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[Samual Acorn <sam.acorn AT gmail.com>]

On 25/12/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 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?

id show them the images on the convienient LCD screen built into the
camera if i was in that much of a hurry....

> 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

why in such a hurry? buy a pocket PC if you just cant wait.... they
have wifi and usb ports last i looked... take pics... stop infront of
a starbucks and then email your pics wherever you want...

polaroid also makes a camera that spits pictures out as soon as you
take them....

> in my backpack.  100 sec transfer.  Is PCMCIA any faster than USB?

PCMCIA is as fast as the ISA bus.... it -is- the ISA bus... (8MB/sec)

>
> Sindi
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