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  • Delicious Library

    Seems to be an excellent little product to catalouge your music, dvd and book collection via manual entering of Barcodes, Searching or Scanning of barcode. It seems to rely heavily on Amazon for getting of pricing and book information, it does seem however that Aussies will be left out in the cold with the ISBN/UPC scanning/entering functionality (for DVD’s anyways, some books however do seem to work). Would probably work a lot better should Amazon ever open up an Australian store (hint hint).

    M

  • NZ man held in Oz rabbit bestiality dragnet | The Register

    And here I was thinking it was sheep and not rabbits that made them NZ’ders happy. How wrong I was.

  • Its mo-bile not mo-bull. Bloody dodgy American pronunciation annoys me. As per http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=95972 from the channel9 msdn site.

    M

  • If you wish to add network printers (TCP/IP Printers) in Windows XP, I have found that the following works really well. This us especially useful if you have a lot of machines to maintain and you dont want to add them in by hand

    Step 1: Create the ports
    Before you start adding printer drivers and creating printers that appear for applications, you need to add the ports for them. I have found that the best way to do this is to set up the printer fully and have it configured in windows then once you have the printer setup run regedit. Navigate to the following key
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Standard TCP/IP Port\Ports
    There you will see a list of ports in the form of “IP_192.168.0.2” or similar these correspond to the IP addresses of each of the printers you have installed. This also handily stores the settings (SNMP, LP/RAW, Queue names) for the printer in question. For example, below is a lp based TCP/IP printer from a Fuju-Xerox Able 1250

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Standard TCP/IP Port\Ports\IP_192.168.0.2]
    "Protocol"=dword:00000002
    "Version"=dword:00000001
    "HostName"=""
    "IPAddress"="192.168.0.2"
    "HWAddress"=""
    "PortNumber"=dword:00000203
    "SNMP Community"="public"
    "SNMP Enabled"=dword:00000001
    "SNMP Index"=dword:00000001
    "Queue"="lp"
    "Double Spool"=dword:00000001

    Once you have that (and any others you wish to install) in a reg file for simple importing to the registry, you can move on to installing the drivers.

    Step 2: Installing the Drivers
    First you need to stop and start the spooler service. (The following does work using a .bat (batch) file.)

    net stop spooler
    net start spooler

    you can then install the printer with the following command
    rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Fuju Xerox Able 1250" /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r "IP_192.168.0.2" /m "Xerox Able Model-PRII PCL 6" /z /u /w

    The /b “Fuju Xerox Able 1250” is the name that will be displayed in printers and faxes.

    The /r “IP_192.168.0.2” is the Port that this printer uses

    The /m “Xerox Able Model-PRII PCL 6” is the driver name – if the driver exists in windows already in this location /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf

    “/u” will use existing drivers if they are already installed while “/u” will prompt for location if they are not installed.

    “/z” prevents the printer from being automatically shared over CIFS/SMB.

    rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /? will display a list of options /l really needs to be investigated for fully automated installation.

  • I accidentally stumbled across this site that has a fancy calculator that helps you calculate the required power supply for your system.

    Personally I would always add 50W to the result that this calculator gives just for the sake of safety and expansion (you might want to add a DVD drive or extra HDD to your system – its always better to have room to grow than not enough.

    It does seem to indicate that I will have room for lots of expansion with my Antec TruPower 480W PSU.

    M

  • CARLTON DRAUGHT BIG AD

    This massive ad was brought to us by C.U.B. it seems to rely on viral marketing which has become popular of late, but it is worth a look.

    Works in/on Mac OS, Win32 and supports multiple browsers 😀

    M

  • Main Page – OSx86

    As seen everywhere else it looks like the Apple Dev Kit (for Intel/x86) has been leaked – it seems to requires SSE3 and some little Infinion Chip on the motherboard – read the article above for the details.

    It does scare me if this is to usher in the Age of DRM (or as i prefer DloRM – Digital (lack of) Rights Management).

    M

  • How a Corrupted USB Drive Was Saved by GNU/Linux | Linux Journal

    An interesting Linux Journal Article regarding how to save potentially corrupted USB File Systems (well file systems from those USB Thumb Drive / Stick Drive things that seem to be pretty much everywhere now a days).

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  • Geoffrey Huntley ? Archive ? Data Security 101

    Seems a bloke was lucky enough to get several RS6000’s for $20 ea on ebay (yeah, it makes me green with envy). The kicker – they were not wiped of data as they should have been and came complete with intact lotus notes DB, customer and staff info. A very fine example of what NOT to do when disposing of systems.

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  • I have an idea, that I would like to implement over time, but currently lack the skills, so I lay it out here on the off chance that someone should see it, and implement it (I do ask that if you are a company and intend to release something like this that you seek my permission, if you are going to Open source it under a GPL licence, go ahead!).

    People who have a low volume, low bandwidth site (like me) don’t really want to shove files up on our websites for people to download as apache sees fit to serve out, as it has the potential to flood or overload the upstream bandwidth available. Bittorrent has the capability to to help alleviate this issue, as the peers also seed or upload to new peers, a great system, but its a pain to maintain and does not really scale all that well for large numbers of files.

    I am thinking of a system, that would need to survive reboots, be scaleable and have a level of inteligence to ensure a best effort service for users in such a fasion as not to squish the available bandwidth.

    It should prevent direct linking/downloading. (It should be noted that the idea of this system is not for the distribution of copyrighted content, but rather to allow a form of bit torrent archiving ability – think home movies, linux iso’s from way back stuff like that).

    It should be able to throttle overall usage to a set value.

    It should be able to have some means of setting/detecting popular torrents that are seeding well or in need of better seeding and scale bandwidth on a per torrent basis.

    It should now this is the tricky bit allow for someone to download something that it not so popular and allow it to be uploaded over time even if there are multiple other more popular files being actively used without halting the distribution of those files.

    I’m thinking that a tracker/client combo needs to be developed, in the form of a service (or perhaps apache mod <-- is that possible?) that can be set to lookin a specific dir and generate .torrents and register them with the local tracker, it should idealy auto check for new files and do ALL the heavy lifting itself. M