How to clean up printer drivers
WIRED Sex Drive – Porn Prohibitionists Miss Point
By Regina Lynn
All week I’ve been thinking about the recent “porn is heroin” hearing, which concluded that porn bypasses the cognitive speechmaking part of the brain, turns men into rapists and — my favorite — releases damaging “erototoxins” into the bloodstream. […]
GoGoBoard – Robotics project platform
The GoGo board framework is a collection of open-source hardware platforms mainly aimed for educational projects. It is being designed with the following goals in mind:
http://padthai.media.mit.edu:8080/cocoon/gogosite/home.xsp?lang=en
Set Up a Default Network Printer for All Windows XP Users
Cannot Set Up a Default Network Printer for All Windows XP Users
tee’ing perl output
I may want to output info both to screen and sometime to a log file. Perl Cookbook recipe 13-9 offers one approach with Tie::Tee.
I also found a thread at http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2003-June/002302.html where Mark Dominus offered:
{
my $teefile = "/tmp/teefile";
open my $fh, ">", $teefile or die $!;
open SAVE_STDERR, ">&STDERR" or die $!;
tie *STDERR, 'TEE', *SAVE_STDERR, $fh or die $!;
}
die "I like pie.n";
package TEE;
sub TIEHANDLE {
my $package = shift;
my @handles = @_;
bless @handles => $package;
}
sub PRINT {
my ($self, $data) = @_;
for my $fh (@$self) {
print $fh $data;
}
}
Trouble joining the domain – RPCPing
I’m trying to join a system to the domain, and I’m getting an error:
The following error occured attempting to join the domain “campus.ad.uvm.edu”
The RPC Server is unavailable
I’ve used a utility in the past called rpcping, part of the server resource kit. I technical article is available at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;177446
OK. Things look reasonable.
The other tool I’ve used is portqry.exe:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=832919
Offline files and just plain offline.
We’ve been trying to work around a problem with Offline files, where the offline files cache is sync’ed for all users, rather than just the connected user.
I found a thread about it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/05/02/124900.aspx
which continues on
http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/10/06/239025.aspx
Gabriel Faure Sicilienne
Gabriel Faure Sicilienne from Pelleas et Melisande Op 78; Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa; D. Gramphn 423089 CD
CHWB Migration Complete
Friday, we completed the migration of the remaining systems in Athletic Medicine and Conflict Resolution. There are a few clean-up issues to address, but it was a successful migration, all-in-all.
Next up… Nursing and Health Sciences.
Steps
Yesterday, I parked on East Campus. I walked from Patrick Gym to Waterman and back twice. Total for yesterday – 14082.