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Kubuntu Fiesty and Samsung SCX-4200 - No Joy

I have a need for a decent printer. I also have a need to do some scanning in the near future. Tonight I came across the Samsung SCX-4200 multifunction laser printer. It does printing, scanning, and copying, for a low price of $229 (plus taxes of course). So the next question is "Does it work on Linux?". Yep, says so right on the side of the box under compatibility - it says "Various Linux". Seems a little dubious, but it supports Linux so it says...

Introducing jQuery.dates

One of the projects I'm working on has need of a date picker (a drop down calendar to help select a date), and some cumbersome date calculations. This all had to fit with the jQuery framework I was using for the project, and there were few libraries out there that would fit just right.

jQuery.dates - Samples

jQuery.dates

NOTE: The jQuery Dates project has been moved into a Trac project management system. This page is now outdated. Click Here to View the Project Page.

jQuery.dates is a Javascript library and jQuery plugin, that provides common date manipulation methods.

jQuery.dates documentation

Note: This documentation page will no longer be maintained. Please visit the documentation on the project site for up to date information.

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Comprehensible Code Matters

IBM has an article on their site titled Six Ways to write more comprehensible code. If you write code at all, including HTML, you should read through this. If you are newer to programming, or haven't done it long enough to learn the hard lessons yet, this article highlights a "good practise" approach to coding. If you are an experienced developer, this is a good refresher and another view point on the things we do without thinking.

OOXML - Request for Comments

Office Open XML is a Microsoft sponsored standards proposal that defines one method to programatically describe an office like document (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation). Today I got word that the Standards Council of Canada is looking for comments with regards to this proposal:

Quoted from the Standards Council of Canada:

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2007-05-03 OTTAWA —The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is seeking comments on a
proposal to adopt Office Open XML (Open XML) as an international open standard."

Stupid Corporations?

Is there a rule somewhere that says that once you have a corporation you need to stop thinking? Or if you are a PR person who has a "brand name" that you become anal retentive? It seems to me this is the case for a few corporations - from Microsoft (with their anti-Linux patent campaign), to the Better Business Bureau even. Yep that's right, the Better Business Bureau.

Ditch the Windows Core Fonts

RedHat has released some fonts that can safely replace the MS core fonts (Arial, Courier, and Times) - these fonts have the same horizontal space. They call them the Liberation typefaces.

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/16/1318240
https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

So I thought I'd do a quick check to see if they were available in the Ubuntu repositories yet. Yep, they're there. Just do an

apt-get install ttf-liberation

and you're all set.

Found History

Phew!

That's all I can say. I happened to find my family history documentation that has been passed down to me, and I thought was lost. Luckily it was just misplaced. More to the point, the bound pages were placed inside an empty binder then put on a shelf full of other empty binders. So all my previous searches for this skipped past the "empty" binders.

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