Wow. I didn't think anything...

Date: 2000-04-12 11:02:00

Wow. I didn't think anything could move that fast. Last night I got bored, was avoiding work, and decided to see what hardware I could acquire to rescue my digital camera, which has been unable to take pictures since I apparently screwed up something minor on the compact flash card. I did a quick Altavista search for vendors and ended up at a number of non-impressive places before encountering Cyberian Outpost. Not only were their prices decent, but they offered free overnight shipping on items in stock. I ordered an 8 meg (like the one I had) Kingston compact flash card and a pc card adaptor so I could plug it into Yukon. I submitted my order at 20:41 last night.

Between mechanics and physics this morning, I checked my e-mail and learned via Neelix that there was a package in the mailroom. I hurried to the mailroom and picked it up, less than twelve hours after I ordered. I am extremely impressed. This is officially a shameless plug for Cyberian Outpost. I was expecting to get it hopefully by Thursday evening. I am amazed.

I sucessfully managed to format the offending card as ext2 (I tried msdos but couldn't convince mtools to work), at which point my camera realized it wasn't formated and did it. Now I have two fully-functioning 8 meg compact flash cards, perfect for taking lots of pictures at StarFest this weekend (getting this hardware is tempting me to go, now that I actually can take pictures). I'll probably bring the geekcam up RSN, but now I'm running to lunch, hopefully before the rush.