If you had a scanner which was working fine in Fedora Linux Core 1, but stopped after upgrading to Core2, then you might be interested in this bug. It did help some people. But it didn’t help me.
I also found this link, which makes it possible to use iscan. Xsane still doesn’t work, although sane-find-scanner reports the device correctly. This document didn’t help any.
Olga and I went to Kurium beach today, where I shot few pictures. There were few guys flying on the parachutes, but they were too far away and I was too lazy to get closer. Probably, I will revisit them one day.
There are plenty of holy wars on the web that argue about superiority of PHP over Perl and vice versa. There are many people who prefer PHP, and there are many others who prefer Perl. I am, of course, in the Perl camp. I have programmed both Perl and PHP over some time, and there is no doubt in my head that Perl is way better than PHP as a language. The only point that I like about PHP is the how mod_php works. mod_php is a PHP module for Apache web server, for those who don’t know.
Anyway, back to the subject. I came across an excellent document titled “PHP IN CONTRAST TO PERL“. It summarizes the benefits of Perl compared to PHP nicely and clearly. It also links to a number of other resources on the subject, as well as provides the summary of those resources. Really neat paper and a must read for anyone who has or will have to deal with Perl and/or PHP.
Olga and I watched “Mean girls“. We expected this movie to be really ugly from the trailer. Basically, that’s why we didn’t go to the cinema to watch it – instead we saw a really terrible DivX with screwed up colors and ratio.
The film wasn’t as bad as it could have been. It is a somewhat typical movie for teenagers, about their problems, with their characters, and with their jokes. There were a couple of funny moments and it was pretty dynamic, but it was not a masterpiece by any measures.
Overall, I would give it a 6 out of 10. Watch it at home, if you have to.
Many pictures were shot today, so there was no problem in selecting few for the ‘Picture of the day’ project. The selection is here.