CUPS Page Quota System v0.2.0

A year and a half ago I wrote a few scripts to setup a very simple monthly print quota for the users of the network I administer, since their supervisors were tired of footing the bill for thousands of non-research related pages. CUPS has very rudimentary quota support which I didn’t like, so I […]

Sure, blame it on the grad student

So Tony Blair is trying to get us to believe his “people” screwed up the intelligence reports on Iraq because they used a GRAD STUDENT’S REPORT FROM 10 YEARS AGO. (Read about it).
Come on, next thing you know the US/UK will invade Russia because those Commies are ready to attack (or so says a 20 […]

M$ Cost of Use

Windows is number one on the desktop because of “ease of use”, blah blah blah. Ya right.
I should bill MS $200 for my time and $1,000,000,000 for my pain and suffering. But that is pocket change for them.

XD2 screenshots

See some of my XD2 screenshots here.

SOLAR has spent too much time in the sun

So i promptly arrive at work early to login and plan my last 8 month as an undergraduate. Let the fun begin.

New PGP key

I updated my PGP key to include my new, mark@pavlidis.org, email address. Get it here

XD2 and 2.4.21-ac1 …

I haven’t posted anything for a while, so here is a wrap up of my OS adventures of late…
XD2 compelled me to move back to Red Hat and away from Gentoo as my daily Linux distrobution. It is very user friendly and it makes some things easier that I disliked about Gentoo. I […]

D-Day

Today is D-Day, the day the course of WWII changed. 59 years ago Canadian, British, and yankey forces stormed northern beaches of Normandy. Although I think it is rediculous that humans, with all the power provided by our immense brains, need to use none of it to battle like animals in war, this […]

shh.. i’m 24 today

I am a case of beer today, nothing special, b-days are not the same as when I was younger, now it is just a reminder of how much time of wasted (err.. spent) at university.
At age 5, a year is 20% of your life. At ten, 10%. Twenty, 5%. So today I […]

lsr 9 - Toronto Podcast Meetup - Tod’s Tips

The final set of recordings from the Toronto Podcasters Meetup is a collection of tips for podcast recording. The topics cover the best location at home to record, the iRiver H-120, cable clamps, recording formats, phone tap recording. Note: due to the delay in getting this podcast up (I staggered to monitor bandwidth […]

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