[SLUG] HP Laserjet p1005

2009-02-07 Thread Gerald
Hi to all, Do you know if there is a Linux driver for the P1005 Laser Printer. I am running PCLinuxos 2008 and The printer is not recognised. Your thoughts will be most appreciated. Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] 24h viewe in Evolution

2009-02-07 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Hi all, today I did some searching and I am not sure in how far this would be a 'good' workaround. I hope someone can comment on this! So I searched for Evolution 24h time format setting bug. There are quite a few out there on launchpad [1] and on gnome bugs [2] as well. But from what I read

Re: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread Tony Sceats
hey that's a good one, it even works with quotes :) On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.auwrote: On 06/02/2009, at 9:06 PM, Tony Sceats wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) Here's quickie.

Re: [SLUG] HP Laserjet p1005

2009-02-07 Thread Grizzly(Francis Smit)
Gerald wrote: Hi to all, Do you know if there is a Linux driver for the P1005 Laser Printer. I am running PCLinuxos 2008 and The printer is not recognised. Your thoughts will be most appreciated. Gerald Ubuntu 8.10 has it -- In my life God comes first but Linux is pretty high

Re: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread Owen Townend
2009/2/6 Tony Sceats t...@fatuous.org: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) so, have you got any? Really quick, basic one that most know, but is handy: Instead of redirecting output to /dev/null simply use '-' to close the stream. e.g. $

[SLUG] Re: useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread Daniel Bush
On Feb 6, 9:06 pm, Tony Sceats t...@fatuous.org wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) so, have you got any? I've got 2 to share today: alt and then alt woo, that's kinda interesting. It seems to pick the last word for each

RE: [SLUG] HP Laserjet p1005

2009-02-07 Thread martyc
Hi, I have this printer, and it works great. Had your problem with Suse 11 (was a little surprised) and the Suse hplip package wouldn't work, it 'saw' the printer but no print jobs would come out. The way i get it working is bypassing any distro specific package and downloading the hplip software

Re: [SLUG] Re: useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread Tony Sceats
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 6, 9:06 pm, Tony Sceats t...@fatuous.org wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) so, have you got any? I've got 2 to share today: alt and then

Re: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread jam
On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) so, have you got any? I've got 2 to share today: alt and then alt for interactive shells, works kinda like ctrl r or !$ - that

Re: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread Daniel Bush
Sorry, meant to post this to the list... 2009/2/8 jam j...@tigger.ws On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) so, have you got any? I've got 2 to share today:

Fwd: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-07 Thread Daniel Bush
I'll get this right eventually... 2009/2/8 jam j...@tigger.ws On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) so, have you got any? I've got 2 to share today: alt and