Re: Possible bugs in Trinity Control Center - Printers and OS Installer

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On Thursday 12 November 2020 13:54:11 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> Anno domini 2020 Thu, 12 Nov 10:42:00 -0800
>
>  William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
> > On Thursday 12 November 2020 10:25:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Anno domini 2020 Thu, 12 Nov 11:38:47 -0600
> > >
> > >  Michael via tde-users scripsit:
> > > > On Thursday 12 November 2020 11:05:40 am BorgLabs - Kate Draven 
wrote:
> > > > > > > That's half of it Kate, the cups installed on the clients
> > > > > > > needs to have "browser" enabled.  Once that's done you can
> > > > > > > keep the chainsaws busy. Until you run out of ink or
> > > > > > > toner.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Oh my ... that's the reason why I set up a "drop stuff here"
> > > > > > folder on the
> > > > >
> > > > > only computer that's connected to a printer. Whenever I drop a
> > > > > file into it, it gets printed and deleted.
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh that's interesting. Never used that.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Nik,
> > > >
> > > > Do you use incron (incrontab) for this?  You willing to share
> > > > your script (assuming it's in bash)?
> > >
> > > Oh, that's just some lines in /etc/rc.local:
> > >
> > > (
> > > mkdir /tmp/xxx
> > > inotifywait -m /tmp/xxx -e CLOSE_WRITE | while read a; do
> > >   b=$(echo "$a" | cut -d ' ' -f 3-)
> > >   lpr "$b" && rm "$b"
> > > done
> > > ) &
> > >
> > > now copy anything you want to print to /tmp/xxx ... hopefully you
> > > have set up filters for all the strange files that are not ps, pdf
> > > ot txt ... and you could do some better sanity checking  :) Oh,
> > > you need inotify-tools, too.
> > >
> > > > Curiosity, best time waster ever invented!
> > >
> > > That's why smartphones were invented. with smatphones nobody will
> > > ever feel curiosity again!
> > >
> > >
> > > Nik
> >
> > As a much younger person once very patiently tried to explain to me:
> > one must be "smart enough" to use a smartphone.
>
> I prefer "braindamaged" or "smombie". I remember school as beeing a
> noisy place. At my last visit the brainded sat side by side staring at
> a small flickering device - and it was ghostly quiet! Luckily we have
> "homeschooling" now. The greatest challenge is hitting the keys in a
> top-down mototion in contrast instead of swiping. Oh my, I'm getting
> old and grumpy :)
>
> Nik
Get in line Nik, it starts behind me. ;)
> > :-\
> >
> > Bill
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