Hans Across The Interwebs

The idiots over at Canon have not yet seen fit to update the drivers to my one year old Canoscan Lide 60 Scanner for Leopard.

Very annoying. It works, ‘kinda’. Keep getting ‘could not load driver’ or some such bull shit.

Come on Canon, get your ass in gear!

I wouldn’t be surprised if they just never updated this thing at all. After all, a one year old scanner! Get rid of that thing, just buy a new one. Except, there probably aren’t any drivers for those either.

Getting totally screwed. With Canon, you can.

Boy opening up my news reader today I’m blinded by the All Leopard All The Time News coverage. I won’t do the same, but I will remark that since the release of leopard I’ve been gradually getting software updates for a lot of the little mac programs I’m running. But to be honest, I’ve only had real problems with Quicksilver (already updated) and the last.fm plugin (not updated yet) so far.

My only little gripe so far: how do I get rid of the .mac icon in the menu bar. I don’t use .mac!

Daring Fireball doesn’t understand that the whole reason for TimeMachine is not to have a bootable clone, but to have different older versions of all files available. Hence TIMEmachine. It’s much more than just a regular backup. Even a deleted file can be found, which is not the case with ‘normal’ backup solutions.

Time Machine Backups Are Not Bootable: “Time Machine does not create a bootable clone of your system, and in cases of catastrophic drive failure, a bootable clone is exactly the thing you need.”

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Someone at macrumors.com got hold of a first report about Leopard OSX 10.5, which isn’t officially out until friday. I know this first version is probably going to have bugs, but I’m still so getting it this friday 6pm and installing it right away.
LINK!