‘Tip of the day’, for most of this week

I had this plan for doing a tip of the day, as I have this week come across some small but useful things to share with the world. So here they are on the Saturday. Tuesday: In Windows 7, Right-click on a scrollbar and it’ll give you a context menu. Then you can press ‘T’ […]

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Easyauto-mount vhd in Windows 7 (via postie)

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Bookmark this category With my nice new shiny shiny laptop, because I wanted to multiboot it I’d partitoned the drive with the OSX disk utility. However, while Windows7 will indeed recognise a (secondary) GPT partitoned disk, it appears to require a hybrid MBR/GPT for installing, which means in Windows-land you’re pretty-much limited to the 4 […]

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Printing to Windows from Linux

Download the ppd for your printer for CUPS from linuxprinting.org – install in /etc/cups/ppd (for debian) Install Windows print servies for UNIX (Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components) With the CUPS admin interface connect to: lpd://hostname/PrinterName Tried this because printing via SAMBA was giving an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error which is obviously some kind of Windows authentication error (had […]

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