[dundee] Website

[David Thornton Snr]

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From: Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>
To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
Cc: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 8:57:55 PM
Subject: Re: [dundee] Website

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:28:07 +0000 (GMT), David Thornton Snr wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> I quite agree with you having looked at the site it could do with
> some content. Who looks after the site? I can give quite afew hours
> to it as i work in the afternoons so most, if not all my mornings are
> free, apart from taking the dog for a walk! I'm looking at developing
> a scanner database program for linux that hopefully would be a point
> & click. To explain i have a epson dx6000 mfp and to get the scanner
> working was not hard but time consuming, lsusb, then epson.conf, then
> 45-libsane.rules, etc. I'm hopeing to make it easier, more simple to
> attach a scanner. I have contacted some of the major manafacturers
> hopeing that they will be able to supply me with the details  of the
> SYSFS idVendor & idProduct (model). Epson idVendor is 04b8 and my
> idPrinter 082f. I can then start building a database so users can
> click on the make and model this then creates the file to paste into
> the .rules file.  

Even better would be to send patches to the relevant upstream projects,
so users get it working out of the box.

Upstream, upstream, upstream...


Andrew

Hi Andrew,
Thats a very good point, will contact them tonight.

Thanks for info

Dave
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