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Updated October 19 2011 to use never version drivers. Works on Debian and LMDE too.

Tired of wasting money buying ink-jet cartridges that run out without even using them, I recently bought a Canon ImageCLASS MF4270 Laser Printer. It is also a multifunctional device with scanner, copier and fax.

Canon now provides .deb files for easy installation of their ImageCLASS MF4270 printer on Ubuntu Linux (or other debian based distributions). Unfortunately they are only providing them for i386 (32 Bit Systems)

For RPM based distributions however, they do provide 64-Bits installation files.

Using alien I converted these 64bit RPM to deb.

I am making them available here for your convinience:

• cndrvcups-common_2.20-2_amd64.deb
• cndrvcups-ufr2-us_2.20-2_amd64.deb

Dont forget to set the device URI to: socket://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9100 (x’s being the IP address of printer)

Canon mf4270 Printer Properties

For the scanner part follow this guide:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/installing-canons-imageclass-mf4270-scanner-on-ubuntu-64-bit/

Related links:
http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-your-scanner-new-freshly-sane.html

Original: October 25 2008.
EDIT: Updated April 24 2009 to use never version drivers.
EDIT: Updated October 19 2011 to use never version drivers.

~200MB Live CD/USB

via: Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI Backup Open Source GPL Recovery

CofeeScript is language that compiles into JavaScript.

Very interesting, a web geeks must read!

CoffeeScript.

Cool service, interesting take on URL shortening and sharing.

Wonder what their business model is?

BO.LT | A more interesting way to share.

PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best… HTML and JavaScript.

Learn more at: PhoneGap.

Yes, there is powerful photo-stitching software for Linux.

Meet Fotoxx:

via: fotoxx – kornelix.

Nice quote, I totally agree with it.

“No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.”

Alan Cooper.

So today as an exercise, I bumped this site’s theme from 0.97 to 0.98. Mostly minor changes to reduce clutter. Added some color to the links to improve usability. Some minor changes to improve multi-language support.

Still far from beautiful and cool…