Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Cool Sierra Remakes

This has old Sierra games in VGA remake mode! Cool eh



http://www.agdinteractive.com/KQ2.php


Play up!

Cool Sierra Remakes

This has old Sierra games in VGA remake mode! Cool eh



http://www.agdinteractive.com/KQ2.php


Play up!

How do I use dd command to create an ISO image?

Put CD into CDROM

Do not mount CD. Verify if cd is mounted or not with mount command:

# mount

If cd was mouted automatically unmout it with umount command:

# umount /dev/cdrom

OR

# umount /mnt/cdrom

Create CD-ROM ISO image with dd command:

# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdimg1.iso

Where,

  • if=/dev/cdrom: Read from /dev/cdrom (raw format)
  • of=/tmp/cdimg1.iso: write to FILE cdimg1.iso i.e. create an ISO image

Send Email With Different Return Address

Using the linux mail or mailx commands you can send email with a return address other than your own. If you type something like this "mail cowman@cheese.com -r cowman@cheese.com" it actually looks like the recipient got the email from them selfs. This is pretty cool. The only thing is if the computer knows the address it doesn't automatically say the same of the person, but displays the email address as the from, so somehow I think the computer can still differentiate.

System Wide Aliases

In order to set an alias in linux that is system wide for all users and permanent you can put your aliases either into the /etc/bash.bashrc (global settings) or into the .bash_aliases in your home directory. It is a good idea to put them at the end of these files and put a comment so that others, or the future you will know that you make the alias.