: Just because it's

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net supersciliously ponftificated: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net pontificated: I buy my cars from known corporations and

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net pontificated: I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.

Re: header files?:: where?

2011-10-28 Thread Devin Teske
On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: yes, i'm still messing with my curses pgm and have made some discoveries---among them, that xmodmap might be interferring with my configuration. anyway, anybody know where the following headers might be found/ #include gen_defs.h

Re: header files?:: where?

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:24:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: header files?:: where? yes, i'm still messing with my curses pgm and have made some discoveries---among them, that xmodmap might be interferring with my

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the matter -- e.g. anyone offering such products should be to some degree held legally

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread perryh
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The program stops responding to further input until the printer has received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that they came up with lpd/lpr ... Back when lpr/lpd were first

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:44:59 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the matter --

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:28:30 -0700 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled) because it may benefit some folks, other than just me.

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Unga unga...@yahoo.com writes: Hi all Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file system type. Any help in this

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file system +type. Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. Many

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? [ SOLVED]

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
- Original Message - From: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:12 AM Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? Unga unga...@yahoo.com writes: Hi all Is any one by now successfully dual-booting