Get your Canon UFRII printers work on Ubuntu 11.04

if you have a Canon UFRII (e.g iR2318/2320) printer in your network, certainly you can't get it working on your Ubuntu 11.04 as there is no default driver for it. But you can get it working following the simple steps :

First you need to download the driver from Canon website for your UFRII model. Download Driver
uncompress the zip file. Go to  32/64(according to your OS) bit driver folder and go to Debian folder and run the file "cndrvcups-common_2.20-1_i386.deb". You will see the installation is not successful. There are some dependencies missing so you can't install the driver.

You  need "cup_sys" and "gs-esp" packages before you can install the driver.
download the packages  and run those 2 files. After installation finished, run the  driver file named "cndrvcups-common_2.20-1_i386.deb" and then "cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.20-1_i386.deb" to successfully add all the UFRII printer driver in the driver database of Ubuntu.

You can then find the driver model when adding printer to Ubuntu. Happy Printing. 

how to make Windows 7 default when Dual Booting with Linux Mint 11

If you installed Linux Mint 11 alongside with your Windows installation, you will find that in the booting options Linux Mint 11 is set to the default OS to boot. If you want to make your windows to boot as default OS, you can do it via starup manager in Linux Mint 11.

To do this : Boot up your Linux Mint 11, click on Menu and then search for Startup-Manager and launch it. You can then chose your default Operating System (Windows 7 loader) from the drop down list.

You can also set the time before operating system loads automatically in the Timeout. There are also options for Display option but I recommend you to leave it as it.