oldcpu's meandering thoughts on Computers, GNU/Linux and openSUSE

I recently setup in openSUSE-12.1 the network scanner functionality that comes with my HP-C309a all-in-one printer/scanner :



The first thing I always do is setup this 'all-in-one-printer/scanner' as a printer as documented in this previous blog entry: Connecting openSUSE to an HP wireless printer - Blogs - openSUSE Forums I discovered that if I use the 'hplip' setup when configuring the print functionality ...

Setting up an HP wireless printer on openSUSE .... This blog illustrates how simple and fast it is to setup an HP wireless printer that supports JetDirect on openSUSE-12.1.

My HP wireless printer at home is an HP C309a.



I am assuming here one has already gone to the wireless printer, and using the controls on the wireless printer connected the wireless printer to one's home WLAN. ...

I installed the latest FreeDOS on my sandbox PC being careful not to wipe grub used by openSUSE-12.1. I find it useful to have another different operating system (from GNU/Linux) on a PC, and in the case of this OLD PC, FreeDOS is what I prefer to have in place.

This old Sandbox PC has an MSI KT3 Ultra (KT333) motherboard with a 32-bit athlon-1100 CPU, a nVidia FX5200 graphic card, and 2 GB of RAM. I have an empty VERY SMALL ~500 MB partition on the PC in the position of /dev/sda1 ...

This is a basic tutorial on pulseaudio tuning using pavucontrol (pulse audio volume control application).

Pulseaudio basics appear to stump many users. Even long-in-the-tooth GNU/Linux users struggle with pulse, as they find the transition from the known alsamixer/kmix with text .asoundrc files to the very simplistic pulse audio a new experience that they are not prepared to adjust to. In the early days of pulseaudio, it was buggy, which complicated its acceptance.
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I received a Kingston DataTraveler HyperX-3.0 64GB USB-3.0 Memory stick for Christmas. That's one very nice thing about Christmas, if one is fortunate then one can receive gifts they really don't need, but are very nice toys none-the-less.

I was fortunate this Christmas, and many thanks to my wife :



I've been 'lusting' after getting fast USB-3.0 memory stick for some time, and this Kingston ...