Linux.com :: How to configure a scanner’s buttons on Linux The secret is the libusb-based application, scanbuttond. Useful invocations of SANE utilities without xsane. scanbuttond works fine on OpenSolaris 2008.11.
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Observations from a West Coast family
File: December 2008
There’s a lot of new applications in 2008.11—cheese is useful for testing your USB webcam and making self-portraits for avatars and profile pictures and I’m very intrigued by gobby—but I already have my favourite: terminator. Here’s a scaled screenshot: I used to use ion as my window manager, so getting some tiling back is great. [...]
OpenDX Home Page IBM's Data Explorer (which I used on an SGI workstation years ago) is now an open source project.
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Bin-Blog: Subscribing a feed in Google Reader using Firefox Explains the configuration for content handling, such that you can adjust Firefox to subscribe a feed in Google Reader through a direct link.
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On packaging Essay on the impacts of some of setuptools on distributions. I've been worrying about some of these aspects, too; eggs don't seem right for distributors, even if they're convenient for users.
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I think we’ve had two evenings with short snow—without accumulation—and one significant hailstorm—with accumulation—in eleven years here. Intriguing.
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With the launch over, I took a few minutes to read through today’s blog entries, and pulled out a list of the either technical or personally significant entries. If you’re looking for the highlights, Calum’s overview seems to be a great place to start. He’s got links to the best summaries and screencasts. First, if [...]
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We’re just wrapping up the live chat for the launch, with interested folks moving to freenode in #os200811. Here’s a quick photo of Danek, Dave, and Bart responding intently to the questions and comments earlier this morning. As you can see, every question is taken seriously… [ T: OpenSolaris IRC ]
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I regularly use my for presentations and demonstrations, which in the past has involved some configuration gymnastics. If your laptop has NVIDIA graphics, the “NVIDIA X Server Settings” Preferences panel lets you configure for most projectors, but if you didn’t have an NVIDIA graphics adaptor, configuration was arduous and fragile. With 2008.11, we get GNOME [...]
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As I did for 2008.05, I’ll collect links to mirror sites here. These will also get links on the various download pages out there. Construction of 2008.11 was faster, more efficient, and generally more predictable than 2008.05. Image packaging, snap upgrade, and the distribution constructor—and the notorious distro importer—saw many fixes and features that resulted [...]
