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I’ve been using the SANE backends with the XSane plugin for GIMP for many years now, but because of digital photography I don’t seem to need the scanner much these days. When we got the senior photos for my daughter, however, I needed a way to make a few copies […]

Setting up scanners under Fedora 10

Sun February 15, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Fedora / GIMP / Linux / Scanners tagged epson / Epson Perfection 1260 / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / Linux / rpm / sane / Scanners / xsane (updated 5539 days ago)

My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade. F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode. I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet. So I wasn’t sure why things had changed. […]

Fedora 10 and Firefox upgrade complaints

Sat January 03, 2009 in Fedora / Linux / Printing tagged chkconfig / dual monitors / epson / evolution / f10 / f9 / Fedora / firefox / intel driver / laptop / Linux / multihead / networkmanager / Open Source / printing / printing issue / r280 / red hat / wifi

Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]

Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...

Thu December 18, 2008 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Video / X11 tagged epson / Fedora / games / GIMP / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / intel / ivtv / kde / Linux / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / Open Source / printing / Video / wifi / xrandr (updated 5593 days ago)

My Epson Style 740 finally gave out earlier this year, joining a Lexmark E210 laser printer that had given out before that. That left me without a printer (though my wife has two nice printers for her graphics design business). So I decided to get a low end model for […]