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links for 2007-08-02

Vlad Skvortsov's home page software engineer primarily specializing in network-related application development for the UNIX platform (tags: vlad) Emacs Lisp Package Archive Welcome to ELPA, the Emacs Lisp Package Archive. Our...

LinuxProgramming

Getting access to the printer device without sudo

Having recently discovered libinklevel and ink, I've been using them to check the status of the ink levels on my Canon i950 printer, connected via USB to my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn box. I've been having to run the ink command using...

LinuxProgramming

Patch to make libinklevel work with a Canon i950 printer

This weekend, while cruising freshmeat.net, I happened upon libinklevel, from Markus Heinz. From the description: Libinklevel is a library for checking the ink level of your printer on a system which runs Linux. It supports...

GeneralTiVo

CableCARD problems again

Once again, we're not getting some of our channels. Yesterday we couldn't get Bravo; tonight we get Bravo, but not Comedy Central. We've had problems like this before and it usually requires calling Comcast and giving them a...

General

Water softener

Our new Kenmore water softener was installed yesterday. I sanitized the brine tank with chlorine bleach (as detailed in the instructions) and then loaded it up with a bag of potassium chloride and kicked off a regeneration. So...

General

links for 2007-07-25

Kerberos (protocol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: kerberos security authentication cryptography)...

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links for 2007-07-24

http://diveintomark.org/public/2007/03/zshrc A sample zshrc file to draw inspiration from... (tags: zsh zshrc)...