I have installed this printer and scanner a few times but this time something went wrong the last time due to me not paying attention to what I was doing. So here are the instructions and how to avoid doing what I did that resulted in an error message.

Preparation
You will need to download some drivers from the Brother website.

You will need the two following files for the printer:
brdcp7030lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb
cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2-1.i386.deb

For the scanner you will need:
brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.deb
brscan-skey-0.2.3-0.i386.deb

Get them from here

Download them and have them on your desktop.

First thing that I did wrong the last time was the very first step. So ENSURE PRINTER IS PLUGGED IN THE USB AND SWITCHED ON!

Place driver on desktop and open a terminal (to open a terminal just type ‘terminal’ in the box after clicking on ‘dash home’):

You need to type an instruction that has system wide authority (what is known as ‘root’ authority) so to do that the word ‘sudo’ goes in front of the command.

You will need to copy the first command below (sudo dpkg -i –force-all /home/graham/Desktop/brdcp7030lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb) then right click in the Terminal and paste it in, then press enter. You can paste it in in two stages.

First you can paste in
sudo dpkg -i –force-all

Then you go to the driver on your desktop and right click on it and choose Copy. This will get the full address of the driver including your user name. You then paste it into the terminal so you get a complete command like this (make sure it is your user name that appears in the command, not mine) and press Enter:

sudo dpkg -i –force-all /home/graham/Desktop/brdcp7030lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb

You will then be asked for your password, enter it and press Enter. Then paste this next command in (with your name, not mine) and press enter:

sudo dpkg -i –force-all /home/graham/Desktop/cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2-1.i386.deb

Then in the terminal check the printer has installed by pasting in the following and pressing Enter:
dpkg -l | grep Brother

You should see your printer mentioned.

Next you are going to look into a file on your machine that controls things. To do this you are going to open your text editor called Gedit, but you will do it so that it can open and save ‘read only’ files. So in the terminal you paste the following:
sudo gedit /etc/printcap

For USB Connection (Default) you will want to see that the parameter of lp is “:lp=/dev/usb/lp0″

Then restart printer by pasting in this next command and pressing enter:
sudo restart /etc/init.d/lps

INSTALLING THE SCANNER
To install the scanner you need to have a small hidden programme on your machine called ‘sane-utils’. To ensure you have it installed already, make sure you have a scanner programme installed from the Software Centre (the shopping bag icon in your launcher open the Software Centre) such as ‘Simple Scan’ or ‘Xsane Image Scanning’ (which I prefer).

Run in terminal (you should be good at this by now):
sudo dpkg -i –force-all /home/graham/Desktop/brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.deb

Then:
sudo dpkg -i –force-all /home/graham/Desktop/brscan-skey-0.2.3-0.i386.deb

Then run scan-key-tool and try the test scanning.
Run scan-key-tool (The program will run as a background process). To do that you paste in:
sudo brscan-skey

Then to check if the scan-key-tool detects your scanner device by pasting in:
brscan-skey -l

Now you are going to edit a ‘read only’ file at ‘/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules’. If you want to read a bit more about how to do this you can go to a previous post of mine here. This time we will do it the quick way.

Step 1. Paste in the following command and a text document will open. Now this is a bit of the programme that runs your machine so DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING. The command is:

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

Step 2. You will see a long list of devices and you are going to add yours. You do this by adding the following two lines to the end of the device list. This is where I went wrong, I pasted them in the wrong place. It didn’t do any harm, but the scanner didn’t work.

The two lines must go after where is says: LABEL=”libsane_usb_rules_begin” and before the line “# The following rule will disable …”

I recommend you stick it after LABEL=”libsane_usb_rules_begin” so you don’t have to go to the bottom of the list.

The two lines to be pasted in are:

# Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}==”04f9″, ENV{libsane_matched}=”yes”

THEN SAVE THE TEXT DOCUMENT or the changes you have just made will be lost and you will have to do that bit again.

Now reboot the machine and both your printer and scanner should work great.

Now you deserve cake!

Though followers of Jesus will probably say God is good, despite personal pains griefs and tragedies, it is worth asking how they can come to that conclusion.

If we look at the poem of creation in Genesis chapter 1 we see the repeated use of the word ‘good’.

3 And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good…
10 God called the dry ground ‘land’, and the gathered waters he called ‘seas’. And God saw that it was good.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning – the third day.
16 God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening, and there was morning – the fourth day.
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

To describe these results of creation as good can not mean they were good in an ethical or moral sense. Neither could it be a case of God giving himself marks out of ten as though he has done his best and is relieved to see that the results turned out to be good.

The omnipotent God is seen to be declaring that the creation is good in the sense that it is complete, perfect, as intended. The creation is from him and as a result of his creating, it shares something of what he is, his very nature.

