> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >Using a spare drive bay and a USB flash drive, I was able to get > >my presentation off the old hard drive and onto the Ubuntu drive.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:06:03AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > Before I leave on a trip where I'll be making a presention using slides I > always copy the .pdf file to a USB flash drive. That way I have an extra > copy ready to go just in case. Indeed I did have two USB drive copies, and a CD copy. I was in the midst of writing an updated version of the USB copy when the "bus errors" started happening. I had the other older copies, but I did not want to lose my updates. The presentation machine was an improperly configured WinVista box, which had problems with Javascript (something else was preloaded which ate keyclicks before they got to my presentation's Javascript). It also ate the backspace click from their wireless remote. I did not want to get into that zoo if I could avoid it. A general problem with Win PCs is that the owners don't know what is running on their machines, or have weird security tools that semirandomly prevent innocent activity, and the owners are afraid of making things worse. Many attendees ran Linux at home, but did not bring anything with them. Most of these folks are in their 60's to 80's, and program in solder and aluminum. There were a few Mac laptops about, and I suppose I could have recruited one of their owners, but as mentioned before, I already had things working on the Ubuntu machine. BTW, most amateur satellites have small embeddded computers with simple programming, a la PIC32, but no operating system. They were quite interested in the ALIX I showed them to demonstrate low power computers, but for ground apps. In orbit, they have only a few hundred milliwatts for computer and and audio DSP, and don't have an OS. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
