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So, after being sick I've finally had a bit of a chance to get out into the world and spend some of my birthday money. Yesterday I picked up the cutest smallest 8 in 1 card reader as seen here. It's tiny. I also picked up a somewhat pricey but tiny 256MB sd card. Holy crap are those things small and they have 1GB models. In a short while when these things fall in price a bit more, CD media will be having a run for it's money. These plus USB disk are going to kill. CD are still barely rewritable practically.
Anyways, I plugged the card reader into Nika and then the card into the reader and open Nautilus. Bam, there it was. Easy as pie. I love the new Gnome Utopia stack of udev, Hal, Dbus, and Gnome Volume Manager.
Anyways, I was pre stocking up on these toys in preparation for the arrival of the GPX2, which to be fair might be a bit of a ways off, but I'm excited and love toys. The GPX2 [site, preview] is a new handheld game console/media device absed on Linux and open standards and hardware. It uses SD cars and has a USB port. It will ship with SDL and when it ships they will ship Linux and Cygwin SDK kits. So awesome. I so will need to buy one to support them for doing something so right, not to mention the cool factor and the possibilities of this thing plus being able to write code for my own pocket console.
Then today I picked up a playstation at EB for $20. Took it home and plugged it into my TV Tuner (those RF ports are in after all) and opened tvtimes and volia! Playstation. Ok so it wasn't quite that easy, I had fucked up Alsa and had to reinstall it first before sound worked, but you know. So yeah. I have toy and things work.
Happy.
