OS X Lion and CUPS Browsing

My D-Link print server having been killed by a power surge I needed an alternative method for sharing my printer on the network.

Simple, I thought. Plug it into the USB port of my CentOS server, enable CUPS and away you go. After all, OS X has CUPS built in, doesn't it?

Well..yes, sort of. But as I found out, only Bonjour support is enabled so Lion just doesn't see CUPS broadcasts on the network.

To enable CUPS browsing as well as Bonjour open a terminal and run:

cupsctl BrowseProtocols='"cups dnssd"'

GRUB2

I've been trying to get to grips with GRUB2 which has now become the default boot loader on Fedora. In the past if you had wanted to edit the boot menu it was a simple matter of vi'ing /boot/grub/grub.conf

No more.

The new grub configuration file (/boot/grub2/grub.cfg) explicitly states not to edit it manually.

The method now is to edit /etc/default/grub then run this command as root (or sudo):

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Fedora Desktop Apps

Just finally got around to upgrading my ancient (in Fedora terms) desktop to the shiny new F16. I happen to like Gnome 3; very clean looking.

Anway, a couple of good desktop applications I've discovered that I hadn't been aware until recently are: Hotot (a twitter client) and Vagalume (a last.fm client).