Lazy Sunday...
Oct. 16th, 2005 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpGot up early, for no special reason, and dropped by the store to get the Brother label-maker. On the way back, I stopped at the kids' place to take a look at a mushroom Drew found growing under a bush. It has the elegant look of a tall, cool, drink of poison - Amanita style - though I am not in a position to confirm or disprove my suspicions.
Later, I made a couple of trips to the new Ace Hardware that opened up where the unfortunate bowling alley tried to take root. Shannon works there and store policy apparently allows the employee discount to extend to a certain number of family members, including moi, in Shannon's case.
What I bought allowed me to bring an ancient chain saw back to life, which I used to cut up some of the remaining wood in the old wood pile. I haven't broken out the tape measure, but I'd estimate there's about a third of a cord piled up on the driveway. That chain saw has been remarkably trouble-free over the roughly 15 years we've had it, although it's not as if it's one of those tools I use all day, every day. Still, aside from replacing the spark plug and the chain when necessary, the unit has been quite serviceable.
I napped for a couple of hours after cutting wood and burning some miscellaneous trash, and then sat down to try to figure out why the Ops program is so "iffy" when it comes to recognizing the CVS video camera. Today, every time I connected the unit, my computer would install a generic USB device for it, with no actual driver. After enough repetitions, it occurred to me that something was wrong with making/breaking contacts in the USB connection.
When I inserted the plug so that it sat absolutely flush to the right side of the slot on the top of the camera - instead of centered - no USB device was installed. This indicated to me that the computer had linked the new device to an already present driver (the "Saturn"), and indeed, firing up Ops yielded success.
So it turns out that my suspicion that the problem was in the cabling is actually correct. The pinout is good and there are no shorts between leads, but my modification of the Centronics connector so it would fit into the camera (done essentially with a large nail clipper) is just a tad off.
It turns out, according to Drew, that Huntür's camera may have no images on it, but I'll only be able to tell that once I get my hands on the unit. According to Shannon, Huntür kept watching stuff she had recorded over and over again - especially one clip taken of herself riding, or trying to ride, a bicycle - until the battery ran down.
Cheers...
Later, I made a couple of trips to the new Ace Hardware that opened up where the unfortunate bowling alley tried to take root. Shannon works there and store policy apparently allows the employee discount to extend to a certain number of family members, including moi, in Shannon's case.
What I bought allowed me to bring an ancient chain saw back to life, which I used to cut up some of the remaining wood in the old wood pile. I haven't broken out the tape measure, but I'd estimate there's about a third of a cord piled up on the driveway. That chain saw has been remarkably trouble-free over the roughly 15 years we've had it, although it's not as if it's one of those tools I use all day, every day. Still, aside from replacing the spark plug and the chain when necessary, the unit has been quite serviceable.
I napped for a couple of hours after cutting wood and burning some miscellaneous trash, and then sat down to try to figure out why the Ops program is so "iffy" when it comes to recognizing the CVS video camera. Today, every time I connected the unit, my computer would install a generic USB device for it, with no actual driver. After enough repetitions, it occurred to me that something was wrong with making/breaking contacts in the USB connection.
When I inserted the plug so that it sat absolutely flush to the right side of the slot on the top of the camera - instead of centered - no USB device was installed. This indicated to me that the computer had linked the new device to an already present driver (the "Saturn"), and indeed, firing up Ops yielded success.
So it turns out that my suspicion that the problem was in the cabling is actually correct. The pinout is good and there are no shorts between leads, but my modification of the Centronics connector so it would fit into the camera (done essentially with a large nail clipper) is just a tad off.
It turns out, according to Drew, that Huntür's camera may have no images on it, but I'll only be able to tell that once I get my hands on the unit. According to Shannon, Huntür kept watching stuff she had recorded over and over again - especially one clip taken of herself riding, or trying to ride, a bicycle - until the battery ran down.
Cheers...
