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No upgrade from XP. They have got to be kidding.

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As usual, excellent reading from Daniel Eran Dilger.

Also as usual. Microsoft nasty business practices. I wonder if Microsoft has ever created something from scratch.

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This is one of the greatest achievements of open source.
And yes, they are extremely profitable.

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1. Cheer Up!
2. Join the Club
3. Feel guilt, no shame
4. Cultivate optimism
5. Dont ask what the world can do for you
6. Lower expectations for yourself
7. Keep a diary
8. Do not blame yourself
9. Act!

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These are wallet for geeks. I have been using one for the past two months and couldn’t be happier with it. It is really thin.
Highly recommended.
http://www.thinnestwallet.com

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Some applications like TweetDeck don’t respect gnome preferred applications settings and continue to use the older Firefox 3.1 instead of the new one 3.5 when opening links.

This is because

/usr/bin/firefox is currently pointing (like a shortcut) to

/usr/bin/firefox-3.0

To change this to 3.5 enter the following on the command line

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

If you want to change it back:

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

This will work for Firefox 3.5 as well as Shiretoko 3.5
This will also fix same issues with other Adobe Air applications

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Red Hat recently posted an interesting case study on how retail giant The Gap moved from a Unix and Windows based e-commerce infrastructure to one based on Red Hat Linux with support for Microsoft’s Active Directory via LikeWise, a product that improves the management and interoperability of Windows and Linux systems.

According to the case study, “Gap Inc. Direct needed to revamp its entire end-to-end business technology platform–from the customer-facing front-end system, to the back-end order management application, to the business tools that supported the company’s long-term growth strategy.”

Platform growth and adding new features were key to the underlying infrastructure and the ability to integrate a heterogeneous environment was the other major hurdle that needed to be addressed. Positive ROI was an added bonus.

“As far as benefits go, first and foremost, Gap Inc. Direct has realized tremendous cost savings. “The ROI (return on investment) of the Red Hat-Likewise solution is hundreds of thousands of dollars annually once you add the hardware and software savings to the reduced costs of manually auditing our systems. Likewise Enterprise’s compliance enhancements allowed us to expand our use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” said Arcuri.

I’m sure there are many Red Hat Linux wins to be touted, just as Microsoft would happily tell you about their customer successes. What’s interesting here is that Red Hat is actively telling a story that includes a diverse environment and not pushing a myopic, single vendor view of the enterprise.

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To install the scanner of the multifunctional printer MF4270, do the following.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane checkout sane-backends
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
cd sane-backends/
./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install
cp /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules ~/
sudo cp tools/udev/libsane.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules
sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Test sane version, should be 1.x.xcvs

scanimage -V

add your self to the scanner group

logout and then login.

Done!

For the Printer part follow this guide:

https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/installing-canon-imageclass-mf4270-on-ubuntu-64-bit/