strange, most of the umax scanners work fine with linux.. what was your scanner???
rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers. On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 14:32, Franki wrote: > I beg to differ on that one.. > > I have worked for two of those "win only" companies.. > > in tech and sales.. and the management would find out if we got strange > requests... > > if they get 50 linux driver requests a month.. the tech is gonna mention it > to his superviser, who will mention it to his.... > the some snooping boss will wander down and ask whats going on... > > It does happen... I worked for CEA (UMAX) and OCEAN > (http://www.octek.com.hk/) > and I was surprised at how much management did listen if they thought that > there was an issue or money to be made.... > > Ocean has well over 5000 employees and has offices all over the world.. they > are not a small company. > and yet me as a lacky sales and tech guy in Au had several meetings with the > manageing director when he was over. > > it really is surprising.... > > one email will do nothing, ten emails will do little, fifty emails and the > tech guy will ask someone what to do about it.. then the ball starts > rolling.. > > > rgds > > Franki Ah...so you're one of the dudes that wouldn't help me with my Umax scanner when I tried and tried and tried to get the damn thing to work under RH 7.1 !!! Bloody Aussies! (grin) -- Thu Nov 14 16:40:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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