Later in the narrative we see that the declaration has changed to ‘very good’. What changed to bring about this ‘very good’? For the answer we must note that this description comes about after the creation of humans. It is this creation of people that is the crowning conclusion of creating that brings the declaration of ‘very good’. This is ‘very good’ because of the previous decision, “Let us make man in our image.” Now there is something in creation that is in the very image of God, and so is declared ‘very good’.

26 Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image…
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.

The creation is ‘good’ because it is of Him. Mankind is declared ‘very good’ because humans are of Him and, even more, are his image.

So is God good? It is a bad question, a proud question. How can the creature judge or declare whether The Creator is good?

It is not that God is good, as a standard of what he is, but that true Good is God. We are not the measure of all things. The Creator of all things is the measure and standard of all things.

So I think God is good all the time and all the time God is good.

I listened to a lecture by Keith recently where he pointed out that the writer to the Hebrews knew about their trials yet instead of addressing their troubles directly the writer spoke of the excellence of Jesus. This understanding of the excellence of Jesus is very much needed by Western Christians today, as the seduction is to live a counterfeit faith that is lived through others or through the Christian media.

There is a great quote on page 12 of his book where Keith writes about the accounts of Jesus being led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

He begins by setting the scene:

After the divine endorsement of Jesus at his baptism. one would expect the result of his confrontation with the devil to be a foregone conclusion. Although the devil may hope for a knockout, he is in for a shock as his opponent stands before him. having received the affirmation of the Spirit and the applause of his Father. The battle commences but the odds are unfair, for Jesus has already been identified as supreme.

Keith goes on to set out the usual explanation that is commonly heard on the lips of preachers. It is the same explanation I have proclaimed.

Matthew (4: 1-1 1) and Luke (4: 1 – 13) record three temptations of Jesus. Although there are differences in the accounts, the main thrust is clear—-the devil is no match for Jesus. The devil attempts to diverts Jesus from his mission by suggesting that he could prove that he is the Son of God, demonstrate it publicly, and own the nations by following an agenda other than the divine one.

This is the familiar understanding, an attempt to get Jesus to follow a different strategy, one that avoided the cross.

The part I particularly love in this piece is the following, were Keith points out that it was more than crucifixion that was required and that the devil wanted him to miss experiencing:

The devil challenges Jesus to achieve his ambitions without the pain of life and the rejection of those he came to save, without the denials, betrayals, and the flight of his followers, without suffering crucifixion and separation from the Father.

I love this insight and how he portrays it. This reminds me of the statement by Moltmann I previously blogged about over a year ago:

“… a God who cannot suffer is poorer than any man. For a God who is incapable of suffering is a being who cannot be involved. Suffering and injustice do not affect him. And because he is so completely insensitive, he cannot be affected or shaken by anything. He cannot weep, for he has no tears. But the one who cannot suffer cannot love either.”

Jesus was determined to suffer, and he did it for me. Wonderful!

I was thinking ahead to the long distance run I am planning for later in my sabbatical. I am hoping to run as much as I can manage of the coast to coast walk.

The reason men are seen running wearing those black running tights, and sometimes tight thigh-length shorts underneath the baggy shorts is that they are avoiding chafing. It is no laughing matter. On a long run what starts as a bit of chafing progresses to raw bleeding flesh. As fabric jogs up and down, as the miles go by, the fabric rubbing against nipples cause them to bleed too.

One solution to prevent chafing is to wear tights on the legs and over the chest something with smooth fabric. Some running vest have a smooth section across the chest for this reason. Another solution is to stick tape over the nipples, with or without shaving around them first. Although there are good anti-blister tapes around, especially for feet, I have found this to be another great use for duck tape.

I had planned to be doing the coast to coast about now but I decided that all the recent rain will have made the route too boggy so I have postponed it until July. That will give me more time to get everything ready.

I plan to do it alone, carrying a small back-pack containing micro tent and sleeping bag. I will give a run down of the kit I have assembles in a separate post.

I have no idea how far I will get. I am not expecting to complete the whole 220 miles.

Yesterday, Ministry of Defence Minister, Gerald Howarth, highlighted issues such as the Government’s “proposals for gay marriage” as contributing to the Conservative Party’s poor showing in the week’s local election defeats. There have also been indications that MPs are being impacted by messages from constituents indicating their opposition to the Government’s plans.

Makes me wonder why they are so determined to press ahead in some sort of self-destruct daze.

The idea for the story could have turned out to be a good one but I think it failed to rise to its potential.

The premise is that someone called Theo (get it – theo means God?) finds a scroll which turns out to be another Christian gospel, another eye-witness account of the death of Jesus. This ancient person though tells us that Jesus did not rise again after dying.

There are three great problems with the story.

Firstly as the writer imagines the loss of faith by follows of Jesus he shows he has little understanding of the relationship that a believer has with Jesus.

Secondly the writing style of the supposed ancient document is nothing like the writing style of someone of that time. I end up wondering if the novelist has properly read the real gospels or Paul’s letters where he would see very different literary devices.

Thirdly if Jesus had not risen from the dead why would anyone have wanted to follow him beyond his death?

Nice cover though.