Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 11:25:22 05/22/02
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On May 22, 2002 at 12:45:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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. This is a Window Maker dock-app right ? For a while I used mountapp, but I experienced system locks once in a while. Now I'm back to XFce anyway. Maybe in 2-3 years GNUstep is ready for use. Then I'll check again. >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. Why would someone now want to buy a parallel port scanner anyway ? For 100 Euro you get good qualitiy and fully Linux compatible scanners. OCR, of course, is an issue. Maybe FineReader or Omnipage works with wine ? >-- >GCP -Guido-
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