Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, Adam Thompson wrote: Nearly every printer sold today (including cheap inkjets AND b printers) have these tracking dots. [...] The absolute highest resolution graphics today are mostly printed using ESC/P (if Epson), PCL3 (if HP), or whatever Canon uses (if Canon).

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread Adam Thompson
On 2019-07-14 15:40, Stuart Henderson wrote: If you don't want trackable prints, don't buy a colour laser printer of any brand, it is very common. Unsure about mono and inkjet printers, I would tend to assume that they're common on at least most hi-res colour printers. Nearly every printer

Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD

2019-07-14 Thread BSD user
On 7/14/19 12:38 PM, Rudy Baker wrote: It's sad how hostile this mailing list is that you need to beg forgiveness for using a different email client because you may have triggered some of these people.  I'm not too concerned. I'm grateful for the fact that the OpenBSD community has high

Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD

2019-07-14 Thread BSD user
On 7/14/19 12:52 AM, Denis Fondras wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 09:44:28PM -0700, BSD user wrote: Hello, My apologies for sending this email multiple times. I was so mortified by Tutanota's awful text formatting that I created a new mail account that supported IMAP so that I could load

X1 Thinkpad Tablet Freeze on Boot

2019-07-14 Thread Charlie Burnett
First time actually submitting a bug so let me know if there's anything I missed, or if this is the wrong way to submit it- Trying to install OpenBSD on Thinkpad Tablet X1 Gen 3 currently. Every boot gets hung on "entry point at 0x1001000". Can't get to dmesg or I'd try to give more specifics.

Re: bc(1) bug?

2019-07-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Walter, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote on Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 09:57:11PM +0200: > Lately I noticed that using bc(1) interactively I have to hit Enter > twice to get the result of an operation printed on screen. Plus, a new > empty line is printed below the result. Example: > > $ bc > 2 +

bc(1) bug?

2019-07-14 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Hello everyone, Lately I noticed that using bc(1) interactively I have to hit Enter twice to get the result of an operation printed on screen. Plus, a new empty line is printed below the result. Example: $ bc 2 + 1 (after hitting Enter twice the two lines below get printed) 3 2 + 2

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-07-13, ropers wrote: > On 13/07/2019, Jonathan Drews <> wrote: >> Hi Folks: I need some recommendations on what brand of printers will >> work >> with Ghostscript (Postscript). The cartridges for my 15 year old HP >> Deskjet have gotten too expensive. I know Xerox makes some >>

Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD

2019-07-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Rudy, Rudy Baker wrote on Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 03:38:03PM -0400: > It's sad how hostile this mailing list is It is true that some people on this list are sometimes hostile and everybody is indeed invited to refrain from gratuitious attacks, ... > that you need to beg forgiveness for using a

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, cho...@jtan.com wrote: I don't know what you mean by "haven't configured re0 with an IP address". What else is 10.100.200.1/24? A subnet. But it seems to be a valid way of doing: ifconfig re0 inet 10.100.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 That is new to me. Perhaps lays the

Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD

2019-07-14 Thread Rudy Baker
It's sad how hostile this mailing list is that you need to beg forgiveness for using a different email client because you may have triggered some of these people.  On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 12:51 AM BSD user, wrote: > Hello, > > My apologies for sending this email multiple times. > > I was so

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-07-14, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > Roderick writes: >> >> On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, cho...@jtan.com wrote: >> >> > I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed >> >> Was it a crossover cable? > > I have no idea how long it's been since I had to care. Oh you do have to

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread chohag
Roderick writes: > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > > > I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed > > Was it a crossover cable? I have no idea how long it's been since I had to care. I *did* mention that the physical setup already worked and was

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread chohag
U'll Be King of the Stars writes: > On 14/07/2019 10:35, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > > I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed which > > I bring up > manually at each and because I'm too lazy to automate it, that's > 10.100.200.2/24 on li > nux and 10.200.200.1/24 on

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 12:09:20AM -0600, Jonathan Drews wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 06:03:05AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:06:07AM +0200, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > > Hi Folks: I need some recommendations on what brand of printers will > > > work > > > with

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars
On 14/07/2019 14:05, Roderick wrote: On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote: Is there documentation that explains how to configure this kind of point-to-point Ethernet connection, and associated routing tables, on OpenBSD? I never had problems with it: just as normal LAN.

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread Todd C . Miller
On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:35:32 +0300, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > I have two laptops, both on the same wifi network, one with linux and one wit > h openbsd. > > I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed which I > bring up manually at each and because I'm too lazy to

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote: Is there documentation that explains how to configure this kind of point-to-point Ethernet connection, and associated routing tables, on OpenBSD? I never had problems with it: just as normal LAN. Point to point. Hmm. I used slip+tcp/ip

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, cho...@jtan.com wrote: I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed Was it a crossover cable? drogo# pkill -f re0 Do you have somewhere a program called re0 running?! drogo# ifconfig re0 10.100.200.1/24 Why the name of a whole net for

Re: Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars
On 14/07/2019 10:35, cho...@jtan.com wrote: I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed which I bring up manually at each and because I'm too lazy to automate it, that's 10.100.200.2/24 on linux and 10.200.200.1/24 on openbsd. Is there documentation that explains how

Oddity re. order of ifconfig commands

2019-07-14 Thread chohag
I have two laptops, both on the same wifi network, one with linux and one with openbsd. I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed which I bring up manually at each and because I'm too lazy to automate it, that's 10.100.200.2/24 on linux and 10.200.200.1/24 on

Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD

2019-07-14 Thread Denis Fondras
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 09:44:28PM -0700, BSD user wrote: > Hello, > > My apologies for sending this email multiple times. > > I was so mortified by Tutanota's awful text formatting that I created a > new mail account that supported IMAP so that I could load it up in > Thunderbird with text only

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread chohag
Jonathan Drews writes: > > I am not sure why you want to avoid CUPS. Not a terrible propsal because it is a bloated piece of crap, but on the other hand it must interface with the satanc devices we call printers so concessions must perhaps be made. > fundamentals. That begs the question as to

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019, Jonathan Drews wrote: I hope that you got it: with a postscript printer you do not need ghostscript. The printcap is easy to configure. Here is a sample printcap I came across in misc: 1) lp|xerox|Xerox_WorkCenter_3225:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-14 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 06:03:05AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:06:07AM +0200, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > Hi Folks: I need some recommendations on what brand of printers will > > work > > with Ghostscript (Postscript). The cartridges for my 15 year old HP > > Deskjet have