Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 17:00:40 +0300: > Daniel Shahaf writes: > > > Sure. It's a zsh-specific syntax for an anonymous function with > > arguments. In effect it's an anonymous block. For example: > > > > % (){ printf "$1\n" 04 } "%s" > > 04 > > % (){ printf "$1\n" 04 }

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Daniel Shahaf writes: > Sure. It's a zsh-specific syntax for an anonymous function with > arguments. In effect it's an anonymous block. For example: > > % (){ printf "$1\n" 04 } "%s" > 04 > % (){ printf "$1\n" 04 } "%d" > 4 > % (){ printf "$1\n" 04 } "%e" > 4.00e+00 > > In interactiv

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Michael Shiloh wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 16:36:35 -0700: > > > On 08/18/2013 02:08 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive >> usage. For example: >> >> % (){ foo $1 bar } 24 >> to run a command several times (recalling it from history

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I would also recommend checking Google Cloud print. You can install it on any Linux server (even headless), and then you can use it from anywhere. See here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2906017 תודה, חץ בן חמו "חץ ביז"- שרותי פרילאנס לניהול ותחזוקת שרתי Linux ופתרונות ויר

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread ronys
Hi, Thanks to all for your replies. Based on them and reviews, I've decided on an HP Officejet Pro 8600+ (710 NIS, picking it up this evening). Will let the honorable forum know if I find any surprises with this, for better or worse. Cheers, Rony ___

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you get it > without the bloatware. True, but even the HP corporate drivers tend to be big, slow and have a fairly complex installation procedure compared to Linux. E

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On 8/19/2013 10:35 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Beyond the obvious (cups, x/sane), HPLIP toolbox more or less mirror's the HP Window toolbox minus the all the bloatware and in most cases the printer simply works out of the box. If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Omer Zak wrote: >[SNIP] > I would say that today it's "anything but HP" - unless things changed >[/SNIP] I must admit that my experience couldn't be any different. I've got a large number of HP printers both at work and at home, most of them MFP (multi function p