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[dlighe]

Wiki
I am thinking of adding a Wiki to use as a general home knowledge base. Any recommendations?

Digital PhotographyOk, so we have a digital camera. We go on a trip, take pictures, fill up the cards. Next day, time to take more pictures. Admittedly, we weeded out the mediocre ones from the previous day, but we still will need a whole new set

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[anneb]

Yeah, those sorts of things are starting to appear on the market. Can you download directly from your camera, i.e. from USB or something? Take a look at http://www.microcenter.com/search_results_e.phtml?coordinate_group=D2B9

I was reading a review of the little portable digital photo books, they're a little bigger than a game boy with an LCD display a little bit smaller than your 3x5 drugstore-photoshop prints, only with the proper aspect ratio for digital cameras. They are apparently getting very nice. For me, that's still too small, I want something like a Newton, really.

I watched someone shoot a Terps Ice Hockey game last year, and she did bring a laptop to download onto during period breaks. She had to lug a lot around. Any of these are better options, if you ask me. Even a 3.5" display is better for analyzing your shots than the teeny LCD on the back of your camera.

[dlighe]

We can download directly with a USB cable, but we also have a USB CF reader which is what I generally use.

The Flash-HD to go ones look pretty good. I'll have to see if I can find one in a store to play with. And 20GB would be plenty for my purposes.

[zeyr]

Digital storage question: There are a number of products for that, though none are particularly cheap. Here are some examples - http://www.nightowlcamera.com/readers.html .

Me...well, I'll just have my laptop along. ;)

[jferg]

Wiki: I've set up both TWiki and WikkiTikkiTavi (aka Tavi). They both serve their purpose fine, Tavi is PHP-based and TWiki is perl-based. Neither require a backend database, just flat text files. TWiki is much more full-featured, and thus more complex to figure out, but not overly difficult to set up. Tavi is very simple and basic and really doesn't require that much time to get going at all. TWiki didn't take me much longer to get going, but took me longer to figure out how to use it.

[antuvschle]

I never actually got TWiki up. I had used ComSwiki for this purpose, but after I upgraded to SUSE Linux, I had trouble running it. I used to recommend it because it was an instant install, but after a few zillion restores, I wouldn't recommend it anymore. Good for proof-of-concept.