Having Problems with Xsane

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Phillips
I have an hp L7688 all in one printer/scanner/fax on my network. I am running Debian testing on my computer. I have been able to control the scanner in this printer for years from my computer - it always works out of the box by installing hpaio, which I have done on several other machines. Recently

Re: help w/ ABLEconf site

2011-01-19 Thread Stephen
I can post to linked in and facebook. Let me know when you have content ready. On Jan 18, 2011 10:48 PM, "der.hans" wrote: > moin moin, > > we need to update parts of the ABLEconf site. I've done some work on the > Participate page, but I'm certain it has lots of room for improvement. > Same with

Re: help w/ ABLEconf site

2011-01-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hans, Did you have the Drupal module to allow us to check Post to Facebook or Twitter? Do I have Administrator access? On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:05 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > we need to update parts of the ABLEconf site. I've done some work on the > Participate page, but I'm certain

Re: Having Problems with Xsane

2011-01-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Mark! On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have an hp L7688 all in one printer/scanner/fax on my network. I am > running Debian testing on my computer. I have been able to control the > scanner in this printer for years from my computer - it always works out of > the box b

Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Eric - A
What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my hardrive? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. . Eric - A . The Arizona Business and Liberty Experience (www.ABLEconf.com) is a business-oriented Free Software conference organized by a coalition of many Arizona Free Software groups. . __

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread James Finstrom
Article is a bit dated but I thing the options are still pretty accurate: http://www.junauza.com/2009/01/7-best-freeopen-source-backup-software.html On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Eric - A wrote: > What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my hardrive? > I'm running Ubuntu

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Blows my mind that they didn't mention: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ET James Finstrom writes: Article is a bit dated but I thing the options are still pretty accurate: http://www.junauza.com/2009/01/7-best-freeopen-source-backup-software.html On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Eric -

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Kevin Fries
On 01/19/2011 02:51 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Blows my mind that they didn't mention: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ET I'm a big fan of BackupPC, but it is really designed for networks of servers, not an individual machine. As an enterprise backup, it really is the Rodney Dangerf

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Matt Graham
From: "Eric - A" > What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my > hard drive? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. I wouldn't back up the whole disk, just because Linux and most of the apps on it are relatively easy and quick to reinstall. I plug a USB2 drive in, mount it on /mnt/backu

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread James Finstrom
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: "Eric - A" > > What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my > > hard drive? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. > > I wouldn't back up the whole disk, just because Linux and most of the apps > on > it are relatively easy and q

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Stephen
In linux there are so many options its almost mindnumbing. for windows the list of options gets more surreal. i know free file sync is a multi-platform sync with some batch abilities that i use on my windows machine. but for linux i look at the specifc folders i need to replace, then use rsync or

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Alex Dean
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Eric - A wrote: > What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my hardrive? > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. rdiff-backup is rsync plus retention of old snapshots. (So you can restore a file as it was X days ago, which can be nice.) The thing I love

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Stephen
i like that jazz. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Alex Dean wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Eric - A wrote: > >> What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my hardrive? >> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. > > rdiff-backup is rsync plus retention of old snapshots.  (So you c

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Matt Graham
From: James Finstrom > Matt Graham wrote: >> I plug a USB2 drive in, mount it on /mnt/backup/ , then use "rsync >> -a --delete-after /home/mhgraham/ /mnt/backup/" every few days. > $ du -hs ~ > 118G /home/james > thumb drive you say :) 250G 2.5" disk with platters in a plastic USB2 enclosure. I'

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Carl Parrish
For Personal, I like Jungle Disk (https://www.jungledisk.com/). Though its almost as easy to go directly with AWS today. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: James Finstrom > > Matt Graham wrote: > >> I plug a USB2 drive in, mount it on /mnt/backup/ , then use "rsync > >>

Re: [PLUG-Devel] Topics for next 6 months of PLUG Development meetings

2011-01-19 Thread Ed
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Paul Hahn wrote: > Hello everyone, > We have put together the topics for the next 6 months of PLUG-Dev meetings. > The topics for February to July are as follows: > February: Presentation on implementation of server-d. Server-d is the new > startup system for Fedor

Re: other SCaLE presenters?

2011-01-19 Thread Dazed_75
Thanks all, Yes, walking is great and I should have sufficient endurance by then. I've been home one day and did 2 100 yarders today (plus many sharter ones). Would have done more but they started me on a water pill and I did not want to water the streets. Now I need to decide between flying, d

Re: other SCaLE presenters?

2011-01-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Larry! I look forward to seeing your new healthy lease on life,balanced only by your senior's wisedom! On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Thanks all, Yes, walking is great and I should have sufficient endurance > by then. I've been home one day and did 2 100 yarders today (

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I to would recommend the rsync + rsnapshot option. Jungledisk is not bad - just make sure you encrypt the data for storage. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Carl Parrish wrote: > For Personal, I like Jungle Disk (https://www.jungledisk.com/). Though its > almost as easy to go directly with AWS to

Canon Printer

2011-01-19 Thread Eric - A
If anyone has a Canon MP250 printer, canon released the driver for linux at http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP250&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux . Eric - A . The Arizona Business and Liberty Experience (www.ABLEconf.com) is a business-oriented Free Software c

Re: Canon Printer

2011-01-19 Thread Stephen
Looks like it will run the 240 as well. Now to see if I can get network scanning to work with it and a windows client On Jan 19, 2011 7:55 PM, "Eric - A" wrote: > If anyone has a Canon MP250 printer, canon released the driver for linux at http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP250&m

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 21:25 +, Eric - A wrote: > What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of > my hardrive? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. Deja Dup http://launchpad.net/dejadup http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/deja-dup --Ted signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig