Print to a non-supported printer from Linux

My mother bought a Kodak ESP 7 multifunction printer a few months ago. Since then, she has started using a netbook with Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it full-time. For a while now I have been intending to find a way to print to it from the netbook.
Unfortunately, Kodak decided to be one of the few [...]

Fix volume control in mpd on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

I have mpd installed on my jaunty server. It works well, except that I found the volume control in my clients never worked.
Reading around, I found a slightly cryptically mentioned solution. In your /etc/mpd.conf, uncomment the line that says mixer=software, then restart mpd (sudo /etc/init.d/mpd restart). All should be well!