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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Quicken 2006 on Ubuntu 8.04 X64

Make sure you have IE4Linux (http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page) installed.
Then install Quicken 2006 in Ubuntu 8.04.

Everything works smoothly, including auto upgrading patches.

I need to play more, especially test if account downloading from my online accounts still works or not.

Update: June 6th,2008
Quicken cannot do online update for my accounts, such as my credit card or band transaction history. Seams like this is an known issue. Lots of people complaint about it.

Linux driver for Lexmark E120N printer

The networked laser printer from Lexmark works like charm with my Windows machines. After I migrated to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 X64, it took me a while to find the correct driver for it.

After a few days of try, I found the best driver to use for this printer is:
Lexmark Optra E321 Foomatic/lj4dith

Finally I was able to get the first stack of fine printed document sent from my Thinkpad T61P running Ubuntu 8.04 X64!