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HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a on Ubuntu 10.10

Update: The latest version of hplip has the correct entries in the installer/distros.dat file. Go to the aforementioned link and follow the instructions to install on Ubuntu 10.10 and it should work well for you. Just bought a new HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a as my HP...

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Returning DDMMYY in Bash or CMD.exe

Anyone else have a better way on Windows. Let me know. # bash scripting MYDATE=`date +%d%m%y` echo $MYDATE # or all in one echo $(date +%d%m%y) rem Windows cmd.exe rem This gives you the correct format rem offsets rem 01234567890123 rem Mon 01/11/2010 set...

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Run Ubuntu > 9.x Headless

Found this after too much Googling so listing here for future reference. Stop X Starting at Boot on an Upstart controlled system update-rc.d -f remove gdm doesn't work: That is because Ubuntu doesn't use System V init files for startup any more, it uses a program...

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