Mike Leone on 21 Jan 2004 03:57:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] more thoughts on usb flash drives


epike (edward.pike@thomson.com) had this to say on 01/20/04 at 17:08: 
> speaking of those usb drives, i have one of those
> compact flash reader that attaches to usb.  
> Now i also built myself a serial pushbutton
> with LED lights indicator and used thte button
> to trigger launch a perl program (i've copied
> the wiring diagram from the internet).  Teh perl
> program gobbles whatever jpg files are in the
> card.  The result is i have a headless server
> which i can load my digital camera card
> into.  pictures are served by ftp, samba
> and web. 
> 
> thought i'd like to share that.  I'd have
> worked on a lcd display on the server too if
> i had enough time...

Sounds like good PLUG presentation material to me. :-)

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