Five Acres with a View

Emboldened by my success with the CD burner, I started working on getting my Epson 610 scanner to work with Linux. It now works, although I am not completely sure of which of the many things I tried succeeded. USB scanners don’t seem to have good support under Linux.

I made this faux postage card for a swap last spring featuring cards using eyelets. The base of the card is white. I added a black border with Gimp so the card would show up.

k3b rocks (almost). This morning, I managed to burn my first CD under Linux. I used an application called k3b, which allows burning CDs and DVDs in a variety of formats. Unfortunately, I was slowed down by k3b being set up to use the KDE desktop environment, so I had to use KDE to run the k3bsetup utility. However, it all seems to be working now under my normal Gnome environment.