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- An important note for users of the Samsung ML-4050ND laser printer
If you configure the paper type on the Samsung ML-4050ND to "Recycled," it thinks you mean that you are printing on the unused side of sheets that have already been printed on one side. Of course you don't want to print on the already-printed side, so it will helpfully disable the duplexer in this case, no matter what else you do. If you are printing on actual recycled paper, that is to say, paper made from recycled fibres, and you want duplex printing, then you must set your paper type to "Plain Paper." Of course, nothing in the Samsung, CUPS, Foomatic, or Ghostscript documentation, nor in the comments or content of any manufacturer or third-party PPD file (should you be crazy enough to hack PPD files manually), is remotely helpful in debugging this issue.
(1 March 2009)- Visual Land VL-878 tips and tricks
I bought a Visual Land VL-878 portable audio/video player recently, and had some adventures trying to get it to work. I'm collecting the results of my trial and error on this page so that others with this or similar devices can save themselves some trouble.
(22 February 2009)- Review: The Manga Guide to Statistics
The other day I saw a girl wearing a shirt with the slogan "Will yuri for yaoi," and I thought, hey, wouldn't it be funnier if it were a boy wearing the same shirt, just to get the extra level of non sequitur value? As for No Starch Press, they sent me a free review copy of The Manga Guide to Statistics, and it's close enough to the kinds of topics I cover that I figured it'd be worth writing a review.
(6 December 2008)- Lilith
While attempting to avoid a fire drill at my apartment building, I spent most of today in the University library reading a book I selected by intuition. That's an exercise that has served me well in the past, for instance by providing the seed for my short story He lei nalu ho`okahi in a Hawai`ian dictionary. Today the book I chose was Lilith by George MacDonald. It's from 1895, and available online through Project Gutenberg. It reminded me a lot of my own novel Cross Product and readers who like one will probably like the other.
(5 September 2008)- Manga reviews
I'm generally more a fan of anime than of manga, but I bought a stack of manga at Anime North and figured I might as well post reviews of the books as I finish them.
(10 August 2008)