While having network issues at work today someone asked “Hey, what happened to the internet?”
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Happy Anniversary
To my wonderful wife, Elizabeth, Happy Anniversary!
RPM sucks
rpm is definitely the worst package manager out there. It’s way to difficult to use. For instance, given a rpm how do you list the files in it?
I tried
rpm --list --file my.rpm
I simply get the rpm help screen again. Hmmm, I guess it’s time to type
rpm --help
I search for –list and find that you must specify –query and –package. Ok that makes sense. So I type in
rpm -qlp my.rpm
. Ah so package is different than file.
RPM tutorials
I was perusing FedoraNEWS and stumbled on a great set of articles “All you have to know about RPM”
Metacity and Wireframe
On my lowly PIII 650Mhz with 512MB ram and an Nvidia GeForce2 MX with 32MB, Metacity and GNOME run slow. Especially when moving windows around, metacity insisted that fullframe window movement was needed. Well, I decided to look on the net again to see if this has changed. And I found the solution right here.
The Maryland Terps lose to Georgia Tech
I can’t believe we lost to Georgia Tech again, at home no less. If we continue to play like this we won’t make it to the tournament. The frustations continue.
Web Proxies suck
Man the borg comes in and sets up a web proxy. Now nothing works as it used to. ARGH!
HP ScanJet 4670
I returned the defective scanner back to Staple’s and got a working one. I pulled it out of the box, plugged the cables in and viola! It is a nice scanner. Fits nicely on the desk and a lot quieter than the old SCSI HP ScanJet 5P. Now I’m going to list the 5p on ebay.
New Theme
I’m going to give the “currency” theme a try for a while.
HP ScanJet 4670 Scanner
I went to Staples today to buy a new scanner, the HP ScanJet 4670 vertical scanner. They had a great price. The scanner was $199.99 (retail) with a $30 instant rebate making it $169.99. The cheapest I found online was $178. So with tax (7% here in NC) it came out to $181.99 and no waiting for shipping.
Now for the bad part. I got it home, I installed the software which went fine. I hooked up the scanner to the computer and couldn’t scan. Windows XP didn’t even see it. The HP software couldn’t find the scanner either. I noticed the power light was off. So I hit the power button. Nothing happened. “Hmmm”, I thought. (ok that’s not what I really thought it was more like this piece of !@#%!@&#%!@(%^!@&#%^!@(*^ ). I thought it was the plug or something. So I moved it to another outlet and VIOLA power. I went to touch the scanner and no power. Once again stumped. I touched the power cable and again power. I realized that if I moved the power cable around the scanner would go on and off. Now that was annoying a short in the cable. Normally, I would attempt to fix this, but having just bought it today, it’s going back tomorrow.
Once I get the new one installed I’ll give a full review. I will only connect it to my wife’s Windows XP machine. I won’t bother trying to make Linux work with it. Not worth the hassle.
