Manual duplex printing on linux

July 29th, 2008 at 12:34am |

Update!! the duplex printing feature has been implemented for Samsung printers on linux (including ML-2010) with version 2.0.0 of the Samsung drivers (available with Ubuntu Linux Intrepid 8.10). To ensure you use the latest ones go to  ‘Printer Properties’ in System -> Administration -> Printing and check the ‘Make and Model’ field. To update your [...]

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Firefox: re-enable print and scale options from Print Preview

July 5th, 2008 at 11:43am |

Firefox 3.0 stable default setup has these features disabled direct printing from print preview ability to zoom page before printing from print preview ability to change printing page orientation (portrait/landscape) all this can be achieved by setting string print.whileInPrintPreview in about:config as true (this now defaults to false). I filed a bug report about this [...]

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[IT] It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars

July 4th, 2008 at 12:47am |

Prestare tanta attenzione al pensionamento di Bill Gates significa perdere di vista la questione centrale. Ciò che conta davvero non è Gates, né Microsoft, ma il sistema perverso delle restrizioni che Microsoft, come molte altre società di software, impone a suoi clienti. Tale dichiarazione può sorprendere, dato che la maggior parte delle persone interessate a [...]

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[EN] It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars

July 3rd, 2008 at 10:33pm |

By Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm To pay so much attention to Bill Gates’ retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers. That statement may surprise you, since most people interested [...]

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mixing Intrepid stable and Jaunty testing repositories

July 2nd, 2008 at 1:34am |

Due to the very high pace of Free and OpenSource Software development it often occurs that program versions shipped with a distribution are already quite obsolete, hence the need to upgrade to its latest version. Compiling the sources can be a little annoying sometimes, since you have to take care of the many multiple dependencies [...]

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