http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

We just wanted to scan using our great HP C4700 Scanner/Printer at home via network. But the damn thing wouldn't scan.

It gave an Error code of "8,[(1,0,-2147221502)]" and something like "das HP Bildbearbeitungsgerät wurde nicht gefunden. "

The obvious solution recommended by the help and internet is

• turn on/off
• reinstall HP Solution Center
• reinstall Printer Driver

As I am too lazy for that just now, I used the WEB INTERFACE to my scanner. Yep, behold. Your HP Network printer/Scanner has a web interface. Just find out the IP address (for example, by printing the network information, the printer has an option to do that) and enter the address in your browser. In my case, that would be : http://192.168.1.42.

This will let you scan via your browser, and you don't have to install any drivers and such. You can only scan JPGs, but ... better than nothing...

I only blog this here because poor souls facing "8,[(1,0,-2147221502)]" and too lazy to reinstall software may benefit from it.

If you haven't heard it yet on other places: there is going to be a festival to celebrate art, music, do-it-yourself culture, and camp together for three days.

http://www.erntefestival.at

Fr 26- So 28.8.2011
Lindabrunn, 42km south of Vienna
Bring food and drinks
Bring Music, Art, Projects, creatively design the space there.

The place is awesome:


German Description:
"Das Erntefestival 2011 ist die Gelegenheit um gemeinsam kreativ zu feiern. Ob Top oder Flop, egal welche Ernte du im letzten Jahr Eingefahren hast, sei dankbar und feiere es. Das Erntefestival zelebriert Creative-Industries, MusikerInnen, WissensarbeiterInnen, Entrepreneure und Enterpreunessen, HackerInnen, Inventoren und FreundInnen. Ohne festes Programm, ohne feste Tagespläne kann sich jede(r) so freuen wie sie/er das für richtig hält. Gib dein Bestes. Das Erntefestival versteht sich als Plattform um vergangene Projekte vorzustellen und neue Projekte zu entwickeln."

Disclaimer: I am co-organizing it. I do it because I love the idea of sharing and collaborating, and because I can't afford to fly over to Burning Man every year.

I updated my homepage...yes, besides this weblog, twitter, facebook, flickr, soup.io, ... etc etc ... I also have a homepage. I never find the time to update it, but thanks to soup.io there is an activity stream on it.

my homepage:

http://www.leobard.net

I did it because I wanted to host GodSees in a long-term way, this thing here:

http://www.leobard.net/2010/GodSees/

while doing these updates, I spent HOURS on divs, margins, floats, and google fonts. Thank God I am not a designer, I need ages to get things done.

Suppose there is a war, and nobody came to tweet about it. The two enterprise social software vendors Yammer and Chatter are currently at war for market domination, and copycatting their way through it.

If the internet is made for cats, then even more for copycats. There is a war going on between two cats in Enterprise social software. Their promise is "bringing together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network" according to Yammer. Or to "connect with your coworkers to work together and be more productive" according to Chatter. Anyway, both companies look astonishingly same.

VS

Spot the difference? Comment on the group if you can find them.

What makes the battle even better: they quickly try out different designs every day. You never get the same page twice! So, see it as a game:

• collect them all! (collect images of the landing pages, here)
• spot the difference! (between yammer and chatter, but also between different views
• spot the change! (what has happened?)
• spot the uniqueness! (what is typically yammer/chatter?)
• guess whats next!

...endless possibilities for spectators...

To play along, collect your images and comments here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/yammerchatter/

Note that Yammer was first and therefore Chatter is proably the copycat. But now, its hard to tell. Here is a great video by Yammer to get you started:
http://youtu.be/MuSLk5FkNrs