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The world of linux is trully amazing!
Here is a list of topics you may find useful:
- Plasma screen trade show presentation system under Linux
- Perl scripts for importing data into Quickbooks for Linux users
- Build your affordable high-tech multi-display workstation
- We host some web sites (save money and host yourself)
- Make the Astra 1220S Scanner work under linux
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Linux Solutions/OS/Apps/etc used by sunbirds.com
Implemented, tested and used by sunbirds.com (Most are GNU and $$$Free$$$)
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We use Red Hat linux for both: server and desktop OS. Excellent support. Many books are available. Easy to find
information on the web. Rpms are great via apt. Tested and Used by Sunbirds.com
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GNOME is the desktop environment of choice with Sunbirds.
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Vi & Vim -- The text editor(s) of choice with Sunbirds
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Great! |
The Duct Tape of the Internet -- we do most all programming with Perl!
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Great on our server side. We do not use it much on the desktops. Mostly for backups and carrying the entire website on a notebook computer
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Great on our server side. We do not use it much on the desktops. Mostly for backups and carrying the entire website on a notebook computer
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Great on our server side. Excellent command line image editing capabilities. Use the Image::Magick perl module to do amazing things
with images on-the-fly!. Not much use for us on the desktop at this time.
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Desktop Image editor of choice for Sunbirds. We use Image Magick on the server.
Gimp Keyboard Shortcuts
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Netraverse Win4Lin lets us run
www.microsoft.com windows OS and
www.quickbooks.com quickbooks pro
under linux. At the moment (01.01.2002) we only need MS Windows to run Quickbooks. Which is
a great product. Too bad not available under linux. We send them an email every month.
Ask them to come up with Quickbooks for Linux!
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Used for PowerPointLike applications and word editing. Works OK, crashes sometimes -- we just reinstall it and works again.
Here are some Keyboard Shortcuts:
StarOffice Keyboard Shortcuts
StarOffice Keyboard Shortcuts: General and Formatting ShortCuts
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We print our own checks under Linux!
Provided by FreeCheck
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Call up your bank and tell them never to charge you for checks again! Print you own checks under Linux starting today! Simply download the 'Battle Star Galactica' like type 1 fonts
 from GnuMICR. Also Download the FreeCheck package.
Then make the X see this font. In our case, we put the GnuMICR.afm file to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ghostcript/ and ran the
type1inst in that directory. Made sure that font path existed in the /etc/X11/fs/config.
And added a line from the Fontmap file generated by type1inst [/GnuMICR (GnuMICR.pfa) ;] to the ghostscript Fontmap file at /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib/Fontmap.GS
Restarted X, checked the test.ps via gv from the GnuMICR-0.22a, to see if the odd looking symbols appear, then checked the example_check.ps from the freecheck-0.30 package and began editing the configuration file for freechecks. Since we use Quickbooks under win4lin, we needed to print compatible checks. After some exerimentation, this line generates perfect checks for business use:
$ ./freecheck --checktype MVD3000 --checkstyle QStandard > mychecks.ps
If for some odd reason the symbols dont show, try ps2ps mychecks.ps betterchecks.ps and gv betterchecks.ps
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