I have never had a single issue with my Epson CX5200, never even had to clean the nozzels and it goes through at least one round of ink every month!
That is exactly the reason why. If you use it often, the nozzles will stay clean. The problem starts when you don't print often, like not every week, or sometimes months inbetween a printjob. Then you will need to clean the nozzles often (which costs a lot of ink) or you can simply throw the printer away, because a new nozzle is more expensive then a new printer.
So basically, if you print often, several times a week, an Epson printer is good for you. But if you don't print often, stay away from Epson as far as possible.
[...] it does strike me as odd that someone on/. is advocating the forced charging for a piece of software. Isn't software supposed to be free like the birds?
Yes, but a WMP that's free as in beer isn't free at all. It's more a Lock-in strategy, like Internet Explorer was a lock-in strategy. Btw, if Netscape 5 had come out, and was a good product, Microsoft still made it impossible to charge for it (like Netscape used to charge for commercial use). The hidden cost of Internet Explorer (free with Windows, so they did charge for it) made it hard or impossible to compete.
That Netscape has sucked with version 4, and there was no version 5, doesn't give an excuse for Microsoft's behaviour, those are 2 different issues, which together led to the current situation.
That's the same as it is now, people should make quality competing products, and the monopoly abuse of Microsoft should be restricted. It's not one or the other, it should be both.
I don't understand the first part of your post though... You don't agree with Microsoft having to ask a fair price for their software, thus being less able to abuse their monopoly to build up other monopolies? You think abusing their monopoly is fine, and competitors should just make a better product, and all will be well?
The market is broken now, and absolutely not free. The first priority the EU should have in this case is to have a free market again. Making WMP unfree as in beer would help that case.
The only project that came close to this was linhardware.org, later bought by zdnet and transferred to lhd.zdnet.com. Does anyone know whatever happened to that? I heard it was hacked a few times too many, but I never read anything about it. In the last period when it was run it seemed flooded with people asking for drivers for Windows XP, which was rather annoying, but for the rest they had a nice infrastructure.
Maybe it shouldn't be a free download then, but they should be demanded to ask a fair price which resembles the cost of making WMP. Also, no special OEM deals should be allowed, so OEM's and consumers are "forced" to choose with price and quality in mind, instead of blindly going for the MS option.
My favourite online quiz is "Pornstar or My Little Pony": http://www.brunching.com/pornorpony.html You get 12 names and have to make a guess if that name belongs to a Pornstar or a My Little Pony. I got 5 out of 12 right, which seems fairly good:-)
Ask if "they" would like feedback, and write a list of what bugged you, what was good, and what could have been done better.
I think this is the right way to do it. Ofcourse you can prefer to do it different, but this way is the clean way. If you really feel you have good reasons to leave, then just say it like that. If there were situations or events that directly led to wanting you to leave, you should tell about them.
Being an asshole when you leave just gives them an excuse to lose respect for you and dismiss any critical comments of you. Being honest about it should gain you respect. If not from your boss then from your co-workers or simply from yourself.
If you have been doing a good job there, they "should" listen to you and take notice even though your future will be at another place.
On the edonkey network most music isn't shared as mp3 anymore, but as archives, where the tracks of a cd are packed in a.zip,.rar or.ace. That makes it probably non-music even.
That one works for me and my Epson 760. What I did was make an extra printspool, one for high resolution (graphics), and one for low resolution (textdocuments). This works fairly well for my old inkjet printer.
Someone needs to start an open source database project in which people submit their hardware and submit successful configurations of it.
The only project that came close to this was linhardware.org, later bought by zdnet and transferred to lhd.zdnet.com. Does anyone know whatever happened to that? I heard it was hacked a few times too many, but I never read anything about it.
It seems that they do make the source code available on their website (www.sitecom.com). When you choose "products => wireless networks => wl-122 => drivers" you can download the source code of the firmware. So maybe they are complying now?
I don't think RHEL and Mandrake Official are comparable. You cannot legally download RHEL afaik, but Mandrake Official is available on the ftp mirrors. You can always mirror your own tree of it, and take it anywhere on a dvd or harddisk. Or use the makecd script to create your own iso's for cd's or dvd's.
But I do agree that it would make sense to put kolab on all powerpack cdsets. I just hope the rest of the servers does/did end up on both powerpack packages.
