@Art - you are very much welcome. :D @LateAdopter - I read the commit, it looks correct (we applied similar patches to all of our grub2 builds). I'm updating the packages as we speak and the update will be in final. I can't advise you how to non-destructively "test" grub4dos installed in P...

I don't know much about VPNs. Would this require modifying your internet-facing router to allow incoming traffic to reach the print server? There are two kinds of VPN. 1. VPN server in your home/office. (Home computer)<----(router)<-----(internet)<----(Client computer) For others to connect, you mu...

The modern CUPS work-flow uses pdftopdf as a "pre-processor" for ghostscript, not pdftops. This is true for the majority of consumer printers, including those using Gutenprint. Yes, that's a mistake on my part. I was confusing "PostScript" with "GhostScript". The corre...

The challenge is to remove all comments from a XML/HTML document, using only sed. Challenge accepted. This removes the comments and cleans up stray newlines. sed -n 'H;x;s/<!--.*-->//;x;${x;s/\n//;s/\n[ \n\t]*\n/\n/g;p}' test.html If you only want to remove the comments and don't worry about how it...

I think you can create software cards in /etc/asound.conf which can change the card numbers. I don't know whether that could change the order of the "hardware" cards. You can. But you can't do it with /etc/asound.conf. You need to do it with /etc/modprobe.conf because the order is set at ...

Google cloud print is a great tool that I use regularly. I am disappointed to discover it is being killed off at the end of this year. Sometimes "killing it" means they are integrating it to their other services. Maybe it will make a comeback later, if there are enough petitions in change...

I agree that the hardware-profile string could be improved. I have some thoughts on that. For example, obtain the IDs of the GPU: # lspci -d ::0300 -n | cut -f 3 -d ' ' 8086:5a85 ...would that work on arm boards? Unfortunately, no. Most ARM boards don't have PCI bus, so using lspci won't work. But ...

But here is one more issue: You stated that poppler's pdftops is "usually good enough". So if I deleted the CUPS pdftops filter, CUPS would switch over to the Poppler version in /usr/bin? No. You can't delete /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pdftops either because it is what CUPS will call during i...

@jamesbond Here are drivers for the canon pixma mg2520 Thank you. Got it. Get the MG2540. The driver will say "MG2500 series". Thank you. Got it. It turns out to be the same with the one from Art - but this one is even better, because it comes with __full__ source code (many printer drive...

I am guessing that Art is using the Canon vendor driver, not the Gutenprint driver. The vendor driver does NOT use Ghostscript. CUPS accepts the incoming print job as a PDF stream, runs it through the CUPS filter "pdftops" and sends it to the Canon filter "pstocanonij". So Art n...

No, I did not disable cups-avahi. It's enabled. Sorry, I was not clear. The question is - did you disable (or turned off) the avahi service (called "avahi-daemon" in the control panel)? ghostscript seems enabled by default in a pristine 810 beta. It certainly isn't installed by default. I...

Yes, but falling back to a "generic template" is not hardware-profiling -- it is what we had prior to 2007 before hardware-profiling was introduced. If someone modifies xorg.conf and the files in xorg.conf.d, for booting on a particular PC, that is likely to be inappropriate when boot on ...

s243a - you had a wrong closing url tag. Here is your post, when the closing tag has been fixed. I was very surprised today. Has hardware-profiling for Xorg been moved or implemented in some other way in woof-CE, or is it really gone? https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/commit/1bf49330d9ca...

Barry, unless one is running the PC as a professional DAW, it is extremely rare that one has more than one PCI soundcard. The most common reason for having multiple soundcard is with USB audio dongle, and that cannot be captured with lspci.

Sorry boof, you're SOL. TL;DR: According to openprinting.org , this printer is a "paperweight". In other words, not supported in Linux. Next time get a Brother printer instead. At least they supplies Linux driver for their lowest-end laser printer. Longer note: I spent sometime a couple of...

@Art - some more ideas and suggestion. First of all, did you disable the avahi service? If you do, the cups-filter-avahi probably won't work and you're right that using cups-filter (without avahi) would have "fixed" it. However, in my test, it seems that you actually need to install "...

@"su spot" problem: - You could have run "run-as-spot" instead. But of course, running "su - spot" would work too. @winetricks seems to expect the sudo command. - You have done what I would have suggested anyway: that is, write a script which emulates "sudo" c...

The first run wizard gives you the opportunity to set the time correctly. If one doesn't do this then the scripts to download and install a browser might not work and also the browsers won't work properly for https sites. You'll get false (and scary) warnings about invalid certificates. True, but t...

Has anyone tried to port PupMenu-6.2.1 to fatdog64. The menu's don't seem to automatically update when I make a change. Yeah, you need to restart the desktop to see the menu changes. This is a known problem with lxqt-panel (its menu refresh is inconsistent) but we have come up with a Fatdog-only wo...

My version, as a way to say thanks. May this be useful for those who need it. #!/bin/sh # Inspiration: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117675 TMP=/tmp/ipinfo.$$ cat > $TMP << EOF Local IP Address(es) -------------------- $( ifconfig | sed -n '/^[a-z].*:/ {s/:.*/:/; N; /inet /!d; s/:.*in...