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HP printer and scanner

I use xsane which needs to be added as well as some other development packages yum install xsane gcc cups-devel python-devel libusb-devel libtool libjpeg-turbo-devel qt4 qt4-devel pyqt4 pyqt4-devel dbus-devel Run hp-check to see if you have all the required packages covered hp-check I still haven’t 


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Enter password to unlock your login keyring

If you get this irritating pop-up all the time, go to programs and type “Password” a program utility called “Password and keys” will be displayed. Right click on the displayed item called “Login”. This will ask for the old and new password. If you have not changed your user password, just enter the 


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Find and delete files

find . -type f -iname “file(s)-to-delete” -exec rm -f {} ; The -iname makes it case insensitive, otherwise use -name. Of course you can also move them to say /tmp rather than deleting find . -type f -iname “file(s)-to-delete” -exec mv {} /tmp/ ;

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Change to Fedora 17

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 server only to find that the samba server was horribly slow. I replaced it with Fedora 15 and it runs like a train. Yes, I know 15 is an old version but for a production site you don’t want the latest bugs. Also, howtoforge has a stunningly good article on how to 


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