BioBarCamp has come and gone... what a great time!

Special thanks goes out to Attila Csordas and John Cumbers who were the main instigators that made this event happen.

Updating Debian

Now that we have the TS7200 booting Debian linux from the compact flash we can install the development tools that we need.

The first step is to update debian using the apt-get functionality:

apt-get update

BioBarCamp in Palo Alto next month is now officially full!  With 75 available slots any new sign ups will be going onto a waiting list.

Held at the Instituue for the Future, this camp looks to be shaping up to be an interesting event.  This BarCamp will be slanted towards towards Biologists (hence its name) but I think that we will still find a lot of common ground to discuss.

Some links for those looking for more information about the event:

To boot from the compact flash card of the TS-7200 the following steps were executed:

Partition the compact flash card

Put the Flash card in the USB reader and insert it into a linux desktop PC.

Instructions as documented in the Linux for ARM on TS-72xx User's Guide)

Happy Canada Day from Scimatic Software!

Jim Thomas, an attendee of the first SciBarCamp, has written an excellant review for The British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA).

In related news, there will be a BioBarCamp held in Palo Alto this August which I'm planning on attending.

Back in March when I was attending the Pittcon conference in New Orleans I dropped by the Wiley booth to see what was new.

Goodbye Liberty Village, Hello Spadina!

Things have worked out well for us sharing an office in Liberty Village with Steve Van Egmond's crew from Tiny Planet. So well that we decided to keep sharing an office and went for an upgrade.

Recap
The last week was able to simply copy files from the host PC to the CF via a USB card reader. Then after placing that CF back in the TS-7200 and re-booting it, I was able to copy over that file to the Linux root structure.

Expectations

File Transferring - Wrap Up

Recap
Over the past week the system was connect and Linux was able to boot off the embedded board. The console, via the serial port, was accessed with HyperTerminal on a desktop. The network configuration was also setup with Apache and the board was working as a web server. After navigating to the /www/apache/htdocs/ folder, the index.html file was altered with meta tags that would re-direct any client to the Scimatic Software Homepage.

Expectations