Interesting. I'm a bit surprised about the suggestion on that listing that the normal powerpack doesn't include kolab or other server software. I guess it's not included on those cd's then, or not all the server software at least.
I only have the 3 free community iso's here, and they include apache, mysql, postgresql, samba, and I would be surprised if they would not be on official powerpack, but you never know. Kolab isn't on the community release, also not on the 4th cd of it. You can still get it from a community or official mirror though, it's part of that.
The "ISOs for the masses" consist of only free software. The nvidia and ati drivers are on the commercial cd's, and available as club downloads. Ofcourse you can go with the free download and install those drivers yourself.
10.0 community does carry apache (apache1 and apache2), hylafax (and drakfax to configure it) and kolab. Also postgres and mysql are around. Maybe not all of them ended up on the iso's (but if so, then it should be on the 4th and 5th cds), and you can always install any mandrake package additionally from the mirrors, once they are functional agin with the new trees.
I think you are misinformed in some way. What webpage did you read this?
The official release is actually community with updates, and carries the same. If you have the commercial version (from club, mandrakestore or boxed set) it also includes ati and nvidia drivers, and some other commercial software. So if you are a silver member, you should be able to put your hands on these commercial cd's of the official release.
I find it interesting that Mandrake has choosen to use such an old version.
Version 3.7 had a new implementation of their pam stuff. The Mandrake maintainer didn't find it wise to go with that version.
The 3.6 version does carry the security patches though.
3.8p1 was just released 2 weeks ago.
Yup, that's the reason it's not included, version freeze since 10.0 rc1.
Interesting. But if I have a dhcp ipadress, I can use the last 0 of the 96bit adresspart for local machines on my network, but when my dhcp adress changes, I have to change everything, right? This makes the combination of dhcp and IPv6 rather sucky...
What I recall from that is that he requested cvs access, which he didn't get. The discussion ended with a flamewar and grief. Not sure what the organisation in XFree86 was, if only core members could get cvs access. In essence, dissolving the core team doesn't change anything. Giving out more easily cvs access does offer something for external developers. But it seems like they are heading to make some organisational changes which sounds good to me.
SCO is also being used a lot by Telco's. A friend of mine worked at the old SCO a few years ago as engineer, and ran into a lot of systems at telco's. He often ran into machines that had an uptime of 3 years. I forgot what systems were used at Telco's. I would assume UnixWare, because of the AT&T heritage, but I remember he mentioned OpenServer as well for that. I also remember he said it was a nightmare to set up an NC with OpenServer. He also set up some Tarantella machines while working at old SCO, I believe that's where a lot of those NC terminals came into use (Oh, flaky memory...).
He later worked for a support company that was started by another SCO engineer, and they were moving to Linux and mostly FreeBSD for new installs, and NC systems were much easier to setup with those operating systems (TinyBSD). There he also did a lot of support for small and big offices, where mailservers and firewalls had to be built and supported. A lot of SCO machinery is being used there as well (I assume mailservers, not firewalls).
Using an Epson or Mustek (If I'm not wrong) scanner will be a rather safe bet. These manufacturers are working with the Sane developers, so the drivers for these scanners will work as expected. I myself use an Epson 1240 usb scanner, and it works great under Sane/Linux. The colors are better then with the Twain/Windows drivers that came with it.
Your best bet is to ask for support on the Sane mailinglist at http://www.mostang.com/sane which is often very helpfull. What's happening at your end, is that sane-find-scanner is a kernel utility, it can find the scanner that is being recognised by your kernel, for example a scsi or usb device. The scanimage tool uses the real Sane drivers to find a supported scanner. So in essence, your kernel finds your scanner, but for some reason the Sane libraries don't find a supported scanner. I'm definitely no Mac guru, but probably you have to tell Sane what device to look for, or which Sane driver to use. Or maybe enable/disable an option in your driver config. Or maybe rn the driver with debugging options. Anyway, your best bet is imo the Sane mailinglist for this. Slashdot is not the place to ask for this kind of support.
The disadvantage with installer is that users generally become lazy because of the very nature of an installer. It's purpose is to automatically detect a user's hardware -[...]
Yeah, automation sucks. Don't ever use a computer for that, they are not designed for it. It will just make you lazy.
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I have never had a single issue with my Epson CX5200, never even had to clean the nozzels and it goes through at least one round of ink every month!
