Ricoh 5-in-1 Card Reader update
Earlier, I reported on my experiences with the Ricoh 5-in-1 card reader included with my Dell Inspiron 9400. I was just prodded by an email from Ankit Tanna, who had the same problem (blue screens of death) and asked me for a solution, since the drivers I pointed at didn't work for him either. Well, it turns out that they didn't work so well for me either, I just hadn't reported back on that fact. When I put a card in the slot, I get a blue screen 50% of the times. When I boot up with a card in the slot, I get a blue screen 100% of the times. Shutting down with a card inserted is a no-go too. So I've given up on this thing and I'm currently just using the USB cables provided with my camera and mobile phone.
BTW, anybody else notice that the USB connection on the Sony Ericsson W810i is just dog slow? I suspect that the Bluetooth file transfer option is faster than the USB version! I have an 8 GB Memory Stick Pro Duo in there, and I get perhaps 100 KB/s. Transfering an entire CD's worth of MP3s takes bloody ages. If anybody knows a trick to speed this thing up, please don't hesitate to share it with me!