I'll fill it up with clothes or I'll fill it up with no clothes.

[reddragdiva]

• Your kink is not OK.

• Hack most wireless LANs in minutes.

• You wanted to be a sysadmin?

tals' funeral and wake photos are up. I need the names filled in (I'll be going back over them tomorrow, I am stupidly tired right now). If you hate your picture, remember that's how the event happened — you were that drunk. And metzkass will of course SEE ALL OF THEM.

The voice chat piece is doing great on Uncyclopedia, but is getting fucking creamed on Kuro5hin (login required). Bah, fuck 'em! Unless it survives, of course.

There was police tape and cars around a stretch of Hoe Street just south of Walthamstow Central station this evening, so I couldn't fetch chicken for our dinner. Huh? teqkiller, muftak?

(Update: Liz tells me two people were stabbed. Eek! This is a nice suburb for nice people!)

arkady has made it to Wales alive. No intarweb until she gets the DSL modem working. She has left me with something to remember her by: redcountess appears to have been been bitten by a radioactive doll weirdo. oh noes. "resistance is futile. i have learned this." — cavalorn. I suppose we'd bought all the gadgetry that was conceivably useful. The camera must have been the last straw. I have been quietly geeking all evening while she looks through doll site after doll site ... it does beat her playing patience on the Zire.

The camera is being a minor nuisance: it won't reliably show up as a USB hard disk when hooked to my Ubuntu laptop or FreeBSD desktop. It actually froze the FreeBSD box completely when I unplugged it. Gah! It works with the Mac, though, and presumably Windows. I think this is something to do with using an MMC card, or this particular MMC card — with no card (just the internal memory) it works fine, and Arkady's (with an SD card) works fine with her Ubuntu laptop and has an SD card. I really should get a 1 gig SD card for it. Actually, I should try my camera on my computers with an SD card.

Non-geeks should stop reading here.

On Ubuntu 5.10 (Linux kernel 2.6.12-10-386-ubuntu), the Fujitsu A202 works fine and gives this dmesg output:

[4436997.256000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[4436997.366000] scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4436997.369000] usb-storage: device found at 3
[4436997.369000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4437002.375000]   Vendor: FUJIFILM  Model: USB-DRIVEUNIT     Rev: 1.00
[4437002.375000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4437002.412000] SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
[4437002.421000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4437002.421000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 32 02 00
[4437002.421000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4437002.445000] SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
[4437002.454000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4437002.454000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 32 02 00
[4437002.454000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4437002.454000]  /dev/scsi/host10/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
[4437002.476000] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi10, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4437002.480000] usb-storage: device scan complete

The Premier DC-5085 (the new camera) fails and gives:

[4437219.311000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[4437219.429000] scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4437219.432000] usb-storage: device found at 3
[4437219.432000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4437224.437000]   Vendor:           Model: Digtal Camera     Rev: 0101
[4437224.437000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4437224.449000] SCSI device sdb: 1002960 512-byte hdwr sectors (514 MB)
[4437224.456000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[4437224.456000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 46 00 00
[4437224.456000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4437224.483000] SCSI device sdb: 1002960 512-byte hdwr sectors (514 MB)
[4437224.490000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[4437224.490000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 46 00 00
[4437224.490000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4437224.490000]  /dev/scsi/host12/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
[4437224.504000] Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi12, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4437224.508000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4437224.944000] printk: 54 messages suppressed.
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003264
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003265
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003266
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003267
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003268
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003269
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003270
[4437224.944000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003271
[4437224.947000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003264
[4437224.947000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1003265

FreeBSD 5.3 gives similar messages about buffer I/O when I plug the Premier in. Haven't tried FreeBSD 6.0 yet. On Mac OS X 10.4.3 the Premier Just Works with the card in, but doesn't cause any dmesg output (and I can't find where it does log such things).

This is the Premier with no card in it, mounting its 16MB internal memory. It works fine, so it's not the camera sucking as a USB device:

[4339024.041000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[4339025.278000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[4339025.288000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[4339025.294000] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4339025.301000] usb-storage: device found at 2
[4339025.301000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4339025.301000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[4339025.301000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4339030.306000]   Vendor:           Model: Digtal Camera     Rev: 0101
[4339030.306000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4339030.320000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4339030.545000] SCSI device sda: 28864 512-byte hdwr sectors (15 MB)
[4339030.552000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4339030.552000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 46 00 00
[4339030.552000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4339030.580000] SCSI device sda: 28864 512-byte hdwr sectors (15 MB)
[4339030.587000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4339030.587000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 46 00 00
[4339030.587000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4339030.587000]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
[4339030.601000] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4339032.423000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

We also have a card reader here. Interestingly, when I put the MMC into that and plug it into the laptop, it works fine. Although having to take the card out of the camera is a PITA and sort of misses the point.

[4437601.245000] usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
[4437601.344000] scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4437601.346000] usb-storage: device found at 7
[4437601.346000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4437606.348000]   Vendor: Generic   Model: STORAGE DEVICE    Rev: 9312
[4437606.348000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4437606.441000] SCSI device sdb: 1003520 512-byte hdwr sectors (514 MB)
[4437606.442000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[4437606.442000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[4437606.442000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4437606.448000] SCSI device sdb: 1003520 512-byte hdwr sectors (514 MB)
[4437606.449000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[4437606.449000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[4437606.449000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4437606.449000]  /dev/scsi/host14/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
[4437606.454000] Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi14, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4437606.465000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4437607.192000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

Since it Just Works on the Mac, my current assumption is that the Linux and FreeBSD USB code both fail to cope with some crappy output from the Premier that the Mac works around, and in the same way. Grah.