D-Link – DP-G310 – 54Mbps 802.11g Wireless USB 2.0 Print Server at TigerDirect.com
Here is a piece of hardware I’d like to have. Espeically since I’ve not got my house fully wireless. Its a wireless USB printer server. Its allows you to wirelessly print to a USB printer. This is great because you don’t have to take your laptop or anything to your printer to print, just print wirelessly. Any computer can use it, and multiple computers can “share” it and print to it at the same time.
The only thing that concerns me is I’ve never seen anything of this nature on any pages about Linux. I’m assuming it would fully compatiable, but I don’t know. It’s something I’m definatly going to look into. The price seems steep at first, but I think it would be worth it. Taking your laptop down or up the stairs just to print is a hassle. Much less your wirelessly connected desktop! I guess you could take the printer to the desktop, but that would be a major pain in the butt as well.
Well, thats just another piece of hardware for you cats to look into. Enjoy the Penguins!
Does anyone else seem to notice that as forums tend to get bigger the ruder people tend to get? This forum is still small, we don’t have alot of members, and right now we don’t have that many posts either, but on forums with members numbering in the thousands and post in the millions I find myself constantly angry that people will rudely flame me and others for no good reason. I’m not a mean person, in real life, or on the forums. I’m from the old south where you still open car doors and such for ladies. Why is it that forums tend to become meaner as forums grow larger? I rant because I read a blog from a member of another Linux forum. He talked about this issue and how we staying away from larger forums alot these days and concentrating on the smaller ones because of this very issue. Is this a common trend on all forums? Do any of our other member have this complaint, or have atleast noticed it if not experienced it personally? Just to give a personal example. On another Linux forum a member with a considerable amount of posts under his belt asked a question about how to use a package manager. I didn’t know the exact answer but I did know where to look to find it. After giving this information, he rudely told me it wasn’t there (though at the time I was 99% sure it was) and then proceeded to post twice more, rudely asking if no one else would help him. Finally a senior member on the forum gave him a specific answer to which he gave a wonderful thank you as if I never said a word to him. This made me so mad, I looked through the online manual I had given him the link to, found the answer the senior member gave to him in that manual. Then reposted the link and the section that answer came from just to spite his rude treatment of my attempt to generously, without charge mind you, solve his problem. I have no reason outside of generosity to solve his problem. If his problem never gets solved it will be no sweat off of my back. I will still sleep at night. Yet I tried to help him anyway, only to be shot down because he (I assume its a “he”) is to lazy to help himself in the least amount. Sorry. Rant over.
. I’m currently in the process of compiling a new kernel for my Gentoo install. Instead of using the Gentoo sources, I’m just using a “vanilla” kernel from www.kernel.org. Excellent webpage. Well, just to show you how newbie-ish Kubuntu is, in order to get as far as I’ve gotten without trouble, I’ve had to go through several install through Apt. Not huge install, but the kind of stuff I consider basic for Linux users like the gcc compiler, make, etc. I’m on my way though. I’m currently getting help on TuxForums.org, which has been great so far.