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The Canon i-sensys LBP 2900 is a fantastic laser printer, but Canon doesn't offer a strong support for Linux and Mac OS X.

In this article I'll show you how to use the Canon LBP 2900 with Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) on a Mac mini.

If, on your AspireOne 110 with Ubuntu 9.04, you kincannot see the wifi led blinking you can execute the following commands:

gg1@piccoletto:~$ sudo -s

[sudo] password for gg1: 

Hi all,

Under Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix my Aspire One has its fan always on, this generates two problems, the first one is linked to the power consumption (the fan reduce the battery autonomy) and the second one is the noise (the fan isvery noisy).

Often we look for new way to boost up our work, so we write a lot of code to perform jobs at high speed.
Sometimes the right way is the old way, specially if we need to do repetitive jobs. To do this kind of jobs we can use the xargs command, this command used in pipe with other commands can automate our jobs.
For example if we want to remove all C files from a directory and from all subdirectory recursively we can do the following:

The Nokia N78 mobile phone works very well with Ubuntu Linux 9.04, you can find the procedure to activate the broadband connection going to the Nokia N70 and Ubuntu Linux page.

If you have problems with this procedure make sure that your OS sees the N78 correctly, connect your phone to the USB port and follow these steps:

Hi all,
as usual this month, the absolute masters of this site are Firefox 3.0 for the browsers and Windows XP for the Operating Systems.
About the Operating Systems:“Linux i686”, “Mac OS X” and "Windows Vista" have gained the few points lost by Windows XP.
About the Browsers: Firefox 3.5 has the best performance, gaining a lot of points on Firefox 3.0, the transition is going to finish.

On Windows systems (XP or Vista) you can play a beep using the Win32 MessageBeep operating system function.

rundll32 user32.dll,MessageBeep

On Windows platforms you can also use the following command:

echo ^G

You can obtain ^G by pressing together the control key and the "g" key on your keyboard.

Hi all,

this month we have the same number of visitors but a large increase of page viwes.

With the following script you can install Firefox (version 3.5  or version 3.6)  on your ubuntu box.

I have checked this script on ubuntu 8.10 umpc, Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04. This script should also work with Ubuntu 9.10, If you use this script to install Firefox3.5/6 on Ubuntu 9.10 please leave a comment to this post.

Sometimes  could be useful to get automatic access to your Ubuntu box.

Imagine you want a default user that can access the Inernet, You could create the user with the specifics authorizations then with the autologin nobody of the users of your Ubuntu box needs to authenticate.