And now, let’s call that a wrap!

- Biffster

Turns out that I am not the only person having this issue (of course). And it turns out the solution is rather easy:

You can delete /var/cache/samba/printing/<printer>.tdb files and restart samba:

rm /var/cache/samba/printing/<printer>.tdb
/etc/init.d/smbd restart

via Log Files – SME Server.

Of course, since we are Linux uses, we know that someone will eventually come along and write their own solution. And that is exactly what SCColbert@gmail.com did. Hence, we have pymazon!

pymazon – A Python based downloader for the Amazon mp3 store.

Installation is surprisingly easy, it took all of 5 minutes for me to download, compile and install pymazon. I can definitely say it runs without problems on 64-bit Linux Mint Lisa (based on Ubuntu Oneiric).

Amazon MP3 fans, unite! And grab pymazon!

I use GMail, both for incoming and outgoing email. I can never remember exactly how to configure sSMTP to work with GMail. Fortunately, Mark Sanborn did it for me!

Send Mail with Gmail and sSMTP, via nixtutor.

A personal research assistant.Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content and adds it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you’re searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Aside from blog posts, I had never really had a reason to do a lot of research. Hence my complete ignorance of this extension. Now, however, I am working on graduate courses, and research is mandatory. A lot of research, including a lot of resources from a lot of different sources.

Enter Zotero. Zotero makes it surprisingly easy to add a source to your personal research library. You can then add citations to a document (using flawless plugins for LibreOffice and Word) with a couple of clicks.

Then there’s Zotero’s jaw-dropping killer feature: bibliography, generated with a single mouse click. The bibliography is output in the format you require (in my case, APA). All text is formatted appropriately – including italics and underlining – and all fields are put in the correct order with correct punctuation.

This is basically a researchers perfect tool.

Zotero used to be a Firefox extension with the word processing plugins. The newest version – Zotero 3.0 beta – was released recently, however, and the game has changed. Zotero itself is now a stand-alone app, avaialbe for Linux, Windows and MacOS. There are connectors for various web browsers, including Google Chrome. And there are the word processor plugins.

If you are doing any type of research that requires keeping track of sources and citing them in documents, you need this application. Trust me on this one. Get it. Now!

via Zotero | Home.

I upgraded to version 1.4.1 when it came out in February of this year (2011) and have had no issues. Everything is seamless. It didn’t even occur to me that it had been a while since the app was updated.

I am on the email list for Pure Calendar, since I switch between using it and the Android Agenda Widget. Today (8/17/2011) I got an email on the list about Toodledo integration. The email said that this was a highly requested feature, since Got To Do is no more. My reaction was: Wait now, what?

I went directly to the Got To Do website, of course. And sure enough, there was the project shutdown announcement posted on 3/17/11:

increased workload for the following few years. For this reason, I have had to make the decision to stop developing Got To Do, to concentrate all my efforts and hours on my new role.

Well, I’ll be damned! My absolute favorite To Do app, and a key part of my PIM suite, is gone! What’s a fella to do?

To answer my own question: I’m sticking with Got To Do 1.4.1 until it stops working. After that, I dunno. Maybe there’ll be a native Toodledo app by then. Or AAW will have direct Toodledo integration.

What’s your opinion? What are you going to do?

The first thing I noticed was an issue with publishing. Not good, right? I submitted an article, but it didn’t show up on my blog. I hopped into the admin dashboard, and saw the post listed, but marked as Scheduled. Not just scheduled, but scheduled for a few hours ago. Talk about missing a schedule! And talk about a bad first impression!

It’s been reported, though, that this is only an issue if the server and local desktop are set to different timezones. I am going to test that out and see what happens.

Follow the link if you want to give Blogilo a try.

[Update: Still the same problem. Oh, well, at least I gave it a try...]

Yeesh. Okay, so I am not one to beleive the numerous “Facebook is stealing your phone numbers!!!” status message memes that get passed on every now and then. Most of them are hoaxes at best, attempts to get you to run malicious apps at worst. I ignore them and never paid those a second thought.

Turns out I should be more cynical about Facebook, too. I mean, I know that Facebook is the privacy equivalent of a sieve. I’ve spent a lot of time setting up my privacy/sharing settings, and have it fairly locked down.

Or so I thought. Turns out there are a lot of settings that I still don’t know about (like an option turned ON by default that pesters all of your non-FB friends every two weeks to join FB). And it turns out that the Facebook phone number stealing thing is actually legit!

I don’t know many times when I’ve been more wrong about anything this important.

[sigh]

Read through this article about the mobile phone number issue on Facebook (via nakedSecurity). Follow the links in that article for links to lock down your account more. And don’t use Facebook for anything – nothing at all! – that you wouldn’t want a complete stranger to know.

Google+ will have me for life if they keep their security settings transparent and easy to figure out. Or, in other words, if they are the anti-Facebook.

- M

Geek HUZZAH!!!
The Humble Indie Bundle #3 (pay what you want for five awesome indie games)
Pay what you want for some awesome games and help support two charities. All of the games are DRM-free and support Mac, Windows, and Linux.

(Also posted on Google+ at https://plus.google.com/103380351660808262506/posts/VFfLNCvcjqH)

However, some ingenious users took a look into the actual .apk for the Netflix app and found out that the app itself no longer checks to see if the device running it is supported or not. The end result: Netflix on unsupported devices!

You need two things to make this work: a phone where you can enable Unknown Sources for software installation, and the actual .apk itself. It took a little bit of work to find the file – many of the websites linked in the article below no longer worked. But once I did track a copy down and installed it, I was watching a movie on Netflix. Excellent!

Note that the article I am linking to is tablet-oriented. 

Your device still not listed alongside the growing list of Netflix-capable phones? [...] folks have discovered that the new Netflix 1.3 .APK actually works

via PSA: Netflix 1.3 APK Could Work on Your Honeycomb Tablet.