gyrmination

I wrote a blog entry a while ago on setting up the Canon Pixma MP500 on linux. Well, I upgraded CUPS, and everything went to shizzle. It just stopped working, with no obvious explanation. Tracing back through my original frustrations, I remembered that the single most vexing problem was that of the user running the [...]

/etc/rc.conf: lo=”lo 127.0.0.1″ eth0=”dhcp” ra0=”dhcp” INTERFACES=(lo ra0) /etc/conf.d/wireless: wlan_ra0=”ra0 mode managed essid <AP> channel 11 key restricted <WEP>” WLAN_INTERFACES=(ra0) try_ra0.sh (startup script when using rt61 driver): ifconfig ra0 down ifconfig ra0 up ifconfig ra0 192.168.2.10 route add default gw 192.168.2.1 iwconfig ra0 mode managed essid <AP> channel 11 key restricted <WEP> /etc/pacman.conf: # the rt2500 [...]

Since learning more about source control and fretting in general about data integrity and longevity (will I be able to view my digital photos 20 years from now?), I’ve been searching for some way to provide some reliable redundancy to my code. I’m using Site5 as my Subversion server, which is perfect — I can [...]

I’ve been working on webaddressbook’s heretofore unannounced contact synchronization feature recently, and ran into a grindingly bad problem today trying to parse Gmail’s contact export CSV file. According to Gmail, their format is better than the Outlook format because it allows you to preserve different character encodings. Gmail CSV (for import into another Gmail account): [...]

For some reason I didn’t consider Linux compatibility when selecting the printer I would buy, and regretted it immediately. Preliminary post-purchase research on the internet seemed to indicate that most were not having much luck with the Canon Pixma MP500. I contacted Canon USA customer service stating firmly the case for linux drivers, only to [...]