Tim Groeneveld

Ever since I have started using KDE with Linux/FreeBSD as my desktop replacing Windows, there has been just one thing that has really annoyed me about both of these desktops, and that is using Kodak cameras.

Yes – I know, such a simple device, but you will be amazed at how many headaches it used to cause. Photo transfers would litrally take 20 minutes with the “KDE way” using the kioslave camera:/.

Finally there is a better way!

With the help of this site, I have found out that there is an even faster way to get my files, and it literally has saved me 30-60 minutes copying all the photos of my camera.

Instead of using the provided kioslave with KDE (and the new Kubuntu 9.04, which by the way is great!) I, for the first time in the new version of Kubuntu needed to use the console.

gphoto2 --auto-detect

This command got me a list of all the camera's that I had plugged into my system.

Model                          Port
----------------------------------------------------------
USB PTP Class Camera           usb:

After I knew what the port was, I could literally mount the camera as part of my filesystem using this command:

gphotofs --port=usb: ~/camera

and bam! just copy the files from /home/tim/camera into the Documents folder and 300MB of photo’s were transfered in less then three minutes.

Fantastic! This is so much faster then the KDE way, I can not prove to you how happy I am that this speed bottleneck is now solved.

written by Tim Groeneveld \\ tags: c813, kodak, Linux, photos, speed, tips and tricks, transfersm, usb

So, I thought I might like to tell you all that I am working the life of the working man now. I recently (on Thursday) started work at my first real full-time job at Digital Pacific.

It seems like a pretty good place, and even though it means moving from my current place in residence, which is Newcastle to Sydney, around two and a half hours away; working there really is worth it. All the people there are great, and my job is lots of fun.

So, I have not really been working on many projects for quiet some time, so today is actually the first day that I started working on some of my new upcomming releases.

Just can’t wait to find a place to live in Sydney

written by Tim Groeneveld \\ tags: employment, jobs, personal

Ahhh, the modern BBS. Let’s examine it. The modern BBS (which has yet to be given a name) is a mini hackathon project that I am doing to give some life to the rotting away OpenNIC “.bbs” top level domain. I am going to operate a bulitin board system, but update it a little at the same time.

My plans are to use SSH, Perl and Curses (Curses::UI to be exact) to do funky ASCII interfaces without spending *too* much time working on the fine lines.

Will share more when I awaken from my slumber.

written by Tim Groeneveld \\ tags: .bbs, OpenNIC, Perl, retro, SSH

Today is the day where we celebrate all that our SysAdmins have to offer. That is, their patience and their weekends! So to all System Administrators out there,

Happy SysAdmin Day!

written by Tim Groeneveld \\ tags: days, sysadmin