[plug] WA Govenment iPads for year 1 and 2 students

[Alexander Hartner]

More news on the horizon:

http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/21/anna-bligh-promises-5000-ipads-for-schools/


On 25/02/2012, at 04:23 , Alexander Hartner wrote:

> Thanks Brad,
> 
> On my Gentoo box I haven't got avahi installed. I do however have mDNSResponder running. Yet it doesn't look like this support the record subtype (_universal._sub._ipp._tcp) which is required for Airprint.  
> 
> A little digging in the code : 
> http://opensource.apple.com/source/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder-212.1/mDNSPosix/Responder.c
> 
> status = mDNS_RegisterService(&mDNSStorage, &thisServ->coreServ,
>                 &name, &type, &domain,				// Name, type, domain
>                 NULL, mDNSOpaque16fromIntVal(portNumber),
>                 text, textLen,						// TXT data, length
>                 NULL, 0,							// Subtypes
>                 mDNSInterface_Any,					// Interface ID
>                 RegistrationCallback, thisServ);	// Callback and context
> 
> seems to confirm this, as the subtype is always set to Null (if I am reading it correctly)
> 
> I guess I could switch to avahi and follow the instructions :
> 
> http://element.edoceo.com/howto/cups-airprint
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/02/2012, at 11:35 , Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
>> On 24/02/12 11:11, Brad Campbell wrote:
>>> On 24/02/12 09:57, William Kenworthy wrote:
>>>> Do you have "avahi" running? (its a service)
>>>> and in
>>>> 
>>> No, it's not even installed.
>> 
>> I stand corrected. It _is_ installed and running. The fact I was sure it wasn't installed means it is running on whatever the out of the box install is on Debian.
>> 
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