CanoScan N1220U

2002-12-06 1 min read Gadgets Marco

Yet another maddening piece of hardware that resists all attempts to make it run under Linux… SANE is kind enough to tell me the chip is a National Semiconductor, and that support is going to be built-in very soon, but I’ve had the unit for two years, now, and still no resolution in sight. Who’s to blame? Canon and their blind policy of not releasing information? Linux and the lack of central authority? Continue reading

Weblogging

2002-12-06 1 min read Web Marco

I tried all sorts of webloggers (blogger, tkblog, etc.), but in the end the easiest one to install and use was the one you are currently seeing. GreyMatter has the big advantage of being just a set of perl scripts that live (data and script) in the cgi-bin directory, no requirements to the environment but that there be a perl shell available. If you like this, I strongly encourage you to use it. Continue reading