Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Would anyone here have any recommendations on a Linux based Point of Sale system for a small retail store? I've seen plenty of decent small business accounting software, but not much in terms of usable POS... so far I'm looking at: Quasar: http://www.linuxcanada.com/index.shtml (Not free.)

Re: Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread H. K. Bemis
FWIW nearly ALL scanners I have seen operate with a keyboard port wedge or with as a USB device that emulates a keyboard. I don't believe compatibility with software should be an issue... ~k On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:10 -0500, Brian Chabot wrote: Would anyone here have any recommendations on a

Re: Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 15, 2008, at 07:10, Brian Chabot wrote: Anyone have any experience in these or others? Anything I should steer away from? I auditioned OpenTAPS a few months ago and wasn't blown away by its POS (java app). It's an apache project, though, so perhaps it will gain some momentum.

Re: ThinkPad Pointers

2008-01-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:19, TARogue wrote: I am *not* a good typist; my wrists stay down all the time. This leads to alot of straying pointer issuse And potentially carpal tunnel syndrome. Wrists up!, as my old piano teacher would say. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work:

[GNHLUG] Hugh Thompson Show - live audience in New York City

2008-01-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hello, This Sunday, January 20th at 1300 hours (that is 1 P.M. for Windows users), Jon maddog Hall will be doing a taping for the ATT Tech Channel's Hugh Thompson Show: http://techchannel.att.com/site/home/index.cfm in front of a live audience. The taping will be at 1330 on Sunday and be over

Repetitive strain injury (was: ThinkPad Pointers)

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 15, 2008 3:03 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am *not* a good typist; my wrists stay down all the time. This leads to alot of straying pointer issuse And potentially carpal tunnel syndrome. Wrists up!, as my old piano teacher would say. Actually, no. Carpal tunnel

Re: Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 15, 2008 3:27 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the choice between a cash drawer that runs on a barely- working windows driver or a cash drawer that has an RJ45 in the back so it can take a REST-ful HTTP command on its uclinux stack, you'll always find the former, or at

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
shotInTheDark Depending on your versions of kernel and app, iostat apparently looks in some combination of these: /etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf /proc/diskstats /proc/partitions /proc/self/mountstats /proc/stat /proc/uptime /sys/devices/system/cpu ...so if it were me I might

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
Its been several years (and major kernel versions) since I've played with iostat, but perhaps my statements here will goad someone with more recent experience to inject more accurate truths... * iostat used to not work well on SMP systems. * your 510kB/s average write on dm-5, but only

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:57:02PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: Its been several years (and major kernel versions) since I've played with iostat, but perhaps my statements here will goad someone with more recent experience to inject more accurate truths... * iostat used to not work well on

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:52:21PM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: shotInTheDark Depending on your versions of kernel and app, iostat apparently looks in some combination of these: /etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf No file called sysstat.ioconf anywhere on my system. /proc/diskstats

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
mike ledoux wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:57:02PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: Its been several years (and major kernel versions) since I've played with iostat, but perhaps my statements here will goad someone with more recent experience to inject more accurate truths... * iostat

Re: Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 15, 2008 4:28 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 3:27 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the choice between a cash drawer that runs on a barely- working windows driver or a cash drawer that has an RJ45 in the back so it can take a REST-ful HTTP

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
/etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf No file called sysstat.ioconf anywhere on my system. Try looking over iostat's shoulder as it runs, to see if you can figure out where it's looking for the info it wants: strace iostat -x -k Maybe you'll catch it looking someplace that has bogus data, or at