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Error: “Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d1)” when adding a Samba based network printer to Vista
January 20, 2009If you are getting the following error while adding a Samba based network printer to Vista: Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d1). And you have a Samba server (version 3.0 and above) consider using the following technique to add the printer: Add a local printer (not a network [...]
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“Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book” on Pidgin on Ubuntu / Debian?
January 12, 2009Today I got the following error on Pidgin (I’m running version 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) while it tried to connect to MSN: “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book” After searching a bit I found this post by Gijs Nelissen which said to use a different MSN plugin for Pidgin called msn-pecan. I’ll reiterate [...]
