Just making a quick note on an excellent tutorial in the Ubuntu Forums: How to install Samsung Unified Printer Driver My plans to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) may be put on hold as I discovered my dvd drive is scratching dvds. A tutorial on how to take out the drive for my particular [...]

Yes, me musing again. I suppose I’m wondering if I can dump XP altogether. OCR has been one stumbling block, as I need that fairly often. The solution appears to be Tesseract, and here’s a tutorial on it. It seems pretty torturous, but I can’t say until I try, of course. Optical Character Recognition With [...]

I still haven’t got around to installing the scanner on my Samsung scx-4200 – not that I’ve tried. I simply haven’t had time. (See under Printers & Scanners category). The Ubuntu forums have several more entries since I last looked, and things are looking a little clearer – and there’s a new Samsung driver – [...]

On the fourth attempt, four Sunday afternoons, I got the Samsung SCX-4200 to print. I’m too tired to outline the details -will do so soon – but suffice to say for now that the crucial first step is to change the permissions on install.sh so that you, the owner, can read, write and execute. That [...]