Linux Corner

[le Pingouin]

seacue:

"Re: Brother HL 2140 Printing Problem
the default driver "Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/Postscript" is what makes it print out all them blank pages change it to "Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended)" and it will print just fine."

[ubuntu] Brother HL 2140 Printing Problem - Ubuntu Forums

[seacue]

THANK YOU "The Penguin".

Changing to the driver you recommended seems to have solved my problem. Unfortunately that driver was second in the list presented by Mint ... the Postscript driver was the one with "recommended" after it, not the Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e you alerted me to.

PPRuNe wins again.

Thanks again,

seacue

[layr]

Metar scripts for Linux

Hey, I've written some simple bash scripts that fetch metar data and thought others might be interested.
There are basically two different sets: one that is usable within terminal and other that's meant to be run periodically (by cron or conky for instance).
First one is rather straight-forward: you type 'metar ZZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ' in terminal and you'll get metar data for those airports.
The second script updates metar that's stored in separate file. It has two versions - one for airports, where metar is published every HH:50, other for HH:20 & HH:50. It compares the metar time stored in file to current time. If last saved metar is 12:50 and current time is 13:50, it downloads new metar. I used that script for printing data onto desktop using conky.

Additional instructions included in files.

1. script
2. script, 1. ver (HH:50 metars)
2. ver (HH:20 & 50 metars)