Tech Notes and Problem Solutions
I recently ran into an issue where some new users with LDAP based accounts did not see any CUPS shared printers.
The solution turned out to be case sensitivity of the apple-generateduid attribute.
Update: It appears that Xerox is now distributing a 10.6 “Snow Leopard” driver package on their website.
According to the Xerox website the Phaser 6120 is not supported in Snow Leopard. However if one downloads the custom PPD file from the OpenPrinting database the printer works perfectly.
Full instructions follow:
Say you wanted to create an empty branch of an existing git repository. That is a new branch with no history, say to track your project docs.
Just a quick way to test and see if your DNS servers are vulnerable to the latest DNS Cache Poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447).
From: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/porttest
$ dig @4.2.2.3 +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT
Replacing 4.2.2.3 with the IP address of your DNS server(s).
