I know this sounds kind of impossible, but it is entirely possible, all you need is a computer with enough RAM to buffer some of the download. To download a ISO file (say, Debian’s netinstall) directly to a CD, you must follow these steps: mkfifo /tmp/debian_netinstall cdrecord /tmp/debian_netinstall & wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.5/i386/iso-cd/debian-505-i386-netinst.iso -O /tmp/debian_netinstall rm /tmp/debian_netinstall
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I recently found myself in a position where I had to run an application requiring Adobe AIR. I’m running a 64-bit install of Ubuntu, and Adobe’s AIR is only for 32-bit computers. Installing Adobe AIR on Ubuntu 64-bit is very easy if you follow this short step-by-step tutorial on how to install Adobe AIR on [...]
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As I was cleaning up my old stash of hardware, I found some harddrives. Of course, I needed to test these before I’d sell them. This is extremely easy in linux! The badblocks program will test your harddrive for, you guessed it, bad blocks. The badblocks program is part of the e2fsprogs package, which is [...]
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