A man will die, but not his ideas.

Friday, December 29, 2006

Reminders to Self

Reminder to self.

HowTo: Print to PDF using cups-pdf

Download the cups-pdf package:
sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
(or via Synaptic)

sudo chmod +s /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

"In order to ensure CUPS-PDF is running with the required root privileges you have to make ‘root’ the owner of the cups-pdf backend and set the file permissions of the backend to 0700 (root only)."

In Gnome:
System > Administration > Printing
New Printer
Local Printer & Use A Detected Printer click on PDF Printer
Choose “Generic” as the manufacturer
Choose “postscript color printer rev3b”
Leave the driver set to “Standard (suggested)”

Note:
Printed documents are stored at ~/PDF

HowTo: Write Arabic in Ubuntu

HowTo: Verify Checksum of Downloaded Files

md5sum filename

Then compare resulting checksum with the one provided in the ".MD5" file. If they match, then the file has most probably been downloaded correctly with no errors.

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