Problem: looking in /var/log/cups/error_log E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:03 +1100] PID 6548 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 2! E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:04 +1100] [Job 13] Job stopped due to filter errors. Cause: I think this was caused by me running sudo...
So I installed the development version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 and thought this is great, but when it came time to drill down to actually using it I ran into the following. Network Manager PPTP client connects but builds tunnel which allows ping and smb to pass...
Suppose you have the following configuration Priv Network A---Windows XP Clients | Linux gateway (iptables NAT etc) | [Internet] | Linux gateway (iptables GRE and PPTP port 1723 NAT'd and forwarded to internal PPTP server) | Priv Network B---<linux PPTP Server>...
I went to Openoffice.org and blindly downloaded the default package "OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz" which is the wrong package for Ubuntu 8.10. The Fix: Go back to openoffice.org, under "I want to download OpenOffice.org" click the "Get more platforms...
A while ago we got some week-old chicks from a pre-school. We have divided our pen in half and kept them segregated from our older birds so we could feed them Pullet Grower mix without them being molested by the adults. However this morning I went into their area and...
I'm putting this here so I can use it for later. I have the following: 150GB HDD of which 123GB is filled with data on a Dell Optiplex 330 the source computer 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential Edition as the backup media A copy of the latest Ghost Corporate Edition...
wget has a cool feature known as limit-rate. If you want to leave a bit of bandwidth for other things then use it with double u get. wget -c -t 100 --limit-rate=80k http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.10/ubuntu-8.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso The above means -c...
I had a virus infested computer and I wanted to zero the partition and restore from a partimage file but first I thought I would zero out the data on the partition using dd so: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 This took absolutely ages... and I was wondering when it was...
You get this error when trying to umount a partition: umount /mnt/sdb1/ umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy At a root prompt: Run fuser see man fuser for options fuser -v /mnt/sdb1/ Output of fuser USER PID ACCESS COMMAND...
Problem: Cause: Fedora isn't as good as Ubuntu at detecting and installing your devices Resolution: Install libsane-hpaio Done