The 4027 Error

I had the funniest error message on a computer at the school this morning.  After I rebooted it was fine, but it made me smile.  It’s now floating around to all the techs.  The screen capture is to the left, but the error read as follows:

“You can’t use this version of the application EPSON Scan with this version of Mac OS X.
You have Mac OS X 10.6.4. The application requires Mac OS X 214753.53.9 or later.”

Mac OS X 214,753?  Is it year 4027 yet?  I thought it was 2010! And where’s my rocket pack?

MultiTouch Surface

Over the past few days I’ve been working on installing tBeta and getting my multi-touch surface up and running.  Currently my surface is roughly based on the MTmini. Anyhow, tBeta keeps crashing, my webcam software isn’t all that stable either, and my installation of XP was never really stable to begin with.  So – I’m reinstalling windows.  I’ve wiped the c drive clean and am reinstalling from scratch (I had a version of Ubuntu running as well, but it was as unstable as XP – as such, I never used it).

Now some may be wondering why I’m not doing this project on my iMac.  Well, it’s because 1) my webcam is not supported on the iMac correctly.  Fortunately, they make a program that will cover that – however, you also can’t disable/override the built in iMac camera.  Which, I think is horribly inconsiderate – almost as inconsiderate as Apple has made their app store approval process.  So, I can’t really do it on the iMac at this point, though I may have to try more extreme measures if my PC still doesn’t work correctly after the reinstall.

But I have hope that things will be better…

Best,
Philip Likens
Texas based Interactive Artist and Web Design Instructor