RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Gill
Took a couple days off, pardon the late reply. :) How does it work when you re-dock the scanner to report what's in its memory? I'm needing something like this for a small library inventory system. Do you just press the button one at a time for each bar code to pop up on the screen? Hope that

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
Didn't have time over the weekend to get anything running. While docked it works great scanning interactively with the keyboard wedge software (it immediately puts the scan result into notepad, for instance), but I'm having difficulty finding free software that understands the vcom mode, which

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Heh. No. Take a look at the books and movies on your local store shelves, though. They have barcodes, with ISBN numbers. Makes 'em easy to track... On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 19:28, Jay Dalejd...@xpresstel.com wrote: So you went around and stuck barcode stickers on all of your books and movies?

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-31 Thread Maglinger, Paul
That explains the barcode tattoos on the back of their necks. And I thought it was just a fad. -Original Message- From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@xpresstel.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Got me a new toy So you went around

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: ... barcode stickers on all of your books and movies? Did you stamp the kids to make sure they were still up to date? That explains the barcode tattoos on the back of their necks. And I thought it was just a fad.

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:47, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: ... barcode stickers on all of your books and movies? Did you stamp the kids to make sure they were still up to date? That explains the barcode

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Ens
What kind of database you using? I'd love to catalogue my music (I have a scanner already). On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a book freak, and have a few movies as well. I just got some help organizing it all:

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
What are you using for organization? I use librarything.com another good one is http://www.collectorz.com/book/ with a USB opticon scanner for $199.00 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Troy Meyer
Wow a bar-code scanner for organizing your book and movie collections? ***Kurt climbs to top of nerd pyle*** I wonder other handy things that guy could be used for. -troy -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:38 PM To: NT

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Ens
I have one of those cuecat scanners...somebody was giving them away at one point. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com wrote: What are you using for organization? I use librarything.com another good one is http://www.collectorz.com/book/ with a

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a book freak, and have a few movies as well. I just got some help organizing it all: http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html $160?!? Dude, you got ripped off. You can get barcode readers for like $40.

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Steve Ensstevey...@gmail.com wrote: I have one of those cuecat scanners...somebody was giving them away at one point. They teamed up with Radio Shack and mailbombed the country with them. It was basically a commodity barcode scanner chipset, tweaked to

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Shookie uses his to organize his Vaseline and doorknob collections... TVK -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:tme...@uoregon.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Got me a new toy Wow a bar-code scanner for organizing your

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.com wrote: Shookie uses his to organize his Vaseline and doorknob collections... For what he uses them for, isn't that just one collection? ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
Haven't gotten that far yet - I'm looking at these: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ http://koha.org/ http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/02/dijalog.html http://open-ils.org/ and maybe this: http://www.griffith.cc/ On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:44, Steve Ensstevey...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
Don't want to publish mine to the web - see my other reply on what I'm looking at. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:45, Garcia-Moran, Carloscgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com wrote: What are you using for organization? I use librarything.com another good one is http://www.collectorz.com/book/ with a USB

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
PS/2 or USB? Whichever, you can find them on ebay and other places for about a buck. I was not much impressed with them - I have the PS/2 version. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:46, Steve Ensstevey...@gmail.com wrote: I have one of those cuecat scanners...somebody was giving them away at one point.

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:53, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a book freak, and have a few movies as well. I just got some help organizing it all: http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html  $160?!?  

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Those are all tethered, which I really didn't want. *Oh!* That thing is cordless? That's different. Never mind. Their marketing sucks. It doesn't say anywhere on that web page that it's cordless. It mentions onboard

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:16, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Those are all tethered, which I really didn't want.  *Oh!*  That thing is cordless?  That's different.  Never mind.  Their marketing sucks.  It doesn't

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:  *Oh!*  That thing is cordless?  That's different.  Never mind. I would have thought that the picture would give it away. Heh. They *never* show cords in marketing pictures. These days, I expect they edit them out

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Those weren't doorknobs... -sc -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Got me a new toy Shookie uses his to organize his Vaseline and doorknob collections... TVK

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I was going to look up field sporran, but once I also read kilt, I decided I'm having too much fun not knowing... -sc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Got me a new

RE: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Jay Dale
So you went around and stuck barcode stickers on all of your books and movies? Did you stamp the kids to make sure they were still up to date? Jay -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Jay Dale jd...@xpresstel.com wrote: So you went around and stuck barcode stickers on all of your books and movies? ??? Pretty much everything sold in the US in the last 20 years has at least one barcode on it. Most books have at least two. :-) I suspect