Ever wanted to print a man page in unix? You can't simply pipe the output straight to a printer device, it just won't work. Most normal workstations will have a2ps installed, a tool that converts ascii text to a PostScript file.

To print a man page: man {someSubject} | a2ps -m -P {printerName}

To save a man page in PS format: man {someSubject} | a2ps -m -o {fileName}

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One of the best Slashdot posts I have ever seen, it actually made me laugh out loud:

I can see it now; toe to toe late one night ata stoplight. One man revs his engines, the other responds with a growl of his own. The other prepares his mind for the upcoming duel, the other is hurriedly inputing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a.....

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More important than a new laptop, I got to see Elaine last night! She moved from Ann Arbor to Philadephia quite awhile ago, so it was great to see her. She was having dinner with a bunch of her friends from her last job, working at a comic book store. She was a bit concerned that I wouldn't fit in. Me, not fit in? I was just as geeky as the rest of them, it just didn't show as much... Just kidding, they seemed like a great bunch of people.

I would like to thank IBM for having such a crappy online ordering process that I have decided to buy from a different company. I would have purchased an IBM Thinkpad R, but whenever I would try to pick the parts I wanted, the price would always be "NA". Maybe that means they are sold out of Thinkpad Rs, but they could have told me in a better fashion.

Because of this set back, I might just buy a laptop from Compaq. If someone had told me last week that I was going to get a Compaq, I would have laughed my ass off. Instead, I have fallen in love with the Compaq Presario 900. As of right now, it is looking like I will be getting these specs:

• Mobile Athlon XP 2000+
• 256 MB 266MHz DDR
• 30 gig hard drive
• 8x DVD drive
14.1" XGA Display
• Built-in 56k modem and 10/100 NIC

The laptop is a bit beefier than my last one (1.5" thick and 6.8 lbs), but it shouldn't be a noticeable difference.