April 2007 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Why open source
by Ian McDonald 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

References to a longer article but looks really good (just skimmed). Useful to give your IT managers: http://lwn.net/Articles/230479/rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Two CUPS questions [re-sent, because I did something wrong with my earlier post]
by Leslie Katz 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I hope to get a Canon PIXMA MP160 all-in-one printing with a computer running Damn Small Linux ("DSL") and CUPS. Right now, I have access to neither the computer nor the printer, but hope to get guidance in advance about the matter. Last weekend, in the absence of access to the computer running DSL and CUPS, I was able to get the MP160 printing with a computer running Fedora Core 3 and CUPS. I did that by installing two RPMs supplied by Canon, which it said were for Fedora Core 6. Due to RAM and storage constraints, I can't hope (by, for example, using alien) to install the entire contents of those two RPM packages on the computer running DSL. However, among the installed files from the two RPMs were: (1) a .ppd file; (2) a filter file; and (3) a backend file. The .ppd file included a line referring to the filter file. I have two questions: 1. Is there any chance that by copying all three of the files I've mentioned to the appropriate directories on the computer running DSL, I could get the MP160 to print with that computer? 2. If not, could I edit the .ppd file to remove the reference to the filter file and copy only the edited .ppd file to the computer running DSL, relying on the fact that default CUPS filter and backend files are already on that computer? Thanks for reading, Leslie -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyers' tumblelog about things (some legal, some not) you might otherwise have missed

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recovering from "rm -rf"
by Jonathan Purvis 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

While upgrading my Ubuntu machine i needed to manually remove /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus, but i accidently removed /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages instead. I was safe as i could ask dpkg which packages had files in those directories (with -S) and reinstall them. If someone else needs to do this, the command is: sudo apt-get --reinstall install `dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages | cut -d: -f1 | sed 's/,//g'` (changing the directory name, of course)

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is tomorrow!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

There is a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting tomorrow: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Nevill-Manning will speak on something interesting he promises. Craig is Engineering Director for http://www.wlug.org.nz/Google and invented Froogle. He is a http://www.wlug.org.nz/PhD graduate from WaikatoUniversity. This meeting is on Wednesday as that's when he's in the country.

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CUPS questions
by lesliek＠ozemail.com.au 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

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PC, Mac and Linux
by Felix 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

http://www.novell.com/linux/meetlinux/ Enjoy.

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Article on Palm phones (Treo) and Linux
by Ian McDonald 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6175171.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&sub… -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Nevill-Manning will speak on something interesting he promises. Craig is Engineering Director for http://www.wlug.org.nz/Google and invented Froogle. He is a http://www.wlug.org.nz/PhD graduate from WaikatoUniversity. This meeting is on Wednesday as that's when he's in the country.

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Help for locking myself out of administrating machine
by Ian McDonald 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Somehow my graphical administration on one of my machines has gone screwball. I entered a root password incorrectly under Desktop, Administration, Networking and now it won't come right even after rebooting and using correct password. I'm getting The entered password is invalid as a dialog title and a message box saying Check that you typed it correctly and that you haven't activated the "caps lock" key This occurs after successfully authenticating and even if I try the following at command line: gksu network-admin sudo network-admin kdesu network-admin or su (or sudo -s) followed by network-admin I presume this is some sort of lock that I've put in place by doing it wrongly but how do I fix? Googled for the error and didn't get much useful back (apart from a few people who had done the same thing!) Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Gaim 2.0.0 just about and called Pidgin
by Ian McDonald 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/08/000218&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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