[ale] A use for Windows . . .

[Robert L. Harris]

Thus spake Sean Kilpatrick (kilpatms at mindspring.com):

> From: Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at mindspring.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:54:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: [ale] A use for Windows . . .
> 
> On Thursday 31 October 2002 11:27 am, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > For the record, I don't like Windows for all of the reasons you don't
> > like it - I like exhausting lots of energy and being completely
> > ineffective less.
> 
> 
> As a former commercial photographer, I can second almost all of
> Drew's complaints about Linux.  The overwhelming disconnect 
> between Linux and the desktop is the lack of drivers -- especially
> USB drivers for new widgets.

What distribution and kernel are you running?  I have a SCSI scanner as
well as a USB scanner.  With the right kernel modules it all works just
great.  XSANE is a great tool as well.


:wq!
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Robert L. Harris                
                               
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 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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