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[potong]

This is not a trick as such but rather "thinking outside the box" or should I say "thinking inside the box"!

Long ago I bought a 3-in-1 Lexmark printer/scanner. This works fine in windows but it could not be persuaded to work in Linux. I contacted Lexmark but they would/could not provide drivers for this model. So the 3-in-1 sat on the desk and dried up (BTW ink cartridges for this model were exorbitant).
Fast forward a few years: I am now using Puppy and I have a need to scan some documents but no scanner available. Well the 3-in-1 has a scanner but how to connect it to puppy?
I already have VirtualBox installed (for testing out new pups) so I popped in an old win2000 setup disk, created a win2000 virtual machine, applied the VirtualBox Additions to allow seamless desktop, installed the Lexmark printer/scanner software and then setup a shared folder between puppy and the virtual win2000 machine.
Now, with just a few clicks, I can use the scanner again and if need be the printer.
One proviso: the version of VirtualBox has to be the non-open source one because the 3-in-1 is connected via USB.

HTH

Potong

[Flash]

I discovered the same thing. Inkjet printers are the worst way to go unless you print a lot. If you don't, the ink dries out between uses. Expensive bummer. Laser printers are a better choice if you only print occasionally. They use dry toner powder, which should have a shelf life of pretty much forever.

Most of us these days have a digital camera with resolution high enough to make a dandy substitute for a scanner if your standards aren't too high.

If necessary, you can put the paper under a piece of glass or plastic to flatten it. Arrange things so the light source is far enough to the side of the camera that the reflection of the light source doesn't show in the picture.

[potong]

The Problem:

You want to print something off the web but you don't want to print adverts/sidebars/headers/footers etc.

If you're using Seamonkey, go to File/Edit Page, then in the new window, highlight the text or area you want to print and either copy or cut it.

Open a new composer page from File/New Composer Page and paste in you selection.

Continue copying/cutting until you have all the details you want and either save or print the result.


Bookmarklets are another way to go or if your a firefox person investigate Greasemonkey and/or Firebug.

HTH

Potong

p.s. Another excellent addon is Scrapbook for offline reading and it also includes a wysiwyg html page formatter

[Lobster]

→ °¿° ←

AltGr + 2 = ²
AltGr + 3 = ³
AltGr + 4 = €
AltGr + 5 = ½
AltGr + 6 = ¾
AltGr + y = ←
AltGr + u = ↓
AltGr + i = →
AltGr + q = @

AltGr + shift + c = ©
AltGr + shift + 8 = ™
AltGr + shift + r = ®
AltGr + shift + y = ¥
AltGr + shift + u = ↑
AltGr + shift + 2 = ⅛
AltGr + shift + 4 = ¼

[efiguy]

Hi Group,

- In working on building a simple streaming TV PC to scanconverter, found that discovering the streaming url is somewhat difficult. There is much software to purchase, but I need to do this on the cheap, and all the urls seem to obfusicate the sources.
- So I put this methodology file together, as a "how to" - but actually looking for easier suggestions, or sources of any better techniques - [only 143 more urls to scan, if live long enough ;) ]

Thanks,
Jay

[chrome307]

Thanks Lobster for those special characters

[don570]

If you want a way to quickly launch the terminal...
Type in terminal

[don570]

Practice using terminal text editor e3
It could be useful if desktop doesn't come up when booting.

Start by opening a new file

[PeacebyJesus]

[ken geometrics]

[Hotdog]

Using your mouse to launch a program that just doesn't run the way you expect? Or, one that when clicked on seems to do nothing at all?

Try running it from a terminal and it will probably give an error message that you can use to start tracking down the problem.

[vovchik]

Dear efiguy,

If you want to disambiguate streams, have a look at this pet I posted about a month ago http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73104.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[banger0250]

This is just to stop the ROX pupypin from starting up on the desktop. I needed this to play around with wbar && conky/lua. Open up your .xinitrc in a text editor and comment out these lines.

[amigo]

When preparing avocado slices, don't try to peel the avocado and then slice it. Instead, slice with the skin still on -it's easy to remove the skin from the slices afterward.

[trapster]

amigo - nothing easier than a big metal spoon to get the skin off an avocado