[PLUG-TALK] Small scanner/printers

[Rogan Creswick]

On 9/14/07, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> Not at this time. I'll be using it with my XP laptop. The members' RMLS
> web site (our real estate multiple listing service) still relies on IE.
> They tell us that sometime next year they will unveil the new site,
> which will run on other browsers.  So, for now, I need to use Winders.

Perhaps not...  I'm running IE 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 (although only the
rendering engine for 7, not the new UI) under Linux just fine:

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

The installation was extremely easy as well.  Now if only the firefox
IE tab extension worked with ies4lin :)

--Rogan

> Next year, I'll try using the site with Firefox on Linux, and see what
> it will take to migrate. I already use OO on the laptop. I do run into
> the occasional MS Office generated tiff image of a document. I have MS
> Publisher, which comes with a tool to open and read those tiffs. I tried
> looking at them with the GIMP, but they've done some screwy stuff so
> that the image looks like a negative when viewed with the GIMP. I
> haven't played with it further.
>
> The printer/scanner is primarily just to serve as a copy machine I can
> keep in the car. ORS696, Oregon's real estate law, requires that each
> party signing a document receive a copy at the time of the signing. Most
> of the forms are NCR, but once we start trading faxes and pdf's, NCR is
> no longer available. Most of us take along two copies, and have the
> clients sign both. It's never been tested to determine if duplicates
> count as copies. Taking a copy machine would mean the client would not
> have to sign twice, and would get an actual copy of their signature,
> instead of a duplicate.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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