Notices by Sam the Octopus (troublemoney@computerfairi.es), page 49

@auravulpes out of interest what was the "technical reason" they brought up?

'cause I don't think anyone's reported any recently

@mavica at this point I'm officially out of ideas then, sorry bun

@mavica huh... I wonder if some other backend is claiming that scanner then...

you could try commenting out every line in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf except for "plustek"

@mavica that bit I'm a bit hazy on to be honest

for a start if you set lOffonEnd to 1 it should turn the lamp off when it's finished

maybe the gamma settings might help?

all the options are described in the sane-plustek man page, if you set it to do all the calibrations it might help a bit?

@mavica hmm... all I can think of is a config problem, should be somewhere like /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf

@mavica ah, that should be provided by libsane-common

I think

@mavica hmm... you're using the sane-plustek backend for this right?

@mavica probably the defaults being not great, possibly turn down the contrast on xsane?

@gdkar it's okay, you're safe from him here

@sydneyfalk the first practice run is actually called a "hearsal", so any further practices are "re-hearsals"

(probably not true)

@mavica since a 3d printer is a robot that makes 3d things out of layers if we give you a glue gun and a pattern it could be argued that you're the 3d printer!

@gdkar I used to play eve and I heard that (as well as enemy's mumble/teamspeak is down) more often than should be a coincidence

in the UK it's illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances

@mavica so would I

I especially want to see the big pie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatala_Pie_Shop

located next to a drive-through pie shop, which is a magnificent idea I can't believe hasn't caught on anywhere else

@mavica touring around australia, seeing all the big things!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s_big_things

@mavica I wanna come too! road trip!

@mavica hi! *waves arms around excitedly*

@mawr ah, perfect!

I just found myself constantly going "well, this stuff is like 50p a meter, better not waste any" and not using any of it

@mawr quick tip, when you come to use it you'll be looking at the hank of cord and think "ah, I don't need to cut up this relatively expensive cordage for this" and decide against using it

pre-cut it into like, 5'-7' lengths and put it in your bag, that way you'll always have a reasonable amount on hand and not think that, if you need longer you can tie the lengths together

also charging points are a little few and far between in the desert