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Get your USB Canon Pixma MX7600 printer working under Linux

January 26th, 2010
Posted in Linux

I have a Canon Pixma MX7600, a nice multifunction inkjet. I have it connected with USB. If you Google a bit, you’ll find some crazy people trying to use the Mac OSX cups .ppd printer drivers for printers like this. I got the .dmg file and tried mounting the OSX drivers that come in it. Even [ READ MORE ]

Secure Shell Load Balancing (On The Cheap!)

December 14th, 2008
Posted in Linux

At work, I (Greg Porter) have a lot of students (hundreds) that need to use ssh to log into a couple of unix hosts. Most of the students use one particular host, vogon.csc.calpoly.edu. When vogon gets busy, or fork bombed, or hangs, all those users are SOL. It’d be nice if we [ READ MORE ]

Using the Citrix web client with Fedora

October 5th, 2008
Posted in Linux

Cuesta College, one of the places I (Greg Porter) teach, only allows you to access your cuesta.edu email 2 ways. You can use their web based Outlook Web Access, which looks really lame and clunky if you’re not using Internet Explorer. (I use Firefox on Fedora.) The other way you can access your mail is [ READ MORE ]

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