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MM-xxxvi     Saturday

2000-02-05

It remains too warm, with 5°C this morning, but is stays dry today.

On my customary Saturday shopping I pick up two Compact Flash storage cards (16MB) for my camera. At about 60 Euro each they look reasonably priced at Bigs. Last week I asked at Masset if he had these but he didn't know what Compact Flash cards actually were. So now I show him one and he looks it up at his supplier. It seems that these Kingston cards come at around 70 Euro before taxes and before profits. So I paid less than the cost price. I like that.

My brother has a Psion Series-5 (mine is an older 3a). This has 8MB internal memory and a 'proprietary' expansion unit. Well CompactFlash cards were so rare when that machine came out that it made no sense to advertise the socket as anything different. But I plugged in a CF card and it was immediately recognized as a new 16Meg drive (no booting required). The last time I looked at Psion they were asking about ten times that.

After taking some shots with the camera I notice that it is very sensitive to shooting against the light. Remember this is a very cheap thing. It has a small lens which, together with a light end distance sensor are protected by a flat piece of glass. When light falls on that at an oblique angle you get streaks in the image.

I seem to be having a problem wit uploading to iTool. Normally I use CuteFTP but since yesterday I cannot connect anymore. The only way to upload is via the file manager that iTool provides. This is not a good tool for uploading. It doesn't replace files, you must first delete the existing file and then upload the new one. And it doesn't do more than one file at a time. It takes about ten minutes to do the upload and it requires attention, normally I upload in about one or two minutes and I can do that in the background. Something must be done about it. But not today anymore.

Adios