[chat] Using a digital camera in o/s internet cafes

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I am going to be buying a digital camera to take to Europe Czech, 
Slovakia and Croatia) with me in Aug/Sept. It's not a problem getting 
one that is supported by libgphoto and gphoto2 so I can download pics 
from Linux at home, but I'm wondering what experiences people have had 
while overseas in finding internet cafes with PCs that you can download 
pics off your camera onto. I will be wanting to email pics back home or 
upload them to my website.

Clearly the PCs need the camera drivers installed. It's likely that I 
will come across PC's that can't communicate with my camera and most 
internet cafes may not let you download and install software (hell I 
prob won't even be able to speak Czech).

One possibility is to have a small Linux distro on CD or USB memory 
stick with support for my camera. Shove that in and reboot the PC.
I have come across some sites that explain how to setup either 
DamSmallLinux or Knoppix to boot from a memory stick. That seems nice 
until one reads that many PCs are not setup in the BIOS to boot from a 
mem stick. Also can one reboot some of those internet cafe PCs or is 
that locked down also?

Anyone have experiences o/s in using their digital camera?
For sending pics back I already have a gmail account and my own web site.

[ummm... I wonder if one can somehow have a gphoto binary on my website, 
communicate with my camera, and pull the pics off it? The website can 
get the IP address from logs so ....?]

Mike
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Michael Lake
Chemistry, Materials & Forensic Science, UTS
Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460
[pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below]



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