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I just used my HP Officejet Pro 8500A to scan a 2 page document to tiff format. It drops it into a samba share on my Fedora 16 box. Trying to open the tiff format scan on Linux and i could only see the first page. With the default viewer - which in my case is the...

for (@ARGV) { if (/^6\d{4}$/) { $item_code = $_; $action = 'load'; } elsif (/^stop$/) { $action = 'stop' ; } elsif (/^start$/) { $action = 'start'; } else { print "Default\n"; } } print "Item : " . $item_code . "\n"; print "Action : " . $action ....

A company named HSAjet has a CU (Control Unit) that drives some expensive print heads for carton labelling. In the documentation that is supplied with the Control Unit it specifies that you can communicate with it via RS232 and Ethernet. The Ethernet part is what I'm...

I'm running a few sound outputting apps under Fedora 16... And they are all playing nicely in the playground. Amazing how Fedora/Gnome has come. Finally Linux on the Desktop is Here!

Every now and again a business has to change Banks and you are left to figure out what the ABA file format should be and what the different fields mean. Especially annoying is when you have set it up and have been running for years and the meaning has been lost over...

uptime 05:29:01 up 44 days, 4:54, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 Since I went to a small Rackspace cloud server I was concerned whether it would be stable. I have only had the account for a couple of months but the uptime is consistent with my last reboot so...