I gave four one-hour lectures on the topic "Introduction to Linux" to the participants of the on-going microprocessor laboratory course on "VLSI design using a hardware description language" at Ateneo. The course is an outreach program of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, a UNDP agency based in Trieste, Italy. The participants are mostly from asian countries but many are from the Philippines.
After my lectures, a Chinese lady participant asked if she can copy my OpenOffice presentation off onto her little USB storage ram, a hardware device only slightly bigger than the USB connector, which she wears like a necklace pendant. The device, I discovered later, is equivalent to a 64MB vfat filesystem. So I asked the Chinese lady to stick the thing into the USB port of my Dell Latiutude D300XT laptop, and after some minor errors, I finally got the incantations right: modprobe usb-uhci modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt #it took a while to get the sda1 right cp mypresentation.sxi /mnt sync umount /mnt When I did "ls -l /mnt", I discovered that the filenames were partly English-Chinese, and the installed AdmuLinux does not have Big5 support. Anyway it was a revelation for me and a nice learning experience. I did not know that they make RAM like jewelry now. Imagine if you have a USB school ring with 1GB ram. Would that not be nice? PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
