USB JumbDriveSecure

[Derick Centeno]

Saludos Miguel!

I'm addressing your question perhaps when you're no longer looking for 
an answer.  But when you are using YDL, the hardware is completely 
under the control of Linux.  In other words, Yellow Dog Linux (YDL), 
like all other Linux distributions, functions as though you really are 
using Unix.  There are very slight nuances or variances of how a Linux 
comes close to acting like Unix, but what this always means is that you 
pretty much can change or control or modify how that or really any 
machine's hardware (or computer) will respond to software applications, 
other computers, and any other thing computer's can do.  This is WAY 
beyond what Apple's OS X would allow, and the Classic OS wouldn't even 
be accessible without specialized applications.

So what I'm saying is, don't think of your computer anymore as a Mac, 
when using YDL; think of it instead as a Linux box.  For some people it 
can be Pandora's box as the potential for software creativity is really 
profoundly inspiring in either encouraging serious technical computer 
science master wizardry (good) or going off the "deep end" into raging 
madness AND it can drive one to experience both at the same time (these 
can be good too, but it depends).  Try to explain that to your friends 
or associates....

So the Mac OS won't help because it wasn't designed to tell you the 
truth (not completely) in the first place.  YDL can be intimidating 
because it is telling you exactly what a thing is, (as would any other 
Linux), as you reported below.  However, your real problem is 
understanding what that information really means and making use of it 
WITHIN LINUX or here YDL.

There are debates occasionally here on this list as to how easy things 
should be for users, as far as how applications appear and are used 
within Linux, but that is a tricky question because UNLIKE the Mac OS 
or EVEN WINDOWS, EVERY LINUX user is and can be as much as a programmer 
as he or she wishes to be AND make contributions coding for ANY one of 
thousands of Open Source projects involving applications AND how Linux 
behaves and works as an operating system.

However, I'm moving too far ahead of you.

You should focus on learning Linux well.  Get a few books and learn not 
just programming, but understanding a bit more of the fundamentals of 
how a computer recognizes devices and how the software itself informing 
the computer about the device works.  This is a bit much, but it is the 
core of beginning to comprehend not only Linux, but Linux on ANY 
computer of ANY make; and yes, although the distinctions between Linux 
and Solaris or Linux and AIX are very vast (in my opinion) they are 
also close enough to be recognized the same way a car engine all over 
the world shares similar principles but it would be quite a challenge 
to get a regular fellow who is not a mechanic and get him to recognize 
how any one component of an engine done in say France, is anything like 
the same component as designed in Italy and so on.

Likewise learning Linux is at least as difficult as that.  But, boy 
once you get it; there's no forgetting it.

Of course the spaces of your brain may start to fill up with only Linux 
and computer stuff, and other human realities such as anniversaries, 
birthdays and so on may over time just
drift into oblivion.  So if you are just reaching the point where you 
consider an anniversary at the same level as doing a monthly system 
overview as though you were a cron daemon -- you might want to back off 
a bit and rejoin the human social experience.

Best wishes....

On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Miguel A. Alvarez wrote:

>
>       Hi,
> I'm new to this mailing list so if I'm doing something
> wrong, please le me know. Anyway, a friend of mine
> donated me an early version iMac with an G3 233MHZ
> processor, it has YDL 3.0 and I would like to know who
> can I make my 256Mb usb jumb drive secure work in this
> configuration.
>
> When I open Control Center of YDL and choose
> Information USB Devices this is what I see.
>
> USB OHCI Root Hub (1)
> --Hub [iMac kbd]
> --JUMPDRIVE SECURE
> --M2452
> --M4848
>
> However I'm new messing with MAC's I don't know what's
> exactly that I have to do.  Any help would be greatly
> apreciate.
>
> Regards
> Miguel A. Alvarez
>
> (ps) Excuse my English
>
>
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