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CueCat driver for the Linux kernel
Originally a standard software license to prevent unauthorized copying, redistribution and disassembly of the decoder software, the EULA has since been modified several times and now includes a section implying that the free scanner hardware is also covered by this license. Q software, with the difference that you can choose which sites CueAct should point you to for which barcodes. Dobb's Journal "Stupid Companies" Essay, many: Remember, if you got this cursed thing in the mail, it is your property to do with as you please, including stick wires into it like a Voodoo Doll.
There are three major issues of contention surrounding the barcode scanning device: As mentioned, each scanner contains a unique serial number or GUID, contained on a programmable chip within the device.
Pin 4 of the serial chip is connected to what appears to be a small hole through the board.
Using your weapon of choice pen-knife, razor blade, X-Acto knife, etc. Legal Threats cuexat non-Windows users. It intercepts CueCat scancodes in the normal keyboard or mouse scancode flow, decodes them, correct them for errors and sends them in clear to a regular character device file.
Since the scanner device is designed and given away in order to cuecta the parent company money, it's safe to assume they don't want people using the free scanners in ways other than intended, including as a product-inventory or cataloguing tool, night light, doorstop, flashlightmotion detector, etc As it turns out, the makers of the linuz scanner only provide interface software for Windows--the software that captures your name and email address, ties it to your scanner's serial number, tracks your preferences, etc.
Cat in the process, you can always get another one, they're free: Basically, with ckecat new input API in 2. This is the chip marked with the red arrow above.
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Data-Out pin shorted to Controller pin. This effectively shorts the output of the serial chip to a predefined value--that is, whatever voltage is on the conductive "hole" the other end of the wire is attached to.
Or, slice through the shiny green trace that connects the pin to the rest of the circuit. As for the other holes, none did anything very interesting--either they had no effect, or the scanner stopped working completely until the short was removed.
This information is cecat the version that connects to your Keyboard.
Cat as a normal unencrypted barcode reader without any special software at all! ZIP it stopped working. Yes, I cut it open and checked, because a stereo cable would be really nice.
Will DigitalConvergence live to sue again? You can't turn them into clock-radios or anything like that, but they're still useful for cataloguing your CDs, library checkout, inventory, point of sale Cat scan, for reference: Get alternative interface software for your: There are several models of the scanner out there, each slightly different--so yours may not look exactly like shown above.
Incidentally, if you got it from a Radio Shack, and they don't find out what you're up to, it is your property to do with as you please! Someone I know is harvesting LEDs and photodiodes out of them for a top-secret freespace optics project.
Upon further investigation it turns out this is in fact a ground node, and you can achieve this effect by connecting the wire from the EEPROM to any ground [that is for you non-engineers, anyplace that is connected to the "-" terminal of the board containing the red LED lights] Depending on the thickness of your wire, it may or may not fit snugly into the holes--try to find some that fits snugly, bend it so that it will not be knocked loose while putting the case back on the: Each of these is of course a different swipe Simply count counter-clockwise around the chip from Pin 1 for the numbers of all the other pins.
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Click here to support cexx. As you may NOT know, each of these devices contains with it a potential privacy hazard--a Globally Unique Identifier GUIDa "secret code" that is assigned to each scanner when it is produced, that can be used by the parent company to tell your scanner apart from any other, and, in theory, to track your personal scanning, buying, reading and yes, even TV-viewing habits, and tie this information to a profile on you based on your scanner's GUID.
Rather mysterious to be getting different results from scanning the same barcode. We can destroy it, we can pee on it, we can set it on fire, we can pinux gi joes and 74 bottle rockets to it and boldly send it where no cat-shaped bar code reader has gone before.
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