Friday, February 04, 2011
Trials and torments
Now had two further attempts to get the scanner to work. First attempt, simply rerun the large file downloaded from HP. Runs to the point where it wants to do a restart, but then silence after the restart. Printer uninstalled so neither printing nor scanning. Second attempt, go for the second of the two installation files offered, this second one ten times as big as the first at around 350Mb. Maybe this includes the bits of the product which does scanning. Runs to the point where it invites you to turn the printer on and plug it in. Runs to the point where it wants to do a restart. Then the install pops up and resumes. There is hope! After a while it announces that all is well. The only bit that I skip is product registration which got into a muddle with the Yahoo browser which I do not ordinarily use.
Inspect control panel and the printer has sprung back into life there. Try a print from Word and that springs into life too. Try a scan from HP Gallery and it springs into life to the extent that HP Gallery can now see the scanner. But when I attempt to fire it up I get a whole new error; rather larger than the one I was getting before. Try to scan by hand by pressing the scan button and get the same error. Maybe the scanner really has gone wrong?
Total expenditure of my valuable time now of the order of 6 hours and still no scanning. Would buying a new one have been a better option?
Back on the bread front things are much more satisfactory. Yesterday's wetter dough effort gave an improved result. Loaves which looked like loaves and which felt and tasted more like loaves than hitherto. See http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8152054/Bread-20110120.xls for all the gory details.
Dropbox also satisfactory in that I find that it preserves the public link across file update. One does not have to issue a new one every time the file changes. So some of the geeky things are working.
# posted by Jim @ 4:03 AM 
