Ah, new tricks

Story: Lazy Linux: 10 Essential Tricks for AdminsTotal Replies: 6
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Sander_Marechal

Jul 23, 2008
11:07 AM UTC
There were a few new tricks in there that I didn't know of, like joining two screen sessions together and looking at /dev/vtc1. Nice article.
rijelkentaurus

Jul 23, 2008
11:38 AM UTC
Yeah, I printed it out into a PDF to keep handy, very nice indeed.
hkwint

Jul 28, 2008
5:52 PM UTC
The 'print to PDF' is a wonderful trick too by the way, just managed that in CUPS.
number6x

Jul 29, 2008
9:36 AM UTC
ibm makes a pdf available as a link on the page the article links to.

They've been doing this for a few years. You can even get copies of their mainframe manuals as pdfs!

The IBM green card isn't green and it isn't a card any more:
[HYPERLINK@publibz.boulder.ibm.com]

but it is available in pdf format.
hkwint

Jul 29, 2008
12:31 PM UTC
Missed that. Stupid!

Anyway, here's how you can print PDF's with CUPS:

[HYPERLINK@www.cups-pdf.de]
techiem2

Jul 29, 2008
1:10 PM UTC
Yeah, I love cups-pdf.
I don't need it often, but it's great when I do.

I'm even using it at the school office so the secretary can print.
Win98 virtualbox session that of course can't see the shiny new printer on the vista host.
So I setup cups-pdf on the server and pointed the virtual machine to that.
She thinks it's pretty cool.
On an odd note: When win98 prints to it using the hp lj5 ps driver, it prints in color....(of course they apparently "fixed" that glitch in some later windows version).
number6x

Jul 29, 2008
1:13 PM UTC
cups is getting better with each release.

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