Category: Software

  • Wanted: Album cover quiz

    Sue and I played one of those album cover quizzes online. Sue’s so much better than I am at getting them right! But it got me thinking: how hard would it be to make one and put it right here? Oh, I’m sure it could be done as a one-off without too much trouble, but…

  • CUPS 1.3 shaping up

    Judging by some of the bugs and features being marked as “fixed in 1.3-current”, CUPS 1.3 is shaping up very nicely!

  • 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…

  • 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.