That is exactly the reason why. If you use it often, the nozzles will stay clean. The problem starts when you don't print often, like not every week, or sometimes months inbetween a printjob. Then you will need to clean the nozzles often (which costs a lot of ink) or you can simply throw the printer away, because a new nozzle is more expensive then a new printer.
So basically, if you print often, several times a week, an Epson printer is good for you. But if you don't print often, stay away from Epson as far as possible.
[...] it does strike me as odd that someone on /. is advocating the forced charging for a piece of software. Isn't software supposed to be free like the birds?
Yes, but a WMP that's free as in beer isn't free at all. It's more a Lock-in strategy, like Internet Explorer was a lock-in strategy. Btw, if Netscape 5 had come out, and was a good product, Microsoft still made it impossible to charge for it (like Netscape used to charge for commercial use). The hidden cost of Internet Explorer (free with Windows, so they did charge for it) made it hard or impossible to compete.
That Netscape has sucked with version 4, and there was no version 5, doesn't give an excuse for Microsoft's behaviour, those are 2 different issues, which together led to the current situation.
That's the same as it is now, people should make quality competing products, and the monopoly abuse of Microsoft should be restricted. It's not one or the other, it should be both.
I don't understand the first part of your post though... You don't agree with Microsoft having to ask a fair price for their software, thus being less able to abuse their monopoly to build up other monopolies? You think abusing their monopoly is fine, and competitors should just make a better product, and all will be well?
The market is broken now, and absolutely not free. The first priority the EU should have in this case is to have a free market again. Making WMP unfree as in beer would help that case.
The only project that came close to this was linhardware.org, later bought by zdnet and transferred to lhd.zdnet.com. Does anyone know whatever happened to that? I heard it was hacked a few times too many, but I never read anything about it.
In the last period when it was run it seemed flooded with people asking for drivers for Windows XP, which was rather annoying, but for the rest they had a nice infrastructure.
Maybe it shouldn't be a free download then, but they should be demanded to ask a fair price which resembles the cost of making WMP. Also, no special OEM deals should be allowed, so OEM's and consumers are "forced" to choose with price and quality in mind, instead of blindly going for the MS option.
My favourite online quiz is "Pornstar or My Little Pony":
You get 12 names and have to make a guess if that name belongs to a Pornstar or a My Little Pony. I got 5 out of 12 right, which seems fairly good :-)
http://www.brunching.com/pornorpony.html
Ask if "they" would like feedback, and write a list of what bugged you, what was good, and what could have been done better.
I think this is the right way to do it. Ofcourse you can prefer to do it different, but this way is the clean way. If you really feel you have good reasons to leave, then just say it like that. If there were situations or events that directly led to wanting you to leave, you should tell about them.
Being an asshole when you leave just gives them an excuse to lose respect for you and dismiss any critical comments of you. Being honest about it should gain you respect. If not from your boss then from your co-workers or simply from yourself.
If you have been doing a good job there, they "should" listen to you and take notice even though your future will be at another place.
On the edonkey network most music isn't shared as mp3 anymore, but as archives, where the tracks of a cd are packed in a .zip, .rar or .ace. That makes it probably non-music even.
Looking through the SANE supported list, I don't see many current gen scanners with any support. Any suggestions???
Epson.
Also try printing at a lower DPI.
That one works for me and my Epson 760. What I did was make an extra printspool, one for high resolution (graphics), and one for low resolution (textdocuments). This works fairly well for my old inkjet printer.
Someone needs to start an open source database project in which people submit their hardware and submit successful configurations of it.
The only project that came close to this was linhardware.org, later bought by zdnet and transferred to lhd.zdnet.com. Does anyone know whatever happened to that? I heard it was hacked a few times too many, but I never read anything about it.
It seems that they do make the source code available on their website (www.sitecom.com).
When you choose "products => wireless networks => wl-122 => drivers" you can download the source code of the firmware.
So maybe they are complying now?
I don't think RHEL and Mandrake Official are comparable. You cannot legally download RHEL afaik, but Mandrake Official is available on the ftp mirrors. You can always mirror your own tree of it, and take it anywhere on a dvd or harddisk. Or use the makecd script to create your own iso's for cd's or dvd's.
But I do agree that it would make sense to put kolab on all powerpack cdsets. I just hope the rest of the servers does/did end up on both powerpack packages.
Interesting.
