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The main website may be down while I do some much needed updates to the site. I don’t foresee any downtime on the blog since it is being run independently of the main site.

I would also like to note that I will be doing a lot of house cleaning and as a result all files will be wiped. Now before I do that I will try and contact as many users as possible so I dont remove any active projects.

If you have any questions you know how to reach me.

Finally got my Wii – all hooked up and working. I’ll post my thoughts later, I’m quite busy enjoying the games right now!

Here’s the script I ended up writing once I got everything finally working. Since I was missing a few packages I ended up finding out each step the hard way but I continued to tweak the script just in case I ever have to do it again.

I take very very little if any credit for getting any of this to actually work, everything I learned came from the following:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49714

and

http://real.lithium.com/real/board/message?board.id=realplayer&thread.id=1152&view=by_date_ascending&page=2

First and foremost you need the files.

For the Z55 driver: CJLZ55LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.GZ

I highly urge you to make a new folder and move the file there along with the script. If all goes well you can jsut sit back and coast.

[code lang="bash"]
# lexmark_z55_install.sh
# last modified 04-25-08

# get the two missing packages
sudo apt-get install alien
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

# extract the driver.
tar -xvzf CJLZ55LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.GZ

# fix the sh script, the sh script is broken for newer systems.
tail -n +143 lexmarkz55-CUPS-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz

# extract the contents produced by tail
tar -xvzf install.tar.gz

# convert rpm packages to tgz. (ignore the warnings)
sudo alien -t lexmarkz55-CUPS-1.0-1.i386.rpm
sudo alien -t z55llpddk-2.0-2.i386.rpm

# extract the tgz's to / putting the files in their right place
sudo tar -xvzf z55llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /
sudo tar -xvzf lexmarkz55-CUPS-1.0.tgz -C /

# refresh ubuntu to see the new libraries
sudo ldconfig

# change to the folder for the drivers
cd /usr/share/cups/model

# unzip the ppd, which should _not_ be gzipped
sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z55-lxz55cj-cups.ppd.gz

#The driver is now installed. Restart the cups daemon.
sudo /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart

# Now run and get the driver up and running
/usr/lib/cups/backend/z55
[/code]

That *should* be everything I ended up having to do to print. Not hard, just a pain because the support from manufacturers sucks when it comes to linux. Hopefully as more people switch everything gets easier.

Well it’s official! We’re out of the ghetto and into a much much nicer place!

They have a website (warning: flash) http://www.park-central.com check it out!

In other news I’ll be making a new post for some other updates tonight.

Reading the WoW forums and stumbled on this macro:

/cast [modifier:alt] Ferocious Bite; [stealth] Pounce; Mangle (Cat)()
Can’t wait to try it out tonight!

So I respec’d again this time full feral, and I must say that I am very impressed with the damage output. The only thing that I miss is dropping huge heals and silly little stacking HoT’s in PvP. I’m sure I will respec back to resto soon but for now I think I will stay feral for a few levels when BC comes out.

Tink and I finally went to Disney today and bought my annual pass, then proceeded to go to Animal Kingdom until it closed, then went over to Epcot to finish off the day.

The only thing we didn’t get to do is Expedition Everest because the line was soo long and they were not distributing the fast pass tickets any more.

We had dinner at Epcot, more specifically the Biergarten which was great. Tink didn’t want to go so we got in and out of line 3 times before I finally convinced her to go, but she really enjoyed it! It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet and trust me we ate and ate and ate!

Also, this was the first time I’ve ever actually seen Illuminations and I was really impressed.

Back to work tomorrow, but today was a very nice day off – and it was great to spend some time with Tink!

Yay for patch day :/

The Dark Portal saw some activity – mostly the alliance AOE farming the portal while the poor horde couldn’t get close enough to complete their quest. Oh well – less than a week until the expansion hits the shelves. I got my tabard from the quest; good old rank 1 moonfire spam to pick of random targets and let the insane AOE’ers do their thing :}

I’ve got the patch hosted here, the link is on the resolution site (http://www.resolutionguild.com) so yeah if you didn’t get it and don’t want to wait on the Blizzard downloader you don’t have to.

Other than that it’s been slow in anticipation for the Burning Crusade. Seeing the Dark Portal open and monsters spewing was pretty cool and get me excited i must admit

Nothing official yet, and I know I’ve said it before, but we think we’ve finally found a place! No more crazy stories to tell at work; but trust me that’s a good thing!

It’s lame, I know but it *might* be interesting eventually! (ok probably not)