Don’t Panic!
I redirected the main page to here until I can get files moved around, it’s a quick fix to a nuance.
Daily Archive for September 20th, 2006
I’m going to be moving this to the front page at http://paradoxinc.net since I have left that pretty static and have been mostly putting all my updates in this one. I will be keeping the Dell 600m pages as is so people linking to those won’t get the glorious 404 error 
So as I’m adding content here the front paradox page will be disabled and hopefully it will be a painless migration. I do worry that people looking for the Neverwinter Nights Platinum install script will have trouble, maybe if I just redirect all the 404 pages to the front page they could figure it out?
The overall goal is to get more overall exposure to the content 
To get this to work in Linux with CUPS you’ll need to get the drivers from Brothers Linux Support. For printing you’ll need to get the LPR and CUPS wrapper for your model.
If you have an RPM or DEB based distro you can easily follow their instructions, but if you have a source based it’ll take some work. I managed to follow denials instructions with successful results, here’s the quick howto.
This should work with any of the Brother models from local printing.
- You need rpm2targz
- Convert the LPR driver and CUPSwrapper into tar.gz files. Replace the package name here with the one yours uses
$ rpm2targz brhl2040lpr-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm
$ rpm2targz cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
- unpack the RPMS$ tar xzf cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0-1.i386.tar.gz
$ tar xzf brhl2040lpr-1.1.2-2.i386.tar.gz
- As root copy the files to their working directories# cp usr/bin/brprintconflsr /usr/bin/.
# cp usr/lib/libbrcomplpr.so /usr/lib/.
# mv usr/local/Brother /usr/local/
- Modify the /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0 script to point to /etc/init.d/cupsd instead of /etc/init.d/cups; this change is required in three locations in this file.
- Run the /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0 script to set up the Brother HL2040 laser.
- Create a symbolic link from /usr/local/Brother/inf/brHL2040rc to /usr/local/Brother/inf/brPrintList.
cd /usr/local/Brother/inf
ln -sf brHL2040rc brPrintList
That should be all and the is available. A test page can e printed from the CUPS web interface at http://localhost:631
If I get to any othe other functions of the printer (scanning, copying, faxing) I’ll update them here, Brother has the drivers for these on the site also so I don’t expect much trouble.
Here’s a little script put together that will check your external IP Address and send an email if that address was to change and include the new IP Address
I suggest putting this in /tmp unless you clean out /tmp completely. This can be run manually but of course the best way is as a cron job, here’s how mine is set which will check at the top of every hour
0 * * * * /tmp/ipcheck/oldip.sh
WhatIsMyIp.com changes their formatting at times so I’ll update my upload script when I need to make changes to keep it working.
Just be sure to make the changes for my email, I really don’t care what other people’s IPs are
For changing the default browser for Gnome apps like Evolution, use this command
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string 'firefox %s'
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