Formatting my digital camera

After getting back my digital camera, Sony HX9V, from my brother I wanted to erase all the photos/videos which he has taken. I was surprised that I was seeing a photo of his even after formatting the memory card via the camera.

Inserting the memory card on my mac proved that the content was not in memory card but in an internal memory of the camera itself. And the option to format this memory appears on settings only after taking out the memory card. Now this also helped me understand why on connecting the camera to my mac I am seeing 3 drives inserted where 2 of them have the same name (one was internal memory and other was memory card).

Using SOCKS proxy in Opera

I never thought setting up SOCKS 5 proxy in Opera would be a tedious exercise. After an hour of googling I was able to set up office socks proxy partially with Opera. As of this writing I am using Opera 11.61. Opera introduced support for Socks proxy in version 11.10 as can be seen from this changelog .

For reasons unknown to me, we need to enter IP address of the proxy server directly to make it work host-name won't work. This was just the first step. My PAC file was not working with Opera. It works with Firefox and Chrome though. I posted a question on Opera forums asking this. Now waiting for replies. If its not going to work out then its good bye to Opera.