Adding PPA repositories in Ubuntu 10.04

There is a very simple way to do so. Just open a terminal console and type in


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nameOfThePPA

And that's it.

Printer Error on XP. Operation couldnt be completed.

Damn, it seem like all printers are bound to give me hard times lately. I had a XP machine refusing to print. I tried something that I have heard years ago about changing to RAW from IMF.

To do that open "Printer and Faxes", right click the printer in question, open the "Advance" window. Go to "Print Processor" and choose "RAW" rathen than "IMF" and for good measure select "Print direct to printer".

And that was it! ARGG!

windows cannot connect to the printer.operation could not be completed (error 0x0000000d)

I had a shocking of a problem the other day with two machines. One XP running a shared printer and one with Vista. The Vista couldn't finish communicating with the printer on the XP machine and it was crashing with hips of errors (Printer spooler not working, Error 0000 something etc).

I was on my end of the rope when i stumbled upon this web site

http://www.howtonetworking.com/print/cleanspooler.htm

I downloaded the file and run it on the Vista machine. It failed at the start because the program was made for earliest versions of Win NT. BUT....I opened the properties of the .exe and set the combatibility to XP SP2. It runned like a charm.

I accepted ALL the deletions of printers, monitors, drivers etc that the program found and after a quick reboot i was able to connect to the shared printer and install it localy. Beauty!