Archive for Monday, August 24, 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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