Category: Linux

Finished “Linux Kernel Development” by Robert Love

One of the great things about working at VMware is that they have a shuttle that takes me from a light rail station 10 minutes from my house to work. Aside from savings lots of money on gas, this gives me a good chunk of time to...

Linux

inkblot: GNOME ink level utility

I've posted recently (here and here) about libinklevel and mentioned the simple command-line client, simply called "ink". For the graphically-inclined, there's a pretty nice GNOME app called "inkblot" that an put a status icon in...

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...

LinuxUbuntu

Full Circle Magazine for Ubuntu Linux fans

Full Circle Magazine is an e-magazine run by the Ubuntu community that covers the world of Ubuntu, open source, and technology.

DebianLinuxUbuntu

Debian Etch released

Michael Schurter points out that Debian Etch is available. Personally, I'm waiting for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, which is in beta and whose final release should be imminent....

LinuxUbuntu

Ubuntu: Fixing NO_PUBKEY CC919A31E23C5FC3 error from Automatix repository

Recently, my apt-get updates started failing with: W: GPG error: http://www.getautomatix.com edgy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY CC919A31E23C5FC3 W: You...