Just some random musings, no warranties, etc.

Brother MFC-7860DW: ‘replace toner’ message

The last few days my printer was telling me that the toner was low and that I should get ready to replace it. Finally, today the printer refused to print any more and instead just displayed ‘Replace toner’ on it’s…

Auerswald Compact 3000 Tip #2: D-Kanal Dekoder

Auch wenn der Name es nicht vermuten laesst: der D-Kanal Dekoder stellt nicht nur die D-Kanal-Informationen dar. Zumindest seit Version 2.5.2 Beta kann er auch die laufenden Logeintraege anzeigen. Das hat mir z.B. geholfen meine Emailprobleme zu beseitigen.

Auerswald Compact 3000 Tip #1: Log files

Um an die Log-Files heranzukommen, einfach im Menue Service->Servicedaten das sogenannte ‘Tk-Anlagen Image’ herunterladen. Beim Speichern am Besten gleich die Endung .log durch .tgz ersetzen. Dann kann man die Log-Dateien entweder mit 7-zip (Windows) oder ‘tar xvzf ServiceData.tgz’ (Linux) entpacken.…

Advantech PCI-1620 and Ubuntu

Mate of mine gave me one of the above mentioned PCI cards. This particular card provides 8 serial ports. It was quite easy to get the card working (no need to patch the kernel anyway). Here are the necessary steps:…

Vodafone(Ireland) blocking encrypted SMTP

I’m testing a 3G router at the moment and when I tried to send an email Thunderbird refused to do so  claiming my email server didn’t support the STARTTLS. As I was quite sure that it did, I took out…

xplanet and Windows XP

I always wanted to have xplanet running as a background process like I used to on Linux. Here’s how I did it: Download and install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools Create the xplanet  service: ‘instsrv xplanet “C:\Program Files\Windows…

Windows Vista and Epson EPL-5900L

I have been recently approached to help get the above laser printer to work with Windows Vista. Checking Epson’s web site for a Vista driver all I could find was a comment stating that this printer wasn’t supported on Vista.…