Technology

Today I’m buying a Canon CanoScan N650U scanner. It’s satisfies my needs perfectly.

(1) It uses a Contact Image Sensor instead of a CCD which make it very slim and not power hungry at all (it is powered through the USB cable !)

(2) It works perfectly with Linux. I’ve found this nice HOWTO on LinuxQuestions.org.

(3) It has an adequate 600dpi optical resolution. I’ll use it mostly to scan my 10x15cm photos at 300dpi for archival purposes.

(4) It costs only Rs. 2000 + VAT

Expect some nice additions to the photo gallery in the coming days :-)

The Sixth Annual African Computing & Telecommunications Summit (ACT 2004) organised by AITEC Africa took place in Mauritius at Le Méridien on 7-9 september.

The Linux User Group of Mauritius together with the Mauritians using Linux Group and the Mauritius Java User Group and with the immense help of the Internet Society of Mauritius were able to participate in the official IT exhibition taking place at the same time as the conferences.

Yash Nursinghdass (of LUGM) has a nice report of the event.

MULG, though Aadil Noorkhan, won a refurbished laptop from Computer Aid. Congratulations to them !

I’ve been composing music for many years and I’ve now settled for these components in my very own digital studio.

You can also freely download my music compositions.