Ubuntu :: Defeat HP's Efforts To Force It's Customers To Purchase The Extremely High?
Apr 28, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, with a wireless HP j4680. That prints on occassion. I've tricked it once by creating a new printer System/Admin/printers, setting the "new" printer to default then deleting the old printer. Not working that way this time. I've search the old forums, a lot of activity in 2007-2008 but nothing since.
Is there a way to defeat HP's efforts to force it's customers to purchase the extremely high, close to 50.00 dollars in my area.
However, I would like to ask if anyone else is experiencing Higher than normal CPU usage with openSuSE 11.4 PR?? My system, which is probably similar to others, increases the air flow with the fan on the CPU when it is working hard. Mine gets rather noisy. (don't have it on the floor, but right next to me) This fan speed increase has been lots more prevalent in the newest version of openSuSE.
Have also used 'top' and it looks like xorg is one of the biggest hogs. However, when I use VMware it goes into hyper drive a lot.
My Samsung R530 laptop is over heating, I believe it is the fan because I can't feel it working at all. When it over heats it just shutsdown. A few times it is came up with a warning while shutting down for a split second saying a extremely high temperature and shutting down seconds later. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 with Nvidia Geforce with Cuda. I have tried reinstalling Ubuntu, installing Fedora... Nothing I have tried has worked.
Where does one look in terms of diagnostics after a system lockup and hard reset? For example, one of my computers, running Fedora 14 i686, has taken to locking up quite a bit lately. My only way out is a hard reset. Now, once the thing is booted back up I'd like to try to figure out where the problem lies. Where do I look? Will any of the log files reveal anything relevant to me? If so, what sort of things would I be looking for. Keywords?
This same box also locked up when I had Fedora 14 x86_64 installed. I had read that there were some issues with the newer 64 bit kernels that were causing lockups and / or extremely high loads. This is why I switched back to the 32 bit version, 2 days ago to be exact. The box gets little use. It's a toy really and not my main "daily use" computer. It is, however, running folding@home. Maybe that's where the problem is. About 15 minutes ago I called home and had my wife reset the box, then I logged in from work and stopped the folding service. I'll have to see if it locks up without folding running. Folding was running on this box when I had the 64 bit version installed also.
My problem is extremely slow write on hard disk and 100% cpu usage and it happens when I want to write something on the hard derive not any other external derive.
Tried a fresh ubuntu install. No change. I am not even sure if it is a software or hardware problem.
I have a firewall / proxy that has an extremely high load, but I can't figure out what's using it. No real cpu usage, the disks are sleeping except for a little log activity, it's on gigabit ethernet and not close to maxing out... Command link stuff runs fast, nothing seems slow, yet the load is sky-high. IME this kind of load is associated with a lot of disk I/O, but that's not the case here. What could be causing this, what else factors into the load?
uname -a:
Code:
Linux myfirewall.mydomain.com 2.6.8 #1 SMP Mon Oct 18 11:20:22 CDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux top:
I am using Thunar and XFCE4. I started with the minimal install CD, so this is not exactly Xubuntu as I do not have Xubuntu-desktop package installed. I installed psydm to be able to easily edit and control mounting, fstab etc... Anyways, I can't figure out how to write to this disk. I have amended the Thunar icon to read "gksudo Thunar" as its command. It opens Thunar with whatever elevated rights that would come along with the command. I still can't write to the disk. If I change the permissions for the disk under the properties tab to be "read&write" for the user group, It asks me about something to be done retroactively to files. No matter whether I choose yes or no here, it still does not change the disk to a writable disk.
No love and no ideas. Can you help me write to this disk ? I run as a user called "user" so maybe I should not have made Thunar open as "gksudo" ?
ive tried uninstalling it in software sources and in synaptic package manager and ive deleted the .wine folder and all files associated with the program im trying to get rid of except its .iso's which i put in a new folder and ive deleted all the drives i made in winecfg that i needed to run my program and ive tried sudo apt-get wine purge1.3 but its still the 4 wine folders are still there in menu editor and can still partially run the program im trying to get rid of and when i restart its back to the begginning
I am looking for car charger. Sometimes while driving my phone battery runs down and I am very upset with this. So that's why I want to purchase a good quality charger which I can use to charge my cell phone while driving. the best website where I can check out new latest car chargers and easily purchase it.
I have searched the web and this forum and I seem to be the only person with this problem. When I open the software center and click on for puchase I see nothing listed there. Do any of you have any ideas as to why and how I can fix it?I am using Ubuntu 10.10 upgraded from 10.04. O yes I am also using it at work behind a proxy server
I already purchase RHEL 5.4 package from a Vendor . It Includes two licenses . I don't know how to activate the RHEL license since I don't receive a Installation Number with the pack. how can i obtain the installation number and activate the license.
Are there any possible options to archive this w/ the 2.6.34 kernel? I know windows can do this w/ a button and BSD can drop packets when connected to closed ports...is IP personality usable in 2.6? Do I need work-arounds? any more options??Currently I've managed to @%#$ my OS fingerprints so results won't show as Linux.4/2.6...etc, but the problem is.. instead it's got the word "Redhat" in it (which is well... worse... because now.. if someone looks at my machine he/she'll know I am on either RHEL/Fedora )
It is known and well described in C++ standard ('C++ Standard - ANSI ISO IEC 14882 2003.pdf') that under certain circumstances types are promoted - for example, 'int' is promoted to 'double'.My design goal is to create wrappers around standard scalar types (like 'double', 'float', 'long', etc.) that would prevent such conversions/promotions, i.e. I want to create a really strictly typed C++ environment (like, say, OCaml).
