Friend of the Pigeon

The HD on my lovely vaio R600 started to make slightly clunky noises, and I started to worry that it was on its way out (it’s a couple of years old, and has been carried about the country a fair amount). So, here’s what I did to replace it (it’s not that interesting, but it [...]

Well, I might as well make a fourth post while I’m at it.
Just got the above printer / scanner, not least because there is an HP driver for it. After a certain amount of emerging / unmerging / remerging (I’m on Gentoo), it works very nicely indeed, both printing and scanning. Printing is much faster [...]