[PLUG] Need hints buying a digital camera for a Linux household

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Fri Apr 26 06:46:22 UTC 2002


>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> writes:

Russell> Just my little anecdote, I've got an Olympus 460Z, which
Russell> comes with a serial cable (not USB).  It took close to 1 hour
Russell> to download about 100 SHQ (I think) images using the serial
Russell> cable (about 30 meg).  Just that download operation would
Russell> just about toast a set of 4 alkaline AA's.  So: a) get
Russell> rechargables; b) get some kind of media reader; and/or c) get
Russell> a camera that has a USB (or other high-speed) interface
Russell> built-in that works with your OS of choice.  I went with b)
Russell> and am working on a).

Just wanted to report that I finally got around to plugging in the USB
flash/smartmedia reader into my linux box and it works like a charm.
I got this at the first of the year, a store brand out at ChumpUSA,
for $29.  I haven't tried hotplugging it yet, although at the rate my
Abit VP6 is freezing, it probably couldn't hurt anything.  

Has anyone else had a borked VP6?  Worked great for 10 months, but the
last few weeks have been so chock full of freezes you could start to
believe GWB had this whole global warming thing right after all.

-- 
Russell Senior         ``The two chiefs turned to each other.        
seniorr at aracnet.com      Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible       
                         profanity, which, translated meant, `This is
                         extremely unusual.' ''                      




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