• Allumer la machine.
• Appuyer, successivement, sur ‘Menu’ , ‘Marche Mono’ , et appuyer 4 fois sur la flèche du haut en moins de 5 secondes, pour entre dans le mode maintenance.
• Avec les touches haut (▲) ou bas (▼), faire afficher “80″ et valider avec “Menu/confirme”
• Appuyer sur la touche ‘Marche Mono’ plusieurs fois jusqu’au compteur de purge.
• Pour remettre le compteur à “00000″ , il faut entrer la valeur “2783″ : afficher successivement les chiffres 2,7,8 et 3 avec les touches (▲) ou (▼) et en validant par la touche ‘Confirme’ à chaque fois.
• Pour quitter, touche ‘Arrêt/Sortie’.
• Entrer les chiffres 9, 9 avec les flèches pour sortir du mode maintenance.

Then, I had to replace the ink absorber box, which goes by the part number LP5186001. I asked Brother and they sent me one within 2 days. I don’t know its price yet, I haven’t got any bill so far.

Dismounting the DCP-540CN is hard. Many screws, plastic clips and cables to disconnect. I broke a few plastics clips, mainly because Brother doesn’t publish any service manual.

The disassembled printer with the new and old ink absorbers.

Long story short, I managed to replace the ink absorber box (while getting a lot of ink on the table, ground, my T-shirt and my hands).

And the most amazing : it still print (even if my T-shirt goes to the waste basket).

The restore of my custom IPS image in DFU mode failed with error 1600. To fix it, I had to create an “expert” image in PwnageTool and use 1000 Mb size for the root filesystem (tip from some forum). After this, the DFU restore worked. After reboot, no Swisscom GSM/3G service at all, I had to install Ultrasn0w from Cydia. Now it seem everything is working again.

Apple still doesn’t provide a week-view in their calendar. I impatiently wait for the CalDAV-enabled version of PocketInformant to get this feature.

All Linux distributions are providing ten of thousands of packages, installed with a simple command. On Solaris, expect to spend hours running ./configure and make in iterative mode until you get something running. And then you start again because you forgot to add some “-L -R” and it is now complaining about a missing library. And don’t talk to me about the dreadful Blastwave and OpenCSW. The rule is simple : if you want to build something above Solaris, be ready to become a SVR4 packager.

No wonder why Solaris is dying. The purchase by Oracle wasn’t really needed to kill it. The suicide was written all over the wall long before Oracle even thought about it.

The migration took some time to sort out, but the link appear to be stable. Green.ch provide the Zyxel 2802 VDSL router, which I configured as bridge, behind my D-Link router. After having migrated DNS and friends, all is set.

• snmp-server ifindex persist
• snmp mib persist cbqos
• snmp ifmib ifalias long

Or is this shall better be called “Persistent SNMP indices” ? Well, now that both versions are listed here, big-brother Google will index the two of them.

Ideally, the region should be around Bern / Solothurn / Neuchâtel / Lausanne, but I’m open for other locations if tele-commuting is OK. My CV is available on request.

#!/bin/sh
#
# save ICS calendars from CALDAV server
# Ch. Bueche, 4.2.2010
#

# connection info
USER=myself
PASSWORD=mysecret
SERVER_URL=https://my.caldav.com/caldav.php/

# list of server-side calendars to backup
# get these names by looking at “get info” in iCal
CALENDARS=”Priv Work 63B209D5-524F-440F-B492-5B028E6C0298″

TODAY=`date “+%Y.%m.%d”`
BACKUP_DIR=”/data/backup/calendars_$TODAY”
if [ ! -d $BACKUP_DIR ]; then
mkdir $BACKUP_DIR
fi

for cal in $CALENDARS
do
echo “getting calendar $cal”
curl -s -k -X GET -u $USER:$PASSWORD -o “$BACKUP_DIR/$cal.ics” “$SERVER_URL/$USER/$cal”
done

echo “all done”

Feel free to find out how to get a list of calendars using some smart curl command and CALDAV enumeration.

I’m sure someone will complain about the non-patched status of this server and tell me I’m a loosy admin.