Jimi has written a nice brief tutorial on installing and configuring Spamassassin on a Redhat Linux system.
Spamassassin has been a godsend for me: last week it caught 436 chunks of spam, with 8 false-negatives and zero false-positives.
This site has a freely-downloadable e-book on Solaris 9. I’ve glanced over it and it seems to be pretty decent so far.
It’s always lovely to be interrupted from one’s afternoon net-browsing by the sounds of tornadic wind and the cracking of tree-trunks.
Once the wind had died down, I went outside to find one of my ancient oaks broken off a few feet up its trunk, sprawled across a good portion of my back yard. It’s a good thing that shed was there to break the fall.
A week later, and I’ve got insurance checks in hand, and am waiting for the Scary Tree Cutting Guy™ and the Confederate Rebel Contractor Guy™ to show up and start removing tree and shed bits.
Mom told me today that every time my stepdad has acted like a jerk during the day, at supper my brother pours tea for him into a pink glass.
That’s so perfectly passive-aggressive. I’m very proud.
It seems that the terrorist organization known as the RIAA has claimed another thousand victims in their ongoing war against American culture.
I find it highly suspect that in these times of intense scrutiny of anything anti-American, certain politicians, among many others, can continue to fatten themselves on the funds of foreign-owned entities that have waged cultural warfare upon America.
After hours of banging on it, I finally figured out how to enable printing via SMB from a Windows XP machine to a Mac OSX machine.
You’d think that with a Mac it’d be a point-and-click deal.
Think again. “Think different.”
Refer to William White’s guide for a detailed list.
The steps, in my particular case, are as follows:
1. Download and install the Gimp-Print drivers. This step is pretty straightforward, although you may need to install the ESP Ghostscript drivers too.
2. Add a print queue that uses the Gimp-Print drivers. Note that here, you’ll see your existing printer. You’re adding a new print queue for that existing USB printer, not another printer. Follow the directions listed in the guide and you’ll have no problems. I prefer naming the printer something simple, like “printer”.
3. Configure Samba. This is the part that was the worst for me. I recommend following option D in the guide, with some modifications. I tried using this file many times, but my XP machine was not able to see the USB printer. I finally changed the line “browseable = no” to “browseable = yes”. This is probably a security risk if you aren’t behind a firewall.
Remember to restart smbd and nmbd after any change to your smb.conf file. The commands are “sudo killall -HUP nmbd” and “sudo killall -HUP smbd“.
Also be sure to follow the tests as listed in steps 3.4 and 3.5 in the guide. If your Windows XP machine doesn’t list the two print queues when you run “net view \macservername” from the command prompt, you’ve done something wrong and it absolutely won’t work.
4. Configure CUPS. I wanted to use the Windows XP driver for my printer, so I modified the files /etc/cups/mime.type and /etc/cups/mime.conv file as listed in this Apple KnowledgeBase article.
5. Add the printer in Windows. This is fairly straightforward: Control Panel, Printers and Faxes, Add Printer, select Connect to This Printer, and type in \macservername\what_you_named_your_print_queue . If you’ve enabled raw printing, pick out the correct driver from the list.
6. Try to print something. If it doesn’t, don’t ask me why. Retry your steps and verify those tests listed in the guide.
7. A big gotcha, according to some sources, is that you will have to kill and restart smbd every time you boot. Per the guide, “Samba Printer sharing, although configured, is only enabled when the CUPS daemon is up and running. Mac OSX starts up cupsd only after smbd.”
I’ll do some investigation later to find out how to modify the OSX services startup sequence.
Pin-outs.com: because I can never remember the pin-outs for RJ-11.
