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In theory this scanner does work under Linux and Ubuntu. I've found this document that I tried to follow.

http://luuklangens.nl/blog/howto-fujitsu-scansnap-s1300-s300-ubuntu-linux

I install sane, copy firmware, confirm the location in the config etc. Everything looks good.

Potential problem areas

sudo sane-find-scanner

output:

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

found SCSI processor "Marvell 91xx Config 1.01" at /dev/sg5
# Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. Try
# scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [FUJITSU], product=0x128d [ScanSnap S1300i]) at    libusb:005:007
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.

Okay. So the scanner is detected and listed, it prints a bunch of extra noise that

# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Okay, let's verify the firmware files:

ls -lh  /usr/share/sane/epjitsu 
total 136K
-rw-r----- 1 root root 65K Jan  1 17:49 1300_0C26.nal
-rw-r----- 1 root root 65K Jan  1 17:49 300_0C00.nal

Looking at the configuration file: (snippets)

# Fujitsu S300
firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/300_0C00.nal
usb 0x04c5 0x1156

# Fujitsu S1300
firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300_0C26.nal
usb 0x04c5 0x11ed

Last thing I tried was to pull the line from sane-find-scanner and update the config

sane-find-scanner returns a different product ID. I updated the config file above, restarted the sane service, I ran scanimage -L still, scanner not detected.

For reference I had this working on this same computer under a virtualbox VM. If I can get it to work under windows that would be ideal. Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

Update: I revisited the behavior after adding the 1300i firmware and it's still not working but.

Once in a while when I do run this is the output. If I run it again it'll fail.

scanimage -L
device `epjitsu:libusb:005:008' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300i scanner

also sudo gscan2pdf and sudo simple-scan both fail to detect a scanner. It fails with and without sudo permissions.

I've been using Asciidoc ever since I discovered it and use it a lot to be my defacto README text file. It's readable in text and it can output all kinds of other formats, like man pages, pdf, html, etc.

Lately I've been seeing more and more FLOSS projects using markdown. It's slick as far as I can tell, but it still feels far more limited then Asciidoc. Even github seems to support .md better then asciidoc. Am I missing something? Is there a reason so many people are using .md?

I would think the portability of asciidoc and one text file to bind them all makes it much more powerful.

If anyone has any insights, or can tell my why markdown (MD) is so amazing, I'll buy you a virtual beer.

Since I've updated to 12.10 I'm having a very bizarre behavior when running IntelliJ.

Notice how the "File" menu is 2/3 of the screen down instead of where it's supposed to be? This is the case when I activate it using the mouse or the Alt+F hot key.

I am using a dual screen setup. IntelliJ is currently maximized on screen 2, and a console is maximized on screen 1.

The behavior isn't consistent, but if I use it long enough (a few hours) I usually observe it.

The only non-standard plugin I have is IdeaVM. 2 part question. 1. Has anyone else observed this behavior in IntelliJ or other apps? 2. Any suggestions on how to fix it.

How do I install OpenStack? Is there an easier way other than official installation instructions?