AMPFEA.org music-barians - Shelter, finally online!

It took some time, but our CD for the RPM Challenge 2008 is finally online! :) Download it from music-bar.org.

Tracklisting

01) Reactor Control – Code
02) Dego – Apache
03) Voynich – Destroyer of Worlds
04) Noise Theorem & Aleph Null – Hollow Men
05) DeepLFO – Electromagentic
06) Franz Anton – Sleepless
07) Pube Soup Stirred by The Dong – Charley C
08) Fractales12 – Bilderberg Group
09) Reactor Control – Outside
10) The Great Attractor – ITE
11) Modular Grey – Order in Space
12) LX Nen – Diversion

punkdISCO: Mickey Mouse is Dead

My friend Paul punkdISCO posted an awesome (hot!) ;) new video to Youtube. Check it out!

CanoScan Lide 20 under Leopard 10.5

Canon has decided to not support ‘old’ scanners under Leopard. They basically say that you should throw your scanner away and buy a new one. I find this environmentally unacceptable. If they would offer a new driver for 20 bucks I’d be happy.

An option is to purchase VueScan. This works with my CanoScan, but I find VueScan’s interface very clunky. Pass.

I was happy to learn that SANE has been ported to Mac OS X and that, contrary to the main list of supported scanners, it does support the Lide 20.

The TWAIN SANE graphical interface doesn’t work with my machine. No problem, since I prefer the command line.

How to

1. Download and install all the packages (except gettext) from the TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS X
2. Use some Terminal-fu to scan your file: scanimage -l 0 -t 0 -x 215mm -y 297mm --resolution 300dpi --format tiff > yourfilename.tiff

Easy as pie. Enjoy your scanner!