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            <p>TL;DR: If you find that your B1160 jobs are being marked as 'held' in the printer status applet instead of being sent to the printer, you need to add your printer to CUPS after you have installed the Dell unified printer driver.</p>

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            <p>I hardly print anything at all so when my ancient HP p1105 printer died (or the toner was used up not sure which), it was time to shop around for a new budget printer and the Dell B1160 was what I chose. This will probably last a few years too and by the time the cartridge is used up it will be cheaper to replace the whole printer rather than the toner, but first lets try to get at least the test-page printed cause what ever you do nothing get's sent to the printer.</p>

            <div style="text-align:center; margin:15px"><img alt="print job held" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.raditha.com/blog/images/2014/dell.png"></div>

            <p>Dell has very kindly created a driver for this device instead of passing the buck to the open source community. The only trouble with the driver is that it's lookings for SANE libraries during the installation. I can see why you would need it for a multifunction printer but the B1160 doesn't have a built in scanner.</p>

            <div style="text-align:center; margin:15px"><img alt="SANE for a printer?" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.raditha.com/blog/images/2014/dell-installer.png"></div>

            <p>So it turns out that using the dell unified driver installer is not sufficient you need to add the printer manually to CUPS as well. It so happens that cups may tell you that the &nbsp;printer has already been added but if you try to remove it you will be told that the printer does not exist! So use system-config-printer or the cups web interface ( <a href="http://localhost:631">http://localhost:631</a> ) and after that you will find that items are no longer being 'held'&nbsp;</p>


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            <p>I had prevously made a couple of half hearted attempts to learn the R language without much progress. Then inspired by my own<a href="python-in-48-hours.html"> Python in 48&nbsp;hours</a> and Ruby in 24 hours efforts, I decided to go on a crash course in R today. My interest in R is mostly because we have a lot data at road.lk that I would like to look at through different eyes. I also have access to a lot of scrabble tournament data that need analysis. The latter can certainly be done most easily with python but to be a good it never does any harm to have a lot of different weapons in your Armoury. So it's 7:31 in the morning of August 7th. Lets start.</p>

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            <p>The first stop was the <a href="https://class.coursera.org/rprog-006">Coursera R lang course</a>, but lecturers aren't my thing. So next stop was the <a href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-r">Datacamp courses</a>&nbsp;but they seem to be too trivial. Can't blame them cause their target audience probably isn't hard core programmers but data scientists. Next stop was the <a href="https://www.r-project.org/">r-projects</a> documentation, but that's where I got lost in the maze. There were too many to choose from. So as at 5:49 am in the 9th of August, I haven't gone anywhere. The fact that I couldn't devote my full attention to R didn't help either. So this is going to need another effort next week.</p>


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