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Sep. 28th, 2002 03:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7scanner drivers... nearly done... downloading...
15 more minutes...
i may not make it...
god damn am i ever tired and bored of sitting here.
yup, i wrote an entire tutorial on HTML for my mom, which of course she'll hate, but at least i did it.
coulda been better organized. it's more like just an introduction.
ah well.
i am so bored and wired and sleepy now it's not even funny.
if these drivers don't work i'll go and cry myself to sleep (first, of course, setting the computer to download different ones, hopefully faster, while i sleep).
I just... I have to wait to test these ones, once they're downloaded.
It says to open them from the "english" folder. Fuck if I know what that means. I'll have to poke around. I'm terrible at this sort of thing, though, so I'm not too enthused.
Sigh.
Why can I manage to put the printer drivers CD in a safe and easily located place, but not the scanner drivers? Makes me wanna punch somebody.
Growl.
But it's really my fault. I was probably the last one with them, who knew what they were (they were labeled, sure, but that doesn't mean anybody else understood what the label meant), and I didn't think to put them somewhere that I'd remember putting them. *shrug* So now my eyes are burning and my head is buzzing. Payback for thoughtlessness. Thanks, whoever oversees that. I'm thrilled. Fine. I deserve it. I just hope I also deserve to have these downloaded drivers work.
I mean, fuck HP for not putting decent, usable drivers of their own online. As someone in the discussion group where I found the drivers pointed out, it's like Ford neglecting to provide keys with their cars. "I've just paid you $20,000 for this car, and the key doesn't work/ i lost it/ doesn't fit on a regular keychain. Can I get a new one?" "Sure. That'll be $500 in 'processing fees'." "Hm. Looks like next time I'll be buying Toyota." (based on my by no means expert calculations to determine how much of the original purchasing price of the scanner the replacement cost of the drivers (for "shipping") costs, i reached a figure, threw it out the window, and randomly guessed $500. Yay for English Major Math!)
So, I'm a big fan of Canon now. Despite how much replacing my ink cartridges has just cost me. At least the printer fucking works, and the drivers are sensible.
Grr.
90% complete, and I still want to be in bed four hours ago.
BASTARDS.
But I don't want to wait any longer for this, and this is the time to take up the phone line. Ann's not even home, so there's no competition.
Oh well. I'll sleep when I'm dead. I'll have tons of time then.
But just you watch-- by some miracle, I'll get into heaven, and it'll be this nonstop party, but i'll be too sleepy to go! That'd be terrible.
Are ghosts sleepy? There's a question for the delirious hours of the early morn.
15 more minutes...
i may not make it...
god damn am i ever tired and bored of sitting here.
yup, i wrote an entire tutorial on HTML for my mom, which of course she'll hate, but at least i did it.
coulda been better organized. it's more like just an introduction.
ah well.
i am so bored and wired and sleepy now it's not even funny.
if these drivers don't work i'll go and cry myself to sleep (first, of course, setting the computer to download different ones, hopefully faster, while i sleep).
I just... I have to wait to test these ones, once they're downloaded.
It says to open them from the "english" folder. Fuck if I know what that means. I'll have to poke around. I'm terrible at this sort of thing, though, so I'm not too enthused.
Sigh.
Why can I manage to put the printer drivers CD in a safe and easily located place, but not the scanner drivers? Makes me wanna punch somebody.
Growl.
But it's really my fault. I was probably the last one with them, who knew what they were (they were labeled, sure, but that doesn't mean anybody else understood what the label meant), and I didn't think to put them somewhere that I'd remember putting them. *shrug* So now my eyes are burning and my head is buzzing. Payback for thoughtlessness. Thanks, whoever oversees that. I'm thrilled. Fine. I deserve it. I just hope I also deserve to have these downloaded drivers work.
I mean, fuck HP for not putting decent, usable drivers of their own online. As someone in the discussion group where I found the drivers pointed out, it's like Ford neglecting to provide keys with their cars. "I've just paid you $20,000 for this car, and the key doesn't work/ i lost it/ doesn't fit on a regular keychain. Can I get a new one?" "Sure. That'll be $500 in 'processing fees'." "Hm. Looks like next time I'll be buying Toyota." (based on my by no means expert calculations to determine how much of the original purchasing price of the scanner the replacement cost of the drivers (for "shipping") costs, i reached a figure, threw it out the window, and randomly guessed $500. Yay for English Major Math!)
So, I'm a big fan of Canon now. Despite how much replacing my ink cartridges has just cost me. At least the printer fucking works, and the drivers are sensible.
Grr.
90% complete, and I still want to be in bed four hours ago.
BASTARDS.
But I don't want to wait any longer for this, and this is the time to take up the phone line. Ann's not even home, so there's no competition.
Oh well. I'll sleep when I'm dead. I'll have tons of time then.
But just you watch-- by some miracle, I'll get into heaven, and it'll be this nonstop party, but i'll be too sleepy to go! That'd be terrible.
Are ghosts sleepy? There's a question for the delirious hours of the early morn.
