Mon, 15 Nov 2004
I love CUPS
I just setup a printer using CUPS, and I can’t even being to explain how much I love this software. I mean, I remember the days when LPRng was the top of the line Unix printing subsystem, and it was, compared to the utter trash that was BSD lpr.
Now, the peanut gallery is probably thinking that I’m just used to shitty Linux hardware support, and while they do have a point, I have setup printers under several operating systems, and let me tell ya: the ones that use CUPS are easy. Too easy, even… I spent a good 45 minutes the first time I got printing running on MacOS X because it didn’t occur to me or Dave to just try printing… we thought we needed to configure the printer, or install a driver, or something. Boy, was that 2000-era thinking. It Just Worked.
You can even beat the Windows boxes into printing shape via the cupsaddsmb command and Samba, which is just super sweet; no more fiddling around with crappy Windows print drivers; just have your print server auto-install the good Microsoft PostScript or Adobe PostScript driver on the clients, and be done with it.
I’m done with being tired
I’m done with being tired. I’m done with being unmotivated. I’m done with stupid rants like this one is going to be, but we can’t be done with everything all at once, so here you go. I read Getting Things Done recently, at the recommendation of a couple of process geeks who’s blogs I read, and it was inspiring, despite it looking like something a 45 year old middle manager would buy at an airport with the hope that it would save his life. Now, of course, the issue is to act on it, but hey, can’t have everything all at once.
I still haven’t figured out what, if anything, has changed about my mood/life that’s made me suddenly feel more lively, but here it is. I feel more lively. In fact, I feel really good. Still can’t write for shit, though.
For some irrational reason it makes me happy that the GTD website is run on PHP… I was totally expecting ASP or something equally corporate and ugly.