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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Samual Acorn wrote:
> > basiclinux is fun... but as its name implies.... its extreamly...
> > well... basic... you are missing out on quite a bit on things
> > like..... mozilla....
>
> Does Firebird count?  I run Firebird on BL2.  And Gnumeric.
> Anything else I'm missing?
>
> > i take it your camera doesnt have removable memory cards?
>
> I haven't got a camera at all.  But, if I do get one, it will
> use CF cards (because I recently got a PCMCIA CF adapter and
> have added the CF routine to BL3).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

What would you do if you biked somewhere with your camera and took photos 
that you wanted to share immediately, and nobody there had a laptop 
computer?  We have one desktop to which we added pcmcia controller and 
slot.

I made sure to get a camera (Olympus from 2000) that can transfer via 
serial cable using PhotoPC (for linux or for DOS and it fits on a boot 
disk. 60K file.  But trasnferring 50MB of photos (1280 res, 200-250K each) 
took 6 hours so I got a USB card reader for Smartmedia cards and use 
David's 1-floppy boot disk instead of biking around with a laptop computer 
in my backpack.  100 sec transfer.  Is PCMCIA any faster than USB?

Sindi