Pills 'n' thrills and bellyaches.

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• OpenOffice user survey — please help.

• Why Ubuntu 9.04 is the best thing you could do. Update: Applies to any Linux in the past three years. Original LJ post.

• Sunlight causes suicide (courtesy hellsop).

• NotN: Disks full of porn "sold to military".

It's been a busy day with a severely active Freda, who has been lovely and charming and beautiful IN HUGE QUANTITIES. Took her out for a walk on a leash in the morning then in the pram in the afternoon. Lots of playing out back on the trike. Lots of telly. It's been a lovely day with the most demanding and wonderful girlfriend ever in the world. So there.

A question: what's the state of the art in cheap film scanners? My use case is two boxes of twenty years' 35mm negatives. I know not to touch anything flatbed. I was tempted by the cheap Ion one (the turntable is cheap but cheerful), but the Amazon reviews put me right off. I can live with colours being off as long as the highlights aren't blown and the images are sharp. I can even live with Windows-only. Anyone bought a film scanner recently?

Fantastically useful DreamWidth feature: when you edit a crossposted article on DW, it automatically edits the copy on LJ as well. This level of attention to detail augurs well.

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Re: I've got the Epson 4490 Photo

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That one looked a bit sharpened, but if you want first rate quality from film scans, you might want to go for the Nikon or get a couple of drum scans of the very best shots.

Most of those old 500 mg drives were just dead and no amount of goats was going to bring them back.

I did have two SCSI external drives in a case for my news server. You're bringing back memories.