On Thursday, Feb 26, 2004, at 23:27 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne wrote: > At 8:47 PM -0500 2/26/04, Alex wrote: >> Have you installed software for a Canon scanner recently? It's one of >> the crappiest in existence > > Is there support for that assertion somewhere? Wolf Rentzsch has a quick overview at <http://rentzsch.com/suck/canonLiDE30Scanner>. Anyway, aren't we talking about a piece of software that fills up console.log with a useless message every second, day in and day out? Res ipsa loquitur. >> , and it installs background processes that do exactly that. Solution >> -- get rid of it. > > Wow. When I think of the problems I could have solved... Feel free to suggest a better one. f