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Monthly Archives: April 2007

HP Photosmart C6180 with Linux

We desperately needed a scanner. Also the old printer got almost unusable, leaving black strips on the paper after an ink cartridge leaked and smeared the ink on all the plastic foam inside it. The decision seems obvious: multifunction device.
Of mainstream printer manufacturers, only Epson and HP are friendly to the Open Source and thus [...]

Ursula K. Le Guin on modern fantasy

“In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.”
This is from a response to “Gedo Senki,” the Earthsea film made by Goro Miyazaki for Studio Ghibli; but this citation deserves much wider audience than fans of Ursula’s books.