In the past I used to use Samba to share a printer over the Ubuntu network – yes, I am a fan of the Ubuntu operating system – no more Microsoft Windows Samba tends to give me problems using a shared printer. Now I have found a better way sharing a printer… First some background [...]

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This past long weekend (Canada’s Civic Day) I have been playing with a free linux-based desktop operating system on all the PCs in our house. It has a strange name: Ubuntu. I must say that I like it a lot – it is much better than Lindows/Linspire which I tried and abandoned years ago because [...]

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