On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, jonc wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:22, jonc wrote:
Hello LUGites,
I'm looking to install an inventory process in my business to handle all
the phones and routers that fly in and out of here. Fortunately most of
these things have nice bar-codes on them with their serial numbers (and
MAC addresses), so I figure a bar-code reader will help me out.
Anyone using anything particularly nice? Hopefully integrated with
Linux. Hopefully handheld.
Jon
Andrew Perrin sent me a Symbol Hotshot. Thanks Andy!
No sweat :)
It's a small handheld scanner that plugs into the keyboard cable - and
then into the keyboard connector. As such, it is OS agnostic and works
wonderfully with Linux. I've been scanning in all sorts of things :-)
The only thing it is missing is a button on the scanner handle that
imitates the Enter key (or the Tab key). Other than that, I'm quit happy
with the little thing and wondering how I ever lived without it!
They're very cool, aren't they? I use them a lot for data management on
surveys. I don't remember about that particular scanner, but usually you
can go to the website and download a programming sheet, which consists of
a series of barcodes you scan. You can use this, for example, to tell it
to send an "enter" after each scanned barcode. Check the symbol website to
see if that's possible.
ap
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Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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