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Friday, January 27th, 2006
We ordered a new color printer for our lab earlier this week, and it arrived yesterday morning. It is an Epson Stylus CX7800, an all-in-one photo copier, scanner, and printer. As with any new printer, my first concern was if (and how) I could get this printer to work with ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Today saw the end of a long, though intermittent, struggle between me and my lab's USB print server (the D-Link DP-301U). Back in the summer some time, one of my lab mates bought a print server and a small Epson Stylus C84 color printer to replace our old color printer ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
I just wrote a new page about using PXE to boot Linux on a client from a remote server. I recently had to rebuild the Beowulf Linux cluster I administer from scratch, and in order to restore the slave nodes, I had to use PXE to first boot and the ...
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
I read this article today, and I must say I found it to be one of the fairest assessments of the current state of Linux that I've read. It's not earth-shattering. It's not even that insightful. It's just plain honest.
One of the truer statements I've read about Linux in some ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I read this article today, and I must admit I was excited. The author tells me that Adobe has released a new version of Acrobat Reader for Linux. That's great news, for several reasons. Reading PDF documents in Linux has never been a pain, but reading PDFs on Windows can ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
I read an article today with the title "Linux Can't Kill Windows". Actually, when I first read it, the title was "Windows Can't Kill Linux", which was a little odd considering the piece was written about the fallacy of people claiming Linux would one day kill off Windows. This is ...
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