General Linux

CUPS printing delay
Hello, opensuse v11.2, linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop x86_64 It seems that every time I print a page there is a one minute delay while CUPS discusses things with the printer. Is there a way to have CUPS talk to the printer just once and save the info for later? -- James Moe jmm-list at sohnen-moe dot com ... 23 Apr 2010 20:51

konqueror: How do I disable the stylesheet?
I am using the konqueror browser. I am viewing a webpage and I want to disable the stylesheet. The menu option view, use stylesheet is greyed out. How do I ungrey this option? (I basically want to apply the equivalent of the View, Use Style, None option that is available in Mozilla). Mark. -- Mark Hobley ... 23 Apr 2010 20:51

DNS Problems and 127.0.0.2 Address
We're experimenting with deploying SUSE 10 SP3 systems and adding them to a Windows domain and DNS. Oddly, when we register in DNS, it gets registered under two address: the real IP address, and the address 127.0.0.2. Also, an ip addr command shows that the loopback device lo has two addresses: 127.0.0.1 and 12... 23 Apr 2010 20:52

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 21 April 2010 NYLUG: Richard Kreuter on NoSQL in general and MongoDB in particular
<blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement" edits="block of text of announcement of different event removed"> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:45:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 4/21 @ 6:30... 20 Apr 2010 15:51

Critical temperature reached. Shutting down
Hi all, I am booting a machine that is standing in a hot environment, and during the boot sequence, I am getting the message "Critical temperature reached (63 C). Shutting down." After which the system obviously shuts down. I suppose this message is coming from ACPI. My question is however, is there a way to co... 20 Apr 2010 15:51

Run script when switching VTs?
Does somebody know an easy way to run a script when the virtual terminal is switched? I have to re-adjust the monitor gamma every time, can be annoying. Harald ... 20 Apr 2010 15:51

Dependency hell..Debian Backports..
Somewhere along the line my Google earth (used very rarely) stopped working. Cant find (some of its) its libraries..32 bit gtk specifically. so..try and install them again. Why have they gone? Traced to using the latest libasound2 from backports. Its 64 bit, BUT the latest 32 bit version depends on it, in an... 20 Apr 2010 15:51

DNS Problems and 127.0.0.2 Address
On 04/19/10 19:33, Joseph Morales wrote: We're experimenting with deploying SUSE 10 SP3 systems and adding them to a Windows domain and DNS. Oddly, when we register in DNS, it gets registered under two address: the real IP address, and the address 127.0.0.2. Also, an ip addr command shows that the loopback ... 20 Apr 2010 14:29

where is bash history kept?
I am wondering where the bash history is kept-- the one which ! selects. I know about .bash_history, but that is NOT necessarily what the ! uses. I once upon a time by accident did slay unruh ( where slay is an alias for kill for any ps line that includes the next word) I also use slrn on another machine... 20 Apr 2010 15:51

fortune cookies website
J G Miller writes: You go to the web site so that the spammer can collect your IP address. So what? That web site may just present a tiny bit of HTML, but the server can easily keep logs of all the visiting IP addresses. Pretty much all Web servers log IP addresses. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsg... 18 Apr 2010 16:23