A USB Scope For Linux Users

Pico Technology has reportedly restored the numbers of Linux users, by offering a software that will run under their preferred OS. The USB oscilloscopes are famous but its demand supply is majority wise restricted to Windows platforms.

The PicoScope 6 will now convert a Linux PC into an oscilloscope, FFT spectrum analyser and measuring device. The On-device buffering, which uses deep memory on some devices, enables the display to be updated frequently and smoothly, even for long time-bases.

It is to be noted that the most important features from PicoScope, for Windows, are include in PicoScope 6, like the scope, spectrum and persistence modes, interactive zoom, simple, delayed and advanced triggers, automatic measurements, and signal generator control.

The oscilloscope software is available for the Debian 7.0, which is code named as wheezy, Ubuntu 12.xx / 13.xx, as well as other Debian-based distributions with mono-runtime version 2.10.81. or higher. The drivers are available for the current scopes from the PicoScope 2000 to 6000 series.

The PicoScope software involves an USB oscilloscope from the PicoScope range. These oscilloscopes are available with the bandwidths of up to 1 GHz, up to 4 input channels, with hardware vertical resolutions up to 16 bits, sampling rates up to 5 GS/s, buffer sizes up to 2 GS, and built-in signal generators.

Some more features that are available on some models are flexible hardware resolution, switchable bandwidth limiters, switchable high-impedance and 50 ohm inputs, and differential inputs. The company has asserted that more functions will be added soon. For now, the users can save the captures for off-line analysis, share them with the other PicoScope for Windows and also with PicoScope for Linux users. They can export them in text, CSV and Mathworks MATLAB 4 formats.

Backup and Restore your USB with USB Image Tool

USB Image Tool can create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. USB Image Tool allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick.


Features of “USB Image Tool”:
· Create image files of USB drives
· Restore images of USB drives
· Compressed image file format
· Show USB device information
· Manage favorite USB images
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How to Repair, Fix & Format USB Drives

We all are using the USB drives these days, and most of us facing some errrors in USB drive and can’t know how to fix it. Most of the Times when you are using your USB drive you are getting this Error no Drive Found or can’t format the Flash Drive. So here are the Some tips which will help you to Fix the Errors & Format USB Drives.

1. Never ever remove your USB flash drive either you’re not using it or in use; transferring data, saving data, copying, or what so ever. Go to ” Safely Remove Hardware“, stop the drive and when it says that It is safe to remove, you can now remove the drive.

2. If your data were being corrupted, Go to My Computer, Right click the Removable drive, Go to Properties >Tools. Run Error Checking and Scan for errors and fix them. The files that are corrupt or in bad sectors already will not work but at least the new transferred files should work.

3. If Run Error Checking and Scan for errors doesn’t work, make a back up of your data and format your drive. Go to My Computer, Right click the Removable drive, Go to Properties >Tools. Click the Back Up > Choose the file to back up > Choose Destination where to put your back up file.

prevent users from writing to usb

The following registry setting will prevent writing to usb in windows xp.
Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l Add a new key and name it "StorageDevicePolicies".
In the window on the right then create a new DWORD value and label it WriteProtect, give it a value of "1" and users can no longer write to USB drives.
Giving a value of "0" will allow to write again