Michael Wood

After much faffing around with trying to get a driver working for the Canon iP90 printer in GNU/Linux and CUPS I have found that the Canon PIXMA iP2000 driver that comes with CUPS (the printing service on most Linux Desktops ..including Ubuntu) works perfectly well, i’ve not tried anything very high quality yet, but i’m less optimistic about that.

Fed up with my lamp shade absorbing all the light so I made a new one from rubbish:
not the most original of ideas but it works well.

It’s ~8 cds glued back to back with a strip of plastic bag sandwiched inbetween, broken clothes hanger bent into an ‘S’ shape with a curl in the middle of the ‘S’ to make a loop for the light fitting to fit onto (you know, the bit that goes onto the plastic lamp holder). Blue Peter eat your heart out.
In other more techy news I setup mysql replication over the weekend (it took hours, there are so many things that go wrong) , so now my backup server doesn’t rely on me remebering to run updated mysql dumps. which is good. I don’t really like the way mysql does this though and i’ve had to construct a ssh tunnel to make it secure. It’s all quite a pain to setup, but once it is, it seems to be pretty good so far.

The documentation on dev.mysql.com isn’t very good at explaining whats what. There is a good guide to work from that will help you understand should you wish to try this out at howtoforge