Monday, October 24, 2005

I'm Lazy

No really. I'm so lazy, that instead of installing my two hard drives back into my web server, I just redirected www.lagdaddy.com to my blog.

If you just clicked the link in the last paragraph, all I have to say is "See, I told ya!"

Slack co-efficient increased by two degrees...

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

So much virtual graph paper that you might choke on it! And the price is right (free)!


http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/

Printing from Knoppix to a networked (windows) printer...

1. Startup a Konsole terminal from the Knoppix GUI interface.

2. In Konsole, become the root super-user using the "su" command:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ su
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#

Note how the prompt ends in a "#" instead of a "$" for the root user.
Make sure you are the root user by verifying with the "whoami" command:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# whoami
root

3. Start the CUPS printer daemon if it is missing (must be done as root):

Find out if the printer daemon cupsd is already running:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# ps cax | grep cupsd

If you see a line of output, skip to the next step. If you see no
output, do this to start the daemon:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# /etc/init.d/cupsys start
Starting CUPSys: cupsd

4. Exit the root user. (Do not work as "root" on a Unix system!)

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# exit
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$

Note how the prompt reverts to its usual form, ending in "$".

5. In the Knoppix GUI use the mouse to go to the leftmost "K" icon
("Start Applications") in the bar at the bottom of the screen.
Click on the "K" and slide up to "Settings", across and down to
"Printing manager". Select it.

6. In the Printing Manager (KDE Control Module) window, make sure the
selection box at the bottom of the screen says: Print system currently
used: CUPS (Common UNIX Print System).

7. In the Printing Manager window, select the top left icon: Add Printer/Class

8. In the Introduction/Welcome window, select Next.

9. Select SMB Shared Printer (Windows), click next

10. Enter login info for the server, the server's addy, and any other required info (name of the printer, etc)

11. pick the make and model of the printer

12. The rest is fairly self explanatory.

Dual monitors on linux (knoppix)...

Click here for some discussion on the topic

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Well, I gotta say, Knoppix is pretty awesome. Within about an hour of downloading and buring it, I was able to get online, map to an NT network share, download and play music, work on office documents, etc.

I'm truly amazed. All of this for free?? Why are we still using windows folks?

Oh yea, I remember, World of Warcraft!

Anyhow, if you care to venture, go here: www.knoppix.org

Oh yea, and did I mention I did all of this because my hard drive crashed??? Yea, that's right, I'm writing this blog entry, and doing all of the other stuff mentioned previously from a machine with NO HARD DRIVE!

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history! - Dude...