A USB boot disk is a cool idea. It allows you to carry your favorite operating system in your pocket. Since all modern PC provide USB boot from BIOS , you can use any computer and work on your on desktop. It is also possible to make data persistent. With ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope it… Continue reading How to make a USB install/boot disk with Ubuntu 9.04
Month: May 2009
Mohanam and Bhoopali
My summer vacation has just started and I am trying my hands on several things.. This morning while searching for some components in my junk box, some old audio cassettes came out. In fact, I had a collection of around 200 rare cassettes in the 90s. Most of them are useless now. One of the… Continue reading Mohanam and Bhoopali
Bitx 20 update: The band pass filter.
The bitx, I built using the ugly construction method was too ugly to look at. The board was rebuilt using Manhattan style construction last week end . Now the board looks tidy and neat. The added advantage is that I can plug and play with any section. Individual sections are built on smaller PCBs and… Continue reading Bitx 20 update: The band pass filter.
Exploring the Mini2440 Arm kit
As a part of laboratory experiments for an embedded system course being held at Model finishing School Trivandrum, 2 nos . of mini2440 arm development kits have been purchased by the them from e bay . One of the kits is presently with me . My task is to learn it and teach embedded Linux… Continue reading Exploring the Mini2440 Arm kit
Remastering ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
( This document was written in connection with a one day ubuntu ramastering workshop held at College of Engineering Attingal. See this post) System Requirement You need a reasonably good PC with Ubuntu 9.04 installed. It should have plenty of free space ( say 4 GB ) and minimum 1 GB Preparing the host system… Continue reading Remastering ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope