foul-weather Fourth
Mon Jul 4 15:41:48 EDT 2016
Sounds like it's pouring rain. They may cancel the fireworks. ☹
I need to start getting ready for Pennsic.
woot! put some micro-SD flash cards (with adapters) on sale, and I was thinking I should get a couple for the camera. Then I saw an earlier entry here saying I'd bought 3 64GB cards. So I don't need any more right now. I couldn't find them last night, but they turn up within inches of where I last remembered seeing them. And I found a 12-volt plug for the new camera's after-market battery charger. I'd forgotten it could run on 12v; that solves my only new recharging worry. (Will 3 spare batteries be enough for the new camera? What if I keep the GPS turned on?)
I need to copy the digital audio recordings to my laptop; space was tight last year, but there's plenty of room on the new laptop. Then the digital recorder won't need more flash cards.
I should inventory all the things that use batteries and make sure I have enough AAs and AAAs, and get them and the monster 12V battery charged; charging can't be left to the last minute.
I perhaps should have unrolled carpets and tents this weekend, but it's too wet for that today.
And I should get to NC at some point. There's 3 weekends before Pennsic; next weekend is OS patching. The 3rd weekend will probably be a server install. (That was scheduled for the 4th weekend, and I pointed out that I was already planning to be out of town that weekend. What is it with this notion that vacations don't include the bounding weekends? I've never encountered that anywhere else before.)
Update my packing list....
Add the 2nd bota, that did not arrive in time for Pennsic last year? (But the old bota was at the lost+found.)
Monday 16:23
Wow, I've had the Zoom H2 7½ years. It's a discontinued product. Zoom is still there, and their current products look nice. But the H2 still serves my needs.
Monday 20:14
I guess this was my first Pennsic-prep surprise. I've had this new camera since Jan 6. There's a 16GB SD card in it with about 890(!) photos and room for another 20. My photos are around 3 megapix (the camera is 18mp), and most also have raw files with the JPEGs. So ... let's try one of those new 64GB SD cards. Swapped it in; the camera's happy with it. I took a photo of my if-found page (name, address, phone number, email; Pennsic camp), turned the camera off, and put the card in my laptop.
Unable to mount 63 GB Volume
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/########/0123-4567:
Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/########/0123-4567"' exited with non-zero exit status 32:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
I tried an external USB card reader, and it seems to be too old to work with a big card. Some research on the web eventually got me to sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
and the laptop can now mount/read/write the 64GB SD card. I'm glad I didn't find this problem at Pennsic - "I can't copy files from the camera to the laptop, and I don't know whether I'll be able to get past this (i.e. download my photos) when I get home." Taking photos for 2 weeks and then being unable to get them out of the camera would be a huge disappointment.
This kind of thing is why Linux is not taking over the end-user market. My brother might have figured it out. My mother would not have. My wife would not have. And it shouldn't have been a problem in the first place. Large flash cards are out there, so why isn't the software to support them already installed? It wasn't hard to install - although another web site took me down another path that didn't fix it. So the fix is not obvious. Linux is full of arcane mysteries that will thwart the mundanes.
Linux wouldn't be where it is now without the Internet. Search engines have been the solution for many of my Linux problems. And as I mentioned, this would have looked like a much bigger problem if I had discovered it "off the grid" at Pennsic. (Even if I found someone there who knew the solution, I couldn't have downloaded it.) Without the Internet, I probably wouldn't be using Linux.
Monday 21:05
We seem to have had our local fireworks early, before dark - to beat the rain, I'd guess. I normally sit on our roof to watch, but the roof is wet tonight, slippery as well as unpleasant. So I just watched from the top of the ladder. The trees to the east are blocking the view more every year. ☹
The DC fireworks are scheduled to start soon.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/820835.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
Sounds like it's pouring rain. They may cancel the fireworks. ☹
I need to start getting ready for Pennsic.
woot! put some micro-SD flash cards (with adapters) on sale, and I was thinking I should get a couple for the camera. Then I saw an earlier entry here saying I'd bought 3 64GB cards. So I don't need any more right now. I couldn't find them last night, but they turn up within inches of where I last remembered seeing them. And I found a 12-volt plug for the new camera's after-market battery charger. I'd forgotten it could run on 12v; that solves my only new recharging worry. (Will 3 spare batteries be enough for the new camera? What if I keep the GPS turned on?)
I need to copy the digital audio recordings to my laptop; space was tight last year, but there's plenty of room on the new laptop. Then the digital recorder won't need more flash cards.
I should inventory all the things that use batteries and make sure I have enough AAs and AAAs, and get them and the monster 12V battery charged; charging can't be left to the last minute.
I perhaps should have unrolled carpets and tents this weekend, but it's too wet for that today.
And I should get to NC at some point. There's 3 weekends before Pennsic; next weekend is OS patching. The 3rd weekend will probably be a server install. (That was scheduled for the 4th weekend, and I pointed out that I was already planning to be out of town that weekend. What is it with this notion that vacations don't include the bounding weekends? I've never encountered that anywhere else before.)
Update my packing list....
Add the 2nd bota, that did not arrive in time for Pennsic last year? (But the old bota was at the lost+found.)
Monday 16:23
Wow, I've had the Zoom H2 7½ years. It's a discontinued product. Zoom is still there, and their current products look nice. But the H2 still serves my needs.
Monday 20:14
I guess this was my first Pennsic-prep surprise. I've had this new camera since Jan 6. There's a 16GB SD card in it with about 890(!) photos and room for another 20. My photos are around 3 megapix (the camera is 18mp), and most also have raw files with the JPEGs. So ... let's try one of those new 64GB SD cards. Swapped it in; the camera's happy with it. I took a photo of my if-found page (name, address, phone number, email; Pennsic camp), turned the camera off, and put the card in my laptop.
Unable to mount 63 GB Volume
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/########/0123-4567:
Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/########/0123-4567"' exited with non-zero exit status 32:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
I tried an external USB card reader, and it seems to be too old to work with a big card. Some research on the web eventually got me to sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
and the laptop can now mount/read/write the 64GB SD card. I'm glad I didn't find this problem at Pennsic - "I can't copy files from the camera to the laptop, and I don't know whether I'll be able to get past this (i.e. download my photos) when I get home." Taking photos for 2 weeks and then being unable to get them out of the camera would be a huge disappointment.
This kind of thing is why Linux is not taking over the end-user market. My brother might have figured it out. My mother would not have. My wife would not have. And it shouldn't have been a problem in the first place. Large flash cards are out there, so why isn't the software to support them already installed? It wasn't hard to install - although another web site took me down another path that didn't fix it. So the fix is not obvious. Linux is full of arcane mysteries that will thwart the mundanes.
Linux wouldn't be where it is now without the Internet. Search engines have been the solution for many of my Linux problems. And as I mentioned, this would have looked like a much bigger problem if I had discovered it "off the grid" at Pennsic. (Even if I found someone there who knew the solution, I couldn't have downloaded it.) Without the Internet, I probably wouldn't be using Linux.
Monday 21:05
We seem to have had our local fireworks early, before dark - to beat the rain, I'd guess. I normally sit on our roof to watch, but the roof is wet tonight, slippery as well as unpleasant. So I just watched from the top of the ladder. The trees to the east are blocking the view more every year. ☹
The DC fireworks are scheduled to start soon.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/820835.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]