Saturday, June 11, 2005

Photo Storage from Camera Flash Card

How do I store my photos from my Camera Flash Card into a Storage Device without the help of a Computer?

I am finding for a cheap solution:
1. Digimate II Portable Digital Storage Solution?
link here

2. Digi Mate ?
http://blueangel.en.alibaba.com/product/0/50211163/Digi_Mate.html

Apple iPod have great solutions, but they are costly solutions

Let me know if anyone has a better solution

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I got some more solution, like directly cutting a CD from the CF card - Battery operated

Apacer CP-200 CD Writer.

Or a HDD reader USB 2.0
Goto Link

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Swami vivekananda's chicago speech

Swami vivekananda's chicago speech.. back in 1893...
An excellent sketch of the gist of Hinduism for the modern mind (Swamiji was speaking to Americans). Wonderful use of English.. possibly the finest you would have ever heard.

Speech Part 1 (20MB)
Speech Part 2 (16MB)

Spread the links if you can...

Want to know more about: Canon EOS lens!

Great link:
http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/canonFAQ.htm#2Q1

More on Canon lenses:
http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/lenses.html

Canon Camera:
http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Checking binary files in CVS

Its easy adding and checking-in text files in CVS. Use the following commands:
cvs add [filename]
cvs commit [filename]

And when you want to add and commit it in binary format in CVS. Use the following commands:
cvs add -kb [filename]
cvs commit [filename]

But, what if you add an binary executable file in text format (like I always do). You are in a big mess. I always used to delete that file from CVS and add the same file again in binary mode. However, I recently came to know that we can change the mode from text to binary using 'cvs admin' and 'cvs update' commands.

What you have to do is:
1. Replace the existing file in your local folder with a clean binary version. (I still want to verify whether this is necessary or not)
2. Call cvs admin -kb [filename]
3. Call cvs update -A [filename]

This converts the file in binary mode. This has saved a lot of my time, and also the version number isn't altered.
Reference:
Click here to goto reference page

Other CVS links (CVS tutor):
http://durak.org/cvswebsites/doc/cvs_toc.php#SEC_Contents