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On Sunday 27 February 2011 10:01:42 dhk wrote: |
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> I have a new laptop that I need to set up for dual booting. As much as |
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> I despise Microsoft, I have to use it for certain things. Such as some |
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> obscure peripherals, like my slide photo scanner, it doesn't support |
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> Linux and TD Ameritrade's streaming Java tools don't work the same as on |
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> Linux. Until corporation's smarten up Microsoft will be a problem. |
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Might not be entirely what you're looking for, but when I borrowed a slide |
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photo-scanner, I also wasn't able to get it to work with Sane. |
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I did, however, manage to run the scanner from an MS windows onstall under |
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Virtualbox and passing the USB-slide scanner to that VM. |
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I actually got better speed that way then when running MS Windows natively. |
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(scan-speed, that is) |
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