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funny thing here at work. OK, so we are using a little model airplane remote to control a chair on stage. It moves left right forward back kind of thing (Marley proving he is real, scoops up Scrooge and shuffles him around the room). So the crew is charging up the transmitters battery, and notice the wall wart has two LED's, one labeled TX, the other RX. Only the TX is lit. So they call me over:
We dunno what the TX and RX stands for. I guessed the TX was lit because it knew we were in Texas. And the RX is for prescription because we work in theater. But Travis doubts that's the reasons.
Of course, the charger is used for both the remote control (TX) and the airplane receiver (RX). Since we are only using the remote control, only that LED is lit. Still, it was kinda funny. As if a little wall wart knew what state it was in, and had a light just for Texas.
I'm in the process of transferring programs and files from my ancient XP desktop to my new Vista (blech) laptop. I've successfully managed to network the two computers and the printer, but when I print from the laptop to the printer, it prints gibberish--and sometimes pages and pages and pages of gibberish.
I've been working on it for an hour and my head hurts, so I'm taking a break, but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone has any advice before I try again. My next step will be connecting the printer directly to the laptop to see if it's a networking or Vista problem.
Try going to the printer vendor's web site, downloading the latest Vista driver, and reinstalling it.
HP insists my printer is Vista compatible and therefore didn't make a new driver, and yet I see lots of people complaining about the same problem I'm having. So far none of their solutions have worked for me, although it's powered off now because it just kept going and going and going. Maybe a day with no juice will reset it?
What model printer? And did it still print okay from the other computer on the network?
HP inkjet 5550. It did print ok from the XP computer, until the latest tests, and now all it'll print is the gibberish, hence the time-out.
You know, all this time I thought "sudo" meant "super-user do" but it really means "switch users during operation." Boringer.
The Alfresco install wiki.
You disagree? I think super-user do makes more sense, myself.
Speaking of which, I'm trying to follow their instructions to install Alfresco, and I'm coming up blocked when I try to do apt-get install xvfb because I get the error Failed to fetch http:/ /security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xvfb_1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3_i386.deb. Which is reasonable, because it's not there. 8.4_i386.deb is there, though. Anyone know anything about this "dummy X server required for openoffice.org"? Should I be upgrading my version of Ubuntu from 7.10? The Alfresco install instructions say they are for 7.10.
Wait...I ran apt-get update and everything seems to be fine now. That's kinda cool. I wish I knew why it worked. Time for more research.
I call bullshit. The Official Sudo page tends to agree with me.
