[ale] Retirement (wuz: Accessing Brother scanner from Linux)

Tue Jun 21 11:54:05 EDT 2022

Good advice! I've already cross the 60 line, but like programming and don't really have any decent hobbies I want to do more. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. We've built the habit of living below our income and have no consumer debt. Not a lot in savings, though.

I've worked my career into something I don't really want to retire from. If I'm smart I'll enjoy my life a little more, but going to work isn't that onerous.

Leam

On 6/21/22 09:33, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:
> One retires when one has enough money to retire comfortably, after a
> realistic look at what things one "has to have" without working for
> more income.  One also must look at one's health, including family
> medical history.  I LOVE programming and computer security but time for
> other things now.  Surprisingly, I don't miss it.  (I still do a little
> and maintain my home network and leased server in NJ.) Yesterday I was
> in the ocean.  I was on Saturday too.
> 
> A dear friend never stopped working, saying "I can't afford to retire."
> His doctor made him stop.  He died only about two years after that
> without having a great retirement with his wonderful second wife.
> 
> Another friend co-owned a business property where they each had a
> medical practice.  When the co-owner dropped dead of a heart attack at
> 60 my friend decided to retire on his 60th birthday and had a blast!
> It is important to compute how much a year one can spend to last to
> one's estimated end of life.  Contact the Social Security Admin to
> find out what your retirement income will be if you retire at different
> ages.  Yes, there always will be Social Security for us; politicians
> won't risk losing the votes to end it.
> 
> Your retirement decision should involve a deep reflection on what one
> really wants to do, where to do it, and how much money it requires.
> You may need more play money as you will have more hours in a day to play.
> Have a plan for how to spend your time that should NOT include TV!
> For me, it includes finishing my big singing Tesla coil and learning to
> play the piano as well as the ocean and travel.
> 
> Many people retire to a low-cost-of-living state, though Georgia is near
> the low end here.  My brother retired to Chattanooga, Tennessee on the
> side of a mountain 5 minutes from downtown.  Tennesee and Florida have
> no state income taxes, though FL property taxes are high.  Many parts
> of Florida (and Georgia) have a low cost of living.  South Florida where
> I now live not so much!
> 
> Do you need to buy a new high-end car every few years?  What about other
> expensive things?  A consultant once said: If you want to buy something
> expensive, maybe a house on a lake, new car, etc. do the following.
> Compute hour hourly take home salary by knocking off 33% of your annual
> income for Fed income taxes.  Maybe add 6% for GA state taxes, totalling
> about 40%.  Then divide by the standard 2000 hour work year.  Lastly,
> divide the cost of that item by your take home hourly rate.  That is
> the number of hours of your life that you must work to have that thing.
> All of a sudden many things are not nearly so important.
> 
> All should be saving a substantial portion of one's income in retirement
> savings, such as an IRA or Roth IRA.  Spend the time to watch your
> investments and change as needed.  Yeah, the economy and stock market
> and real estate is all coming down but try to save still.
> 
> I know that Mike Warfield is having a great retirement in Athens, GA
> and traveling.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:55:43PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I'm beginning to look at retirement. I'm on a top500 supercomputer
>> project that the contract has another 8 years on. Not sure I have another
>> 8 years I want to put in. Turning 60 in a few months and having much
>> fun making enameled flowers and jewelry.
> 
>> On June 20, 2022 1:45:20 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>> Even more excellent news.  Your "pdf join" comment got me searching and
>>> very quickly finding on my system:
>>>
>>>   tiffcp     Can concatenate single-page TIFF files into one TIFF file
>>>
>>>   tiff2pdf   Will convert a TIFF file into a PDF file
>>>
>>> Just what I need, though I haven't tried yet.
>>>
>>> The docs I'm copying are my Piper Arrow's logbooks, going back to 1973,
>>> before handing them to a mechanic for my Annual inspection in case he
>>> loses them.  I've been meaning to do this for 30 years.  I have a
>>> little
>>> more time now that I'm retired but still too much busyness.  Yes, it's
>>> possible for a programmer to retire.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:05:20PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> Excellent news!
>>>>
>>>> I've not done much multi page scanning. Vague memory of doing
>>> something in xsane, picking a base name and a folder and doing pdf scan
>>> then a pdf join?
>>>> I think I loaded the scan feeder and kicked it off from xsane.
>>>>
>>>> On June 20, 2022 11:37:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen
>>> <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
>>>>> Jim,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks VERY MUCH for that link!
>>>>>
>>>>> I discovered that I had installed older versions of that software
>>> years
>>>>> ago but it didn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did RPM erase and then installed the latest version and then it
>>> still
>>>>> would not work.  It appeared to need a daemon running.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would say "Connecting to PC" and then time out.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that, fumbling around, I started:
>>>>>
>>>>>   /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/brscan-skey-exe
>>>>>
>>>>> and then it worked like a champ ... other than creating a separate
>>> TIF
>>>>> file for each page of 50-200 page docs.
>>>>>
>>>>> ALE comes through again!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:00:32PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On June 17, 2022 4:01:05 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I want to get the scanner capability of a Brother
>>>>> printer/scanner/Fax
>>>>>>> device to work with one of my
>>>>>>> older Linux systems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brother model MFC-7360N.  (MFC means Multi Function Center) Has
>>> USB
>>>>>>> jack
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Linux systems (anyone will do):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Slackware 14.2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks so much for any ideas (and The Cobler's children have no
>>>>> shoes,
>>>>>>> to be fixed real soon now!)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bob Toxen
>>>>>>> transam at VerySecureLinux.com (ALE account)
>>>>>>> bob at VerySecureLinux.com (individual account)
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