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Re: [Wlug] Cue Cats

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 28 January 2002 03:07 pm, you wrote: > Anyone play with these things (and associated Perl/php tools)? I just > got 4 of 'em from a local Radio Shack for free. My coworkers and I are > about to attempt to setup a backup tape tracking system with them. I > was wondering if anyone had any comments on them. > > -Adam I played with mine briefly. It seemed to be OK considering that it was free. If I recall correctly, there is a GNU program for creating your own barcodes, and several of those were readable by the cue cat. I found physically larger bar codes easier for the cue cat to read, but again, your mileage may vary. Mine did seem a little sensitive to the speed of swiping the barcode. I suspect that if the cue cats were hung too low on the christmas tree, that the real cats would bat them around with their paws and break them. :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Jan. 29, 2002

FS: Various EISA cards

by Phillip G Deneault

They're old, and if noone buys them, I'm just going to toss them. Last I knew all these cards were working properly. I have no drivers, .cfgs, manuals, or cables with them... however I found all of these very easily on the web. I'm making a push to eliminate all my EISA equipment. 5 bucks a card, any card, OBO. All sales final. No returns or refunds, I want this stuff gone. Make sure this stuff runs on the platform your going to run before buying. I ran most of them either under x386 Linux 2.2.x, Alpha OpenVMS, or Alpha Digital UNIX. I believe all have drivers for WinNT 4.0 too, if your into that sort of thing. -Model EILA8215 Intel EtherExpress32 LAN Adapter(AUI/BNC combo) -DTC-3292 SCSI controler(SCSI-2 narrow) -two 3com 3c597-TX NIC(10/half, 10/full, 100/half, no 100/full) -Adaptec AHA-2740A(FW SCSI-2) -Adaptec AHA-1740(SCSI-2) -DEC Etherworks DE422(TP/BNC combo) Reply if interested Phil -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phil Deneault "We work in the dark, We do what we can, deneault(a)wpi.edu We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, WPI NetOps and our passion is our task. The rest is the OpenVMS Guy maddness of art." - Henry James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jan. 29, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Cue Cats

by Adam ＠ Oak

> They make great xmas tree ornaments... Heh ;-) So... in case these things aren't viable: are there any ps/2 or usb barcode readers with linux drivers? Specially ones that just dump to the keyboard buffer? I've googling and haven't seen much. BTW the cue cats are doing ok in preliminary tests: they just don't like really small barcodes (3mm high) so far. -Adam p.s. Maybe its me, but the general shape of 'em says Cue Rat more than Cue Cat to me... end ___________________________________________________ Adam S. Keck | | | "Got BSD?" ---------------------------------------------------

Jan. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Cue Cats

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0500, Adam Keck wrote: > Anyone play with these things (and associated Perl/php tools)? I just got > 4 of 'em from a local Radio Shack for free. My coworkers and I are about > to attempt to setup a backup tape tracking system with them. I was > wondering if anyone had any comments on them. All I've heard so far is that the quality is pretty crappy, ie: someone scanned the same bar code 5 times and didn't get the same value twice. YMMV. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: But the Perl default must be to preserve information, to be failsoft, and to try to make the best of a bad situation. If this makes other computer programs look bad, well that's their problem. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199909150039.RAA21137(a)kiev.wall.org>

Jan. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Cue Cats

by Mike Peckar

They make great xmas tree ornaments... Mike

Jan. 28, 2002

Cue Cats

by Adam Keck

Anyone play with these things (and associated Perl/php tools)? I just got 4 of 'em from a local Radio Shack for free. My coworkers and I are about to attempt to setup a backup tape tracking system with them. I was wondering if anyone had any comments on them. -Adam "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

Jan. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Apache + PHP + Mozilla

by Peter Gutowski

You need to tell apache that index.php is a page to load as a 'DirectoryIndex'. In your httpd.conf file (mine is in /etc/httpd/conf on RHL 7.1) append index.php to the line that loooks like this: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml {.... maybe more things} so it should now read: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php (BTW, you can define other filenames to be handled in this way.) On Monday, January 28, 2002 5:15 AM, David Lee Ludwig <davidl(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: >I'm currently trying to set up Apache and PHP4 under Debian woody. So >far, I have Apache and php4 up and running (using apt-get retrieved >binaries.) I can load php pages w/o problems, provided I specify the file >directly. That is, the following URL will work: > >http://my.domain/some_dir/index.php > >but loading the following: > >http://my.domain/some_dir/ > >will result in Mozilla (0.9.5) giving me a download dialog box telling me: >"You have chosen to download a file of type: application/x-httpd-php", >which is followed by a choice to either pick a helper app or to save to >disk. > >Any thoughts on how I would go about fixing this? > >-- >David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of >davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.' >http://www.wpi.edu/~davidl | That's it." - >Linus Torvalds > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Peter Gutowski <peter(a)linuxchamps.com> // tel.: (413) 531-0123 "When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body not usually discovered." --George Washington, _Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior_

Jan. 28, 2002

Apache + PHP + Mozilla

by David Lee Ludwig

I'm currently trying to set up Apache and PHP4 under Debian woody. So far, I have Apache and php4 up and running (using apt-get retrieved binaries.) I can load php pages w/o problems, provided I specify the file directly. That is, the following URL will work: http://my.domain/some_dir/index.php but loading the following: http://my.domain/some_dir/ will result in Mozilla (0.9.5) giving me a download dialog box telling me: "You have chosen to download a file of type: application/x-httpd-php", which is followed by a choice to either pick a helper app or to save to disk. Any thoughts on how I would go about fixing this? -- David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.' http://www.wpi.edu/~davidl | That's it." - Linus Torvalds

Jan. 28, 2002

Linux World

by Marc Hughes

So... Anyone else going to Linux World in New York next week? If so, feel like grabbing a beer one night down there? -Marc

Jan. 25, 2002

As seen at the last meeting...

by Phillip G Deneault

Chuck Anderson demo'd a PS-RISC system running Debian Linux. I have a similar system that I am offering up for sale. Its an HP 9000 model J210 than has: -2 PA-RISC 120mhz processors -1 gig of memory -2 four gig HVD SCSI drives -SCSI CD-ROM -An extra 10/100 ethernet NIC card(there is already one built in) -VGA adapter(although as Chuck pointed out, the display card isn't supported yet under Linux) -an external HVD SCSI interface as well as an external SCSI-2 interface It all works and currently has a version of HP-UX 11 that I need to wipe before selling it. As stated before, there is a working Linux kernel for it and it would make a great server or at the very least, a great hobby system. $250 or best offer Reply if your interested. Phil -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phil Deneault "We work in the dark, We do what we can, deneault(a)wpi.edu We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, WPI NetOps and our passion is our task. The rest is the OpenVMS Guy maddness of art." - Henry James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jan. 23, 2002