Lies-to-children
May. 17th, 2006 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackManual: 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.
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.