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Knitted cover for my Amazon Kindle
Posted by: | CommentsIt was my birthday recently and I was lucky enough to receive an Amazon Kindle, if you haven’t seen or used one of these I’d highly recommend it, it is actually quite an amazing little thing.
I also got the Official Amazon Cover for the reader but I really did not get on with it. It is high quality and durable, but it makes the device so awkward to read that I always end up removing the Kindle anyway. It is also quite heavy and I generally leave the Kindle in my laptop bag and can do without the extra weight.
My girlfriend, who knits constantly made me a Kindle Cover which fits the reader perfectly and provides surprisingly good protection. She has made the pattern available freely on this post on her blog.
Updated Linksys SPA Personal Directory Manager
Posted by: | CommentsIn response to the comments posted my original post I have put together a new version of the Linksys SPA Personal Directory Manager.
This version has had some cosmetic tweaks, includes a proper installer and has the ability to upload the directory to many phones.
There is a small charge of £1.95 for this software.
This has been tested and works with:
Linksys SPA941
Updating the RecipientContainer of a dynamic distribution group in Exchange 2007
Posted by: | CommentsAfter moving users to a different organisational unit you may find that you are unable to e-mail them using a dynamic distribution group. If the group was created in powershell you wont be able to edit it in the managment console either. It shows a message saying:
This Dynamic Distribution Group was created with the Exchange Management Shell. You can use the Exchange Managment Shell to modify the filter.
And all of the controls are disabled.
To update the recipient container from the Exchange Management Shell run:
Set-DynamicDistributionGroup -Identity DistributionGroupName -RecipientContainer ‘containername/ouname’
HP Direct PDF Printing and Printer tray control
Posted by: | CommentsHP Direct PDF printing is a great cross platform driverless printing mechanism which I have used for a number of customers with great results.
A common problem with Direct PDF printing is that it is not possible to include any printer control commands such as tray calls within the PDF and lots of people have been asking how to do this – I checked with HP Technical support and was told it is not possible.
It is possible however to setup a print job with PJL commands and include the PDF documents within that job. The key being to set the printer language/personality to PDF and then using the UEL (Universal Exit Language) command to issue more control commands. After a bit of trial and error I found that this is actually quite straightforward, and thought I would post the code as I was not able to find any working examples:
ESC%-12345X@PJL
@PJL JOB NAME = "paultest2.pdf" DISPLAY = "Printing & Stapling paultest2.pdf"
@PJL SET OUTBIN=OPTIONALOUTBIN1
@PJL SET PROCESSINGTYPE="STAPLING"
@PJL SET PROCESSINGOPTION="LEFT_1PT_ANGLED"
@PJL SET MEDIASOURCE = TRAY3
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PDF
After setting up the job with the above, you can then add the PDF code. After the PDF you either need to end the job or specify more further printing control. In my example I am printing another PDF document right away within the same job but from a different tray, like so:
ESC%-12345X@PJL
@PJL SET MEDIASOURCE = TRAY4
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PDF
Then follow this with more PDF data and then end the job like this:
ESC%-12345X@PJL
@PJL RESET
@PJL EOJ NAME = "paultest2.pdf"
ESC%-12345X
In this example the two PDFs are also being stapled together and the status display on the printer is also updated to show what document is being printed.
All of the above was tested using a HP Laserjet P4015N with a 500-Sheet Stapler/Stacker(CB522A). Although it contains no references to PDF printing, the best reference I have found is this document from HP:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl13208/bpl13208.pdf
In production I am doing all of the PJL wrapping via a korn shell script which I’ve tested from IBM AIX, Ubuntu and Sco Openserver 5.0.7.