HP printer on Ubuntu 8.10

The lessons I learned by trial and error about my Laserjet 1020.

1. foo2zjs works sometimes, but will have problem when CUPS is updated.
   
2. HPLIP always works if you install the latest version, not the one in repository.
   

A page about the wide finder

I have published the page of wide finder, which was created for a group discussion on Erlang.

The problem of wide finder was coined by Tim Bray, and is summarized in http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Finder

The task is to read an Apache logfile and figure out which pages have been fetched the most.

The reference Ruby code

# 11 lines

counts = {}
counts.default = 0
ARGF.each_line do |line|
if line =~ %r{GET /ongoing/When/\d\d\dx/(\d\d\d\d/\d\d/\d\d/[^ .]+) }
counts[$1] += 1
end
end
keys_by_count = counts.keys.sort { |a, b| counts[b] <=> counts[a] }
keys_by_count[0 .. 9].each do |key|
puts "#{counts[key]}: #{key}"
end

Bray's original idea was to check if Erlang is good option for this problem on multi-core platforms.

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Be careful when you see some CFP's or invitations

Some links for this sensitive topic:

http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com/

http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2009/01/from-site-httpwwwanti-plagiarismorg.html

http://delicious.com/tag/fakeconference