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Ubuntu experiment post mortem

April 26th, 2009 Petros No comments

A few months ago, I got a new computer in the office. Instead of Windows I decided I wanted to try out Ubuntu.

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How to generate the MD5 checksum of a file

December 26th, 2008 Petros No comments

md5sum file.iso > file.iso.md5

How to create an ISO image

December 26th, 2008 Petros No comments

In order to turn a CD/DVD into an .iso one can:

sudo umount /dev/cdrom

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024

In order to turn a folder into an .iso one can:

mkisofs -r -o file.iso /location_of_folder/

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The open source experiment

December 13th, 2008 Petros No comments

My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128, my second an Amiga 500 and my third and Amiga 2000. Then and onward, every computer I owned belonged to the PC category operated through Microsoft products: DOS and later Windows.

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