Comments | gothgeekgirl: Someday...

gothgeekgirl

Someday...

Jun 29, 2009 04:24

... I will stop trying to force Solaris to be a functional home desktop and give in and just use Linux. Either that or I will have completely recreated all of /usr/sfw in /usr/local with the help of sunfreeware ( Read more... )

bofh, wedding, condo life

Comments 15

womzilla June 29 2009, 11:35:29 UTC

GIF! GIF!

gothgeekgirl June 30 2009, 03:54:29 UTC

'Fraid you'll have to make do with a JPEG ;)

womzilla June 30 2009, 11:21:42 UTC

Twill suffice. Yay!

martinoh June 29 2009, 13:42:22 UTC

p1: Hmmm
p2: Tut
p3: Boo
p4: Yay!

pir June 29 2009, 18:46:04 UTC

At least go for FreeBSD over Linux ;)

With my digital cameras I've always found it far easier to ignore the cable connecting and trying to talk whatever protocol that particular camera needs and just put the flash card into a card reader. Works on just about everything.

gothgeekgirl July 1 2009, 02:14:16 UTC

I've had plenty of struggles with FreeBSD as a desktop system, and I really am getting lazy in my old age.

I figured it was worth at least trying to connect the camera to the system because currently I don't have a CF card reader that Solaris 10 likes and I'm not in the mood to buy more computer kit. Solaris 10 is still weird about some USB devices that Just Work on my eee, damned if I know why. Weirdest are mp3 players. I have one that I have to manually mount because it gets attached to the system in a place vold doesn't expect, and one that vold will mount, but only if I first plug in a USB thumb drive, then plug in the mp3 player, and then plug a miniSD card into the mp3 player. This crap really does start to get old after a while.

asimovberlioz June 29 2009, 19:53:41 UTC

Glad the wedding and reception went well! I'm sorry again about cancelling after your deadline; I had completely zoned on the fact that Father's Day was the 21st, until my sister reminded me.

gothgeekgirl July 1 2009, 02:01:27 UTC

Not to worry- there are always cancellations for one reason or another. The headcount I gave the restaurant was 108. 105 of those were able to attend.

ltempt June 30 2009, 01:12:16 UTC

OpenSolaris?

gothgeekgirl June 30 2009, 04:34:12 UTC

Probably wouldn't help me in this instance. I was just going through the OpenSolaris source code last night for clues on how to set $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and they haven't updated the versions of gphoto2 and libgphoto2 from what I've got installed at home (Sol 10 06/06, patched). I should perhaps look at Belenix- that group might have updated some of the packages.

I should also look at uninstalling the Sun supplied gphoto2, libgphoto2 and gtkam. (this will also uninstall the gimp plugin for gtkam, but wouldn't that be built as part of gimp?) *gurgle*

I think I've gone from yak shaving to Tentacles!

ltempt June 30 2009, 05:54:33 UTC

Ook! The thought of going through the compile process for all of that makes my brain hurt. I'm sure there must be at least 45 dependant libraries, as well.

The cheats way out if you're on x86 would be an LX-branded zone.

Further bright ideas would require knowing the breed of camera. If you need to convert RAW files, dcraw works. I'd probably just pull the flash card and stick in a reader rather than trying to fiddle with USB magic camera mode drivers.