• One page of scrap paper left

    For some time now I’ve been collecting single-sided paper (pages that are blank on one side, not some sort of Möbius stationery). I don’t mean I put them in albums. I collect them to re-use. There are kindly people in my neighbourhood that deliver one-sided paper straight to our door — usually estate agents trying…

  • First bug-fix since getting back!

    After being on holiday in North Devon for a week, I came back to work to find mountains of email and nearly a hundred messages from Bugzilla. Today I reached an important milestone of the week. The email is all read (or… let’s say, disposed of); the Fedora Core/Extras merge review changes requested to date…

  • Mike Sweet’s replacement for “(recommended)”

    Last week Mike added some code to CUPS to remove “(recommended)” from PPD NickName attributes, quite rightly saying that static recommendations without the benefit of the full context are not much use. Now he’s proposing a better system. See the full text of it, but here is a summary: new PPD attributes are proposed, to…

  • Frightful weather

    Unexpectedly, we have snow this morning, so that’s nice. So much for early Spring though — hope it hasn’t caused too much trouble for the confused flora and fauna that jumped the gun. Lots of pristine patches of snow to put footprints in!

  • Form-feed funny

    I wish I could pinpoint the reason for this HP duplex printer having ‘form-feed funnies’. (It’s like a funny five minutes, but for printers.) I’m sure it’s to do with when it runs out of paper mid-job and then I refill its paper tray, but I haven’t caught it red-handed yet.