letters,  numbers, and the underscore character are valid, you were
     restricted to 37^4 possibilities (gosh, only 1874161 possible programs -
     THAT must have been an incredible disappointment to new programmers trying
     to break into this highly restrictive field!) Now, however, with 255
     characters for length and almost everything except '/' usable (although
     not necessarily a good idea!), when you could have program names like

This is the gadget that I use to write letters and send them to my Grandma

     I find that kind of behavior somewhat boggling.

   Was this a *nix restriction, or just a convention for lazy people who really
   didn't want to use ANY extra keystrokes? 

     [Ben]  Y'know... I'm not sure. I think it was a sort of a generally
     agreed-upon  convention,  like  "thou  shalt name all your resource
     configuration files with a name ending in 'rc'" rather than a technical
     restriction. Anyone have input on this?

     [Jimmy]    From   "A   Brief   History   of   the   'ls'   command"
     ([30]http://linuxgazette.net/issue48/fischer.html)

                              ...............

     When CTSS was superseded by Multics, the listf command was renamed to
     list, which could optionally be abbreviated to ls.

                                 ...............

     Presumably the Bell Labs folks tended to use only the abbreviated versions
     and the naming convention stuck.

     Also, according to Wikipedia's article
     ([31]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell), versions of Unix prior to
     V7 had a 127 byte limit for 'parameter lists'.

   The files do end up in the cups spool directory. But, just sit there. The 3
   or 4 times this has happened I've just rebooted and all is fine. But, that's
   a pretty dirty way to do this. 

     [Karl-Heinz] Could you check if it's just cups or the actual USB layer?
     What's in /var/log/messages, /var/log/cups/* ?

   I  do use a camera and mp3 player as well. But I really haven't seen a
   correlation between the printer problem and other USB usage. I sort of
   suspect that USB ports are being reassigned behind my back, but the printer
   is always powered on ... so that doesn't make sense. 

   Any ideas? 

     [Karl-Heinz] If it's really the USB layer you should find some hints in
     the logfiles.
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Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable

   Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:34:24 +0100
   Jimmy O'Regan ([36]The LG Answer Gang)

     We had a note in News Bytes a couple months ago on this, and I suppose we
     could have commented then, but it's worth noting: governments are getting
     tired of being tied up by their own documents, there's better uses for red
     tape than that :) -- Heather

   Full story at
   [37]http://www.andwest.com/blojsom/blog/tatle/agenda/2005/06/27/Norwegian_
   [38]Minister_Proprietary_Standards_No_Longer_Acceptable_in_Communication_wit
   h_Government.html

   (also available at [39]http://tinyurl.com/axgga)
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Home Folder Server tweaks

   Mon Aug 1 09:45:29 2005
   Dimitri Yioulos ([40]dyioulos at firstbhph.com)

   In issue 101, Avinoam Levkovitch published an article entitled "Home Folder
   Server For WIndows Clients". Unless there's another way, his script looks
   like a good solution for me, as I'm trying to automatically create users on
   a sendmail server from entries in a Windows 2003 Active Directory. I can't
   locate the author, am by no means a coder, have a couple of questions, and
   so thought I'd ask. 

   First, Avinoam's script: 

                    See attached [41]home-folder.sh.txt

   Now, my questions: 

     1. My windbind separator is "\". However, I don't want that (that is, the