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By "work" I mean having "hovering" and "keepshape" mode, not just a worthless slow "pen-mouse". My thinking is that it wasn't working due to concurrent configuration files. There isn't only xorg.conf, but on /etc/X11 there is a xorg.conf.d folder, and there there was a ##-wacom.conf or something, with different settings than the ones I had set manually on xorg.conf.
HAL is deprecated, or something like that, and I don't have any .fdi file for...
Apparently I got it working. It did do a preview scan, with color, on xsane, as a normal user, so it's almost 100% sure it is OK. The only thing I think I may have had to do different from Debian was to set a udev rule and change user permissions/ownership on /var/lock/sane. Some people said that just udev or permissions alone would do it, but I had the impression I needed both, but that's possibly wrong. I don't see anything wrong in having both, so I'll just leave it as it is, as it is working....
Posted 08-12-2010 at 11:26 AM bysuprstar Updated 08-12-2010 at 02:27 PM bysuprstar
I just saw a post in one of the forums, I almost replied there but this isn't really a proper and/or constructive response, so it goes here instead, this is one thing that really irks me: Technical certifications.
I really couldn't care less about your 'certifications' - they do not impress me one bit, in fact I actually have a cynical hostile contempt for them. I know it's kinda discriminating and generalizing, but it's based on my own personal and professional experience for decades....
CGI programs are the most common way of servers to interact dynamically with users.
Abbreviation of Common Gateway Interface, a specification for transferring information between apache server and a CGI program. A CGI program is any program designed to accept and return data that conforms to the CGI specification.
If your application with CGI on your website then of course suExec be solution, provided by apache server. Apache users having the ability...
Posted 08-12-2010 at 03:31 AM bycraigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 04-24-2021 at 09:07 PM bycraigevil(Most of the advice is outdated.)
This post like all of my posts are several years out of date.
Use the Tor Browser, or a VPN preferably a paid one.
You can also use a browser like Librewolf that is a bit more hardened than Firefox or Chrome.
If you are really worried about privacy there are a few things you can do including:
Use the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox and use the Easy Privacy list as well as the Antisocial list.
This list blocks the ever increasing social networking content...
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