I was trying to get scanning working yesterday on my HP LaserJet 3390. However, I was hitting the dreaded message about

failed to open device hpaio:/net/<my_device_here> Invalid argument

I tried just about everything. I read gobs of results in Google. Some said to upgrade HP LIP, some said …

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Last January, coming home from my Boston trip, I was sitting in Chicago O’Hare aiport, desperately searching for free wifi, when I looked at my kernel log messages. But, what to my frustrated eyes should appear, than another example of the humor of Open Source developers, specifically, the developers …

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It’s amazing the things that can cause a lump in your throat. Say, for instance, your computer not booting.

Tonight I was trouble-shooting a trackball I thought to be dead, and I went to plug it in to a USB port on the front of my work computer. I …

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