Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:04:17 -0800 From: Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Books Message-ID: <3B717111.ED45BE9A@dnr.state.ak.us> References: <002701c11fce$56795200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > home users typically want to avoid spending anything if possible and so will > spend 10 times longer to get a software solution going. That's me right now. If I was getting paid, even poorly, I would quickly justify PostScript over the alternative. Of course, my favorite solution, in a production environment, has been the HP JetDirect Card. It _seems to me_ to require almost no administration of any significance after install. I guess that would hardly justify a book chapter though:) I've been the only person in our Department (I'm a State employee) who has run into inconvenience because of no queue on the Samba server. If you want to copy a print file directly to a port in Windows, you need to have a Windows printer share. We use Samba here, but the printers are mostly not shared that way since the JetDirect cards arrived. The printers could still be shared that way, but it would defeat the purpose of the Department in going to the JetDirect Cards in the first place (to eliminate the print serving administration). > So, I left the complicated Ghostscript setups to the > mailing list. :-) Good choice. O'Reilly's Network Printing book has the best coverage of how to do that that I could find, why try to duplicate within part of a chapter what seems to require two or three to cover adequately in someone else's book?? And yes, all my birthday and christmas presents are gift certificates from Barnes & Noble and Borders spent on computer books - my library is getting pretty large in the last two years. Thanks for writing "The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide" :) Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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