net localgroup Administrators /add domain\username

Sets the user as an administrator on the local system.  I pushed for “Power User” instead, but I don’t think I explained the distinction very well.
Also, it may be that “domain” should be “DOMAIN”.  There’s a great page (no printer version, of course) at Technet with a list of useful CLI goodness.

17300x: 19900iMac$

so the sparsebundle needs to be named

19900iMac_000000000000.sparsebundle

where the bunch of 0′s are the MAC address.  I tried using the computer name, but TimeMachine wouldn’t see it and kept trying to create its own. 

#!/bin/bash
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes

/home/USERNAME/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXXXX.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc -h localhost:8333 -u USERNAME -K

and log into my virtual machine.  So far its working great.  I haven’t tried rebooting yet, that will be the real test.

lpadmin -p Eltron1 -v http://192.168.1.15:631/printers/Eltron1

and then throw in a

cupsenable Eltron1
cupsaccept Eltron1

For some reason using the web interface kept pointing the URI to file:///dev/null. Which can be correct, depending on how you install the printer. It does make it look broken, though, when you check the status.
Also a big help: lpstat -t that tells you everything you need to know about your lp status.

• Thunderbird 2 : Separate inboxes, add ons. I don’t know why everyone else likes all the incoming mail in one inbox, but I have several email addresses.  Some I only check once a day, some are business, some are personal and business.  Having only one inbox makes it difficult to keep track of what’s what.  Yes, I could spend a while setting up filters on incoming (and outgoing, there’s only one outbox too), but why?  I also dislike Thunderbird’s inability to import or export it’s own format, but there’s an add on for that.  There’s an add on for almost every shortcoming that Thunderbird has (well, there’s no add on that will fix Thunderbird 3)
• Evolution: Backup and Restore. Speaking of importing and exporting, nothing beats Evolutions Backup and Restore.  All it does is tar.gz your profile and place it on you desktop (and then reverse the procedure for restore) but it simplifies things so much.  I’m lazy!  And it does a great job importing and exporting data.
• Outlook: PST.  OK, I don’t like the idea of a proprietary mail storage system in one giant file.  But I love the ability to open and close PSTs on a whim.  I have PSTs covering every year, and whenever I need to pull out an old attachment or some shipping instructions I just click “Open PST” and browse to Archive_YYYY.pst and find the email.  Then close it so it’s not in the way (and less likely to get damaged when Outlook crashes).
• Mutt: text only. I have the preview pane disabled and images off by default.  But there’s always something, like the people that embed “Please don’t print this email” images in their sig file.  Or use tiny fonts.  Or giant fonts (just because you can’t read text on your laptop doesn’t mean it’s not big).  Plain ASCII text is so comforting.

Someday, when I win the lottery, I’m going to commission an email client for the people!  And when new mail arrives it’ll play “La Cucaracha“

Apps -> Metacity -> General -> button_layout = menu:minimize,maximize,close

Remove the 60sec shutdown warning:

Apps -> Indicator-Session -> supress_logout_shutdown_restart

Show paths in file browser:

Apps -> Nautilus -> General -> always_use_location_entry

Restore Home and Trash icons to desktop:

Apps -> Nautilus -> Desktop -> show_home && show_trash

And for good measure, set the workgroup:

System -> SMB -> workgroup = "MSHOME"

I understand the reasoning, I guess.  I just wish I didn’t have to spend an afternoon on google finding ways to restore the settings I use now.  Maybe a “Classic Ubuntu Desktop” or “Super Awesome Desktop” checkbox somewhere?

lpr -P Zebra1 testlabel.txt

the server replied that the device was not accepting jobs. 
The printers are all at workstations and shared back to the server so the server can send jobs to them.  I’ve never had a problem before, and the only error message in CUPS error_log (yes, lets start a new naming system just for CUPS logs) was that it couldn’t find the server name.  The CUPS web page showed the printer still listed, but the location and description were “Unknown” and the URI was set to file:/dev/null.  I modified the printer settings and pointed it back to my workstation, and after some trouble (Firefox, HTTPS, and CUPS don’t mix) I got it running again.  Later this afternoon, though, the printer reappeared.  Now I’ve got it listed twice.
The only thing I can come up with is the broadcast of available printers from my workstation got lost somewhere.  I must have let CUPS add the printer on it’s own via Show printers shared by other systems.   From now on I’m going to manually add printers instead of depending on local browsing to get them to show up.  In fact, I may just disable browsing altogether.