For the last six months, I have tried on and off to get my FreeBSD desktop machine to print to my IBM Thinkpad laptop’s USB-connected HP PSC 1350.
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Explore, not converse, is the best verb for describing an ideal mode of human-computer interaction. It is a simple change in perspective that makes an enormous difference in the way everything looks. Rheingold, Howard. “Cyberspace and Serious Business,” Virtual Reality. New York: Simon & Schuster–Summit, 1991. p.183. Last week, I was chatting with a lunch-mate…
There’s some interest in creating a sysadmin bookshelf, which I think is a great idea. We’ve basically got all the ‘categories’ we need, I think, in the Standards category taxonomy. It’s nice to reuse things for multiple purposes. It gives a sense of coherency to site organization and allows you to browse through things in…
So, we have a certain type of pre-made PCL (printer) output generated by the “FormFusion” product from eVisions. We don’t want to have two different print queues depending on the job output type, so our print server has to intelligently decide how to filter the FormFusion output.
Well, a long time ago, I figured out how to make this work with LPRng on RHAS2.1. RHEL3*, however, requires a CUPS approach.
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Brian Krebs’ Security Fix blog at The Washington Post, posted an article about wireless card security flaws. Though the article seems at first to focus on Apple OS X products, they were only used to demonstrate vulnerabilities found in multiple wireless drivers for a variety of operating systems. Later the article does discuss some Windows…
A few days ago, someone on irc.lopsa.org asked for something like [Cacti|http://www.cacti.net], but smaller, easier to manage, and that plugs into [Nagios|http://www.nagios.org]. Having just brought up such a system a few weeks ago, I was able to recommend [NagiosGraph|http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosgraph/]. In our situation, we make very little use of SNMP, so Cacti would have been of…
So, it’s SysAdmin Day today, so I want to thank everyone who manages a Unix, Windows, mainframe, or network based system, whether for desktop or server use. Don’t forget to nominate your favorite SA for SysAdmin of the Year! Thank your fellow SAs, too!
Shiiiiiiiiiiny. It’s a physically attractive server, and while this feature may not add any 9s to your uptime percentage, it will certainly attracted oohs and ahhs at the datacenter. Beauty isn’t just skin-deep with this server. Crack open the top (which you do by pushing down on a spring-loaded tab, then pulling up on it)…
So, from today’s Lopsa Live discussion, I realized that I (and maybe many others) usually consider publishing or posting to http://lopsa.org difficult because it has to be a longer or at least more formal article. I usually think of this site as something requiring some sage advice or carefully editing content before publishing. This isn’t…
IBM’s latest ServeRAID drivers (v 7.0) work with RHEL 3. The only problem is, their ServeRAID 7 manager has changed how ServeRAID sends SNMP traps. ServeRAID 6.1 would let you set up SNMP traps from the Raid Agent. ServeRAID 7 requires that you set up “agentx” for Net-SNMP, so that their daemon “aus-snmpd” can run…