Apollo+40, Comp Bits
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in Computers/Internet, Space | No Comments »- Cool! RT @BadAstronomer Are you following @ApolloPlus40 ? It’s tweeting the Apollo 11 mission “live” as it happened 40 years ago. #
- Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a power-only USB cable before. Would be nice if it was LABELED as such. #
- Ugh. “Refurb Madness.” Bad pun. Stay in the corner. #
USB Uncharged, Safari Whizbangless, Android + iPhone
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in Computers/Internet | No Comments »- D’oh! Plugged my phone into a loose USB data cable last night instead of the charger! I’ll just have to use company electrons, I guess. #
- Ah, that’s probably why the new whizbang features in Safari 4 don’t exist on my work PC: video card requirements. #
- Need to read up on this: Appcelerator framework lets you build apps for both iPhone and Android #
- Software updates are traveling in packs. Today I hit Windows, OSX, Office, Safari, Adobe Reader, Chrome & Java. Plus new Fedora & WordPress! #
When digiKam Failed to Connect
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Linux, Troubleshooting | 9 Comments »In the decade I’ve been using Linux, it’s gone from something that required lots of technical know-how just to set up, to something that (in its major flavors) can auto-detect most hardware and provides friendly GUIs for most configuration tasks. But every once in a while, I have the kind of experience that would turn a new user off of Linux. Usually because Fedora has decided to change something during an update.
In this case, it was a digital camera problem. Since we bought our Canon PowerShot SD600 last December, I’ve used KDE’s digiKam to transfer and manage the photos. DigiKam detected the camera and accessed the photos right out of the box, no configuration needed beyond telling it to remember the model. But something changed in the last two weeks, and last night I started getting an error message: Failed to connect to the camera. Oddly enough, it could still detect the camera when it was connected. But it couldn’t display or download the images.
I searched all over, hitting dead end after dead end, until I got a hint that it was a permissions problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Linux everywhere!
Thursday, August 26th, 2004 Posted in Linux | No Comments »This looks cool: GlobeTrotter [archive.org] is a 40 GB external USB hard drive that comes pre-installed with Mandrake Linux. Basically you can carry it around and temporarily turn any computer into your Linux box!
It should be more flexible (and run faster) than CD-based distributions like Knoppix or Mandrake Move [archive.org], although it’s bulkier than carrying a CD and a keychain.
Hmm, I wonder if I could get Damn Small Linux to boot off a USB keychain…
