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Set up Brother MFC-7820N as network scanner under Kubuntu

Posted on 18 July 2011 by me

I’ve set up my Brother MFC-7820N ages ago to print and scan over the network from Kubuntu. Once in a while the router decides to change the IPs of my network devices. So just as a note to myself, here’s how to set up the scanner again:

check the setup: brsaneconfig2 -q
delete the old entry: brsaneconfig2 -r MFC-7820N
determine new IP (as an exercise for the reader)
set up new entry: brsaneconfig2 -a name=MFC-7820N model=MFC-7820N ip=192.168.1.35

Sun Java JDK & Avahi on Debian

Posted on 13 July 2011 by me

When trying to install sun-java6-jdk on a Debian server (Lenny), I noticed that it automatically installs libnss-mdns as well as avahi-daemon. I’ve got no idea why it would do that as Avahi is the free implementation of Apple’s zeroconf which allows automatic detection of local network devices. On my Debian server it managed to interrupt DNS resolution with local hosts (using a .local address).

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Copy dot files on Linux

Posted on 2 July 2011 by me

The following command can be used to copy dot files (i.e. configuration files starting with a dot, e.g. .bashrc) without copying all the dot directories:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name “.??*” -type f -exec cp -ia ‘{}’ /dest/path \;