Having had the last semester off I haven’t had the need to use my scanner much.  I use it to scan some important documents like a syllabus, homeworks and labs reports as well as graded work during the semester.  When I attempted to use it this past week to scan some things, HP Director would not open, even though it appeared like it would eventually open by showing the hourglass which would subsequently disappear.  I toyed with the whole HP application for a bit and found that HP Photo and HP Document Viewer would open and function properly without a hitch.  So what was happening to HP Director?

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Like most students around this time of the year, I’m heading back to school starting tomorrow the 5th, after a semester off.  It was a well deserved time off and in that time I found a great job.  This semester I’m doing something I haven’t done in my entire computer science(CS) education – not taking a computing related course during a semester. I wanted to slow it down a bit until I complete the majority of the math requirements.  After the calculus requirement is finished I’ll be heading back to UMass Lowell to finish my CS degree.

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