From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 01:30:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6F616A4CE; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:30:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D4343D46; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:30:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BE42BD68; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:29:56 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 23C9351201; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:59:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:59:54 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20040822012954.GN92256@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <411E9639.2070609@spintech.ro> <8cb27cbf0408152126257ec1bc@mail.gmail.com> <4121E53D.7000900@spintech.ro> <20040817115042.GB38060@abigail.blackend.org> <4121FAE5.70605@spintech.ro> <20040817132341.GC38060@abigail.blackend.org> <20040819003107.GX88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040819135254.GI20058@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819135254.GI20058@abigail.blackend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Anton Alin-Adrian cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD scanners X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:30:01 -0000 --+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 19 August 2004 at 15:52:54 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's >> scanners. See >> http://wwww.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the >> whole sad story. >> > > Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. Since USB is the scanners "standard" > interface, I noted more and more "bad" scanners: bad/weak GUI > (for example the GUI coming with some EPSON Perfection scanners is the > worst I ever used), bad performance, cheap/buggy hardware. I think that the real issue is the fact that people tend to consider the hardware and software as integral. The Canon hardware is terrible. The Canon GUI is, well, a GUI. It's also broken. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJ/cSIubykFB6QiMRAuafAJ0fsRGBL9pMyue7eNDAa3VLtcweiwCgoKfV nAfogAo1BBohhz489FzfQrc= =oGbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP--