YouTube comments, explained

For anyone who has ever scrolled trough the comments on YouTube… wonder no more how people can be that stupid. Wonder no more, there’s a real easy answer for that:

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Fix for Google Play Error [RPC:S-5:AEC-0]

After re-installing the Google apps package (gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip) on my CM10.1 phone, Google Play stopped working and didn’t let my install any new apps or update existing ones. To fix the Error[RPC:S-5:AEC-0] you’ll have to:

Go to the system settings -> delete your Google account -> add it again and let your Android sync

Don’t worry, you won’t lose any of your data by doing that.

CUPS and Canon Pixma: Printer hangs after first page

After updating my Ubuntu desktop to a more recent release (12.04 / Precise Pangolin), my rarely used Canon Pixma MP190 stopped working. Not completely, but in a rather annoying way: Printing a single page works fine, but printing multiple pages / copies causes the printer to hang. Hard. As in, you have to pull the power plug to reset it, as no button will do anything anymore.

Apparently there was a bug introduced with CUPS a while ago, or rather a change in behavior of CUPS which triggers a bug in the printer Firmware. Took me a couple hours to find and had me on the brink of throwing out the whole printer.

And it looks like it affects quite a few other USB printers as well:  Epson NX130, Canon i550, i560, ip4200, ip4300, ip5200, MP180, MP160, MP210, MP450, MP500, MP520, …

To save you from reading through all the comments: Till Kamppeter came up with a workaround that worked perfectly for me and others.

In a terminal window, run the command

lpadmin -p  -o usb-unidir-default=true

with  being the name of your printer as displayed
by the "lpstat -p" command.

Now turn off and turn on your printer, then try to print several jobs.

 

After that I was able to print a couple hundred envelopes without a hitch.