I read through your irc articles, and I am very grateful. I will be setting up a corp irc server in the coming weeks. This server will host channels for our tech support staff, execs in house. We want to prevent users from creating channels at will, query is fine, but we don't want channels all over the place. is this doable in irc?
We are also planning on putting up a web gui that will allow our customers to initiate support requests from a website directly into a "support" channel monitored by our staff. So I don't want end-users creating channels at will either.
Thanks!
-Tony
Re: Printing
Hello tv46386,
The short answer, I suppose, is that you aren't supposed to log into root on Ubuntu. Rather, you use the 'sudo' command (or graphically, 'gksudo') to execute commands that require administrative rights. That likely has something to do with it. When you log in as root, you likely don't have any printers configured in your applications. The configured printers are carried forward into all your applications by default. Your root session would have to enter a print destination in Firefox manually. If you click File, then Print, odds are the only printer you see defined is 'PostScript/default'. You would click Properties, then enter a print command (lpr your_printer_name_as_you_defined_it). The proper way, however, is to run as a normal user and only use root permissions when absolutely necessary.
-- Marcel