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HowTo: formatting SD cards using linux
Nov 5th
Its nice to see that during the past year, the number of linux distributions custom tailored to fit the needs of netbooks has increased dramatically. While this is a great advancement, it cannot be denied that this is mainly the merit of one linux distribution – ubuntu linux, on which most of nowadays “netbook linux” are based (ubuntu in turn is debian-based, btw). While these custom netbook linux flavors usually come equipped with all the device drivers you’ll need for your netbook, there’s one thing that is missing (at least in Ubuntu 8.04 or “Ubuntu eee”): an easy possibility of formatting SD memory cards with the usual FAT16 (or the faster FAT32) file system with the card reader that is built into all eeePC models – but sometimes you just need an empty and freshly formatted SD card, for example to “burn” the newest ubuntu ISO image onto and install right from the SD card (which is quite handy if you don’t have a DVD/CD drive).
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HowTo: formatting SD cards using linux
USB mail notifier – final hardware and software revision
Nov 5th
Over the past few weeks I’ve refined the design of my LED message notifier device that has been the topic of my last few articles. For those of you who aren’t familiar with how it works or what is meant: the notifier device inquestion is capable of lighting up a multi-color LED in the corresponding color when/if messages are received. It indicates several types of messages: instant messages received via Pidgin (green LED/purple LED), emails and RSS/Atom feeds received via Mozilla Thunderbird (red LED), and it also informs about new tweets on my Twitter account (turquoise LED)
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USB mail notifier – final hardware and software revision
EeeBSD test on ASUS Eee PC 701 (FreeBSD from USB)
Mar 12th
A video demonstration of FreeBSD running on an ASUS Eee PC 701 from a USB stick. Here you can see FreeBSD booting up and running some basics like playing sounds or using the wireless card. FreeBSD is installed on an 8G USB pendrive, I wrote a tutorial on my blog showing how to do this: sonicfrequencies.wordpress.com italian version at: captainsonic.wordpress.com Enjoy!
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EeeBSD test on ASUS Eee PC 701 (FreeBSD from USB)
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