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Scanner - $10
by Randall Mason Sept. 12, 2009

Sept. 12, 2009

Hi Everybody, My wife is cleaning stuff out and she wants me do something with a scanner that I specifically bought for it's Linux compatability. It's an Epson 1200U: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=14568 It works out of the box with my Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop via libusb, so I don't know if it will work with BSDs or other F/OSS operating systems, but I think it would. There are drivers for Windows and OS X on Epson's website, but I don't know if it works for those, I bought it so that it worked with Linux for a reason... It's not new, but I feel that it's worth it for Linux compatibility. It used to be white, but after years of oxidation and the plastic getting older, it's now yellowed. I would refund the money if it broke in the first year. Here's the brochure: http://magazine.mason.ch:8888/magazine/per12usl.pdf Randall Mason

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Looking for suggestions: JSP Web Hosting
by Michael Zarozinski Sept. 7, 2009

Sept. 7, 2009

Hi all, Does anyone have any recommendations for a web hosting service that comes with JSP "out of the box"? Thanks for any/all suggestions, Michael Z

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IPv6 config question
by William Smith Sept. 2, 2009

Sept. 2, 2009

Hiya! I've got an old laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-F520) that I've been setting to re-purposing. To this end, I've installed Fedora 10 on it. I've got DNS (IPv4) and DHCP configured on it, and it will eventually be acting as a printserver for an HP LaserJet 4MP. :) My question is this: How difficult (or involved) would it be to add IPv6 support to this? I know about AAAA records, but I'm not so sure what the reverse lookup file would look like. Likewise, I'm not sure about how DHCP would be configured, if I have to touch it at all. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Bill Smith Fall River, MA Charter Member of LOPSA

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Seagate ST3146807FC 146GB Fibre Channel drive
by Jamie Guinan Sept. 1, 2009

Sept. 1, 2009

Hi Group, We found the drive described in the subject line at work, and have no use for it. It appears to be new. Anyone have fibre channel, and want it? -Jamie

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Looking for DDR400 (PC3200) RAM
by John Stoffel Aug. 29, 2009

Aug. 29, 2009

Guys, I'm trying to ressurect an old MSI K8T NEO mother board with an Athlon64 3000 CPU. Unfortunately, I don't have any 184 Pin PC3200/DDR400, PC2700/DDR333, PC2100/ DDR266 or PC1600/DDR200 unbuffered DIMM boards. Probably 512Mb each (I've got three slots), though bigger is always better, right? I'd be willing to travel in the worcester area tomorrow to do a pickup, or hit a store with some if anyone has any suggestions other than the guys in Northboro on Rt 20. Thanks, John

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computer w/ ubuntu pre-installed.
by Jason Couture Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

I recently started a business and i was wondering if anyone would be interested in purchasing some computers for 339.99 + tax each they each come with a 17" LCD, Wireless keyboard and mouse, speakers, dvd burner, 1gb of ddr2, a 320gb hdd, AMD Sempron LE-1100 and ubuntu linux pre-installed. Add 1gb of ddr2 for $10.00 making the total 349.99 (I really need to move these boxes. Im attempting to become a linux oem) thanks in advance, and sorry for the spam :P

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Remote access with DansGuardian / FireHOL / TinyProxy
by Andrew C Wilkin Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

Is there anyone local who knows about DansGuardian? I'm having trouble logging into my work and I'm 95% positive it's because of DG. It's probably some configuration thing I don't know about. Any help?

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looking for PHP 5.2.x help
by John Stoffel Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

