Disable pixma 1800 and other canon printer ink level

The canon cartridges are now built with a chip that determines whether the tank is full or empty. So, once the tank is empty, it will still show "Empty" after refilling it. This can be avoided following some methods (which varies according to the printer). I found the following methods in a website (I don't remember the address; It was copied in my hard drive) to avoid "Empty" notice after refilling the cartridge. Mine is Canon 1800 and the second method worked for me. For canon 1800 follow the second method.


First method:

Applicable to following Models-
BJC series: bjc3000,bjc8200,etc
S series: s400,s600,s800,s520,s6300,s9000 etc
i Series: i255,i320,i350,i355,i450,i470d,i550,i560,i850,i950,i6100,
i6500,i9100,etc
Pixma series: ip1000,ip1200,ip1300,ip1500,ip1600,ip1700,ip2000,ip2200,
ip3000,ip4000,etc

Action-
Press RESUME/CANCEL button once.



Second method-

Applicable to following Models:
Pixma series: ip1880,1980,3300,3500,4200,4500,5200,6700d,pro9000,9500,ix4000,5000,etc

Action-
Hold down RESUME/CANCEL button for 5 seconds or more



Third method:

Applicable to following Models-
Pixma MP series: MP150,MP160,MP170,MP180,MP450,MP460,MP475,etc

Action-
Press START button once(COLOR button for colour cartridge and BLACK button for black cartridge)



Fourth method:

Applicable to following models-
Pixma MP/MX series: MP145,MP228,MP245,MP520,MP800,MX850,MP970,MX308,MX318,MX7600,etc

Action-
Hold down STOP/RESET button for 5 seconds or more

Play MP3 after installing Ubuntu

After installing Ubuntu one will not be able to play MP3 files. The cause that one can not play mp3 after installing ubuntu is that Gstreamer plugin is not installed. To play mp3 after installing ubuntu for the first time, you'll have to install GStreamer. Follow the following steps to install GStreamer plugin.

Go to Application -> Add/Remove -> search -> gstreamer -> select "gstreamer extra plugin"

Follow the instructions and click apply changes.

after installation, you should be able to play mp3 files in ubuntu.

Mounting windows drive to Ubuntu

After installing Ubuntu first thing that one would face is to mount windows drive (if dual booting)

This is applicable for

Permanently mount windows drives (temporary mounting causes dysfunction after a certain time)


You'll have to have NTFS config installed to mount permanantly
For that go to Application -> Add/remove programes; search for NTFS config and install it.

Then run it from Application -> System tolls

Select the drives you want to mount

Then select Write support for both interna and external

That should do the trick.