Archive for August, 2009

Installing a laser printer in Ubuntu 9.04

Installing a laser printer is actually straight forward, if you keep in mind, that most laser printers has standard queues, from which they accept input. One of these is the raw queue, also referred to as RAW or RAW1. Using this, you do not have to mingle with drivers in the operating system or drivers [...]

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Solving a missing shared object problem

The following error was returned when trying to start smbd on a FreeBSD 7.0 operating system after a power failure in a failed uninterruptible power supply (UPS).
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object “libcrypt.so.15″ not found, required by “libgnutls.so.26″
Assuming, that ports, that depend on libgcrypt, has to be reinstalled, the following procedure is executed. libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library [...]

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Filtering Facebook quiz results

Quiz applications and their results are a huge problem on Facebook. They appear frequent and tend to spread like virus through exploiting lists of friends. Some of them even lead to loss of money.
Use this procedure to block them by adding a filter to Firefox.
First, we need to add a script parser, that can parse [...]

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A more neat desktop in Ubuntu

The default desktop in Ubuntu is actually pretty neat. However, there are a few quick options, that optimizes the look, feel and practical usage.
The default desktop shows two grey bars. There is one on the top and one on the bottom. Let’s make this a little more neat. Disable the bar on the bottom. Move [...]

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Profile

Our business profile has now been written and published on our website.
The purpose of our business profile is to give an introduction to Open Tech SmbA and describe how we can help businesses of our customers with good practise of system and network administration.

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