Digital Camera Purchasing Woes and Fedora

I decided to get a digital camera so I can add pictures to my website, among other things. I chose Minolta DiMAGE Xt for the camera (here and here are cool reviews) and Overstock.com as the seller. This would have worked out fine if one of the following conditions were met: 1) I hadn’t messed up my order, or 2) Overstock.com had a decent functioning infrastructure. Basically what happened was that I ordered the camera with a SmartMedia card, but I later found out that it took SD ram—they’re different. Since I was paying with PayPal, when I called them and had them cancel my order, the money wasn’t put back in my PayPal account. So I ended up spending money I didn’t mean to, and still haven’t gotten my refund from Overstock.. apparently it is going to take them “2-4 business days” for their customer service people to get their “paypal team” back at the corporate office to initiate the refund. Oh well, I’ll probably not be completing my order with them at this point, once I get my refund. They don’t even have SD ram cards there. (I thought that was going to be a convenience at first.) So yeah, I thought it would be cool to start putting pictures of stuff on my blog… and maybe post more often, too.

In other news, I put Fedora Core 2 Test 2 on my laptop. Fedora is a really great distribution; it has the user friendliness of Redhat with the (supposedly) easy package management tools like “yum” (a port of Debian’s “apt” to rpm). It’s a good pick for my laptop since my laptop doesn’t take so kindly to compiling for long hours all the time (it overheats and shuts off). I love Gentoo on my desktop, though, that will be there to stay. :)

Update: After 2 days of waiting, Overstock.com finally refunded my PayPal account, so I went ahead and ordered the camera. At the same time, I won an ebay auction for a 128MB SD card for it. Yay! I hate waiting for packages…