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Monthly Archives August 2008

Engineer’s guide to making a presentation

As an engineer, you would rarely be required to make a presentation. Public speaking is useful, but not crucial to an engineer hiding in his workbench. Of course, having good presentation skill is required for someone with the ambition of rising to management levels. If you are this someone, please look elsewhere. This post, “engineer’s [...]

Posted 07 August 2008 § The engineer's life ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Installing Debian/NSLU2 on usb thumbdrive

In previous posts, I outlined the slug’s hardware modifications. Once I have added an internal usb thumbdrive, it was time to install Debian NSLU2 on the thumbdrive. Installing on a usb thumbdrive was almost identical to installing on a usb harddrive. To recap, here was the reference webpage and here was my previous post on [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 § Hacking Linksys NSLU2 ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Beep on usb hotplug for laptop

Two months ago, I thought I discovered a cool trick in NSLU2-Linux wiki for beeping the PC’s internal speaker whenever a usb device is hotplugged. After poking around Ubuntu’s internals and some scripting, I created a howto for using the same trick in a Ubuntu PC. Finally, I proudly posted the howto in Ubuntuforums. And [...]

Posted 04 August 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Engineer’s guide to business trips: the dreaded production stop

Quote from Wikipedia: A business trip or official trip is a travel/journey caused by business necessities. Working as an engineer for many years, I have the privilege (or misfortune) to be sent on a number of business trips. Compared to a marketing, sales or management personnel, the number of times I have to travel for [...]

Posted 02 August 2008 § The engineer's life ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , ,

Add internal usb thumbdrive part 2

Continuing from the previous post, here was how I added an internal usb thumbdrive inside the Linksys NSLU2. Step 1: Understanding the usb ports The slug came with two external usb ports. The simplest way to add a thumbdrive as the root partition is to plug it to the port marked “Disk 1″. However, there [...]

Posted 01 August 2008 § Hacking Linksys NSLU2 ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,