[ale] Accessing Brother scanner from Linux

Tue Jun 21 13:09:13 EDT 2022

When the pain of work exceeds the discomfort of minimal income, retirement time.

On June 21, 2022 10:33:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> 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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