Dell 1110 Laser on Ubuntu 7.10

This does seem to work properly as I researched and came across this post in the Ubuntu forums.

The thing you must understand is that most of the Dell branded printers are built by other manufacturers that we all know and love and just have a pretty Dell logo on them.

If you have one of the Dell 1110 Personal Laser printers attached to your Ubuntu box, try using the Samsung ML-1200 driver and all should be peachy.

And of course… here are the link credits to the Ubuntu post.


Pubcon Video

Wish I was there… in the bar in Vegas where they shot the video, that is.
This is just one of those tech geek conferences search conferences that all of us wish that we could attend. It does happen to be in Vegas… and the wife would really like to make a trip to Vegas so maybe I’ll be able to make it next year.

Ran across a great video with Matt Cutts of Google and Vanessa Fox - formerly of Google, now trying out the Hobo Life - discussing some of the recent changes that Google has made regarding paid links, subdomains and a PageRank update.

Take a few minutes to watch the video. It has some really great information. There are points when Matt is talking that I can tell that Vanessa really wants to say something, but doesn’t. Must be great to be privy to some of the inside information at Google and be an ex-employee (confidentiality agreement or not).

Some of the search heavies weigh in:

Matt Cutts

Crybaby Greywolf
Google Blog

In the end, it is Google’s ball and they can take it and go home if they want. With great power comes great responsibility and some of the opinions are that they are getting greedy… but it is their business, they built it, people are coming, and they are raking in the dollars. I’m of the opinion that as long as search relevance maintains top quality - G will be fine through all of this. Who’s going to step up to challenge their model successfully?


Vista and Gmail IMAP

I just realized that I haven’t posted since the middle of September… I guess that shows how busy we get doing other things. Although I’d like to log all of my random thoughts on the blog, time just doesn’t allow for that. Maybe that will be my New Year’s Resolution - blog more…

Either way, I’ve been a gmail user for quite some time and just got around to playing with their IMAP interface. I have a love/hate relationship with MS Windows Vista, but this howto really helped in defining the necessary settings on how to set this up. If you are a geek that likes to check their mail from several different places and likes to have everything just as you left it the last time you checked your email… you need IMAP.

Check out the Gmail IMAP and Vista Mail howto link - happy reading, syncing, whatever…