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CUPS ERROR: Unable to write raster data to driver!

On my CUPS server, I've connected a Dymo 400 labelwriter. For some reason, while printing labels perfectly, I just can't get the imagetoraster filter to stop "crashing" with the following error:
ERROR: Unable to write raster data to driver!

So I fixed this the dirty way. I downloaded the CUPS Source RPM from CentOS. I installed it to /usr/src/redhat using the command rpm -i cups-1.4.2-35.el6.src.rpm. In the directory SOURCES, I added a file named geeklab.patch containing:

--- cups-1.4.2/filter/imagetoraster.c   2009-06-05 23:38:52.000000000 +0200
+++ cups-1.4.2/filter/imagetoraster.cpatched    2011-10-21 11:18:28.427271405 +0200
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@
                fputs(_("ERROR: Unable to write raster data to driver!\n"),
                      stderr);
                cupsImageClose(img);
-               exit(1);
+               exit(0);
              }
             }
          }
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@
               fputs(_("ERROR: Unable to write raster data to driver!\n"),
                    stderr);
              cupsImageClose(img);
-             exit(1);
+             exit(0);
            }
 
            /*
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@
                fputs(_("ERROR: Unable to write raster data to driver!\n"),
                      stderr);
                cupsImageClose(img);
-               exit(1);
+               exit(0);
              }
             }
          }

Then I added to the spec:
Patch700: geeklab.patch
after the line that starts with Patch100:
and %patch700 -p1 -b .geeklab just after the line that starts with %patch100

Now you can use the regular rpmbuild commands to build packages:
rpmbuild -bs <specname> to build a new SRPM
rpmbuild -ba <specname> to build a new SRPM and binary RPMs
I personally prefer the first, as I mostly use mock to build clean destination RPMs.

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Turn off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration in Windows Server 2008

  • Start Server Manager (servermanager.msc)
  • Go to the top node named "Server Manager (SERVERNAME)"
  • On the right side, under server summary>Security information, disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration (ESC) for whoever you like.
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Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 – Connection refused

On my fileserver, I have printing disabled in Samba but still I get all these messages in the logs:
[2011/12/08 10:18:26.821280, 0] printing/print_cups.c:108(cups_connect)
Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused

I don't want Samba to offer printers. After trying some configurations, I found this made smbd stop trying:

load printers = no
printing = bsd
printcap name = /dev/null
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Using Ctrl+Alt+F1 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

When you're running Linux, pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 will bring you to console #1. If you want to go to the console of a vmware guest, this won't work, because the host will go to the console instead of the guest. Making it pretty hard to get to a console.

The correct combination for linux-in-vmware-on-linux is CTRL+ALT+SPACE, release space while holding down CTRL+ALT, then add the F1 key.

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Change Thunderbird time format

To edit the Thunderbird time format on Linux, edit /usr/bin/thunderbird. Just before the line exec $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" add one more line:
export LC_TIME=nl_NL
(or any other language of your choice)

There are probably other/easier ways to do this, but since I want this to only affect thunderbird, I prefer this method.

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PXEboot with CentOS 5.6 and dnsmasq

Install the required software:
yum install dnsmasq

Open up the firewall:
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 67 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

Then run:
dnsmasq -d --interface=br0 --dhcp-range=181.30.68.111,static --dhcp-host=84:2b:2b:78:30:79,181.30.68.112 --dhcp-option=option:router,181.30.68.65 --dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0 --enable-tftp --tftp-root=/var/ftpd

Put all required files, such as pxelinux.0 from the package syslinux in /var/ftpd

Ubuntu/Debian

I'm running RedHat-based software on all of my machines. Above information may be useful for Ubuntu/Debian users, but it's not tested and I'm not supporting it.

Servers: RedHat Enterprise Linux/CentOS is more suitable for servers, as there's a lot of professional level support available. I think that's important, because if I say, get a car accident, I want the servers to be managable by another professional.

Desktops/Laptops: RPM packages are pretty exchangable between RedHat-based platforms. That's a good reason to run Fedora on the desktop.
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Windows 7 network awareness

After switching my network to a more strict proxy server recently, I found that Windows 7 machines were reporting they weren't connected to the internet anymore. While this is partly true, unauthenticated users can no longer just access http, users don't need to get this message.

The probing software is called Microsoft NCSI. What it does, is:

  1. perform a DNS lookup on www.msftncsi.com, and request http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt. This file is a plain-text file that contains only the text Microsoft NCSI.
  2. then do a DNS lookup request for dns.msftncsi.com. The answer should be an A-record resolving to 131.107.255.255. If no answer, or a wrong answer is given, NCSI assumes the internet connection is faulty.

I whitelisted www.msftncsi.com in my proxy to allow outbound http-connections from unauthenticated users to this domain.

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