Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, Has anyone have experience with Thermal Printers under Linux? I am specifically talking about those printers that are used to generate stickers, such as: Samsung SRP350 Brother QL550 -- Noam Rathaus CTO no...@beyondsecurity.com http://www.beyondsecurity.com Know that you are safe. Join

Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

2009-03-26 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi, I want to buy a cheap desktop machine with HW RAID 1 and install linux on it. A shop offered me 2 different desktop boards with RAID on them: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H, and GA-EG45M-DS2H googling and manufacturer sites didn't reveal anything, so: 1. Does anyone have any Linux experience with

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I checked the Brother QL 550, and it's fully supported under Linux: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/es/os/linux/linux_ql500550.html It's also got a manual that you can download. You do, however, need to write your custom program to print and use the cutter though. I wrote a

Re: Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Dvir, I checked both of the boards you've mentioned.. * The GA-73PVM-S2H is very entrey level board. nForce 630i chipset and it supports RAID, but it's really up to the distribution you install if it will supports it or not, since it depends on drivers from nVidia. Basically if you can set it

The role of Wine

2009-03-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: I read with great interest the plea for help to remain in Linux instead of returning to Windows. One of the major concerns I have on this issue is the use of programmes like Wine and other emulators. If using these programmes I feel in some way that it is a

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread Noam Rathaus
Thanks Hetz, Note though that if the cutter doesn't work automatically it is kinda hard to operate. I can't find any reference to how the cutter is made to work for linux, any clues ? was it some program that did it? raw command to the printer? something? :) On Thursday 26 March 2009

Re: Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

2009-03-26 Thread Dvir Volk
Thanks, Hetz. I was only referring to the RAID feature. I'm sure the rest will just work. Guess I'm going to put ubuntu or fedora on this one. I'll buy the second one, just to be safe (not my dime anyway... ;) ) On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Dvir, I

Re: Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
The 2nd one is way way better then the first one. If I had the option and the money, I would have bought it this minute :) Hetz On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Hetz. I was only referring to the RAID feature. I'm sure the rest will just work. Guess

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
If my memory serves me correctly, when you it finished getting the data to be printed, it would cut the page automatically. Hetz On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com wrote: Thanks Hetz, Note though that if the cutter doesn't work automatically it is kinda

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: If my memory serves me correctly, when you it finished getting the data to be printed, it would cut the page automatically. If not, you could always put the command sequence to cut the paper in a print file and use it as a CUPS end job

Re: The role of Wine

2009-03-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
An operating system is an environment meant for running applications. Ideally, it is the applications, rather than the OS, that are the real ends, with the OS merely being means to that end. Do you mean that Linux is not a religion? That we can actually use other operating systems if the

Re: The role of Wine

2009-03-26 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
Hi Shachar, I knew that I would prompt a reply with my e-mail. Which OS we live in a free world and what I love about Linux is the idea of the freedom it can and does offer. Yes I used an example like Office, but like others I find that Wine does give where possible the best of both worlds. My

Part of an email to Canon regarding Scanners

2009-03-26 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
Some of my friends they think that Canon is behind other manufacturers in not supporting the major Linux distributions like Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Red Hat, Mandriva and Gnome. Your scanners that work excellently in Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac Computers are getting the thumbs down and lets buy

bug in date?

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Take a look at this: # date -s 27 MAR 2009 02:54:00 date: invalid date `27 MAR 2009 02:54:00' However.. # date -s 27 MAR 2009 03:00:00 Fri Mar 27 03:00:00 IDT 2009 Why is it invalid?? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org

Re: bug in date?

2009-03-26 Thread Jason Friedman
# date -s 27 MAR 2009 02:54:00 date: invalid date `27 MAR 2009 02:54:00' However.. # date -s 27 MAR 2009 03:00:00 Fri Mar 27 03:00:00 IDT 2009 Why is it invalid?? This is the start of summer time in Israel, so this hour does not exist. From

Re: bug in date?

2009-03-26 Thread e2xbegqsdyt21hfc
Due to IST, there was no such time as 27 MAR 2009 02:54:00. $ date -s 27 MAR 2009 02:14:00 date: invalid date `27 MAR 2009 02:14:00' $ date -s 27 MAR 2009 02:01:00 date: invalid date `27 MAR 2009 02:01:00' --- On Fri, 3/27/09, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: From: Hetz Ben Hamo