Comments on: Ask Shadowman: Web 2.0

by: PDX Guy

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:46:20 +0000

Web 2.0 this Web 2.0 that. Im tired of them. To many cant keep and dont have the time.

by: tirath

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:41:38 +0000

Dear Shadowman,

Micrsoft’s Steve Ballmer is coming after RedHat with the same IP issues they armed SCO with, that linux and other GPL’ed software contains there IP property? Isn’t there any law in the USA that requires a legal individual to specify exactly what IP property is being pirated and by which individual?

What is; firstly, Shadowman’s personal view; and secondly, The Offical RedHat press release?

by: Vipin Varghese

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:25:22 +0000

Dear Shadowman,

I am planning to buy a Canon iR3045. I want to know whether RHEL-3, RHEL-4 will work in this machine?

by: David-Paul Niner

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:49:58 +0000

Just downloaded and am presently in the process of installing a RHEL 5 server. According to your docs, we should now use the genkey command to generate ssl certs. I just bought the development subscription which doesn’t seem to entitle me to any official support — but I just thought I’d let you know that, despite having all the proper packages installed I still don’t have the genkey utility on my system as described in the documentation (or the corresponding ssl directories under /etc/httpd/conf, either).

I can generate the files by hand, but I thought I’d let you know about it as I’m certain I’m not the only programmer out there trying to do web development on this otherwise-awesome platform.

Thanks.

by: Ed Man

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:31:06 +0000

Yo Máirín Duffy … I can verify the LiDE60 does indeed work, but it’s also soon to be gone I think replaced by the LiDE70 [ not sure if it will work ]

The LiDE60 is a cute little scanner, no power cord required, scans pretty fast, decent resolution, and “It Just Works” no drivers or sillyness required. Take that Redmond!

Thank you very much for the insight. Reviewing the sane-project site many of those scanners listed there are no longer available either, the LiDE60 is listed.

Maybe ShadowMan would like to do a piece on how to find late model USB devices for sane-project that are actually available and share it with the world! rock on RedHat. My Sony digital camera and cam-corder “just work” too ..

Ed Man

by: Shadowman

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:38:31 +0000

Hey Mo… you’re stealing Shadowman’s thunder, there! How can Shadowman look all smart in future columns if you just up and answer people’s questions? Especially the easy ones?

Clearly, it’s gonna take Shadowman a little while to figure this whole “participation by the masses” thing out.

by: Máirín Duffy

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:46:34 +0000

Hi Ed Man,

The best list for Linux-supported scanners is the xsane project’s list, available here:

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

The scanner I use with RHEL and Fedora right now is the Canon LiDE 30 - it worked out-of-the-box for me, I just plugged in the USB cable (no separate power cable, yay!) and it just worked when I went to the scanning interface in the Gimp. It’s a very thin and sleek scanner. Canon no longer makes the LiDE 30, but it looks like the updated version the LiDE 60 is also supported by xsane and is available new on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-CanoScan-Color-Image-Scanner/dp/B0009Y6BKK/sr=8-1/qid=1169229360/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6483448-1946215?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

Hope this helps!

by: Ed Man

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:40:25 +0000

Greetings oh omnipotent one. I figured with a look into that crystal ball you might be able to provide at least a little glimpse of the answer I’m after.

After much time spent searching I’m unable to find a list of /currently produced and available/ scanners , preferably USB based that will work with RHEL or Fedora.

While there’s loads of lists showing scanners that work, 99.99% of them aren’t currently available. Can you point me at least to somewhere that has such a thing ?

Thanks!