However, the promotion is caught at runtime.Is there a way in C++ to catch/block such promotions/conversion at compile time ?
I'm setting up a new linux box to give email and web services to some small companies I manage.I'd like to secure things up a bit, as I don't want that user in Company A be able to access Company B data.For starters I'm planning to create a new place for placing users, groups, files and some other Company related stuff.I want to be able, when I add a user for some company, that the user home dir will be set to /customers/ companyX/users/userX
Question 1: is this folder structure ok, or is there a better,safer place to put it other than / ? Question 2: how can I set a new user home dir to the path above, when I add it? Similarly, how can I set the email location?
I'm in the process of building a security team and want each individual of the team to concentrate on the GIAC certifications mentioned in the [URL] website. I was wondering if any inputs on how can I structure this team and how can I target customers?
I'm looking for a way to distribute files to customers and vice versa via web. What I'd like to find is a program that allows a user to upload a file to a web server and then email a link to the file to the recipient. It would have to be secure of course.
I need to understand what is happening with my VPN , I manage the Firewall server that have install POPTOP ($Id: pptpd.conf,v 1.10) for VPN conecctions. Actually only 3 users are using the service, about 1 month ago, I have problems with connection and service that consistently falls, sometimes it can get 1 hour of connection and then falls,My Server is on Centos , Kernell 2.6.18-53.el5PAE
i installed CentOS 5.4 with squid and dansguardian as internal use in a firm. There is a domain server and primary dns windows, but by "wpad" file every internal computer is automaticly forwarding on CentOS proxy.Dansguardian port 8080Squid port 3128Now i have a problem, how to inform my customers who use your laptop in our lan that they have to configure the proxy.
My Linux server which is running my company website have been hacked. Today I saw a number of clients (customers) with some fun characters entries on my database. Access denial on really clients. Please assist, am running Linux Ubuntu 9 and I dont know where to start troubleshooting this. let me confession that I am still on the learning curve on Linux
I've read about the option to purchase programs but the "For Purchase" menu item does not appear in my software center (11.04). Is there something I need to do to enable it?
How do I defeat "Unity" entirely in 11.04x. I've read somewhere that it can be done? Also, would like to reduce the "importance" of "Apps", maybe to a menu bar under "Accessories". I finally located that. My computer is a tool, not a play toy.
Not much else to say. I'd say it takes at least a minute before I get to the login screen. After that it runs fine and most of the previous problems I've had since upgrading have resolved themselves. why it's taking so long to boot up?
Have a little problem/annoyance. I was trying to use a Live CD with Lucid Lynx 10.04 x86 edition and the speed was incredibly slow. I took more than 10 minutes just to start. I noticed the CD drive stopped spinning (or spinning so slow I couldn't hear it) at times, then starting up again. I also noticed multiple i/o error in the logs after it finally booted up. The reason why I think this is a bug and not my drive/cd is simple:
a) The MD5ed the iso and even made two CDs with different burners. I tried older Ubuntu as well as several other Linux distros and the Live CD boot time is much faster (1-2 min). Tried the CD on a way, way older ancient laptop and i booted just fine and much faster.(I will provide any other info if needed).
At work, we use Ubuntu to compile large numbers of C, C++, Java, and AIDL files.My system is a Core i7 Quad-Core with 8GiB of RAM. Prior to this install, it ran Ubuntu 9.10, 32-bit. A basic compile took roughly 45 minutes.I just did a clean install with (x)Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. After setting up the build environment to allow 32-bit libraries (mobile development), a compile took roughly an hour:15.
I have had an extremely slow startup (upwards of a few minutes) for awhile now, and nothing seems to work to fix it. Regular boot time is far slower than it should be, and the time of logging in to a workable desktop is just really bad. I will log in, and then I will either get a blank desktop screen for awhile or an all black screen until the desktop will fully load with errors from gnome-panel and AWN not starting up automatically.Some of the fixes I have tried:
Disabling floppy from bios
Downgrading gnome keyring
Removing gnome* and gconf* from the home directory
Putting this script in /etc/init.d #!/bin/sh echo "nameserver 0.0.0.0" > /etc/resolv.conf
Here's my bootchart and a link in case the upload has problems http:[url].....
I have an HP LaserJet 2100M.Printing OpenOffice documents is o.k. no great delay but when I print out from browser pages (html) each page can take up to 10 minutes to print.I don't know how to troubleshoot this.
So I have force quit and the little window is stuck. reads "click on a window to force the application to quit. To cancel press <ESC>" How the heck do I get rid of it? I tried xkill, it does not work.
I know this has technically been posted but I think my situation is a bit different. People have been complaining that karmic is slower to boot. But from what I gather, it's only a few seconds extra due to an extra splash screen. I'm running Ubuntu Studio and mine takes like 5 minutes and is showing me 3 splash screens! 2 for regular Ubuntu and 1 for studio, which is the most sluggish of the three.
My computer is a Toshiba Satellite A75 2.8 ghz pentium M 1.5 gb ram Radeon graphics 60gb hdd
EDIT: Also, recovering from hibernate takes a few min. Related?
