See my previous post for why I need a new scanner.
Now, this particular scanner was really good with sane and worked really well and I need a new one fairly promptly. Therefore, I'm throwing this open to the Fedora Planet readers:
What sane supported, USB, flat-bed scanner would you recommend?
Final preparations are under way and I will very shortly (round about 2008-08-04T00:00:00Z) be in transit to Sorrento. Writing this though has made /me ask the question again: why do we insist, in a global world, on timing our Fedora releases based on local time in the eastern United States, with all the vagarities that daylight saving time brings.
Mythbusters: nil; tc1415: 1
Yes, that picture says it all, I just had an ordinary CD, with no visibly damage whatsoever shatter in my ordinary DVD±RW drive. Even the Mythbusters couldn't do that without ramping the speed up to > 56x speed.
Quick description of what happened:
[Caution to the bandwidth impaired: there are quite a few images to follow]
Error: Missing Dependency: tcl = 1:8.5.1 is needed by package 1:tk-8.5.1-4.fc9.i386 (installed)
This should never happen in the stable repositories of any system. Not ever. In fact - not for any reason whatsoever.
In my (humble) opinion, it is always a failure when any error which the average user is unlikely to understand is presented to them. When I saw this using PackageKit I though, hmm... maybe something from one of the third party repositories I am using has acted strangely, so I checked. The average user will not. They will just think that this "Linux" thing is too unstable/confusing and wont use it.
So, I've downloaded Firefox 3, and contributed to the world record attempt. What I am wondering is is this a sensible kind of "record" to be recorded. I am sure no one disagrees with major sporting achievements, but it always seems a bit silly when you read of things like David Blaine's latest stunt, or the most pickled onions eaten in an hour (not sure if that one is real, but if it isn't it probably should remain that way). This is not to say that what Mozilla are doing isn't good, just that I don't believe that World Records should have become like this; but, anyway, I don't have much of a say in this, and I am sure that there is a market for knowing the person who balanced the most books on their head (again, not sure if this is real). Even Mozilla acknowledge some odd records - largest Irish dance ?!?!?
Now, here's to hoping that the annoying fsync() bug has been fixed :)
Right, until about Friday/Saturday time I'm taking a brief hiatus from the world for two reasons (of differing importance and fun level):
See you all whenever!
I have been using Fedora 9 now since the Preview version was released, and I have to say I am very pleased with the results so far, everything seems far better than (and is constantly improving) the Beta version I tried some time ago.
All went smoothly using Jigdo to turn my Beta image into a Preview install DVD and, for the first time, Anaconda didn't bail out with a Python exception when I was repartitioning my hard disk. The install seemed faster too, not sure if that was me or some improvements in RPM or Anaconda.
Title kind of says it all!
Basically, I gave up on Windows 98 after it managed to eat its own
settings once again on my old 1996 Dell Dimension XPS M200s (my first PC, if anyone cares) and installed Damn Small Linux, and what can I say - it's damn small and it's damn fast, even on this piece of (reliable) junk!
