In the NOT LINUX column, I checked<br>with Comcast this afternoon about a <br>launch date for the "Ultra" and "Extreme<br>50" cable modem packages. The latter<br>is 50 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, <br>presumably with the same "boost" feature<br>
now used. <a href="http://speedtest.net">speedtest.net</a> and <br><a href="http://speakeasy.net/speedtest">speakeasy.net/speedtest</a> might well be the<br>only places you can see what you've got...<br><br>Anyway, the launch date for GR is <br>
apparently first quarter of 2010. No<br>indication of cost, but if it's anything <br>like 3X the price of the 16 Mbps service<br>no one will buy it.<br><br>In the LINUX column, I discovered that<br>LINUX does not support Canon scanners.<br>
I tried XSane and Scanlite. XSane will <br>produce a scan, but the colors are way<br>off, and I couldn't find a way to correct<br>them.<br><br>I then read on some Linux help page <br>the claim that Canon is not supported.<br>
A guess is that Canon won't play ball<br>with device driver writers, and that so<br>far no one has had the wherewithall to <br>reverse engineer the Canon interface.<br><br>If this is wrong, and someone has, or <br>knows where to get, Canon drivers, I'd<br>
like to know about it. I have a model <br>630.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br>