Re: [YBA] Lenovo z580 BIOS setup horror story

2012-09-24 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Yonatan, On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:40:53AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > I was not able to get any version of Debian to install on this > laptop, Not even (kernel v3.2 based) Debian Wheezy (testing)? > so I ended up installing Mint, using a 240GB SSD instead of > the original HD. It b

Re: Re: Printer

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Balazs
Message-ID: > < > caa8-rxgfxaydszkvxu8_zzkrt09yxql2bykjoynjomxvbfr...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello Haifuxers, > > Note that tomorrow's talk was postponed due to the scientist night events

Re: [YBA] Lenovo z580 BIOS setup horror story

2012-09-24 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi ILUG colleagues, Three weeks after sending my new Lenovo Z580 to CPM I received it back, in good working order. They replaced the motherboard and the hard disk and that solved the BIOS problem. I'm not really sure what problem that wouldn't solve, or why it wouldn't be cheaper for Lenovo to

Requesting Input about a New Page about Text Processing Tools

2012-09-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, I've set up a new page about text processing tools: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/text-processing-tools/ Currently I need to add some links to core UNIX text-processing commands (e.g: grep, sed, paste, cut, cat, etc.), as well as some general purpose languages with good

Re: printer

2012-09-24 Thread Guy Gold
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > Tom and Guy - since you both mentioned printers that do scan when > there's no ink, I'd be happy to know what specific models. And it goes > without saying that the scanning must work under Linux. > > > Mine is Brother MFC-J410W , it is a