Lies-to-children

[jack]

Manual: To upload pictures to your computer from your camera [install software, change camera settings, plug in, software autostarts...] Do not connect your camera to your pc until installation is complete!
Me: Gah, that's complicated. Why can't I just read the xd card like an external disk?
Me: But I don't have another card reader here, so I'll try it.
Computer: Installed. Click to reboot.
Me: Gah.
Me: Connects camera now.
Computer: Reads xd card like external disk.
Me: Gah! Couldn't they have said that? What's with the dire warnings? When will I accept that I know bettter than instruction manuals? (Sometimes. Often they mean their warnings.)

Anyway, lj picnic and family up north photos coming soon. Pictures of blossom and flowers and people in startrek uniforms at worldcon and amusing signs forbidding canoeing on hillsides were snapped with my phone and never saved, so gone now, sorry

ETA: Needs batch resizing. Thinks, "well, I have the software, ANYWAY", surely it's designed to do this easily. Crashes. Gah. Gimp, whereforartthou? Or maybe one of the online services designed to do this.

ETA: Gah. I don't know if there's a way to turn off rich text editing in livejournal. I'll disable javascript and sort it out later.

Comments

Batch resizing

[ewx.livejournal.com]

ImageMagick.

Re: Batch resizing

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*bookmark* Thank you.

[mair_in_grenderich]

irfanview does batch resizing, iirc, but you have to beware not to accidentally overwrite things and have it all go horribly wrong

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

You should install Ubuntu. Step 1: Plug in camera. Step 2: Contents of said appear on screen and you copy them to wherever you wish.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

But that *is* what happened, the problem was that it wasn't clear that that's would work (if the camera had needed some proprietary software instead of just being a disk drive, surely that would have worked even less in ubuntu). Or do you mean Ubuntu has a resize-and-copy-to-flickr function?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Not that that means I don't want to install ubuntu, I've been convinced. I just need to be convinced to hurry up and do it, rather than waiting until I have spare time :)