<ignites laser/optical-mouse> I shall try master. But Darth Gates has been a mentor and advisor since my youngling i8086 days. Did not the might of Q/PC/MS-DOS overcome the teaming and more open CP/M?

Notes:
Jedi - follower of Jed
Linnuxi - follower of linux, unwealdy... how about "linni"

Do I see a SW flavoured linux called Jedux?

Sir Simon
Now you got my interest! I know I am getting sort of 0ff subject, but here goes anyway

With the advent of 16 bit cpus, Intel's 8086, Motorola's 68000, and Zilog's 8002 as successors to cp/m, I chose to work with the Zilog and the "PCOS" operating system. It had 24* bit addressing, built in memory manager, full set of matrix functions, 5 window screen format, non- dedicated registers permitting in processor manipulations. Assembler programming was a snap. Dartmouth Basic was great! Cannon, Olivetti, AT&T all used this setup. I was able to write printer drivers without any problems. ( on subject )

I did not mess with the Motorola chip, so no comments here.

The Intel chip had no memory manager, no matrix functions, 4 dedicated registers requiring the "stack" , 16* bit address and then the "DOS" operating system Herr Gates bought was a bitch for assembler programming and the DOS Basic was much weaker then the Dartmouth.

If IBM had not stepped in on the cheap, downgraded the 8086 to the 8088 and then merchandised the hell out of it as only Big Blue could, DOS, Intel & Gates would have been long gone.

* I think I'm right about the 24 & 16 bit memory addressing, I do know that the zilog could accesss more memory then the intel.

Now I would love to see that. A distro based on Ubuntu or Gentoo but full of SW items. Sounds like a new post to me!!

I am trying to us HPLIP and I keep getting in the status field under Properties-->General tab:
"Unable to lookup host 'hp' - No address associated with name"

I already ran hp-makeuri and that worked:

edward@smallville:~$ sudo hp-makeuri 192.168.1.97
Password:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.5)
Device URI Creation Utility ver. 2.4

Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Creating URIs for '192.168.1.97':
CUPS URI: hp:/net/psc_2500_series?ip=192.168.1.97
SANE URI: hpaio:/net/psc_2500_series?ip=192.168.1.97

I put hp:/net/psc_2500_series?ip=192.168.1.97 as my URI connection and have CUPS Printer (IPP) selected as my Network Printer type.

No jobs will print. I can use JetDirect without a problem but trying to use this Cups URI to print. Is this even possible?

Oh and v 0.9.5 of HPLIP is old. 0.9.7 is out (0.9.6 was revised just for us Ubuntu users but it is not available in the repos yet...I have asked backports to upgrade but haven't heard anything yet and I am still new to debian so I do not know how to make a deb package from the tar file I downloaded.)

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks.

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8047723203.html
How to make deb packages.

"adduser cupsys shadow " from jaa1180's post on page 2 fixed it for me.

For anyone using a HP printer, be sure to check out the HP driver pages on sourceforge. yay for HP providing support to the linux/open source community :P

http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net

Wow, thank you. I didn't realize lppasswd had an "-a" flag, but why wouldn't it? Thanks