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 [...]
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.
So I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a rather annoying Javascript problem. I wanted a form that auto-submitted. For good reason of course – to enable data to be saved to a database, before it was transmitted somewhere else.
So this is an old ad, but I kinda liked it…
The options box has disappeared from the Leopard afp login dialog. To set the options manually, do the following on the mac terminal:
I was so chuffed to find a very nice program for ripping dvds (for backup purposes of course!) K9copy is so easy to use and handles all the menus and conversion to whatever format you like. It can also create an iso file to burn back to dvd later.
After upgrading my servers to Gutsy, I discovered vmware server no longer worked. Bit of a bummer as I use it for all the processes that actually do anything!
This is how I changed the bootsplash image for my 2X Thin Client system. Its not that I mind the 2X logo, in fact I’m very grateful to them for the excellent software, I just wanted it themed to our corporate image.
I have decided to post all my techie notes here for my reference and hopefully to help others. All notes and howtos here are published under the GPL and come with no warranty at all. I accept no responsibility if you fry your computer or lose your job! These are just my notes – YMMV