Hey All
I’ve just purchased the Humble Indie Bundle 3.
Grab your DRM-free copies Here !
Hopefully, time permitting, I shall be posting up some quick reviews of the games or at least some screenshots of me playing them.
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Jul 262011
Hi All,
I just bought my daughter a digital camera for her to take photos with since she loves taking them.
It’s one of these, which we bought at Toys ‘R’ Us for $25, which was a pretty good deal.
Look like this :
Once we got home, she exhausted the tiny internal memory fairly quickly, so I had to download the photos off the camera.
Only problem, the bundled software only supports Windows. I don’t have a Windows machine anymore though, so off to the internet I trundle to find out how to get the photos off the camera.
After lots of trawling, I come across a snippet from a post a while back mentioning gphoto2.
So off I go to install gphoto2, and what do you know, I can now download all the photos off the camera in ppm format.
To do it, I plugged the camera in via USB, after I plugged it in, the camera was detected by my eeePC.
The lsusb command spat out
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0979:0227 Jeilin Technology Corp., Ltd
that as the camera, which was a bit cryptic but that’s ok, as long as it was picking it up.
After I plugged it in, I used gphoto2 to check out the camera to see what was on it.
I ran –
gphoto2 -L
to see what was on it, and it spat out –
There are 39 files in folder '/'.
#1 jl_001.ppm image/x-portable-pixmap
#2 jl_002.ppm image/x-portable-pixmap
#3 jl_003.ppm image/x-portable-pixmap
#4 jl_004.ppm image/x-portable-pixmap
So gphoto2 can definitely read the camera. Next step – to download all the photos.
I ran –
gphoto2 -P
to download all the photos to the current directory.
After running it, I got this –
Downloading 'jl_001.ppm' from folder '/'...
Saving file as jl_001.ppm
Downloading 'jl_002.ppm' from folder '/'...
Saving file as jl_002.ppm
Downloading 'jl_003.ppm' from folder '/'...
Saving file as jl_003.ppm
And all the photos were saved to the current directory.
So that’s how I downloaded all the photos off the Sakar Kidz Cam.
Hope this helps someone in need !.
Jul 192011
Hi All, just a quick update today.
I was trying to get NFS working today but kept running into errors.
Whenever I tried to start imapd, I would keep getting this error –
rpc.idmapd[12599]: main: fcntl(/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs): Invalid argument
Turns out, I didn’t have dnotify support enabled in the kernel.
Enabling this now, and will be testing very soon.
Just a quick tip for anyone coming across this issue !
Cheers all.
Jul 022011
Hi All,
I have just worked up a short script to search a SQL server using Javascript.
Using ActiveX and the ADoDB.Connection object this enables me to build a little HTA frontend to do what I need.
Firstly, we create the ADODB object.
var objConnection = new ActiveXObject("adodb.connection");
Then, set the options we want for the connection.
I’m connecting to a SQL server, that is hosted on “server1”, and the database i want is “db1”, and I’m connecting with username and passwords.
var strConn = "driver={sql server};server=server1;database=db1;uid=username;password=password";
Then we open the connection with the options specified.
objConnection.Open(strConn);
Once the connection has been opened, we use the ADODB.Recordset object to execute a query and retrieve results from SQL.
var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");
var strQuery = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = 'user1'";
rs.Open(strQuery,objConnection);
Once the query has been executed, the results will be stored in the recordset.
You will now be able to view the results using the standard recordset functions.
rs.MoveFirst
while(!rs.eof) {
//Do your thing here
rs.movenext;
}