Scanner recommendations (and usb ports)

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 0.9K bytes, Michael Hipp blathered:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >What about getting a bigger power supply? Don't powered hubs come 
> >with a transformer brick?
> 
> Sometimes not an option depending on the box. And some motherboards 
> don't seem to quite live up to the 500mA spec for USB; that's the 
> "juice" I was referring to rather than the power available to the whole 
> system. But what's one more wall-wart among dozens ;-)

I worry about the accumulated weight pulling the sheetrock (well
lathing, actually) off the studs or tipping the apartment to off
level...

> (Underneath my desk looks like somebody lobbed some serious ordnance 
> into a wire & cable factory.)

Heard that. My foot periodically gets tangled up in it. It looks like
some robot's having a bad hair day.

Kurt
-- 
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're
guessing.