I'm a bit surprised about the suggestion on that listing that the normal powerpack doesn't include kolab or other server software. I guess it's not included on those cd's then, or not all the server software at least.
I only have the 3 free community iso's here, and they include apache, mysql, postgresql, samba, and I would be surprised if they would not be on official powerpack, but you never know.
Kolab isn't on the community release, also not on the 4th cd of it. You can still get it from a community or official mirror though, it's part of that.
The "ISOs for the masses" consist of only free software. The nvidia and ati drivers are on the commercial cd's, and available as club downloads.
Ofcourse you can go with the free download and install those drivers yourself.
10.0 community does carry apache (apache1 and apache2), hylafax (and drakfax to configure it) and kolab. Also postgres and mysql are around. Maybe not all of them ended up on the iso's (but if so, then it should be on the 4th and 5th cds), and you can always install any mandrake package additionally from the mirrors, once they are functional agin with the new trees.
I think you are misinformed in some way. What webpage did you read this?
The official release is actually community with updates, and carries the same. If you have the commercial version (from club, mandrakestore or boxed set) it also includes ati and nvidia drivers, and some other commercial software. So if you are a silver member, you should be able to put your hands on these commercial cd's of the official release.
I find it interesting that Mandrake has choosen to use such an old version.
Version 3.7 had a new implementation of their pam stuff. The Mandrake maintainer didn't find it wise to go with that version.
The 3.6 version does carry the security patches though.
3.8p1 was just released 2 weeks ago.
Yup, that's the reason it's not included, version freeze since 10.0 rc1.
Interesting.
But if I have a dhcp ipadress, I can use the last 0 of the 96bit adresspart for local machines on my network, but when my dhcp adress changes, I have to change everything, right?
This makes the combination of dhcp and IPv6 rather sucky...
What I recall from that is that he requested cvs access, which he didn't get. The discussion ended with a flamewar and grief.
Not sure what the organisation in XFree86 was, if only core members could get cvs access. In essence, dissolving the core team doesn't change anything. Giving out more easily cvs access does offer something for external developers. But it seems like they are heading to make some organisational changes which sounds good to me.
By outsourcing, Mandrake saved a fortune and prevented the company from going belly up.
What exactly did Mandrake outsource?
SCO is also being used a lot by Telco's. A friend of mine worked at the old SCO a few years ago as engineer, and ran into a lot of systems at telco's. He often ran into machines that had an uptime of 3 years. I forgot what systems were used at Telco's. I would assume UnixWare, because of the AT&T heritage, but I remember he mentioned OpenServer as well for that.
I also remember he said it was a nightmare to set up an NC with OpenServer.
He also set up some Tarantella machines while working at old SCO, I believe that's where a lot of those NC terminals came into use (Oh, flaky memory...).
He later worked for a support company that was started by another SCO engineer, and they were moving to Linux and mostly FreeBSD for new installs, and NC systems were much easier to setup with those operating systems (TinyBSD).
There he also did a lot of support for small and big offices, where mailservers and firewalls had to be built and supported. A lot of SCO machinery is being used there as well (I assume mailservers, not firewalls).
Using an Epson or Mustek (If I'm not wrong) scanner will be a rather safe bet. These manufacturers are working with the Sane developers, so the drivers for these scanners will work as expected.
I myself use an Epson 1240 usb scanner, and it works great under Sane/Linux. The colors are better then with the Twain/Windows drivers that came with it.
Your best bet is to ask for support on the Sane mailinglist at http://www.mostang.com/sane which is often very helpfull.
What's happening at your end, is that sane-find-scanner is a kernel utility, it can find the scanner that is being recognised by your kernel, for example a scsi or usb device. The scanimage tool uses the real Sane drivers to find a supported scanner. So in essence, your kernel finds your scanner, but for some reason the Sane libraries don't find a supported scanner. I'm definitely no Mac guru, but probably you have to tell Sane what device to look for, or which Sane driver to use. Or maybe enable/disable an option in your driver config. Or maybe rn the driver with debugging options. Anyway, your best bet is imo the Sane mailinglist for this. Slashdot is not the place to ask for this kind of support.
The disadvantage with installer is that users generally become lazy because of the very nature of an installer. It's purpose is to automatically detect a user's hardware -[...]
Yeah, automation sucks. Don't ever use a computer for that, they are not designed for it. It will just make you lazy.