FOSS devs can collect damages from license violators: "ars Technica: 'Robert Jacobson, the developer behind the open source Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) project, finally prevailed in a long-running open source software license enforcement lawsuit against Matthew Katzer, the owner of a company that sells commercial model train software.'"
How-To install Brother MFC 7340 Ubuntu 9.10
How to install the Brother MFC – 7340 on Ubuntu 9.10
Ok so I just bought a MFC-7340 and I had some trouble getting it to work on my ubuntu 9.10, but after some elbow grease, I managed to get it working. Here are the simple steps you will need to do, very simplified :)
Download all these files
Place them all in the same folder just to make things easier later.
Open a terminal window and move to the folder containing the files downloaded.
Install the drivers.
Check if the driver was installed correctly.sudo dpkg -l | grep Brother
you should see something about the lpr and cups driver you just installed
Install scanner drivers
There you go you have installed the Brother MFC-7340 drivers on your computer now you can go to
system->administration->printing. You can add new printer it should automatically find the MFC then when it asks to choose the driver you should see it on the list as “brother MFC-7340 cups” click on that one and that's it. You can now print a test page.
Note: to test the scanner you have to open xsane as root
sudo xsane
edit: ( I havent tested yet so don't quote me on it )
This is the solution to use the scanner as normal user.
Ubuntu 9.10
- 1. Open "/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules" file.
- 2.Add the following two lines to the end of the device list. (Before the line "# The following rule will disable ..."): The lines to be added---------------------------
# Brother scanners ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
- 3. Restart the OS.
Inkscape used in schools
Inkscape used in schools: "In the Los Altos School District in California, they have a Digital Design program to teach the students about graphics software and programming. For the vector graphics course they are teaching the students how to use Inkscape. Here is a gallery of art created by approximately 175 4th grade students of the seven schools that this course is being taught at. There is a link next to each of the images on the following page which will take you to the corresponding sub-gallery."
Digg.com allows multigender users
Today I decided to join Digg. I have been too lazy to do that before, but today was the day. I went through the procedure to sign up and I was surprised ! after I got my email confirmation I could enter some of my private info such as name, gender etc... I was glad to see that for gender there was multiple options like Guy, Girl, Male, Female among others as well as Trangender and None of the Above I was amazed that Digg took the time to add those I have never seen that and it was great to know that they decided not to discriminate against people that have different gender views.
Do you know of any other websites that have this ?
Please let me know
Petition to stop software patents in Europe
Petition to stop software patents in Europe:
Our petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications. The patent system is misused to restrain competition for the economical benefit of a few but fails to promote innovation. A software market environment is better off with no patents on software at all.