Archive for January, 2006

Without too much pain, I’ve gotten my Canon point-n-shoot camera to talk to my debian desktop machine. The steps were:

  • Install gtkam (graphical front-end to image browsing and download)
  • Informing the machine that I want to access the camera from a user (ie, non-root) account. I did that with the assistance of jace and enginet.

Now I’d like to teach my machine to upload the pics to my Gallery server automatically, so I don’t have to do a manually.

When I plug the camera in, I’d like my machine to automagically download all of the images from the camera, and then upload them to my Gallery server. Preferably with a cute GUI window showing the progress of the upload. The problem being that the hotplug script that detects the camera plugin has no idea where my X server is, meaning that popping up a GUI window isn’t easy.

Blech. I guess the way to go is to use some sort of dbus thing, or just flash the keyboard lights to indicate image transfer. =P

04
JAN
2006

Silly Dick

With all the guffaw about the Liberals and allegations of corruption, you’d think that whoever works on our local candidate’s campaign would have checked their whois registration. If you go to the whois record for RichardMahoney.ca, you’ll see that the site was registered with Canadian Heritage email addresses. Which means that whoever was working on Richard Mahoney’s site was doing it with Government of Canada resources. Which is probably against regs.

If I was a hypocrit, I’d lambaste ‘em. But, in reality, I’m guessing that most ridings in Ottawa have at least one or two volunteers who are stealing time on a government machine. But to be so flagrant about it? After Gomery? Tch. They really should know better.

And our press should do a better job at validating our candidates. Doesn’t CBC, CTV, or any of those folks have a techie on site?

Wow. I blogged about this yesterday, and it’s fixed today. Someone likes reading their log files…
It looks like there isn’t an archive of DNS records anywhere, meaning that I don’t have an official record of this. Good for them.