ACK!!'s Journal: My Janie Porsche moment this Christman

Ok, I do not save Christmas.

Yes, my wife did get our new Nikon 4100 working with Windows. But it did take her about 20 minutes with all the installation of software from the CDs and the tweaking needed on our Windows side of the laptop.

So, I boot up in linux with not a lot of assumptions of how well it would work. I plug the camera in and in about 5 seconds I get a little icon on my desktops and a dialog box that asked me if I wanted to import the new photos.

Now, for me, this dialog box was misleading. I understand that the default behavior of the program is to copy the photos locally to your Pictures folder and then remove them from the device. Uh, not exactly, what I want to happen in a multi-boot, multi-OS household. However, I was so excited that it worked so smoothly and quickly that I clicked the damn button anyway and ....

All it did was bring up gthumb with all my photos ready to copy over to the hard drive. It did not copy the photos locallly or wax them from my camera. The dialogue may be a bit misleading but it did exactly what I really wanted it to do.

I just highlighted all the photos with a select all and drug over with a copy into my Family folder underneath my Pictures directory.

Hell, that was slick and easy. I also found just last night that atrpms and dag repositories both carry ltmodem and madwifi drivers. Oh, hell w00t! Progress is good and if I had done better research I could have saved myself a compile in the process.

Cool.