RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Meyer
FreeBSD Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > I haven't posting anything in some time, so I'm making up for it now with > this tome. 8-) It says nothing important and means nothing, so skip as you > like. You do have some very good points, and some of them are being addressed already. > Don't thi

Printer problems

2001-06-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a HP Deskjet 932C. I was having problems with printing out large douments - right in the middle of the print job the job would stop. lpq would complain that the printer was offline. The only fix I found was to reboot the computer. I fixed the problem by switching to using polling mode (

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread mome-rath
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:45:24AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > You make some very good points. For you, like 99% of Linux users, you > > are better off never attempting to cvsup or to track stable. > > [...] > > I just like to say that my experience with tracking stable is quite > pos

Re: Printer problems

2001-06-23 Thread Donn Miller
--- Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a HP Deskjet 932C. I was having problems with printing out > large douments - right in the middle of the print job the job would > stop. lpq would complain that the printer was offline. The only > fix I found was to reboot the c

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:00:59 +1200 "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JS> :: The tracking of stable is not for everyone. Noone *needs* to track JS> :: stable. JS> JS> Well, that isn't what the Handbook says: JS> JS> "19.2.2.2. Who needs FreeBSD-STABLE? JS> If you are a commercial use