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I have just spent about 2 days trying to get my printer at the shop working and I finally did so i figured I would share the results of two days of head bashing on the keyboard. It seems the MFC-5890cn is not a very popular printer so there are no drivers included with CUPS…
I have been working on a WordPress site for a client of mine and typically use the same theme called Mandigo which offers seven different color schemes. In this specific case my client wanted a color theme outside of the seven color schemes that are offered by default so I needed to modify each of…
Earlier today a client of mine sent over a .rwa file for me to figure out how to open for him. After the initial searching I found an answer on Yahoo that claimed .rwa files were from some ReliaSoft application called WeiBull++ and also stated that it was possible that the incorrect file association had…
At one point during the election in 2008 I signed up for text messages from Barrack Obama’s campaign. After the election I completely forgot about signing up for the text messages and didn’t receive any for almost a year after Obama was elected. Anyhow at one point I all of the sudden started receiving text…
Often times I still come across .daa files. Although we can burn these to disc as a image I prefer the .iso format. Anytime I get a .daa file I normally convert it to .iso for storage. .iso files seem easier to work with and more burning programs supChange into the newly port its format.…
I decided to make a post on recompiling your Ubuntu kernel after after taking a look at the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki. Although the instructions were correct it was a big jumbled mess and almost impossible to figure out what was what from the instructions. This post will cover recompiling the kernel that comes…
Although Ubuntu is a fantastic Linux distribution they have done quite a few annoying things by default in a effort to create a more user friendly work environment. One of these things is the tool tips and descriptions which pop up whenever the mouse is hovered over anything. This happens for links, applications, folders and pretty much everything else. Its seriously annoying…
I recently switched back to Thunderbird from Outlook for various reasons and I ran into a annoying little thing. When replying to a message the cursor automatically goes to the bottom of the message, under the quoted text. I found this really annoying because it means you have to read or scroll past all the…
The other day I had attempted to use the Dell Linux BIOS upgrade utility on a Dell Poweredge 650 server however it wouldn’t run properly under CentOS Linux but I decided to give it another shot on a Dell Poweredge 2650 and this time it worked without issue. Below there are steps on how to…