Tuesday January 16, 2007

Five things you did not know about me yesterday.

Having been tagged by Geoff I thought I should do my duty and list five things folks do not know about me... Trouble is I have let a lot of the interesting/printable stuff out on this weblog over the years and not much I'd like to share is left...

One. I am left handed. But I eat right handed.

Two. My favourite tipple is Chilean Merlot or their Carmenere . I started my alcohol consumption with bitter beer, also Guiness - mixing it with cider now and then. I then developed a liking for Single Malt Whiskey's and then onto French Red's. However I later found the Chilean offerings much better and at more or less the same price.

Three. At home when I eat a meal like Pasta I eat the pasta first then the sauce ingredients. If its Sunday Roast I leave the best bit potatoes till last. Basically I eat my favourite bit of a meal last.

Four. My nickname as a boy was humph. I got it as there were two Paul's in my group of friends and I got the nickname - he kept his forename.

Five. Like Geoff I did go to Church as a child/young boy. I never believed and I think it was a way my parents had the house to themselves on Sunday morning.

Well that is is I am done - I won't be tagging anyone else. Time to hide behind a rock...

gphoto GP_SYSTEM_IS_FILE problems

I was using gphoto2 with a workstation at home running nv bld55. Gphoto2 was been working perfectly until now... It finds the camera, downloads the data and where I think it is going to save the file I see this:

$ /usr/sfw/bin/gphoto2 -P
Loading camera drivers from '/usr/l... Detected a 'Canon:Digital IXUS 400'.
Downloading 'IMG_5112.JPG' from folder '/DCIM/151CANON'...
ld.so.1: gphoto2: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/sfw/bin/gphoto2: symbol GP_SYSTEM_IS_FILE: referenced symbol not found
Killed

Gphoto2 still works fine on my SunRay@ home also using Nevada.. and ldd on gphoto2 looks the same on the SunRay and on the workstation.

Someone at work had better luck with Google than me and found this . The workaround is to run

gphoto2 --quiet --camera "Canon PowerShot A610 (PTP mode)" --get-all-files

Thanks Kevin.