Dinner last Saturday was chicken with potatoes and mushrooms, spinach (creamed or raw, according to preference), and fresh bread (store-bought, unfortunately). It was quite picturesque.
The reason I didn’t post this picture earlier was that I was waiting until I figured out how to make Linux work with my camera. I had tried a few weeks ago, expecting it to be relatively easy, and it wasn’t. This afternoon I took another crack at it, expecting it to be complicated, and found it to be fairly straightforward (even though kernel compilation errors temporarily sidetracked the process). I’m feeling pretty nifty.
Senji says:
I have to admit that I cheat with my camera -- I just put all the images on the memory card (which is a lot bigger than the internal memory anyway) and use a USB card reader.
This makes life a lot easier.
Laurabelle says:
Actually that's essentially what I've done. My camera stores all of its images on a memory card; my software (gphoto2) just uses the camera as a USB card reader.
Gphoto2 itself was no problem to install and use, and the documentation was very clear. I spent a good bit of my time figuring out what kernel options I needed to enable for USB mass storage, and then I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why my previously well-behaved kernel source was kicking up a fatal error in supposedly stable code. (I eventually gave up, downloaded 2.4.26 source, and compiled that instead.) So you see, using a USB card reader would not have made my life significantly easier, and indeed it would have made my life significantly more difficult since I do not own a card reader (other than my camera, of course). ;-)
I'm just happy because this means I don't have to muck about with downloading images in Windows and then copying them over to my Linux filesystem.