![]() ![]() Alan is fascinated by seemingly ancient technology in web admin tools.Alan gets easily distracted by pointless questions.I just used Sublime Text and Hugo as I usually do. I could be deliciously “meta” here and add recursive steps one through twelve of writing a blog post, but I think that’s needlessly painful. ![]() Previous releases of WSL required you to rummage around in folders. This is neat! Windows exposes the Linux filesystem in the Explorer, under this little Tux icon. I probably don’t need Sublime Merge, as I could push my changes with git on the WSL command line. That’s useful to know if you want to add the license key back in, so you can take a screenshot of the “Thank you” dialog for a blog post. So I go and download them both and install them, and find the license keys in my email from 2020 and apply them too!įun fact, you can remove the license from each of these products in the Help menu. I really like Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, and even have a paid license for each. (Even though I have Visual Studio Code already installed here for some reason) I eventually found the amd64 deb package and installed that. Don’t be like me, and download the arm64 build for your amd64 WSL image. My blog uses the static site generator Hugo which has binary builds for lots of platforms. But my brain knows git and Linux stuff in the terminal, and WSL is here already. Sure, I could clone the repo in Windows directly. Thankfully at least I must have installed WSL at some point in the past, so I can quickly clone the repo my blog source code lives in. ![]() We shall plough on and write the blog here in Windows. Of course not, that would be far too easy. ![]() Step 8: Reboot or notĪs we started our tale, I’m in Windows, exiting an online (Windows only) game.ĭo I reboot to Linux where all my blog related tooling is setup? I’ll write it up as a mildly humorous blog post. Does everyone keep their printer that long?ĭecide this is a question for the masses. I had no idea this lump of plastic and metal has been sat in our house eating toner and sometimes printing things for coming up to a decade. Search my email and discover I bought it off an eBay seller in 2013. Wait, when did I get this printer!? Step 7: Find the receipt Here it is on my printer admin tool in 2023. Sure, I’ve heard of the HP iPAQ brand of devices, just not this one. I am now invested in this HP iPAQ Glisten - which I’d not heard of before. Ok, it’s an HP device, that makes total sense given it’s an HP printer. Is that some kind of Blackberry!? Step 5: Find that device Step 3: Open the admin toolĪfter some minutes, I don’t find the page count, but I do discover this screen. I turn around and note the IP is displayed on the laser display screen. Remember that the printer is around three feet behind me. Think about whether I could find the IP out from the OS system settings, or if it’s easier to go to the printer and fumble around there. I remember at some point the IP address of the printer on the LAN was 192.168.0.222, so I visit that in my browser. I imagine that’s easy to find out.” Step 1: Guess the IP My brain saw this and thought “Huh, I wonder how many pages my printer has completed in its lifetime. Someone else suggested that they print more these days than they used to. One person quipped that people don’t print much anymore. I was just leaving an online game when I noticed a conversation among the Late Night Linux Telegram group about printing. A re-enactment of an event yesterday evening. ![]()
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