Monthly Archives: January 2014

CUPS driver for Canon CARPS printers

I’ve reverse-engineered CARPS data format used by some Canon printers and created a CUPS driver calledĀ CARPS-CUPS. These printers can now print from Linux! Tested on MF5730. Printers that use the same data format and should work: MF5750 MF5770 MF5630 MF5650 … Continue reading

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Running VMware Workstation 7.1.6 or Player 3.1.6 with kernel 3.11

If you need to run VMware Workstation 7.1.6 or Player 3.1.6 (because newer versions require virtualization support in CPU) with recent kernels, you will run into several problems: If you use kernel with just two-number version (e.g. 3.11), VMware refuses … Continue reading

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