After publishing my previous post on Setting up a HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Gentoo , I’ve noticed that I seem to be getting a lot of visitors searching for how to setup the same printer under Ubuntu, so decided to write a guide specific to Ubuntu. First, plug in the printer via USB, then install hplip ( most users …

Due to the increase in processing power available, the use of SSL has become more widespread. This is obviously a good thing, especially with UK ISPs spying on ( and annoyingly, replaying ) web traffic recently, however this can be a showstopper when trying to debug a misbehaving application. To get around this, and …

I’ve recently had to create a lot of custom Gentoo ebuilds, and distribute them out to separate machines. Luckily Gentoo has the layman system for adding experimental overlays, so we can use this to add our own custom one, hosted on Amazon S3. Setting up the repository is a two part process – creating the actual …

Google have recently released their Google Cloud Print service . It is currently built into Google Chrome on Windows and Mac, but unfortunately it is not yet available officially for Linux. Fortunately there is an unofficial open source project on Github, called cloudprint . It is fairly new, so isn’t yet in the Gentoo …

Recently I’ve been experimenting with the Amazon Free Tier micro instances (one is running this blog). After running an instance for a few days I noticed that the clock seems to drift quite heavily ( more than 10 minutes over 24 hours ). The most obvious fix to any clock drift is to install and configure ntp – however …

Looking For an Ubuntu specific guide? Try here . Today I finally replaced my aging Inkjet printer with a new Laser one. I eventually decided upon the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w printer, as from scouring forums it seems to have good support to Linux, in addition to being a relatively cheap WiFi laser printer. Setting it up …

A lot of people ask me why I prefer to use Linux instead of Microsoft Windows. I use Linux for both desktop and server roles, and I’ve often seen other blog posts mention reasons for preferring Linux over Windows, but they never seem to list the same reasons I think of when asked. I’ve decided to make my own list, and …

Tried to install sys-fs/quota on Gentoo install today and received this error when compiling: cannot find any C preprocessor (cpp) The ( quick and easy ) solution seems to be to create a symlink to point /lib/cpp to /lib64/cpp, like this: ln -s /lib64/cpp /lib/cpp I’m not sure if using a non-multilib version of Gentoo …

The /etc/ directory under most Linux systems is where the system-wide configuration for most software is stored. When setting up, or maintaining a Linux server ( or even a desktop machine, depending on particular use cases ) this directory will likely be changed, either manually or by software upgrades. Obviously it …

After performing a large number of package upgrades on my Gentoo machine, I discovered that Eclipse would crash when showing documentation, or otherwise embedded browser-base content ( including the web browser preferences) . The error logged in my home directory looked something like this:

# A fatal error has been …