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RE: Cheap Linux-compatible printer?
by Brian Densmore 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

You haven't been able to find HP printers that are Linux compatible? I find that hard to believe. I have one and it works great, in fact I have two hooked up and they work great. As far as cheap ink. Well, there in lies the problem of your request. As has been said the current selection of cheap printers all have expensive ink. You might want to google for "inexpensive ink printers review Linux" or something like that to find reviews of cost to maintain ink jet printers. If you want a good printer, supported by Linux and cheap ink. Find an older HP LaserJet in some of the area used PC shops. I have an older LaserJet II or III (can't remember). I paid $25 for it, It's big and it is jamming, so you have to disassemble and clean it good. As is it'll will take one page at a time fed in manually. I've been to lazy to clean it. Ink isn't cheap, but last for a long time so comparatively it's cheap. It's yours if you want it. I have a Canon BJ 10e you can have, no charge. It's DOS compatible, cheap ink, slow, small footprint, old. I'm not even sure it does letter quality. I'd hate to feed it a 50 page document. I have a Lexmark 4 color printer, ink is not cheap, and I think you'd have to set it up in Windows and install the software to diagnose why it's suddenly printing in reverse colors. Lexmark does have a closed source driver for it, and there are open source drivers for it too. You could always use it as a black ink printer. It's fairly fast, and costs more than $50 new. You can have that one too, I keep it around saying someday I'm going to diagnose what is wrong with it. It's a nice printer and prints excellent quality photos with photo ink. If you can get it to work properly. Brian Densmore > -----Original Message----- > From: Leo Mauler > > Basically I'm wanting to set up a home Linux printer > server just so I can say I've done it once. > > I'm looking around for a $50 or less printer which is > Linux compatible (I'd take "DOS compatibility mode") > or even has Linux drivers. The printers I've been > able to find in that range (Canon, HP, Lexmark) all > seem to have neither DOS compatibility mode nor Linux > drivers. > > I have about $50 to spend so I won't be able to take > advantage of "this is the price after a mail-in > rebate" pricing. I'd take a used printer if the > cartridges aren't too hard to find and/or too > expensive.

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Spuirrelmail security update
by Brian Densmore 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Anyone running Squirrelmail in debian may want to apply the new patch. It fixes several remote exploits. Also I suspect there may be patches for other distros. Brian Densmore

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Re: [OT] more freebies
by Brian Kelsay 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

That was probably Cymor/Chris Bier. Brian Kelsay >>> Ben Kelley <> 01/31/05 08:58PM >>> I have 2 lucent PortMaster ISDN Office Routers free to a good home. Not sure if they work or not. http://portmasters.com/marketing/products/router_specs.html#isdnor And the person that needed the 13w3 to hd15 video connector to attach a pc monitor to a sun machine, I found the adaptor but forgot who you were, please email me.

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[OT] more freebies
by Ben Kelley 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I have 2 lucent PortMaster ISDN Office Routers free to a good home. Not sure if they work or not. http://portmasters.com/marketing/products/router_specs.html#isdnor And the person that needed the 13w3 to hd15 video connector to attach a pc monitor to a sun machine, I found the adaptor but forgot who you were, please email me.

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Online Catalog
by Don Erickson 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hey, Luggites: I've been working on an interface for a client, and I'm having a hard time finding anything out there similar to it. Has anybody here seen a low-bandwidth, shopping cart enabled, searchable, cross-indexed, auto-scaling, real-time price updates from a database, zoomable, browser rendered HTML text web page generated from a PDF file? http://www.zeni.net/trf/WPS05/ No Microsoft electrons were bruised in this process. Regards, -Don

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RE: Online Catalog
by Brian Densmore 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Works ok on my computer here at work. It works in my browser too (firefox 1.0 - W2K). ;') I can even read the pages in lynx, but my lynx doesn't have ssl support so I couldn't buy from there. There is a bit of alignment problem with the underline bar that should go under the column header rather than through it. Other than that it looked ok. Not sure I'd want to go through this catalog on a dial up connection. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Clinton > > > On Friday 28 January 2005 09:48 pm, Don Erickson wrote: > > http://www.zeni.net/trf/WPS05/ > > Just thought that I'd let you know that it doesn't work on my > computer. The > columns and content all overlap each other making the site unreadable. > >

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part time linux sysadmin needed, paid work
by jeffslists 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

