Goes wrong.. goes right..
I'd almost forgotten how today started.. Even though it was a strong emotion at the time.. Imagine, I got up, as usual, went downstairs to make tea etc., got to the computer and logged in, just in time to see:
[Perlmonks Theorbtwo@PerlMonks is going to be going as well (but may return before morning).]
But, annoyingly and frustratingly, not in time to catch him! :(( (Logs will testify as to my reaction.. )
Having got over that, been shopping and various unexciting things, I discovered I needed to scan something.. The fun here being, I have a SCSI scanner, which has been sitting in its box since I last moved over two years ago (currently serving as something to stand a VCR on), and the computer that used to run it now has its bits divided among other ones. After pondering for a while if it was really worth the effort, I tried it anyway:
1. Unbox scanner.
2. Find SCSI cables.
3. Figure out which machine actually has the motherboard with the SCSI stuff on it.
4. Luckily, its the file server, standing open on the floor. Wondered briefly if SCSI is hotpluggable, attached SCSI ribbon cable to motherboard.
5. Didn't find a spare power cable, piled scanner on top of 3rd computer and stole the power from that.
6. Attached scsi1-2 adaper to ribbon cable, and actual SCSI cable to that, and to the scanner.
7. Turned it on. Blinking lights, good start.
8. The file server runs Linux, never scanned with that before. Modprobed aic7xxx - It finds the scanner! (wow).
9. Hunted out sane, and then the newest version it would take without a major upgrade (1.0.8), installed.
10. scanimage -d microtek:/dev/sg0 > test.pnm
11. The damn thing worked, and in colour too!
Which pretty impressed me.. Technology works, sometimes! (Even more impressive that the spontaneous telnetserver working that I did yesterday, but I won't go into that..) Maybe things are looking up.. Or maybe I just got lucky :)
What should I do for an encore..
[Perlmonks Theorbtwo@PerlMonks is going to be going as well (but may return before morning).]
But, annoyingly and frustratingly, not in time to catch him! :(( (Logs will testify as to my reaction.. )
Having got over that, been shopping and various unexciting things, I discovered I needed to scan something.. The fun here being, I have a SCSI scanner, which has been sitting in its box since I last moved over two years ago (currently serving as something to stand a VCR on), and the computer that used to run it now has its bits divided among other ones. After pondering for a while if it was really worth the effort, I tried it anyway:
1. Unbox scanner.
2. Find SCSI cables.
3. Figure out which machine actually has the motherboard with the SCSI stuff on it.
4. Luckily, its the file server, standing open on the floor. Wondered briefly if SCSI is hotpluggable, attached SCSI ribbon cable to motherboard.
5. Didn't find a spare power cable, piled scanner on top of 3rd computer and stole the power from that.
6. Attached scsi1-2 adaper to ribbon cable, and actual SCSI cable to that, and to the scanner.
7. Turned it on. Blinking lights, good start.
8. The file server runs Linux, never scanned with that before. Modprobed aic7xxx - It finds the scanner! (wow).
9. Hunted out sane, and then the newest version it would take without a major upgrade (1.0.8), installed.
10. scanimage -d microtek:/dev/sg0 > test.pnm
11. The damn thing worked, and in colour too!
Which pretty impressed me.. Technology works, sometimes! (Even more impressive that the spontaneous telnetserver working that I did yesterday, but I won't go into that..) Maybe things are looking up.. Or maybe I just got lucky :)
What should I do for an encore..