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Desktop FreeBSD Part 4: Printing

Posted by michael on from the in-the-beginning-was-the-teletype dept.

uninet writes "As a writer, the only reason Ed Hurst ever got his first computer was because it was far more efficient than a typewriter, and certainly more readable than his own handwriting. To enjoy that efficiency, however, you need a working printer, and Ed explores accomplishing just that with FreeBSD in this piece."

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  1. Need a printer??? by acidrain · · Score: 1, Insightful

    To enjoy that efficiency, however, you need a working printer

    The only thing I use my printer for is printing out the odd map from the internet. And I don't need that. I think I would rather read on a monitor at this point then dig through some crummy stack of paper.

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  2. Re:Needlessly difficult... by R.Caley · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You would think you should be able to have lpd listen only on the interfaces you specify (defaulting to only to loopback for example).

    If you have any interfaces you are at all worried about you are running a firewall, right?

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