I've just got a new toy, a digital camera. It's a Mustek MDC 3500. It's a fairly cheap one, nothing special, but I've been thinking it would be nice to have one to play with.
I just spent a frustrating few hours trying to get the bloody thing to
work with Linux. It detects it, but the drivers generate some strange
“illegal request” logging messages, and mount refuses to have
anything to do with /dev/sda, which is where it is trying to
appear. I'd be surprised if it's not
possible to get it working, but Linux always demands that you spend at
least a week farting around with these things before they work.
Just for the laugh, I booted my laptop into Windows (XP) to try it. Not surprisingly, it just popped up with a message offering to show me the pictures on the camera. Bastard. It's got to be hard, otherwise what's the point?
It seems that certain XML elders (Bray, Walsh) like photographing flowers and posting the pictures to their blogs. I don't know the first thing about plants, and I don't have any to hand, so instead here's a very bad picture of a tetrahedron model I made out of a Rizla packet and the sticky bits from some papers:
I know, it's terrible. I haven't worked out this photography business yet. I need a bit more practice.