tail -f ZS64.log » network http://blog.zs64.net Random Ramblings Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:16:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 FreeBSD, CUPS and iPad printing http://blog.zs64.net/2011/05/freebsd-cups-and-ipad-printing/ http://blog.zs64.net/2011/05/freebsd-cups-and-ipad-printing/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 21:48:08 +0000 stb http://blog.zs64.net/?p=300 For the longest time, I couldn’t get CUPS configured on my FreeBSD server successfully. Between CUPS access rules, foomatic drivers and avahi announcements, I had terrible trouble making heads or tails of the nondescript error messages I was getting.

Spurned on by the arrival of an iPad, I finally sat down and worked through configuring CUPS and avahi. So I don’t have to go through all the fiddling again, here’s a recipe of what I did.

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“The whole pricing thing is weird,” said Barry Nalebuff, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management. “You pay $60 to make your first phone call. Your next 1,000 minutes are free. Then the minute after that costs 35 cents.”

Via BoingBoing

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Via nanog

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