Hi :) On 10/03/11 21:57, Graeme Gill wrote:
You're meant to wait for the "beep". That tells you that the it's completed the initial black reading and that the light has warmed up.
Oh really? Actually, come to think of it, I don't think I've heard a terminal beep in a while. I do tend to disable system sounds, but I've just tried and failed to make a terminal beep happen on three recent versions of Ubuntu!
Anyhow, they say you learn something every day - thanks for clearing up that eye-one technicality.
All the best -- Alastair M. Robinson