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Canon iP1500 Ubuntu Driver
The iP1500 is a cheap, reliable little printer, but Canon didn’t bother with Linux drivers until recently. They now publish a driver for this printer, but it is a bit old and compatible with RHEL 3 and Suse 9.1, so in rpm format. Even after converting the packages with alien, there is still some fiddling required, so I’ve made a package that depends on the three Canon packages and does the necessary tweaks after. You can get it here. I’ve included all three Canon packages and mine in the compressed archive. Just extract it to a new folder and install all the packages. Either click on them in your file manager to install with your packaging tool, in which case install them in the order: bjfilter-common, bjfilter-pxmaip1500, bjfilter-pcmaip1500-lprng, canon-ip1500; or on the command line, cd to the folder and type dpkg -i *.deb. Then plug in your printer. You will then need to add it manually via the printer configuration tool.
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Leckhampton Hill
We went for a quick wander up “Leccy”. There are such amazing trees up there. We took some photos this time too. Just on Nai’s iPhone. I think I’ll take the little Canon next time.
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Cleeve Hill Golf Course
Nai and I have started walking. We are going to try to go as regularly as possible. Both to get fit and to see more of the beautiful countryside around us. We are so privileged to live in such a beautiful part of the world and yet we so rarely take the time to enjoy it.
Our first walk was up good old Cleeve Hill. We parked in the quarry car park by the golf course, which had a lake in it, due to lots of recent rain. We charged on through in our little Yaris, but it was quite funny to see the dog walkers in their 4×4s gingerly going through the water, trying not get them dirty!
We walked round the back of the golf course and saw some Aberdeen Angus cows. Then we carried on round to the front, where the view over Cheltenham and Bishops Cleeve is spectacular. No piccies of this one, as I hadn’t thought about blogging our walks yet.
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Nice rack!
After battling with my server rack for most of Sunday, trying to put some sliding rails in, I gave up. I got everything working again, having stripped the lot down, for 1:30AM. EUUGGHH! Tim Beaumont helped me have another crack yesterday, but we got no further. The stupid things just wouldn’t fit. Anyway, today I had success! Bit of a bodge job, but it works. So now I have nice slidey servers, ready for my new server room, which will be much smaller.
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My little brother got married
Finally my brother Simon got married, at the tender age of 30! It was a really nice day at Cowley Manor. Just a few people there, but it was great to catch up with Olly and others I haven’t seen for ages. Well done bro and congrats to Sam. She looked great. And there was a nice bit of snow, for a finishing touch. Nai took some great photos, which are about to land on Facebook.
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A triumph for authenticity
So Rage Against the Machine got Christmas number one ahead of X-Factor Joe’s dull effort. What a result for fans of real, authentic music. I think a lot of people backed the campaign just to vote against X-Factor, but it was a double bonus for me as I really like Rage’s music. I bought their self-titled album (with the No.1 song Killing in the Name) back in 1992 when it first came out – on tape! So this was a good opportunity for me to not only buy the single to support the bid for Christmas No. 1, but to buy the album again – this time on CD. What a cracking album it is. Superb musicianship with raw energy and, yes, lots of rage. But that’s a good thing to let out in rock.
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New location
So we decided to ditch http://jtandnait.co.uk/. It was just a place for our blogs and the site itself was a load of old junk. So I have moved my blog here – to http://techieturmoil.co.uk/. Update your links everyone… I know I have millions of readers out there!
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From my phone
So I thought, since I’ve got a spangly new G1 blog theme, I ought to blog from my G1. It’s really easy, thanks to the wpToGo app. Go Android and Wordpress!
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My New Theme
At last! I have finally made my own theme. This theme has been a long time in the making. [...]
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Browse CUPS shares on Leopard
Apple annoyingly disabled CUPS browsing on Leopard. It always worked in previous versions and is particularly wierd as they own the CUPS project. In fact they claim to have written it, although they did not.
Anyway to fix the browsing issue type:
cupsctl BrowseProtocols='"cups dnssd"'
in your much neglected OSX terminal.Job done.
