Re: CUPS

Hello,

For whatever it's worth; I've done this before a couple of times, and I 
have always had a good time talking to Patrick. He's always been incredibly 
nice in his replies, and I like to think that I'm the reason Irssi is in 
Slackware. ;-) (that's partially true by the way, and it's one of the main 
reasons I'm replying to this) years ago when I first started keeping a 
Slackware machine / Slackware install around, I always used Irssi as my IRC 
client of choice. I know Slackware has BitchX but I always have preferred 
Irssi. It's been my favorite IRC client for as long as I have had a 
favorite. I got into computers pretty late compared to my computer literate 
friends, and even my Wife, who's been using Computers since She used 
Slackware on a 486, and by comparison, my first PC was an Intel Pentium 3 
at 733 MHz and 128 MBs of RAM. So yea I haven't had a computer for nearly 
as long as a lot of my friends or my Wife, but I Loved UNIX right away. 
Anyway, when I started using Slackware, I grabbed 8.1, and 9.0, and 9.1, 
and started using it, usually dual boring with either Windows 98SE, Windows 
2000 Professional, Windows XP, SuSE Linux, or FreeBSD, which I also use a 
lot. Anyway, I always had to go grab the source for Irssi, and sit there 
compiling it and so on, and one day, I just decided to try emailing Patrick 
Volkerding, so I did. I sent him an email, and after introducing myself as 
the young punk kid I basically still am lol, I told him how I really loved 
Irssi, but I hated having to compile it myself, and would he add it to 
Slackware? Well, Patrick replied to my email to my surprise. And not only 
did he reply, he said he'd added it! You can imagine my surprise to have 
Patrick Volkerding not just emailing me, but giving me some very cool news 
that Slackware's next release would in fact have Irssi in it!

So, before writing off whoever it was who said to simply email Patrick 
Volkerding and ask him, actually give that a try. I can't say that he's 
going to reply literally every time as he does get quite busy, but I can 
say that he has responded to me on more than one occasion, and we actually 
got along very well. I used to have his cell phone number in fact. Do give 
it a try, he may not only reply, but he may help you with a newer version.

-Allen

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On July 26, 2014 6:41:18 AM Darren Austin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Nick Edwards wrote:
>
> > Anyone know why, even in current, we have such antiquated version of cups?
>
> Yes, Pat does.
>
> Have you considered emailing him to ask, and suggesting an upgrade?
>
> Darren.
>
>
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