Today my previously-working printer setup, with an Epson WF-3620, simply stopped working, with no error in the local Cups console other than “Filter failed.” Well…that’s not helpful. Digging in to /var/log/cups/error_log didn’t provide much help initially other than GPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable …

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I was fortunate enough get a chance to play around with DreamHost‘s DreamCompute beta. In addition to being a great implementation of OpenStack, it’s just fun to play with: they gave me a pretty healthy 20 CPUs, 50GB of RAM, and 5 IPs to play with, along with …

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A while back, I noticed KMail was starting to run really slowly, and was responsible for a few megabytes per second of disk IO (as reported by iotop). I did some google searching, and found a reference to a possible problem with importing large folders from older versions of KMail …

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I recently installed the Jaunty/KDE3.5 remix. I had some interesting issues in that I was trying to install on an existing LUKS/LVM setup. Whole-disk encryption on LVM rocks, but if the installer doesn’t support it, you’ll have to fiddle to get things working right.

It …

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Over on his blog, Raphael Pinson has a post about creating a package with “minimal dependencies.” In short, make the dependencies of the package the “real” dependencies, not just the latest and greatest version of the package you rely on.

I have been waiting way too long for someone to …

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The other day, at work, we were working on setting up an automated qurk-and-dirty back up for some files from one Linux box to another. The link was a long distance one (from a data center in Dallas to our office in Anchorage). The solution was simple and elegant:

On …

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