> Only reason I know about this is because I recently bought a Sony VAIO C1VN
> laptop and it came preloaded with ME (*shudder*). Of course, I installed
> Linux side by side with it to help to stop the carcinogen, but until I can
> write an image capture program using the new kernel interface, Win ME sticks
> around a little while longer.

What kind of images?  If you have a digi camera (like Olympus D490 Zoom)
you might be able to use gphoto (I think its on freshmeat, or go to
www.gphoto.org (I think - email me offlist if I'm wrong)

rc