Uneasy Bedfellows

First, I have a techie / hardware question.

Now you could say I shouldn't have assumed that my Mobilepro's PC Card Slot would allow a USB adapter when I went ahead and bought that Lexar LDP-600, which can only be recharged by USB connection. You could say it's my own fault. You could say I should just slow down and think things out. You could say that I should wait until I have ALL the information before I jump in.

You could.

I wouldn't, obviously, like you anymore. But, that's your choice.

I'm keeping the Mobilepro so just drop that suggestion.

Now, I could test my theory by making that nice young man at the computer store open a new box of something I'm not going to buy (it must be the phone voice), or I could assume (yet again) that I'm right and open the Lexar (thereby rendering it to a lower resale value) and buy a gadget that may not be useable in the context I need it to be OR you could just save my ass by telling me you have the ability to TEST my theory or that you have seen it in action.

Pwease.

OKAY, here it is. I need to buy a memory card reader because my Mobilepro uses CF for storage, the camera has it's little funky cards and I can also use the card slot for another kind of storage as well so it only makes sense to be able to read/write and swap info about on the cards, yes? So, THEN does it follow that a card reader that *includes* a USB hub could theoretically be used to recharge my Lexar if it came WITH an adapter that supplied extra power.

What I'm saying here, is that even if I couldn't plug the USB hub INTO a USB port at the time, isn't it still feasible that it would supply power enough through the USB connections to recharge my Lexar if it were just plugged into a power source?

Did anyone get that? Am I making sense? Or am I just so desperate that I've taken the 'think outside the box' thing a little too far out da box?

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Second. A little John Keats for this fine fall evening.


sonnet: "When I Have Fears. . . "

When I have fears that I may cease to be
   Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charactry,
   Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
   Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
   Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
   That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
   Of unreflecting love; -then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.


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Comments

[james]

goddammit, woman...it's not fall until September 22! (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/seasons.txt)

stop bloody rushing things, will you? kee-rist almighty.

and sorry, can't help with the gadgety stuff. wish i could, but i'd only be guessing. although, your logic sounds reasonable. it's just that you're talking about gizmawhatchits, and they don't often follow the rules of logical argument.

[The Captain of This Boat]

*sigh*

That's the problem - I SOUND reasonable. ha.

[james]

better to sound reasonable, than run around screaming unintelligibly like a banshee attack chicken that's come completely unhinged and wants to tell the world about it.

so by that measure i guess you're pretty much doing okay.

:)

[Saltation]

sounds like your "PC Card slot" may actually be an original 16bit PCMCIA slot rather than a Cardbus slot. as per http://www.mcetech.com/">these chaps, might be worth looking round to see if there's a conversion process.

eg: it can some simple chopping: http://www.danpalka.com/hooper/firewire.html and http://www.wwc.edu/%7Efrohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html

[The Captain of This Boat]

brilliant. Everything I've read says it can't be changed but... will look into your info.

:)