{"id":323,"date":"2010-01-06T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/01\/06\/on_technology\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:21:23","slug":"on_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/01\/06\/on_technology\/","title":{"rendered":"On technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You already know I&#8217;m a propeller-head. I <strong>heart<\/strong> technology. I&#8217;ll love any gadget as long as it&#8217;s black. Or has <a href=\"http:\/\/ardrone.parrot.com\/parrot-ar-drone\/en\/\">wings<\/a>. Preferably both.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo there I was, ready to write a serious blog post about sexism and whatnot, and decided that I needed to scan the cover of a certain magazine (that, coincidentally, starts with &#8216;<em>N<\/em>&#8216;). So I fired up the new, shiny black wireless HP all-in-one printer|scanner|copier thing; that sits next to the new, shiny black Bose speaker system; that in turn accepts the not-quite-so-new-but-still-shiny, black iPhone (or indeed the rather scratched and tarnished-but-still-black iPod), thinking that I could wirelessly squirt some pixels all of ten feet across the living room to the shiny, <em>aluminium<\/em> MacBook Pro (it has a black edge to the screen and black keys. Close enough).<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd it&#8217;s having none of it. I can wirelessly print to the printer, I can <em>copy<\/em> from the printer; I can even do a preview scan in the embedded web server (you can tell it&#8217;s the Twenty First Century: even printers are sodding web servers); but I just can not get it to scan.<\/p>\n<p>\nI can access the printer\u2014see how I access the printer! &lt;\/Eddie Izzard&gt;\u2014but I can&#8217;t scan.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve prowled around the HP support web <del>shite<\/del> site [You were right first time\u2014<em>Ed.<\/em>] and discovered once again what a living hell life must be for Windows users, but to no avail. I&#8217;m currently downloading the latest drivers\u2014although because the &#8216;About&#8217; information of the applications and utilities I already have says I have version 4.4.2, or 2.0.21 (5), or Benny Goodman and the fucking Andrews Sisters; but NOTHING AT ALL that looks remotely like &#8216;10.3 (Released 10-2009)&#8217; I can&#8217;t tell if this is a waste of time or not.<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, the smart money would be on traipsing my sorry arse ten feet across the room and plugging in the USB cable, but goshdarnit, that&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> what I just paid a hundred quid for.<\/p>\n<p>\nHappy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You already know I&#8217;m a propeller-head. I heart technology. I&#8217;ll love any gadget as long as it&#8217;s black. Or has wings. Preferably both. So there I was, ready to write a serious blog post about sexism and whatnot, and decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/01\/06\/on_technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}