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Apr
23
2010

How to Get a Wireless HP OfficeJet Printer Working with a Linux Laptop

I have an HP OfficeJet J6480 all-in-one printer. This is connected via USB to our Windows XP desktop machine. I also have a Linux (Kubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”) Laptop which connects to the wireless network setup by our router. The printer also connects wirelessly to that network. Thus, if I’m on the network on my laptop I have access to the printer.

Oct
23
2009

Bizarre screenshot of the day: RSS directory?

Ok, firstly don’t get your hopes up – there isn’t a bizarre screenshot every day. But I just got this one when I was looking for RSS directories to add a blog RSS feed to.
I’d just added the RSS feed to Goldenfeed, and saw a link underneath to another RSS directory, ‘readablog’. So [...]

Oct
4
2009

Google AdSense: What Artificial Intelligence does in the Real World?

When I went to college, I studied Artificial Intelligence before there was any such thing as Google AdSense (or, in fact, Google). I know, it’s hard to believe.
So I spent a couple of years learning about robots, intelligent systems, evolution and natural language processing. Little robots will go to Mars, they told us. [...]