Short summary: it just doesn’t work well. It emulates a serial port, and goes pretty slowly if it works at all.
Then we had this weird error pop up, and I couldn’t find anything substantial on it in Google or Yahoo:
CCMGR.EXE failed to start because PDCMN21.DLL is missing.
Anyone out there have a suggestion?

I don’t think they are, but the new battery I got has a sticker on it saying it’s 10.8v, while the official battery offered by Lenovo claims to be 14.4v. How is this?

When I bought my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Z61t, I chose the lowest-end battery option because the battery is one of the easiest parts to replace in a laptop computer. I always intended to someday get a battery that would last longer, so that I could truly have laptop portability.
While preparing for BigSeminar X (more about it [...]

Sitemaps must have no more than 50,000 URLs and be less than 10 MB uncompressed. It was tricky for me to get gzip compression working in PHP, but I got it done and it works wonderfully. I had to piece it together with stuff from various sites, so I’ll sum it up here.
Before you start [...]

Here is some valuable info from the Google cache for a website that’s now down.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Working on a Disk…
I’m working on a disk. It’s has some nasty bad areas on the disk, so much so that I can’t use Acronis True Image to clone the data. It’s probably not completely necessary [...]

Today a couple of laptops came in for repair. One is a super-thin Sharp laptop with a dead hard drive. What an opportunity to run SpinRite!, I thought. But there was just one problem: no disk nor disc drives of any kind.
These super-thin laptops have a hard drive, but no optical drive and definitely no [...]

After two years of service, Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo Podcasts will be shutting down on Halloween, October 31st, 2007. The site never came out of beta.
There’s not much information– just an underlined non-link now on the top of the site which states: “Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site [...]

My iMac froze for the fifth time today, so I called up AppleCare at 1 (800) 275-2273 and talked with Josh. If you call them, have your computer’s serial number ready. It’s the first thing he asked me for, and I don’t think they’ll say anything without it.
Anyway, all we did was restart the computer [...]

XSS Woes! Seriously enlightening, especially that last bit about XSS in phpinfo().

First of all, if printing doesn’t work, check the print queue. If you see NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED, remove the printer and add it again, but when it asks you to authenticate, try entering:
Username: guest
Password: guest
If you have an HP LaserJet 4P– like me– then make sure you choose the “HP LaserJet 4 series - Gimp-Print v5.0.0-beta2″ Printer [...]