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[L.C. Karssen]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:19 -0400, Joseph Method wrote:
> But it was free right? Mine came in a box in the mail. I had no idea
> what it was, or what I would use it for, and eventually threw it away
> :(. 
That's bad...

I just searched the alexandria list again for cuecat support and I found
that Christoffer Cyll actually made a userland support patch for kernel
2.6 in February 2005:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2005-February/000454.html
Later Zach Landau asked about it again:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2005-July/000736.html
The question is whether it was actually implemented at all? In reply to 
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2005-September/000826.html about "activating userland cuecat support version 0.6.0" Laurent S. states: 
> Currently it is unfortunately not possible to activate the CueCat 
> userland support.  This will be available in the next release, but the
> latest one is still using the kernel driver.

Later Laurent writes in a thread about Cuecat issues that userland support is available in CVS,
with a skeleton for a UI: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2006-January/001003.html
Does that mean that it
One thing that is not yet clear to me is whether this support is for a declawed CueCat or not, 
and whether we're talking about the PS/2 or the USB type.



> I am thinking that we should replace the CueCat description with a
> plug for another barcode scanner that works with Linux, the way that
> Delicious Library sells a (very expensive) barcode scanner on their
> web page. Can anyone make a recommendation for a (preferably cheap)
> barcode scanner that works?

On the subject of other barcode scanners I found these threads on the
ML:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2005-February/000452.html
for a Flick batch scanner (www.flickscanner.com), about $130,- and a
Bear Rock 3000 scanner about which a quick search didn't reveal
anything.

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2005-March/000503.html
where Ralph Mitchell claims that a declawed USB cuecat works with kernel
2.6.

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/2005-August/000801.html
about a Symbol Technologies barcode scanner via PS/2

None of them appear to be really cheap. 


Lennart.

> 
> An organizational matter is that the new site no longer has Google
> ads. I think it still has an Amazon link somewhere. And I think
> Alexandria itself uses an Amazon code that belongs to Laurent
> Sansonetti (right?). There are very small sums of money involved, but
> we have no capacity to collect them, and probably don't want one
> until/if the project grows larger. I am just pointing that out, as
> there might come a time when something like a foundation would be a
> good idea (far, far off, but I am very ambitious :)).
> 
> On 4/10/07, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:41 -0400, Joseph Method wrote:
> > > Just out of curiosity, I received a CueCat (since lost) with my WIRED
> > > subscription. Is that where everyone else got theirs?
> > I got mine from a friend in the US, who picked it up at a Radio Shack,
> > when they were still distributed officially. I used it when I tried to
> > program my own Alexandria-type software years ago (with the 2.4 kernel).
> > It's been waiting for serious usage ever since :-).
> >
> >
> > Lennart.
> 
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