Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:40:58PM +0100 or thereabouts, David Marsh wrote: I'd never have thought that there would be such demand for such an old printer. It's a solid, reliable bit of kit - my 500 is still doing the rounds somewhere (I think one of my cousins has it). I'll be very surpised if any of the current crop of entry-level inkjets are still usable in 13 years. -- Mike Quin, Unix Sysadmin, Information Services, University of Stirling Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +44-1786-467273 Fax: +44-1786-466882 Post: 2B24, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, STIRLING FK9 4LA -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the University of Stirling shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] button
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:34:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote: on my home system, when linux is booted, when i press the button on either of my CD/DVD drives, it doesn't react (doesn't open, anyway). I wondered if a tweak was possible so that the button 1. unmounts the filesystem, whatever it may be 2. opens the wee drawer maybe one of you has done it ? This was discussed on linux-kernel many moons ago, and as I recall the only way you could do this is to poll the drive constantly to see if the button had been pressed. This was generally considered to be a bad thing to do, and as such was never implemented (at least in the mainstream kernel). -- Mike Quin, Unix Sysadmin, Information Services, University of Stirling Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +44-1786-467273 Fax: +44-1786-466882 Post: 2B24, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, STIRLING FK9 4LA -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the University of Stirling shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Software RAID LVM
Hi, Thanks for the replies :) Just to answer a few of the questions: CM Take some time to think about how (if?) it will boot if hda goes down - do you CM need a boot floppy? The old 4Gb drive going into this system IS old, i don't really expect it to last long, so the idea is once i got a system running and just the way i want it, i'll burn a bootable CD and run everything off of that, i like this idea :) CM If you need to edit the fstab how will you get access to it? For day to day work i will have SSH access over a WiFi link, but even better, i wrote a small PHP web app along the same lines as webmin which allows me to do the simple things in life really easily :) this is the setup i got on my current system. If things really go pear shaped, i got BIOS+Grub+Linux all redirecting to /dev/ttyS0 because this is a headless system, so i can just get a terminal plugged into it :) CM How do you boot the root filesystem off a RAID device? I dont really want to be including the 4Gb drive in the RAID setup, i'd prefer it to be totally seperate, all that's going on that is the OS and the logs (/var et al). I read up on LVM a while ago and it said you couldn't boot from an LVM pool of disks and so i had already decided to go down the 2 disks, 2 purposes route. I like the idea of splitting the disks into 10Gb chunks, hadn't thought of that one! Thanks again! Regards Craig. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] button
alright - i will have a look at that, but i suppose if it puts an unnecessary load on the ressources, an icon will do. Thanks, -- From: Mike Quin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 June 2003 09:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] button On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:34:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote: on my home system, when linux is booted, when i press the button on either of my CD/DVD drives, it doesn't react (doesn't open, anyway). I wondered if a tweak was possible so that the button 1. unmounts the filesystem, whatever it may be 2. opens the wee drawer maybe one of you has done it ? This was discussed on linux-kernel many moons ago, and as I recall the only way you could do this is to poll the drive constantly to see if the button had been pressed. This was generally considered to be a bad thing to do, and as such was never implemented (at least in the mainstream kernel). -- Mike Quin, Unix Sysadmin, Information Services, University of Stirling Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +44-1786-467273 Fax: +44-1786-466882 Post: 2B24, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, STIRLING FK9 4LA -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the University of Stirling shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish *** This email and any accompanying files are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, copy or disclose the content. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender by return email and delete this message. Thankyou for your co-operation. * ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?
Mike Quin wrote: [snip] I'll be very surpised if any of the current crop of entry-level inkjets are still usable in 13 years. Mmmm, I agree for most brand - Lexmark springs to mind as being 'flimsy', but my DeskJet 840C is very well built, and it's still doing well after two years of sterling service. I think hp are one of the few printer manufacturers who haven't wholly succumbed to the 'dumb' printer ethos, hiving all the smarts off to the (invariably Windows) PC. The original DeskJets were built like tanks tho, as were the proper LaserJets (e.g. the ones with proper bins and output space on the top, not like the 5L and variants). I only recall losing an hp printer to just general wear and tear, e.g. several hundred pages a day for about three or four years. Great printers. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?
On Monday 16 June 2003 1:32 pm, David Marsh wrote: Actually, when I got my new printer (Epson Stylus C60) it was precisely because Epsons were well-supported in Linux through CUPS/gimp-print, which, at the time lowish-end HPs weren't (I think in fact HP were being very secretive and uncooperative with the driver writers). In general, I do have a lot of respect for HP but it seems that after the days of the DJ 5xx series 'armoured vehicles' they did go through a phase of dumbing down their consumer printers _too much_ and down the dark road of Winprinters they did go.. :-( Epsons have an internal timer, which counts the pages you print, and when it gets too high it just stops working, and reports an unknown error. It happened to my epson stylus 580. Online I bought a program for $10 which you can use to reset it(in win 98 though) and now it works great again. -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
