On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:29:56PM +0100, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jerome Alet wrote: > > JA> could this be my firmware which is too old ? > > You might be quite correct here. But I think I did try to power it off > during a job and checking to see if it was properly accounted for after > the power on. I might have been so _lucky_ I managed to have it stopping > at modulo 10. > > It sounds like something HP should fix. They should write the NVRAM before > powering off printer.
Maybe they'll put a new firmware online some day, but maybe this is not a firmware only poblem... However I agree with you on SNMP : it's probably the best we can use for print accounting actually. Do you know if any of the numerous Windows (c) (tm) (r) print accounting software use SNMP at all ? The only problem I can see with SNMP is that it doesn't allow the kind of accounting offered by PrintBill, which keeps records about ink coverage in all colors. PostScript and paper jams problems apart, this provides fair accounting for people who print mostly black text wrt people who always print their family color pictures... I've done some testing with retrieving ink levels from SNMP enabled printers (I've only got two very similar HPs, 2100 and 2200, unfortunately) but this is not precise enough : "full", "low", "middle" is the sort of thing I get. As said by another poster, great work you've done here ! And now we would like to finally see the rest of the promised document... ;-) > JA> Why ? Doesn't seem to be a performance problem since most work is done > JA> in database accesses (PostgreSQL or OpenLDAP), and that configuring > JA> it to use ANY accounting method doesn't need that you know Python at all. > > It's just a very personal anti feeling I have for any language that rely > on indention and whitespace for syntax. That's exactly what I thought before trying, after 10 years of mostly C and assembly language. I can find many posts in newsgroups from people who have this feeling before trying. I don't think there is any from someone who seriously regret this feature of Python after having tried it for a few hours. What is interesting is that when using other languages, I now strictly respect indentation, which gives more readability anyway. bye, Jerome Alet -- "A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more." - RMS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
