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Sun, Apr 01, 2007

TV Schedules

Posted at 8:09 pm MDT to Media

I'm annoyed. Cartoon Network did something stupid to their schedule last night without notifying the suppliers, so my DVR (Tivo-equivalent) recorded garbage instead of the shows that were advertised as being scheduled.

And the Biography channel has switched their Sunday schedule from British mystery shows to junk about the paranormal. I think I'll be watching a lot of DVDs on Sundays again (I caught up on some of my backlog this weekend)... And probably a lot fewer mysteries: I think they moved them to Saturday, when they conflict with lots of other things I like to watch.

Grr.

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Printing problems

Posted at 7:49 pm MDT to Technology

Setting up printing from Linux used to be a nightmare.

Nowadays, printing from Linux proper is fairly straightforward to set up using the CUPS print manager. However, I need to get printing working from either WinE or VMWare in order to finish my taxes using my laptop. I really don't want to have to use the old 'thoth' machine again, especially since it isn't printing well either, and will need some tweaking, too... I'm keeping that as a last resort.

A certain amount of fiddling with config files is turning out to be needed.

Sigh.

If it isn't one thing it's another.

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