Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
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. I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate it, but I don't

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:28 AM Subject: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS This isn't really a question.  It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some information

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Install Failure: Unable to create a new /etc/fstab

2011-10-27 Thread Rick Miller
Just following up...I resolved the issue by copying /etc/* to /stand/ in the mfsroot. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I am Installing 8.2-RELEASE via PXE and receive an error stating that sysinstall was unable to create new /etc/fstab.  

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:08:47 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:43:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com a écrit : I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Because I've never used 8.2 before... or even any 8.x release, I naturally went into the Handbook and looked for _current_ guidance on setting up printers. Most of that information was quite helpful, right up to the point where it started

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread John Levine
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long enough that I don't want to wait. More importantly, CUPS, for me at least, seems to be quite slow. There's a lng pause after I queue something for

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? We have ls with color (and no problem with serial console, there is no color when using it). Why not a

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:42:22 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman 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. I'm impatient by nature,

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

2011-10-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 19/10/2011 à 19:23:26-0700, Rocky Shek a écrit Hi. Thanks for this information. 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 work under FreBSD 9.0 ? Best regards. Regards. --

Status of linuxprinting.org

2011-10-27 Thread Carmel
Does anyone know if this site: http://www.linuxprinting.org/ is down permanently? I has been off line for several weeks now. The friendly message greets a visitor to that site: *** * This site is down for maintenance. We will be

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded queries

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote: In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things, not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I feel to say it. Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X thing. I must say, it works really smoothly on my

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote: In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things, not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I feel to say it. Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 27, 2011 a las 07:00:39PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X thing. I must say, it works really smoothly on my MacBook -- I just plug in the USB cable from my printer and hit print -- but I never got

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote: In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things, not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I feel to say it. Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Ronald F. Guilmette on Thursday, 27 October 2011: #!/bin/sh printer='/dev/ulpt0' if [ $# = 0 ]; then cat | /usr/local/libexec/psif $printer else for arg in $* ; do cat $arg |

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

2011-10-27 Thread David Magda
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 work under FreBSD 9.0 ? Check the man page for mpt(4):

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Jerry wrote: Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never gotten printing up to that lever. Of course Unix has had functional printing; the issue is mostly dumb printers which can't accept PostScript or at least PCL, and need an OS-specific

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote: Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never gotten printing up to that lever. It _had_, past tense. :-) While there are those who continually blame the manufacturers, the truth is that any COO, CFO {or any other

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20111027143609.60335.qm...@joyce.lan, you wrote: I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long enough that I don't want to wait. I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john. Even

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
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 will happen if I ever try to print something

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote: Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never gotten printing up to that lever. It _had_, past tense. :-) While there are those who continually blame

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Felder
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 personal laser.

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread John Levine
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long enough that I don't want to wait. I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john. $ lpr foo $ lpr bar $ lpr baz It will print the three files in a

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote: Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never gotten printing up to that lever. It _had_, past

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200 Polytropon articulated: There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-) Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. This sort of tunnel vision, at

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Bonomi
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 _without_ CUPS On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200 Polytropon articulated:

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200 Polytropon articulated: There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-) Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat

acroread9-9.4.2 -- 100% CPU usage

2011-10-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I knew that this was a problem for older versions of the adobe acrobat reader (acroread) but I really thought that SOMBODY would have fixed this by now, as it has been a longstanding problem. But alas, acroread9-9.4.2 as installed from the ports tree on a reasonably up-to-date 8.2-RELEASE/amd64

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Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Companies that develop printers want money. They need to continuously sell printers ... This seems to be becoming less and less accurate. It has long been the case that consumer-grade ink-blot printers are sold below cost -- the money being made by selling

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

2011-10-27 Thread Albert Shih
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 work under FreBSD 9.0 ? Check