Author: sphillips

Jelly Bean Android ROMs

This is more of a public bookmark than anything else.  I have been trying several different ROMs, but each on seems slow and laggy.  I am not sure if am doing something wrong or if the HD2 is nearing the end of its life.

As always, the best place to find the most recent ROMs is: android.hd2roms.com

Here are the ROMS that I was looking at:

Dell 1320c Laser Printer on Ubuntu 13.04

I have long wanted to get my office’s color printer working, and I think that I finally found it.  The printer is a Dell 1320c and to make it a little more challenging, it’s hooked to a LinkSys PSUS4 Print Server so as to make it a network printer.  Others are using it from their Windows computers in the office, but this is the first time anyone has tried with a Linux computer.

Here’s what I found…

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Amazon Prime Fix Again

We have enjoyed watching many of the Amazon Prime videos in the past.  Unfortunately, on the last few machines that I have rebuilt, they wouldn’t play.  It just said to upgrade the Flash Player.  The usual tricks didn’t work.

Update: I found a different but easier solution for Ubuntu 13.10. See this post.

Thanks to Ask Ubuntu and Aaron, I found the solution.  In summary, here are the commands that got the job done:

sudo apt-get install hal
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information
/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes
rm -rf ~/.adobe

Here are the steps…

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