I am not entirely useless.

[lnr]

I've only been meaning to learn how to do this for *years*.

Open door on camera labelled with a picture of a flash card. See little tab with an arrow on it. Try pushing, nearly break thumbnail. Ooh look it lifts. Erm now what. Fiddle fiddle. Oh *push* it into the camera. Like *that* was obvious. Out pops flash card. Put card (right way round) in dongle thing, type "df" nothing obvious camera-like. Look in /etc/fstab, "mount /camera" ooh look, a filesystem with pictures on. And now they're in http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~eleanorb/temp/pics/

Several from the other night's knitting escapade (I have a set of circular knitting needles. The plan is to knit a strappy top by knitting a tube on them and then making straps. That was my first attempt. Realised it wans't going to work so took it off the needles, and then realised how much too big it was. Also includes me and Naath trying to unravel it). And a couple of really crap attempts to take a picture of the dress that arrived from ebay (dress) which didn't come out too well due to a) flash in a mirror and b) no flash when it's dark.

I may try again later. For now I can feel briefly technologically competant. And wonder why I never asked rjk to just show me.

ETA: ah yes, the last two taken with the timer from the computer room windowsill at least show the dress a bit better, even if they're not in focus. At least it wasn't a waste of time for its original purpose, as well as a fun learning experience :-)

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Goodness, how many stitches did you cast on??? :)

I'm knitting a top for myself at the moment, in a similar vein, if you want to try again I can point you at a very easy pattern (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/PATTsigma.html), complete with suitably geeky way of calculating size and stitch count...

[lnr]

Um, some. Quite a few. Too many. I estimated (by taking a bit 10 stitches long and folding it up) that it was around 250. Something like that. It's much more sensible now, and I'm nearing the end of the first ball of wool. Only a few holes in it too :-)

I might have a go at that top next. Or see how I feel about trying to retorfit this knitting to it when I get nearer the top. Got a lovely (and harder!) pattern to have a go at at some point (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8184715740) that wool was a wee bit more pricy though.

[lnr]

Well, I'm going to try turning what I've knit so far into that pattern. Looks like it might end up a bit small on me, but we'll see.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I'm about up to the bust line on mine - at which point I need to do some measuring and refresh my memory on 'short row shaping' so that I don't wind up looking like a demented 20s flapper trying to squeeze my bust into it. ;-)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah. Not someone who reads a manual, I guess.

[lnr]

That would require me to have the least idea where to find the manual for a 4 year old camera and 2 year old widget that's not even officially supported under linux anyway!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The driver's in the standard kernel, which is about as close as most hardware gets.

[lnr]

Oh, and I note it's not my camera, dongle, or linux box either :-)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, excused then. *grin*

Actually, the press-in-to-pop-out appears to be pretty statndard these days. I don't think Compact Flash did it, but SmartMedia and the newer cards seem to do it. Since you managed to work it all out without prior knowledge, or any docs, I'd say the designers actually got it pretty well right.

[lnr]

"fiddle fiddle" included me prodding it harder than I really liked to do in several directions, trying to google for a manual that would show me, and giving up at least once, before I actually got it to work. But at least I got there in the end.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm sure the manual is very helpful - I think it's missing a step. (http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/digCam/dc215/ownerManual/01start2.shtml#104263)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

'not sure', I mean.

[lnr]

Yup, missing the very step I was stuck on in fact :-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Oh, did you umount /camera when you'd finished?

[lnr]

of *course* :-) And before removing the card too.

Left the pics on it for now, since it's not vaguely full.