USB Memory card reader connectivity problems

by | Jul 20, 2003 | Foto, PC

Some days ago I bought a Mitsumi.com 7in1 Internal Media Drive FA402A to easily store images from my digital camera. Though when I should connect it to the motherboard (ASUS A7V8X) I realized it did not fit physically. Examining the connector more closely revealed that the pinout did not match with the pinout as described in the manual for the motherboard. Calling MicroStore where I bought the reader did not help much. They claimed the reader should work with ASUS motherboards and for sure with MSI motherboards as they had one there working(MS-6596).

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I downloaded the MSI 6596 manual to check the pinout and according to the manual it had the exact same pinout as my ASUS motherboard. Strange! After some more calls to MicroStore I finally took the car down to the store bringing the reader with me. It turned out that the manual and the actual motherboard did not match. The motherboard MicroStore had version 20B while the one on MSI’s homepage is only Version 1. So I guess the pinout has changed but not the manuals. Anyway this did not help much. I continued searching the web but did not find any solution that described the strange pinout on the MSI boards, though I found more and more pages indicating how to move cables around in internal USB connectors. Seems to be a common problem to fit internal USB connectors. This page described the colouring most commonly used for internal USB cables and the colouring scheme matched the one on the cable from the reader so maybe that could be a solution. Though I was a bit confused since there were two black cables coming from the reader but checking with an instrument they both were connected to GND. It’s quite easy to to shift around the cables in this kind of connectors so I gave it a try. If you do not know how to do remove and re-insert a cable this page describes how to do it. I moved the cables (one black and the red) that was not in their appropriate position according to my ASUS manual. Also had to move the plug (the one preventing you to put the connector in wrong position) to pin 9. That made the reader fit the connector on my motherboard and it works now!

Stabilizing videoshots from Canon A70

by | Jul 14, 2003 | Foto, Utomhus hobbies

On our last hike in the mountains I took a number of video shots as well as several still images. Though these turned out to be very shaky so I started to look for some software to correct that.

I found some shareware filters for Adobe Premiere but htey where quite expensive($50 – $70) so I started to search SourceForge for some open source projects. I didn’t find any filters for Premiere but I found Virtual Dub and the Deshaker filter. It turned out to do the job. Compare the unprocessed(11.8MB) file with the processed(2.16MB). VirtualDub also allowed me to compress the files as well.

Jedis in SWG

by | Jul 3, 2003 | MMORPGs

SWG Realms Jedi Article describes the features of Jedis in SWG. Looks interesting. It’s an interesting concept as well and it will be interesting to see how they have made it different for players to achieve Jedi status.

Digitalkamera

by | Jun 27, 2003 | Foto

Det blev en Canon Powershot A70. Fick den precis så jag har inte hunnit plåta så mkt, mest försökt testa en del så jag förstår hur de olika inställningarna påverkar bilden. Men den åker med på fjällvandringen om två veckor så då blir det en del plåtat.

Köpte också extra uppladdningsbara batterier, hittade på Batterilagret batterier med 2000mAh vilket borde göra att det räcker rätt länge. Skall testa i fjällen.

Totalt blev kostade kamera plus undervattens hus ca 5900 kr(3,797 kr för kameran och 2,104 kr för huset, båda inkl moms o frakt). Gick rätt fort att få båda, det som var lite lustigt var att även om jag beställde från två helt olika ställen, Datorbutiken.com(Staffanstorp) och It-Bolaget(Avesta) så kom de båda samtidigt med samma postbud!

Run Ant from within Eclipse

by | Jun 27, 2003 | Software development

The following section has to be added to build.xml to have Eclipse run Ant. 

<!-- javac resolver --> 
    <available 
classname="org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main" 
property="build.compiler" 
value="org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.JDTCompilerAdapter" 
classpath="${java.class.path}" 
/>