LinuxChix Los Angeles

Wednesday was the second annual Ada Lovelace Day

“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.”

http://findingada.com/about/

http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Women-In-Near-and-Around-Ubuntu-Celebrating-Ada-Lovelace-Day-Part-1

I was listening to my favorite Linux podcast streams on my Chumby late last night and whose wonderful voice did I hear, Amber Graner! Amber, whom of course, we know and love from SCALE and gave a wonderful talk at this years SCALE WIOS etc. was interviewed on FLOSS Weekly in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day!!!!!

FLOSS Weekly 114: Ada Lovelace Day

Hosts: Jono Bacon and Leo Laporte

Ubuntu volunteer, Amber Graner, talks about getting more women involved in Open Source.

FLOSS Weekly is one of my favorite Open Source streams on Leo’s TWIT Netcast Network and on the internet period! I am so happy that FLOSS Weekly made sure to talk about the achievements of women in technology and science by doing an Ada Lovelace Day celebration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/jillix

A lot more SCALE 8x pictures have been posted on Flickr.com. Just use the SCALE8x search to see them all. Here are some more LinuxChix LA at SCALE 8x highlights:

Enjoy!

/JilliX

Another wonderful SCALE was enjoyed by all. And we have to wait another year to enjoy this “tuxfiled” vacation. Sigghhhh . . .

Here are some of Beth Lynn Eicher’s candid pictures from SCALE 8x uploaded to Flickr

And here is my LinuxChix LA slideshow that was running on my Chumby at our LinuxChix LA Booth at SCALE 8X!:

LinuxChix LA Chumby Slideshow

Also, this is another post on SCALE 8x WIOS by Scott Ruecker at LXer.com that will fill in the gaps that our LinuxChix LA live WIOS blog post missed:

SCALE 8x: Day 1 - WIOS Talks

These are just the first SCALE pics and articles online . . . wait another few days and there will be hundreds more
To be continued . . .

/JilliX

Hi Betty!, and to all those LinuxChix and LinuxGuys who need to recover files
or partitions off dead flash drives, usually fried by Windows, or any hard drive
or removable media

Here is the website for the TestDisk and PhotoRec software that
was used to recover your flash drive in Linux at our last LinuxChixLa meeting at
Philippes:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Main_Page

It is also available for Windows and Mac OSX.

To install and run TestDisk and PhotoRec In Ubuntu Linux:

“sudo apt-get install testdisk” from a terminal and then run
“sudo testdisk” or “sudo photorec”
Both the photo recovery program and test disk are included in the
debian package.
The PhotoRec software is what was used to recover the files off your
dead flash drive. It will recover many types of files, not just multimedia

The detailed instructions for running PhotoRec are demonstrated on the
PhotoRec main site:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

TestDIsk/PhotoRec is usually faster at data recovery than Ddrescue, but
Ddrescue is more thorough and efficient:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Ddrescue and fdisk is what I always used to use until Chad gave us the heads-up
on TestDisk

Knoppix Linux Live CD has TestDisk/PhotoRec and Ddrescue already installed!
Here are the instructions for using these utilities in Knoppix:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk#Booting_from_Knoppix.2C_a_Linux_LiveCD

The Ubuntu Rescue Remix Live CD (http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/) is also a great option. It includes TestDisk and Ddrescue as well.

And the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), one of my favorite
boot cds, includes TestDisk as well.

Have fun recovering files

/JilliX

More LinuxChixLA Pics from SCALE 7x!

Our Tux Stampede!

Found while perusing Flickr! The SCALE 7x pics our starting to visually explode on the net. These ones make good background pics for all our Linux boxes

Hello linuxChix and linuxDudes too! I can’t wait for SCALE! Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and has a happy new year!

Since our last LinuxChix LA meeting I have been writing some info and tips on how to install linux on a flash drive and what portable apps can be installed on USB drives. I wanted to be as prepared as possible for this topic because we decided this is what we are going to demonstrate at our booth and I wanted to make sure that I wouldn’t forget any of my findings on this wonderful subject. Running linux and apps from flash drives is one of my favorite geeky things to do, and one I have been excited about since the introduction of USB technology. Anyways, here are the notes that I have written on this subject. If anyone finds them useful I would be happy to print out lots of copies for our LinuxChix SCALE booth for us to use or to hand out as flyers. Just thought I would run this past everyone and see what you thought

SCALE 7x LinuxChix LA /JilliX Notes For Installing Linux On A Flash Drive and
Portable Flash Drive Applications Information

