Hi Keith
On 29/08/11 16:59, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:29:20 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
mount.cifs in Debian Squeeze requires entries in /etc/fstab.
Use libpam-mount (unless I've misunderstood what you are trying to do).
I looked at libpam-mount a couple of year
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:29:20 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
> mount.cifs in Debian Squeeze requires entries in /etc/fstab.
Use libpam-mount (unless I've misunderstood what you are trying to do).
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get what they wan
Peter
>and Google earth - I did have it working a couple of versions ago of
>Kubuntu, but not any more. Something for me to occupy my time with when
>the kids have gone back home on Tuesday.
See Google Earth offers 32 and 64 bit downloads for Debian/Ubuntu and
Fedora/OpenSUSE as default Linux o
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:02 +0100, Mark Elkins wrote:
> Peter
>
> Have in the past discussed scanner issues on the DLUG. It seems to me now
> that as a 2nd hand scanner that Linux supports is so cheap it is probably
> better to avoid the attempt at a full scale software engineering project to
>
Hi Terry,
> > 3. Downloading library ebooks. They come as an ascm XML file, that
> > is used by Adobe to download the epub document, that I can then
> > import into Calibre. But under linux I cannot get the epub document.
> > That seems to be something that has not been done in linux yet.
>
> Hmm
On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011, Peter Merchant wrote:
> How good is your linux installation?
Well. Not bad by and large, but to answer your three queries:
> I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M
> $.
>
> 1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it
blem. Will look into this
further when get time. Same goes for Google Earth as make no use of this
myself.
Cheers
Mark Elkins
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:55:15 +0100
From: Peter Merchant
Subject: [Dorset] Linux Limitations
To: Dlug
Message-ID: <1314172515.1613.10.camel@kubunt
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 11:19 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> On 24/08/11 10:36, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> > If I were in that position, with an A4 1200dpi scanner costing less
> > than £50 I'd be tempted to buy a new one, since the money spend would
> > soon be saved through not having to dual boo
> Alternatively there is almost certainly a more compatible, better
> spec'ed free scanner lurking unloved and unused somewhere in a loft of
> garage. Sean
Briefly, my experience is that a lot of the older SCSI scanners
work well, but the nasty-cheap-scsi-adapters they came with
were a hit-an
Hi,
Kevin Giles wrote:
> I believe that the CORRECT 'nix solution would be to setup a
> googleearth group, move the data to the /opt directory with
> 'googleearth' group permissions? Any cooments?
If Peter's on Ubuntu then there's a googleearth-package package, SGTNIT,
that has make-googleearth-p
Hi Peter,
> 2. I cannot get Google Earth to work. Nearly there, application is
> running, but no earth.
I had the same problem. Excuse me for a bit of vagueness on but this was 18
months ago. If I remember right the problem was down to 'googleearth'
installing the data files to the first user to
On 24/08/11 08:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
How good is your linux installation?
My biggest gripe is with networking in a mixed environment. Samba has
been fantastic for around 8 or 9 years now. I think it is also the best
option for networking even in a Linux only environment. However with
ea
On 24/08/11 10:36, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
If I were in that position, with an A4 1200dpi scanner costing less
than £50 I'd be tempted to buy a new one, since the money spend would
soon be saved through not having to dual boot and maintain two OSs.
Heh, I agree with the solution if not the
On 24/08/11 08:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M
$.
1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not
supported in Linux.
If I were in that position, with an A4 1200dpi scanner costing less than
£50 I'd be t
I wrote:
> If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's a Umax Astra 120P parallel-port
> scanner. http://umax1220p.sourceforge.net/ seems to support some
> later models, including a 1220P, so perhaps that's the closest thing
> to start with?
I was wrong; a "Astra 1210P from UMAX", so even closer to th
Hi John,
> Peter, you wrote
> > my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not supported in
> > Linux
>
> What model of scanner? There are some generic scanner drivers, one of
> these may just need a bit of fiddling to make it serve your scanner.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's a Umax
Peter, you wrote
> my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not
supported in Linux
What model of scanner? There are some generic scanner drivers, one of
these may just need a bit of fiddling to make it serve your scanner.
John
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How good is your linux installation?
I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M
$.
1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not
supported in Linux.
2. I cannot get Google Earth to work. Nearly there, application is
running, but no earth.
3.
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