Just a quick tip for the dick-head who delivers my mail:
If there is a lock on a mail-box there is a reason. It's usually because someone has been nicking stuff. Therefore folding a parcel, shoving it into the opening and leaving it half hanging out rather defeats the purpose of having the lock in the first place.
That's why they have parcel delivery notices. So you have an option for parcels that cannot be left in the mailbox. It's a little blue card that tells the householder that they need to go to the parcel depot to pick an item up. I know that you're aware of these things because you left one for another parcel at the same time you forcibly shoved the other item half into my mail-box.
And most importantly, if you need to bend the parcel to fit it in and it doesn't bend DON'T FORCE THE FUCKING THING. The DVD I ordered online is now utterly useless as the entire package with the DVD inside was bent in half you fucking moron.
Seriously. Are they now hiring out of the sheltered workshop? How fucking dumb do you have to be to break a package to force it into a mailbox and think you're doing your job adequately?
My scanner has been cactus for a while now. One day the TWAIN drivers went missing never to return. Reinstalling the drivers doesn't work. Uninstalling the scanner drivers, deleting the TWAIN32 folders and files then reinstalling it all again doesn't work. Nothing works. The only imaging devices listed when trying to install new hardware are cameras. There isn't a single scanner option available.
I just put up with it for a while but today I figured I'd move the scanner to my fiance's computer instead. Except it won't install. Yep. Same problem. No scanner options when installing, unknown device detected. Worse still we don't have the installation CD. I'm downloading the drivers and software from the internet and they're all as useless as tits on a bull.
I'm not sure what to do now. Reinstalling Windows didn't fix this. Nothing else seems to fix it. I've given up trying to do anything about it because each time I try something new it's a waste of three hours and I end up shittier than when I started.
I guess my big question is should I buy a different brand scanner or is this such an endemic problem with XP that I'm better off keeping the scanner and putting my money toward a Mac to operate it instead? I've seen an HP scanner for $170 but if this is going to happen again regardless of the scanner I'd rather not waste that much money.
