From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 15 12:55:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CBA1566F for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23423; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <3857FF87.3272254E@owp.csus.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:52:24 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Brett Taylor , Bill Fumerola , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: All About People References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > >Why must you sneakernet? > I have a laptop.. i use dad's printer or one at work. (windows, of course) Having already pointed a few people to this I finally bookmarked it : http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html This is the online version of the new O'Reilly book on Samba. I've never actually done it, but this described how to use Samba to print to a print share on a Windows box. This combined with a good print filter for non-postscript printers should do the trick. Oh, I guess I'm assuming these things are all networked. If they are not they just file the above in the nearest gee whiz collection :-) > >And I'm only a young whippersnapper of 20 myself :) > I wish i had switched to BSD when i was younger instead of refusing to > give up my amiga. I feel so behind the times for my age. > Nice to know I'm not the only one who feels like that sometimes. I'm 26. I left using OS/2 around 4 years ago to start playing with FreeBSD. Mostly a side affect of working for an ISP at the time. I've been a very happy FreeBSD user ever since ( althought I've got an NT box at home, for my wife's use ). -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message