<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net><br>To: dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Cc: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 8:57:55 PM<br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Website<br><br>On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:28:07 +0000 (GMT), David Thornton Snr wrote:<br><br>> Hi Simon,<br>> I quite agree with you having looked at the site it could do with<br>> some content. Who looks after the site? I can give quite afew hours<br>> to it as i work in the afternoons so most, if not all my mornings are<br>> free, apart from taking the dog for a walk! I'm looking at
developing<br>> a scanner database program for linux that hopefully would be a point<br>> & click. To explain i have a epson dx6000 mfp and to get the scanner<br>> working was not hard but time consuming, lsusb, then epson.conf, then<br>> 45-libsane.rules, etc. I'm hopeing to make it easier, more simple to<br>> attach a scanner. I have contacted some of the major manafacturers<br>> hopeing that they will be able to supply me with the details of the<br>> SYSFS idVendor & idProduct (model). Epson idVendor is 04b8 and my<br>> idPrinter 082f. I can then start building a database so users can<br>> click on the make and model this then creates the file to paste into<br>> the .rules file. <br><br>Even better would be to send patches to the relevant upstream projects,<br>so users get it working out of the box.<br><br>Upstream, upstream, upstream...<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br>Hi Andrew,<br>Thats a very good point,
will contact them tonight.<br><br>Thanks for info<br><br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a> <a href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">http://dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</a><br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></div><br></div></div><br>
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