Did you know that cups is now owned by Apple? Appararently as of Feb. 2007 - I'm not sure how I feel about that!
This is a quick post about how to enable the autodiscovery component of CUPS as it's disabled by default in later versions of CUPS. What I'm talking about is setting a printer up on a server and having it "broadcast" it's printers - after that, clients that are set to something like "lan auto detect" should automagically be able to see the printers.

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I've finally decided to join the web 2.0 revolution (I guess at this late stage of the game, it's no fun to call it a revolution anymore), with that in mind I thought that I'd have a go at setting up, configuring and coding in ruby on rails. So far the experience has been quite a bit of fun. I decided to crawl before I could walk and have been following the the great getting started guide (link has been changed) that is posted on the ruby site.

One major problem is that I decided to move away from the default setting that they suggest where you simply have a single webserver serving a site such as www.minigeek.org serving ruby (or even ruby.minigeek.org) and I decided that what I really wanted was to be able to hang multiple projects off a single server such as http://www.minigeek.org/rails/projectname. After quite a bit of fiddling around I managed to get it working.

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Happy first post of 2009. This is a post to document how to use the command console of VMWare's ESXi server to restart a client. This is probably not adviseable, I will not be held responsible if the whole thing blows up on you - if you have the option try using the windows client to restart the vmware instance. That being said, this has worked perfectly for me although YMMV.

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This is a post about how to always mount a usb drive in the same location over and over and over .... well, you get the general idea. I have done this with ubuntu and the 2.6.17-10 kernel but it's been in the kernel for a fairly long time now (probably almost as long as udev)!.
This is an amalgamation of the following two sites and my experiences with configuring it:
map multiple entries to a device
fixed device names

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