Impresoras Epson en CUPS

Estas impresoras Epson funcionan con el driver Epsopn 9Pin de Cups:

Epson FX2190
Epson LX-300+
Epson LQ-2090
Epson LX-3000+II

PrinterDrake las asocia al driver Raw y pareciera que no funcionan pero si funcionan con este driver.

Genki Dama en Metalio

Ayer fui a dar un paseo por la Playa de Metalio y le tome una foto a la playa, al verla me parece que es una Genki Dama :-P

DeviantArt: A Walking Paradox por Latuff2

A Walking Paradox by ~Latuff2 on deviantART

End Software Patents

Every company is in the software business, which means that every company has software liability. We estimate costs of $11.2 billion a year due to software patent suits (see our 2008 State of Softpatents report), and not just by Microsoft and IBM—The Green Bay Packers, Kraft Foods, and Ford Motor are facing software patent infringement lawsuits for their use of the standard software necessary for running a modern business.

Software innovation happens without government intervention. Virtually all of the technologies you use now were developed before software was widely viewed as patentable. The Web, email, your word processor and spreadsheet program, instant messaging, or even more technical features like the psychoacoustic encoding and Huffman compression underlying the MP3 standard—all of it was originally developed by enthusiastic programmers, many of whom have formed successful business around such software, none of whom asked the government for a monopoly. So if software authors have a proven track-record of innovation without patents, why force them to use patents? What is the gain from billions of dollars in patent litigation?

Change is happening now. The appeals court of the Federal Circuit has agreed to reconsider the scope of what is patentable, and the ESP project will be on hand with amicus briefs and public information. See our resources for lawyers page for more.

This site is an overview of how courts self-expanded their jurisdiction to include software despite the protests of practitioners such as Bill Gates or Adobe Microsystems, of the economic damage done, how the story is evolving today, and how your company can help to restore the software market to a world run by innovators, not judges.

More information in: http://endsoftpatents.org/

¿Te deprime tu trabajo?

Por lo menos no te han puesto un cartel como este:




Este cartel esta en una de las secciones de un Hospital que estamos migrando a Mandriva Linux.

Sniffers para la red

Ultimamente me ha tocado estar trabajando con redes y me caido a bien la gran cantidad de Sniffers que Mandriva tiene en sus repositorios por aqui apunto algunos nombres que pueden ser de utilidad:

Wireshark
Tshark
Etherape
Tcpdump
Tcptrack

Todos estan en los repositorios de Mandriva y son facilmente instalables con un simple urpmi somo siempre.

RTFM

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