Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-17 Thread Freaky Clown
I hate all printers - they are the only piece of technology that has not gotten significantly better in 5 years - however I recently HAD to buy a printer and was shocked at how easy the Kodak ESP 7250 was to get workign in linux - it literally was 30 seconds - I was gobsmacked. -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
I have an oldish Samsung bw laser, but it was trivial to make work in linux. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in

Re: [Hampshire] Linux power monitoring tools.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
I agree with Bob. This generally isn't possible with normal pc hardware. Also, unloading a module doesn't necessarily stop the hardware using power. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp:

Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-17 Thread hantslug
On Saturday 17 December 2011 16:11:41 Anton Piatek wrote: I have an oldish Samsung bw laser, but it was trivial to make work in linux. +1 Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] Linux printer recommendations.

2011-12-17 Thread Clive Woodfine
On 17 December 2011 16:08, Freaky Clown freakycl...@gmail.com wrote: I hate all printers - they are the only piece of technology that has not gotten significantly better in 5 years - however I recently HAD to buy a printer and was shocked at how easy the Kodak ESP 7250 was to get workign in

Re: [Hampshire] External USB HDD spindown.

2011-12-17 Thread Anton Piatek
Hdparm can set it on the drive with a timeout iirc Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this

Re: [Hampshire] External USB HDD spindown.

2011-12-17 Thread Clive Woodfine
On 17 December 2011 17:16, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Hdparm can set it on the drive with a timeout iirc Anton Many thanks Anton. The usefulness of the Hants LUG again! Wikipedia gives me this example:- hdparm -S 24 /dev/sda for 120 seconds of inactivity. I will give it a try