Unetbootin – A awesome tool for booting Linux distros from USB drives
Unetbootin is a great tool for booting Linux from a USB drive and I use it all of the time for various tasks and projects.
The project is hosted here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ and is cross platform (supports Windows, Linux, and Mac )
The interface is so easy to use you could use it blind folded – I’ve posted some screenshots below:
As you can see in the screenshot above, you can choose to have the ISO downloaded automatically from the Linux distro’s mirrors or install a local .ISO copy from your drive. I generally prefer to use a local .ISO as the mirror that Unetbootin uses is unpredictable and could take a longer time to download.
Just thought I would share this tool with those of you out there who have not yet used it!
I recently started writing a Nginx administration tool via BASH and it is moving along pretty good. Unfortunately, I’m admittedly not the best coder out there so I am looking for contributors to this project.
Nginx is ridiculously powerful and very flexible, but the main problem is that or the average Joe it is much harder to admin and use than Apache, Litespeed, etc.
My long term goal is to make a command line tool that will make common tasks much easier and it will support vhost creation and removal, php-fastcgi and php-fpm, reverse proxies, nginx installation and removal, php-fpm installation and removal, and more.
I am a pretty busy guy and my time is limited so features will be slow to come out. If you’re interested in joining me in this effort please email me at dustin.larmeir@gmail.com
This script is very, very, alpha and lacks some basic error checking so I have not released my initial version yet. Stay tuned though, as I will release one in the near future.
I love this song, the video, and the feel of the times.
For those out there who have a Mac I’d recommended snagging up a copy of Sophos free for Mac here: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx
It’s a lot more elegant than clam and will help you protect the Windows users that you email/send files to.
It’s been a while since I really poured any content into this site and updated the theme etc. and felt this was way overdue.Today I did a substantial amount of work on it.
I’ve been blogging on this site since 2006 and needed to show it some love. Some of the posts are old, some new, but all have some meaning to me.
My goal for the rest of 2011 and into 2012 is to show this site some more love and get some more good content on here.
I want to thank the people all over the world who have visited the site and who continue to visit it for stopping by!
