normal things to do at 6:39 am on a monday:
nmap-scan your local network so you can find your label maker to make a tumblr meme
$ sudo nmap -sS -p9100 --open 10.12.11.*
WHERE THE PRINT IS MY FUCKER
It didn't work. Windows thinks it printed, but nothing came out of the printer :(
Fuck it, I need coffee first.
Maybe I'll go by FedEx and get them to print it for me. Do you think they're open at 7am and still have a template for labeling beta tapes?
The best part is that I'm labeling a beta tape to provide a supporting image for a mini-fic I wrote, which is about VHS tapes.
I haven't posted that story yet! I still have the ability to go edit like two lines and make it about beta instead of vhs.
But I ain't gonna.
Look, if you're dealing with VHS tapes that can alter the flow of history just by being watched, the LEAST weird thing you should expect is that sometimes they're beta tapes.
Retrocausal video tapes can have little a betamax, as a treat.
fell down the rabbit hole and scanned a label and now I'm trying to font match a betamax label please send help
it's helveticta. of course it is. it's always helvetica
my clone is gonna use arial. fuck the police
didn't print terribly well. lemme try to darken it a bit and print again.
trying to reprint it has messed up my headphones
computers are silly
different programs are arguing about how many printers I have connected.
this is not a good sign
WHY CAN I PRINT TO MY ROOMMATE'S CPAP MACHINE?
okay I have windows disagreeing with itself about how many printers it has.
that's not good
can't delete the printer: it doesn't exist.
can't remove the printer: it's in use.
MAKE UP YOU MIND
nope. it seems no matter how I configure the printer (and it's supposedly installed twice now) it doesn't show up on "printers and scanners"
giving up on USB.
give me ethernet
lemme just SSH into my lettucecam so I can run nmap real quick
THIS IS THE WRONG PRINTER
I'm only seeing one printer on the right port, and it's not THIS ONE!
okay I think the printer is literally broken.
like, I've powercycled it a bunch, but it turns out it's not talking to the network, and it also won't let me run calibration or print a test page. it's like I'm locking up the firmware
There is a diagnostic tool, which detects the printer.
unfortunately...
this isn't just a driver issue: the button on the printer doesn't work.
and it never gets an IP
talking to tech support now. hopefully they can help
I gave up on getting the label reprinted properly and went with one of the failed versions.
other than the SONY getting cropped off, it's... okay.
#goncharov
so I'm on the line with tech support and they're telling me to press a button when a light blinks blue and it never does that.
so that's nice.
tech support decided the motherboard was fried and is mailing me a replacement.
SO OBVIOUSLY I opened it up to look at it.
The motherboard calls itself 470B_MAIN V3.4
U1 is a Nuvoton NuMicro M482 .
That's an ARM Cortex-M4, running at up to 192mhz.
It's got 160-64 kilobytes of SRAM, and 512/256 kilobytes of flash storage. Built in USB
U4 is an SN74LVC07A hex buffer/driver.
U14 is a TI TS3A5017 Dual SP4T Analog Switch
U9 is a CoreChips SR9700. That's a single-chip USB-to-ethernet driver chip.
U8 is a Winbond 25Q64JVSIQ 8-megabyte SPI flash chip.
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