that device is very cool, the new one I think have 256MB now and the life is 10 years. I use that one to backup only my email and important docs. It so sad to me that I never try to use it in Linux OS. But now I will try it.
Regards, --ador At 12:46 AM 11/27/2002 +0800, you wrote:
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
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