2007 - a simple year

New year, new year, new year! Well, not exactly too new but just 10days old. So what's up with this new year?! Resolutions?!

If history is of any reference, then surely resolution goes unfulfiled more often than achieved...now we don't need charts to tell us this!

So instead of making a resolution that doesn't work out - like what UN and NATO always do. I decide to take the OPEC's approach to things - just a little each day.

For 2007, I will make it a point to do a simple deed on this simple site that makes life of other somewhat a little more easy...

To start off, I will share a little something still fresh in my head - installing a freaking printer on Linux! My woes began with my Brother MFC-5440CN. Ubuntu, maybe humanity towards people, a printer is surely no person.

To start, first download the necessary LPR and CUPSWRAPPER drivers from http://solutions.brother.com/linux/
Assuming the files are promptly downloaded onto the desktop like all firefoxes do, we can proceed to install the printer. For the moment, the printer itself is immaterial :)

1. sudo -i #to access as /root
2. apt-get -i tcsh #get the tcsh shell, we'll need it
3. mkdir /var/spool/lpd
4. mkdir /var/spool/lpd/MFC5440CN (or whatever printer you're using)
5. cd /Desktop #go to the desktop or any other directory the drivers are saved
6. dpkg -i --force-all xxxxx.deb (xxxxx == file_name_of_lpr_driver)
7. DONE LPR is installed
8. sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/cups
9. Step 5
9. dpkg -i --force-all yyyyy.deb (yyyyy == file_name_of_cupswrapper driver)
10. Now exit the terminal
11. Check the printer and print test page

11Steps to printer for the peguine, couldn't have been better on the that wild west old bull (longhorn a.k.a Vista is also a cow variety)