Guys, I'm looking for some help with PHP5.2.x hacking on a web site to cleanup how the user submitted search form is handled. Basically I want to make it simple for the end user to a) refine their query, b) not have to answer popups if they hit the reload button, and c) so I can leanr more PHP. I found this nice reference: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php which has two sections by "wayne" and "Jonas Lindel" talking about how you can take the results of a PHP POST request, stuff the vars into your session, and redirect back to the same page without the POST vars set, then complete the query. The idea is so that when people hit the "back" or "reload" buttons, they don't keep getting asked whether they want to resubmit their data. It's not strictly needed, but it would be a nice cleanup of the interface. Here's the snippet I'm trying to use, which bombs out with: Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in .... on line 45 And the code I'm using is: <? // We want to put the search query into a session so we can restore it // easily when users goto look at full_holdings.php and then return to // the overall display page. We'll need to do a session_destroy in // index.php I think. See the tutorial(s) at // http://www.phpf1.com/tutorial/php-sessions.html // http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php session_start(); // Now see Jonas Lindel's & Wayne's code at // http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php for // this *nice* trick. //is there POST or GET data we should look at if($_POST or ($_GET and (!isset($_SESSION['skipnextget'])))) { //is there GET data? if($_GET) { $newgetarr = array(); foreach($_GET as $key => $value) { if(is_array($value)) { //if it's an array, convert it to comma separated $newvalue = implode(',',$value); } else { $newvalue = $value; } $newgetarr[] = $key.'='.$newvalue; } $newget = implode('&',$newgetarr); $_SESSION['skipnextget'] = 1; } foreach($_POST as $key => $value) { $this[$key] = $value; } $_SESSION['postvars'] = serialize($this); //put POST in the session header("Location: http://" .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?\ ' . $newget); //reload page without POST data and shorter GET data exit(); } else { //after reloading we'll come right to this spot session_unregister('skipnextget'); if(isset($_SESSION['postvars'])) { //load the POST variables from the session // Error on this line below! $this = unserialize($_SESSION['postvars']); session_unregister('postvars'); //delete the session stuff we //don't need anymore. return $this; } }

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This is an ancient OS.
by Ken Jones Aug. 25, 2009

Aug. 25, 2009

John et al, I think I have a real problem.. Neither OS uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf as one would expect. I think there is a book available entitled "Computing in the Middle Ages". Could it be????? First kjones-sun [root@kjones-sun X11]# uname -a Linux kjones-sun 2.4.20-2.3sparc #1 Wed Jan 15 18:27:52 EST 2003 sparc64 unknow ---------- xrandr is not interesting--------------- [root@kjones-sun kjones]# xrandr -q Can't open display (null) ----------------no xorg.conf --------- [root@kjones-sun kjones]# cd /etc/X11 [root@kjones-sun X11]# ls applnk proxymngr twm XF86Config-4 xinit xsrirc fs rstart X XF86Config-4.rpmsave xkb gdm serverconfig xdm XF86Config-5 Xmodmap lbxproxy starthere XF86Config XF86Config_orig xserver prefdm sysconfig XF86Config~ XftConfig xsm [root@kjones-sun X11]# There seems to be no xorg.conf. anywhere. "locate" can not find it. ==================================================== Now kjones-sun2 kjones-sun2 ~ # uname -a Linux kjones-sun2 2.6.20-gentoo-r5 #4 SMP Tue May 22 20:27:03 Local time zone mu st be set--see zic sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) GNU/Linux --------xrandr -q still not interesting-------- kjones-sun2 ~ # xrandr -q Can't open display kjones-sun2 ~ # locate xorg.conf warning: locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/files/xorg.conf.ferris /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/files/xorg.conf /usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5x.bz2 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example ------------------try /etc/X11 for kicks------------------ kjones-sun2 ~ # cd /etc/X11 kjones-sun2 X11 # ls Sessions app-defaults chooser.sh mwm startDM.sh xinit xorg.conf.example kjones-sun2 X11 # ------------------xorg.conf looks like an example----------- kjones-sun2 ~ # more /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/files/x org.conf --More--(22%) Section "ServerLayout" --More--(22%) Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "glx" Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" HorizSync 1-10000 --More--(75%) VertRefresh 1-10000 ModeLine "640x480" 100 640 700 800 900 480 500 600 700 ModeLine "800x600" 100 800 900 1000 1100 600 700 800 900 ModeLine "1024x768" 100 1024 1100 1200 1300 768 800 900 1000 ModeLine "1152x864" 100 1152 1200 1300 1400 864 900 1000 1100 ModeLine "1152x900" 100 1152 1200 1300 1400 900 1000 1100 1200 ModeLine "1280x1024" 100 1280 1300 1400 1500 1024 1100 1200 1300 ModeLine "1376x1032" 100 1376 1400 1500 1600 1032 1100 1200 1300 ModeLine "1600x1200" 100 1600 1700 1800 1900 1200 1300 1400 1500 ModeLine "2364x1773" 100 2364 2400 2500 2600 1773 1800 1900 2000 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "vmware" --More--(90%) VendorName "VMWare Inc" BoardName "Unknown Board" BusID "PCI:0:15:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Thanks, Ken Jones

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I've posted on Linux Questions
by Ken Jones Aug. 23, 2009

Aug. 23, 2009

Folks, thank you for your help so far. I have made progress. The image on my screen is still unacceptable. It will be interesting to see whether linuxquestions can come up with something http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/belkin-sun-adapte… Ken Jones

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