Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:45:41 05/22/02
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On May 21, 2002 at 19:40:58, Guido Schimmels wrote: >For $20 you'll get a Creative SounBlaster 128PCI. An offtopic sidenote: this card (which is in fact a Ensoniq ES1371) is one of the best buys you can do. It's dirt cheap, and the quality of the outputs is MUCH better than most 'real' SoundBlaster cards that costs a hundred times as much. >NTFS specs are not open. Because NTFS is much more complex than FAT, >reengineering is tricky.Blame MS ! 100% true. MS has intentionally changed some details in the latest Windows versions to break Linux support of NTFS. >> - getting files from and to a floppy drive. >> In windows you click on 'my computer' then on the floppy drive. In >> linux it is NOT so easy to transfer files from and to floppy >> - getting files from a CDrom. Default the cd drives aren't automounted. >> Note it is good the cddrives are installed. I remember a time that >> you had to compile in ISO9660 or whatever the protocol from normal >> cdroms. > >Yes, this was an annoyance to as well - until recently. I have found a >simple but effective solution to this inconvenience: >As I've mentioned in my post to Christophe, I use ROX-Filer I do something similar (but a lot simpeler) with wmmount. Click-> Disk mounted Click again-> Disk unmounted Trivial. >> - Scanner. Could *anyone* tell me how to get to work my HP scanner under >> linux? I do not know it at all. I would appreciate if someone knew. >> So after nearly 10 years of experience with linux, i still don't know >> how to get a scanner to work! > >For this very reason I bought a Epson Perfection 640U (Epson Perfection >series scanner all work well.) I'm very happy with it. >Quite a few scanners work. You have to do some research beforehand of course. Most parallel port scanners do not work. Companies that make them do not make Linux drivers and do not give out information to make drivers. Those can never be supported. Best thing to do is to check up in advance and avoid those products. -- GCP
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