Wow! Amazon was fast. They beat their projected delivery date by a bunch. Weak point was whomever their shipping agent was, they did a terrible packing effort. The scanner box was sliding around inside the box with inadequate packing. The Epson box was very well packaged so no damage done. I am not going to make a sales pitch for this scanner. It was my choice and I think I made a good one for...
Continue reading...Around My Digital Office
I have been doing some writing here in Ramblin’ Dan but haven’t been sharing many pictures. I guess it is easier to write than take the photos. The fact is writing about things like computer file servers isn’t very photogenic. The beauty is how it works, not how it looks. I am adding a replacement for my old HP Scanjet IIc color scanner. I bought the Scanjet about 18 years ago. It still works just...
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I have been busting my brain modules for about a week (off and on) learning the ropes of setting up a Linux Ubuntu server running Samba, a windows (and UNIX) file server. I decided to do it the hard way and have been playing with Linux in the terminal mode. That means no graphic interface, just the command line. That keeps the dual processor 64 bit system dedicated to just file services. It is wicked...
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I have had my 2.5 year old granddaughter here for a few days while her momma recovers from some surgery on her shoulder. It’s rather difficult for momma to be tracking after her two year old when one has a bum wing. This has induced me to watch more kid TV programming than I care to but any amount of torture is bearable for my granddaughter’s sake. I have become a bit enlightened how our...
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