the blog of Chris » update http://blog.christophersmart.com Fortiter Et Recte Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:39:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Follow up Ubuntu article.. http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/11/13/follow-up-ubuntu-article/ http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/11/13/follow-up-ubuntu-article/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:00:36 +0000 Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1354 I have written a new article to follow up my previous (admittedly strongly worded) article on Ubuntu, with the two suggestions posted on my blog recently. I have no delusions that it will make any difference what-so-ever, but hopefully it’ll get people thinking about the issue anyway..

-c

]]> http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/11/13/follow-up-ubuntu-article/feed/ 0 Karmic upgrade, broken printing. Workaround. http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/11/10/karmic-upgrade-broken-printing-workaround/ http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/11/10/karmic-upgrade-broken-printing-workaround/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:50:34 +0000 Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=1349 So on another machine (my Dad’s to be exact) after an upgrade to Karmic, both sound and printing were broken.

I fixed the printing issue last night, which was truly strange. The original printer was still there (as I would expect) and could be seen in the GNOME print manager. The problem was that it just wouldn’t print at all. Taking a closer look, for some reason the driver had been reset to “Alps MD-1000″ even though it’s a Samsung.

Broken printer

Changing the driver to anything else and saving the changes did not actually change the driver – it went straight back to “Alps MD-1000.” Adding a new printer resulted in the same problem.

The fix was to log into the CUPS server directly (http://localhost:631) and from here I was able to select the right driver – and it stuck. It could now print correctly.

Going back to the GNOME print manager still shows the driver as being the “Alps MD-1000″ which is just wrong.

So I’m not sure why GNOME print manager is broken, but if I configure the printer directly with CUPS it works.

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Today’s message was special however, and perhaps one for The Daily WTF.

I wonder whether “Do not warn me again” means

Don’t tell me when there’s a non-existent update again

Still, it seemed pretty important so I did it straight away!

It’s good to know that I’m protected from security threats so real, they cannot be named :)

P.S. If you’re wondering what awesome icon set I’m using, it’s Oxy-GNOME.

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