Scanner, xsane

My housemate was throwing out an old scanner because “it doesn’t work”. What he meant by that is that it doesn’t work with Windows Vista… shame… The scanner is a Packard Bell Diamond 1200 Plu.
I plugged it in, installed xsane, retrieved a driver from http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ and moved it to /usr/share/xsane/gt68xx/and hey presto: it worked straight [...]

No internet connection

To anyone who reads this blog,
I have recently moved house and as a result don’t have a regular internet connection at the moment. Hence I have not posted in a while. When I am back online this blog will resume.