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Re: SanDisk gambles more flash will set Sansa e280 MP3 apart from Ipod, Zune

__/ [ John Bailo ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 15:04 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Just like it works with Palm devices. Either pilot-link or a card reader
>> for a peripheral SD card. All players should ultimately be treated like
>> mass-storage devices. Some recent models of the Palm, such as the
>> LifeDrive (Tungten 5 too?) have this capability. I can recall an MP3
>> player that I had 6 years ago Standards were primitive and you relied on
>> some gross Windows application to handle communication.
> 
> When I was on LI last week visiting my sister, she had a Canon Sureshot.
> 
> Very common, well advertised camera right?
> 
> So, you would expect it to work flawlessly with Windows...right?
> 
> Six weeks after buying it, it stopped functioning as far as being able
> to transfer the pictures across to Windows.   I did all the usual
> trouble shooting:
> 
> 1. Reinstall the software.
> 2. Try other USB ports.
> 3. Take battery out of camera
> 4. Reformat camera storage.
> 
> There was a big "update" the morning it stopped working, so I'm guessing
> some security feature or dll got overwritten.
> 
> But hey, maybe it's only her PC, camera combination, right?  Nope.  Once
> I started Googling, I found that many others had abandoned all hope and
> instead purchased the USB card reader in order to transfer images with
> any regularity.

Linux is least verbose (shall you wish for it to be). You can see the
kernel's reaction when it detects a newly-inserted device.

Daughter: "What's kernel panic, mommy?"

Mother: "There's no such thing. It's a myth."

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