Kristof.Willen.be - Life in the trenches of the data center

 $ wget http://www.sun.com
--2010-02-07 19:06:09--  http://www.sun.com/
Resolving www.sun.com... 72.5.124.61
Connecting to www.sun.com|72.5.124.61|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.oracle.com [following]

After the official news of the approval by the EU, things changed fast. Since then, the sun.com website officially points to oracle.com. Lights out for Sun, the same for Solaris ?

Feeling lost in our galaxy ? Take the Milky Way transit authority map and find the nearest exit to Sagittarius A !

Sweet ! I was about to install drivers in a Windows7 virtualbox for my el-cheapo Lexmark X1250 printer/scanner, when the Sane dialog popped up on my Linux desktop when I switched on the power. I decided to have a quick look if it was supported under Linux (without much hope, I must say), when I stumbled on this page with detailled instructions. I didn't had to copy the libsane shared lib, so eventually, the scanner was supported with the following instructions :

• Download and install z600cups and z600llpddk
• Copy dll.conf and lexmark.conf to /etc/sane.d/
• Restart Sane with
  

  /etc/init.d/saned restart

and voila ! Scanning time...

Redshift. Cause a monitor at night is no fun.

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