April 2011 archive

Early birthday present

As much as I don’t want to think about it, my birthday is a week from today. I got a great early birthday present though. A few months back, I was blown away by the sound quality of the Bose AE2 headphones. I’ve wanted to get a really nice pair of headphones (given the amount …

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Ripping woes

Well it hasn’t exactly been the most fun of days in the world of troubleshooting. I bought a bunch of used CDs recently, and decided that I needed to rip them to my new machine. I started on the process, but then three of the new discs didn’t rip. They just sat there. I put …

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Epson Perfection V30 scanner inside a VM

I had forgotten about my scanner that I bought a while back for scanning old family photos. Since scanner support in Linux (via the SANE backend) is not all that great, and considering I often wanted to manipulate the photos in Photoshop, I rarely even hooked it up to my main computer. Now that I …

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