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New CUPS Cloud Print Release
Aug 12, 2012 · cloud cups google google cloud print Linux printing
The long-awaited latest release of CUPS Cloud Print is now available. The latest release contains: New: Added Colour Model option to CUPS PPD, send Colour option to Google when printing to colour printers New: Cloud Print printers now listed as ‘Discovered Network Printers’ when adding printers New: PPD now has an IEEE …

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Dell PowerEdge 1750 Wake On LAN on Gentoo/Funtoo Linux
May 24, 2012 · BCM5704 dell poweredge Linux poweredge 1750 tg3 wake on lan wol
After my previous entry about my PowerEdge 1750 , I’ve been trying to get Wake-On-LAN working. On every other machine I own, it simply involves at most activating WOL in the BIOS, then running ‘ethtool -s eth0 wol g’ on boot, but the PowerEdge 1750 with the “Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet” …
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Upgrading Dell ESM firmware on an unsupported OS
May 20, 2012 · bios upgrade dell poweredge esm upgrade Linux poweredge 1750
I recently received a free Dell Poweredge 1750 from work ( they were having a clearout of old hardware and I grabbed it first ), and naturally the first thing I installed was Funtoo ( essentially it’s an experimental version of Gentoo ) .
Installation worked fine, but the only problem I have is the server is quite …

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file not recognized: File truncated
May 11, 2012 · compile error Gentoo pulseaudio
While attempting to upgrade one of my Gentoo Linux machines to the latest version of PulseAudio ( media-sound/pulseaudio-2.0 ) today I encountered the following error:
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Printing to Google Cloud Print using CUPS
Oct 15, 2011 · cloud cups Gentoo Linux mac printing
I previously blogged about allowing printing to local printers via Google Cloud Print on Gentoo , and recently I have been looking at the opposite of this – printing to Google Cloud Print from Linux.
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error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘G_CONST_RETURN’
Sep 30, 2011 · compile Gentoo glib Linux pango
After upgrading a few packages on one of my Gentoo machines, I was greeted with repeated errors like this one, whilst trying to emerge Avahi:
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Converting a VirtualBox VM to an EC2 AMI
Sep 24, 2011 · amazon ec2 Linux virtualbox
There are many ways to create a new AMI for use with Amazon EC2, the best solution is to simulate EC2 with a local Xen install, however this sometimes isn’t possible, so the next best thing is to create a VirtualBox based VM, then generate an EC2 AMI from it .
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GlusterFS 3.2 on Gentoo
Sep 22, 2011 · cloud Gentoo GlusterFS Linux
I’ve been looking at cloning ( or somehow maintaining synced ) file-systems between multiple servers, and after looking at other solutions ( regular rsyncs, inotify etc ), a clustered file-system seems to be the best solution. GlusterFS looks to be a popular Open Source based solution, however there doesn’t seem to be …
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configure: error: keyutils.h header not found.
Sep 1, 2011 · compile Gentoo Linux nfs-utils
Just upgraded net-fs/nfs-utils to nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1 on my Gentoo machine, and came across this error:
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Making all network traffic for a Linux user use a specific network interface
Aug 28, 2011 · iptables Linux routing vpn
I’ve recently been testing out a VPN service, and normally while running the VPN, all internet traffic goes over the VPN interface. This isn’t really ideal, as I only want traffic from specific applications to use the VPN. IPTables doesn’t seem to have the option to filter specific processes, but it can filter based on …
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