Saturday, March 25, 2023
Nearly Wasted Lotion
Here's what I found at the bottom of a bottle of lotion -- the pump tube ends about an inch from the bottom! I have enough to last for another two weeks!
Monday, March 06, 2023
New Life For an Old Scanner
Here’s the scenario:
You buy new a computer for the first time in 10 years.
Then you hook up your scanner to scan a document and find that the new OS doesn’t recognize the scanner.
You go in search of a driver for the scanner that can be installed on the new computer. But alas, nothing can be found.
This is the pitfall of replacing a 32-bit operating system (OS) with a 64-bit OS – you might not find 64-bit drivers for all your peripherals.
It happened to me. But luckily I found a post by a MVP1 who recommended VueScan2.
VueScan is compatible with my Cano Lide 20 and runs under Windows 10. It can be downloaded, installed, and run for free; however the resulting scans include a watermark. But for less than the cost of a new scanner, you can buy a license for VueScan that removes the watermark and gives you access to one year of updates.
I’m not averse to paying for a new scanner. But I hate the idea of discarding a perfectly good piece of hardware just because I lack the software to operate it.
There is second option, aside from buying a new scanner. You can create a Virtual Machine (VM) that emulates the 32-bit OS and install the scanner driver on that. It’s more complicated, but it might be the preferred option if you have peripherals other than just a scanner to preserve. We do this at work so that we can keep using old lab hardware. The only drawback is that you might need a second license for the OS that runs on the VM.
You buy new a computer for the first time in 10 years.
Then you hook up your scanner to scan a document and find that the new OS doesn’t recognize the scanner.
You go in search of a driver for the scanner that can be installed on the new computer. But alas, nothing can be found.
This is the pitfall of replacing a 32-bit operating system (OS) with a 64-bit OS – you might not find 64-bit drivers for all your peripherals.
It happened to me. But luckily I found a post by a MVP1 who recommended VueScan2.
VueScan is compatible with my Cano Lide 20 and runs under Windows 10. It can be downloaded, installed, and run for free; however the resulting scans include a watermark. But for less than the cost of a new scanner, you can buy a license for VueScan that removes the watermark and gives you access to one year of updates.
I’m not averse to paying for a new scanner. But I hate the idea of discarding a perfectly good piece of hardware just because I lack the software to operate it.
There is second option, aside from buying a new scanner. You can create a Virtual Machine (VM) that emulates the 32-bit OS and install the scanner driver on that. It’s more complicated, but it might be the preferred option if you have peripherals other than just a scanner to preserve. We do this at work so that we can keep using old lab hardware. The only drawback is that you might need a second license for the OS that runs on the VM.
1 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/scanner-driver-for-canon-lide-20
Friday, March 03, 2023
Fear Our Autonomous Future
We’re supposed to have faith in self-driving cars. Yet we can’t seem to prevent two trains from colliding.
This is a reference to the March 1 head-on train crash in Greece. According to the BBC and The Guardian, “The passenger train and the freight train were travelling in opposite directions but ended up on the same track”1 and “The two trains are thought to have travelled along the same track for 2-3km before they met head-on.”2
Maybe the problem with trains is that they’re confined to a limited number of paths (tracks), which increases the chances of a crash. The reason we have so few airplane collisions is only because of how improbable it is that two planes would occupy the same space during most of their flights.
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