This is one of the best websites for tutorials on installing
Linux on a flash drive-
www.pendrivelinux.com
It includes tutorials for installing:
-Ubuntu & Xubuntu-Persistant Install Using Linux & Windows
-Pendrivelinux 2008
-PCLinuxOS MiniME 2008
-Fedora 8 or 9
-Knoppix Linux
-Portabel SUSE
-gOS
-BackTrack Linux
-Gentoo
-Damn Small Linux
-SLAX
-MCNLive
-NimbleX
-Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD)
-CentOS
-CrunchBang Linux
-Linux Mint
Etc. Etc. Etc.
It also lists portable software applications that run from a USB device:
* New Infra Recorder - Portable CD and DVD Burning Utility
* New WebVideoCap Download Flash Videos from a Web Page
* New Windows Vista Serial Key Finder
* New Totally Free Burner - Portable CD/DVD Burning
* Daniel AI - Portable Artificial Intelligence
* KiTTY - Portable SSH Client
* SiteShoter - Portable Webpage Capture tool
* USBDeview - USB Device information tool
* EjectUSB - Portable Safe USB ejection tool
* 12VOIP - Portable Voice over IP Software
* Portable Opera - Internet Web browser
* Portable MSN Instant Messenger
* eMule - Filesharing utility
* Money Manager Ex - Personal finance tool
* Recuva - File recovery tool
* Torpark - Internet Web browser
* KampoZer - Webpage editor
* Avast Portable - Antivirus utility
* RockXP - Password recovery
* uTorrent Portable - Bittorrent client
* WhoIsThisDomain - Domain information tool
* SIW - System information tool
* PC Wizard - Info and benchmarking tool
* Savage - Portable Strategy Game
* Sumatra PDF - Portable PDF Reader
Etc. Etc. Etc.

And here are some of my favorite portable USB flash drive apps:
* QEMU Manager for windows is also a portable USB app:
http://www.davereyn.co.uk/about.htm
* Deep Burner windows portable CD and DVD burning app:
http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download

This is one of the best applications for installing Linux/BSD on a flash drive:
UNetbootin from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
It installs in almost every Linux Distro and Windows and has
a very easy to use GUI!
Here is a list of some of the default Linux/BSD Distributions you
can automatically download and install:
-Arch Linux
-BackTrack
-Damn Small Linux
-Debian
-Elive
-Fedora
-FreeBSD
-FreeDOS
-Gentoo
-0penSUSE
-Puppy Linux
-Slax
-SliTaz
-Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu
Etc. Etc. Etc.
And it doesn’t stop there! Using UNetbootin you can also install any Linux ISO
of your choice to a flash drive !!! That also includes floppy disk images
as well as your own custum kernel and initrd !!!
UNetbootin can also be used to install any distro to your hard drive as well
!

Qemu, Qemu Launcher GUI For Linux, Qemu Manager GUI For Windows, VirtualBox Virtual machine emulators are a great way to test that your flash drive linux Etc. distribution has been installed correctly!
Here is a sample of testing your flash drive in a linux console:
qemu -m 512 -hda /dev/sda [Or sdb Etc. Do not include the partition number of the drive, just the name! -m is for the amount of memory you would like to emulate. It could be -m 64 or -m256 Etc.]

Of course most modern Linux Live CD distros have there own applications for creating a bootable flash drive. Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, Damn Small Linux, Gentoo, PCLinuxOS are just to name a few.

Mk-boot-usb: a Script to Create Multiple-Bootable USB Keys
can be downloaded from:
http://people.ofset.org/~ckhung/p/mk-boot-usb/index.php

BootFlashDOS For Windows
Small utility that will format and make DOS bootable your USB Flash Stick.
http://wareseeker.com/System/bootflashdos-1.0.zip/403111

PeToUSB 3.0.0.7 For Windows
Application for formatting and making bootable, USB Flash Memory Drives and USB HardDisks.
http://wareseeker.com/System/petousb-3.0.0.7.zip/403112

HP bootable flash utility for Windows
http://www.thepcspy.com/read/bootable_usb_flash_drive

Go to http://distrowatch.com/ for all the latest linux distro ISOs !

QTParted for Linux is the best app for repartitioning and reformating
your USB device!:
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/index.en.html

Keep all USB drives formated in FAT32 or FAT16. Many computers, including
the ASUS EeePCs, will only boot a USB Drive formatted in FAT. There are
exceptions to this rule though.

Bootable Flash Drive Linux Distros For The ASUS EeePC :

ubuntu eee-An Ubuntu Linux Distro of course!:
http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/index.php
You have to have at least a 4gig drive to install on the Eee.
Boots to a window manager enhanced with an EeePC
Desktop. Sweet !

Breeezy for the eee-A Puppy Linux Distro:
http://minipc.org/safepup/index.php?file=Breeezy%20for%20the%20eee.htm
This is one of my favorites! And it works great on the 2gig Surf !

#! CRUNCHBANG LINUX-A Lightweight Ubuntu Linux Distro that comes in
Standard Desktop Edition, Lite Edition and now CrunchEee Eee PC Edition:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/
This is also one of my favorites and it also works great on the 2gig
Surf . I am running an older Lite Edition on my Eee, but the new
CrunchEee already has the enhanced Eee PC Linux Kernel included so no
compiling and updating is needed and everything works out of the box !

Enjoy using open source apps and operating systems with yuor USB flash drives

Jill Bryant
/JilliX

Written in Nedit in Debian Linux
November 2008-January 2009

A Little Something that all of us LinuxChix Love

Thought everyone might like this pic

Also, like the new theme for our blog Sharon!

/JilliX

We sure had a wonderful LinuxChix meeting!

And welcome once again to our newest LinuxChix Sara!!!!

/JilliX