There's two bits to printing; getting the stuff to the printer and then making sure the stuff is understood by the printer. I'll assume the first problem is solved, eg you have a normal parallel printer attachment. If it is a winprinter then you're probably stuck (see another comment about drivers for it) and you're printer response will probably suck anyway.
So the next problem is how to change the stuff so the printer understands it. You may want to look at IFHP which was written by the same guy who wrote LPRng. It's quite good at talking different printer languages.
There is also magicfilter which can talk to plenty of printers as well though you often need to collect all the auxiallary programs for it to fully work.
I have a HP printer, and so know of two other programs. They're packaged together as djtools in Debian distribution but I think they're called hpset and djutils or something similar. They help with using the HP PCL.
The Debian web site speaks about 20 different languages and is huge (about 2G in size). What we use is lots of Website Meta Language and its slices, plus apache's content negotiation. We do have some problems with the negotiation but it is usually due to browser bugs. lynx is definitely the most compliant of the browsers.
Australia already has a (unworkable) censorship scheme for The Internet. At the moment it's only for porn, but perhaps they'll take a look at this too.
I mean traitors who steal state secrets are worse than pornographers aren't they? Oh hang on it was to appease some screwed up religous nut in government..
The thin edge of the wedge, as they say. If you want more info about what Australians have to put up with go to The EFA website.
I develop software on both Solaris/Sun hardware and Linux/i386 hardware so I can give a developer's view of it.
I'm sure others have talked about performance and reliability, to me they're about the same. For maintainability and ease of use, Linux wins hands down. The single biggest plus for Linux is that, for example, if a system call returns an error, you can look at the source code and see why the error is occuring if normal methods do not give an answer.
Compare this to Solaris where, unfortunately all to often, the manual pages disagree with the includes and you get some obscure error, where do you go then; nowehere!
The main advantage of Sun over Linux is non-technical. A lot of corporates like the warm fuzzy feeling of having another corporation supply hardware and getting top-notch support (with a price tag to match).
There isn't really that much between them. I also do some coding on NT, now that really is awful to develop or operate on.
I think IEEE is pretty relevant for students in the related fields. I'm a member of IEEE and find their documents pretty good, and IEEE is much stronger in the US than here.
No, in Australia you can be called a PE whenever you want. I believe there may of been legislation in some states for some classes of engineers (eg civil) where there was protection. Even the IEEE doesn't seem to care any more.
If you are a member of IEAust and have relevant experience and qulifications, then you can become a CPE (Certified Practising Engineer).
That has two problems: 1) The way they structure the CPE program fits real badly to what a engineer does in IT. 2) Noone in the industry cares that you are a PE or not let alone a CPE or not.
That was why I left IEAust, I'm not a civil engineer so they didn't cater for me.
Oh and vendor-based qualifications are easily worth more, you will get paid better even if the qualifications are meaningless.
Sad state of affairs, but that seems to be the way it is.
The problem with them emailling addresses such as @debian.org is that there is over 300 developers and we are all spread around the world. A lot of those emails went to people that couldn't even use the offer.
That's the problem with bulk emails or spam; you often miss your target market and get a whole lot of other people, like me.
I appreaciate the intention, I'm just not sure it was the right way to do it.
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So the next problem is how to change the stuff so the printer understands it. You may want to look at IFHP which was written by the same guy who wrote LPRng. It's quite good at talking different printer languages.
There is also magicfilter which can talk to plenty of printers as well though you often need to collect all the auxiallary programs for it to fully work.
I have a HP printer, and so know of two other programs. They're packaged together as djtools in Debian distribution but I think they're called hpset and djutils or something similar. They help with using the HP PCL.
The Debian web site speaks about 20 different languages and is huge (about 2G in size). What we use is lots of Website Meta Language and its slices, plus apache's content negotiation. We do have some problems with the negotiation but it is usually due to browser bugs. lynx is definitely the most compliant of the browsers.
Australia already has a (unworkable) censorship scheme for The Internet. At the moment it's only for porn, but perhaps they'll take a look at this too.
I mean traitors who steal state secrets are worse than pornographers aren't they? Oh hang on it was to appease some screwed up religous nut in government..
The thin edge of the wedge, as they say. If you want more info about what Australians have to put up with go to The EFA website.
I develop software on both Solaris/Sun hardware and Linux/i386 hardware so I can give a developer's view of it.
I'm sure others have talked about performance and reliability, to me they're about the same. For maintainability and ease of use, Linux wins hands down. The single biggest plus for Linux is that, for example, if a system call returns an error, you can look at the source code and see why the error is occuring if normal methods do not give an answer.
Compare this to Solaris where, unfortunately all to often, the manual pages disagree with the includes and you get some obscure error, where do you go then; nowehere!
The main advantage of Sun over Linux is non-technical. A lot of corporates like the warm fuzzy feeling of having another corporation supply hardware and getting top-notch support (with a price tag to match).
There isn't really that much between them. I also do some coding on NT, now that really is awful to develop or operate on.
I think IEEE is pretty relevant for students in the related fields. I'm a member of IEEE and find their documents pretty good, and IEEE is much stronger in the US than here.
No, in Australia you can be called a PE whenever you want. I believe there may of been legislation in some states for some classes of engineers (eg civil) where there was protection. Even the IEEE doesn't seem to care any more.
If you are a member of IEAust and have relevant experience and qulifications, then you can become a CPE (Certified Practising Engineer).
That has two problems:
1) The way they structure the CPE program fits real badly to what a engineer does in IT.
2) Noone in the industry cares that you are a PE or not let alone a CPE or not.
That was why I left IEAust, I'm not a civil engineer so they didn't cater for me.
Oh and vendor-based qualifications are easily worth more, you will get paid better even if the qualifications are meaningless.
Sad state of affairs, but that seems to be the way it is.
The problem with them emailling addresses such as @debian.org is that there is over 300 developers and we are all spread around the world. A lot of those emails went to people that couldn't even use the offer.
That's the problem with bulk emails or spam; you often miss your target market and get a whole lot of other people, like me.
I appreaciate the intention, I'm just not sure it was the right way to do it.
It has an AI now? Excellent. Excellent news about Civ 3 too; one less reason to reboot into windows (if it is as good as Civ 2)