I'm looking for someone to administer and update a commercial linux server I have been running for about four years. I provide email, web pages, domain hosting, and several other related services. This is not regular part-time work, but a way to make some money on the side. I have paying customers right now. I estimate you could make 1-4k per year working with me. You would not have to spend more than 2 hours per week, if that. You should easily make >$30 per hour. I know a lot of friends and associates who would like more internet services, but I don't have the time right now to add the required infrastructure to provide these services. The work to add this infrastructure should take a skilled administrator only 2-3 hours (though it might take me days.) (One thing I need done is a spam filter.) I would do the work myself, but I am focusing on my main business, voice-control systems, and I don't really like system administration much. I like software engineering far better. I also really like selling and marketing my internet services. I have passed up a lot of business because I haven't added the needed infrastructure to my server. Send an email to jeff(a)intelligentjukebox.com if you are interested. Thanks, Jeff -- "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness... Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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web radio
by Brian Kelsay 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

[Long post] Somebody asked about web radio a few days ago. I got around to more than the stock answer this morning and these look hopeful. http://www.radio-locator.com/ http://www.web-radio.fm/ http://www.virtualtuner.com/ http://www.radiotower.com/ http://www.webradiolist.com/ http://www.vtuner.com/ I still stick by my answer of going to Shoutcast first for free streams, but the above links could take you directly to the web sites of land-based radio stations that also happen to stream. Some stations stream with better quality than others. On a side note, when I listen to talk radio during the day (980 am), sometimes I can't stand the AM hum so I listen on the web. Because of where I work and the proxy server they use, I can only listen to stations that stream on port 80. Oddly enough, I get Rush Limbaugh by going to 640am in Atlanta. This leads to some strange commercials and traffic reports. http://www.wgst.com/stream.html Some of these stations require you to subscribe with a username or email address and create a password. 710am in KC is one of those and I have to go to the site with IE or it doesn't work, due to some java scripting that is browser specific. I can only imagine that they do the user/passwd dance so that the marketing dept. knows who is listening online for demographics. It's still ad supported you know. Sort of off-topic: If you have a big collection of MP3 files like I do, you can set up a web server, get some form of domain name or use your IP, load Shoutcast server, icecast, or Apple's Darwin server to broadcast yourself. If it is just for you, then you don't want to publish it to the Shoutcast listings, but you could. There is also other software I have looked at for browsing your music collection online and building play lists, streaming, etc. Andromeda is one, but it is non-free and is one huge bloated PHP script. More reasonable is Jin-zora and Zina (Zena is not Andromeda). Those two have all or most of the features of Andromeda, but are broken down into multiple files so you could actually look at them and understand what's going on and they are free OSS projects. I'd still like to try them out and set up a Shoutcast stream too, just for fun. It's all just a matter of time and energy. Soon, little webserver, we'll be together more often. But that stuff is only if you are dissatisfied by the available music/talk enough that you want to tinker to get exactly what you want. I just want the choice. Brian Kelsay

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[OT] Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2005 announces call-for-papers
by glim＠mycybernet.net 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can submit a presentation proposal via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location will be in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced, but has been moved to accomodate venue availability.) The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm. If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author(a)yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor(a)yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. Other information regarding the conference (e.g. venue, registration specifics) will be announced soon. We look forward to your submissions and a great conference!

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on the IBM patent "donation" to OSS
by Brian Kelsay 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11soft.html?ex=1263099600&en=c… Here is the salient point quoted from the end of the article: Today's move by I.B.M. is not aimed at a specific project, but opens access to 14 categories of technology, including those that manage electronic commerce, storage, image processing, data handling and Internet communications. "This is much broader than the contributions we've made in the past," said Jim Stallings, vice president for standards and intellectual property at I.B.M. "These patents are for technologies that are deeply embedded in many industry uses, and they will be available to anyone working on open-source projects including small companies and individual entrepreneurs.." I.B.M. executives said they hoped the company's initial contribution of 500 patents would be the beginning of a "patent commons," which other companies would join. I.B.M. has not yet approached other companies, Mr. Stallings said. I.B.M. will continue to hold the 500 patents. But it has pledged to seek no royalties from and to place no restrictions on companies, groups or individuals who use them in open-source projects, as defined by the Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit education and advocacy group. The group's definition involves a series of policies allowing for free redistribution, publication of the underlying source code and no restrictions on who uses the software or how it is used. Brian Kelsay

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