Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:47:21 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success story! Message-ID: <20030630104721.A24330@barryg.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20030630115415.2004c031.lute@cableone.net>; from lute@cableone.net on Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:54:15AM -0500 References: <5.2.1.1.0.20030630121325.02cf6708@pop3.hbg.bonet.se> <20030630115415.2004c031.lute@cableone.net>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:54:15AM -0500, Lute Mullenix wrote: >On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:34:16 +0200 >Jalle <defacto@home.se> insisted: > > This time, installing (or >> connecting rather) the camera on FreeBSD was as simple (?!?) as recompiling >> the kernel with an extra device, plugging in, mounting it and copying the >> pics from the camera! No sweat! >> >Well Jalle I am one of the fortunate few to have never run Windows on my >home computers. Started out with OS-9 on a Tandy CoCo II, and other than a >few things I have had to do at work on a Windows machine have never used >anything but UNIX like OSs.... My first Micro was a Radio Shack Model II (I did main frames for 12 years prior to that), moving to a Model 16 in 1982 running Xenix. The only Windows box here is my wife's, and it doesn't cause me much grief since she hates to listen to me piss and moan every time I have to touch it. >working and printing setup and running have never tried to get anything >going on here. I have a scanner in a box that I have never taken out, but >that's mainly because it was given to me and I have never had a reason to >use it. I have been thinking about picking up a digital camera though and >find your posting most encouraging. So when I get a few more pennies saved >up and buy my new Olympus C 720 hopefully I will be posting a similar >success story for the list. I've always used the flash readers for my Olympus 2020zoom. I have a PCMCIA adapter for the laptop, and USB readers which work with our Apple OS X systems, Linux, and FreeBSD. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.'' --George Orwell
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