The Orange County Genealogical Society Quarterly / Volume 33, Number 2 Quarterly (August 2003)

[What is this?]

• Attention All Genealogists from Bull Family Assoc [they are looking for a n
  ew William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House Association genealogist]
  


• Free Genealogy Seminar -- LDS Church -- Lake Katherine, NY


• Blauvelt Family Reunion


• Some Helpful Information [how to submit queries, etc]


• Donations: Ananias Ballard, Benjamin Babcock, Robert McKune, etc


• Queries


• An Old Genealogy Puzzle


• Answers to Queries


• Ancestor Table: Stanley Allen Drake


• Orange County Wills


• Bible Records: Horton Family Bible of John B. Horton Bible, Davis Bible of
  Joshua Davis 1818


• Mortgage Sheds Light on David Smith, Miller, of Monroe, NY


• The Sadder Side of Genealogy [reprint of 1854 letters found in OCGS collect
  ion]


• The Identity of Major John Wood's First Wife


• More Gannon Information


• Where They Went: Wayne Co, PA


• Newburgh Directory for 1858-1859: J through L


• Orange County New York Early Marriages


• Records of Town of Wallkill Orange County, NY: Births 1881-1909


• Programming (not confirmed at press time)

Saving bandwith with new blosxom plugin

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa just announced a cool new blosxom plugin, href="http://bulknews.net/lib/archives/gzip">gzip . In a
surprising small amount of code, it will transparently compress pages
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Updated blosxom plugin 'find'

My lunchtime hack was to extend href="http://fletcher.freeshell.org/weblog/index.html">Fletcher
T. Penney's blosxom plugin href="http://www.blosxom.com/plugins/search/find.htm">'find' to
allow the last few search terms to be displayed by the blosxom
template.

Use href="http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/find-0.4.mn1">my version of
the find plugin and put $find::recentsearches in your head.html
template.

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I was amused by this scamming spam I got this email today.

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If you were foolish enough to enter your
credit card number and expiration date, it would have been sent to
secure.fethard.biz. The good news is it looks like that site is off
the net.

Printing to a microsoft windows-hosted printer from debian

Our HP
PSC 750 color flatbed all-in-one printer/copier/scanner is
connected to a Microsoft Window2000 desktop and I want to print to it
from the home linux server as well as my laptop when I'm home.

First 'unix printing' support needs to added to the w2k system. Go to
Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs and then select 'Add/Remove Windows
Components' on the left sidebar. From there install 'Other Network
File and Print Services' where you will see 'Print Services for
Unix'. Then under the Printers control set the printer as Shared and
name it something, I chose 'allinone'.

Then install the following debian packages:


cupsys — Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - server
cupsys-bsd — Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
cupsys-client — Common
UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)



And then point a web browser to http://localhost
:631 (or
http://<homeserver>:631), authenticate with the root password.
From there, follow 'Manage Printers' and add one as follows:

• queue name: allinone or whatever you like. Description and location are op
  tional



• Device: LPD/LPR Host or Printer



• Device URI: lpd://192.168.1.100/allinone -- That is the local IP
  address of the w2k system and allinone is the Windows name for that
  printer



• Pick the appropriate printer driver, in my case it is HP then 'HP New Deskj
  et Series CUPS v1.1 (en)'



• Then configure the printer options if you want to.

Now you can print a job as simply as 'lpr -Pallinone filename.txt' or 'lpr -Pal
linone filename.ps'

While I was at it, I hooked up an old epson color printer to the linux home ser
ver too.

bottlerocket to control X10 'firecracker'

I finally found some time to cleanup/mess around in the home office
and plugged the X10 'firecracker' into the new home linux server.

Now br A1 OFF turns off the light in my office and
br A2 ON turns on the lava lamp in the older boy's room. Now
to use cron to turn off the lava lamp so I don't have to worry that
the boys forgot to.



bottlerocket &mdash Utility t
o control X10 Firecracker devices