MadBuntu

A while ago, I wrote up a piece on how to install a Dell 720 Printer in Ubuntu. Last weekend, after a reinstall of Linux, I found my printer didn’t work. “No problem”, I thought, “I’ll just follow my own tutorial”. To my absolute horror, when I tried to do it, it didn’t work. So I started sifting through the message boards, and found alot of old info that didn’t help. Finally, I was able to get everything squared away, so without further ado, here is the updated and correct Howto for installing a Dell 720 Photo Printer under Ubuntu 7.10.

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So maybe you have created a twitter account and been playing around with it.  But you need more power then the tweeting from the web can give you.  You need to shorten URLs on the fly.  You need to customize the look of your client.  You need to be able to post to multiple account sat once.  You need Twhirl.

First we need to install AIR from Adobe.  Adobe AIR is a framework that allows web application to run as desktop applications.  Right now, Air is an alpha distribution for Linux, and some applications will only run on Mac or Windows, but Twhirl works fine.

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