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Burn ISO from command line in Linux

By jonmoore | Published: November 5, 2009
Quick and simple way of burning an ISO image from the command line in Linux.  First, find your devices with wodim, the use the cdrecord command to burn the ISO image. $ wodim --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'LITE-ON' 'DVDRW LH-20A1P' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ cdrecord -v dev='/dev/scd0' Download/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.iso Then, you’re done.
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Installing Dropbox on Ubuntu (and others)

By jonmoore | Published: October 21, 2009
I’ve been using dropbox to sync and share files between my various computers for quite some time, and overall have been very pleased.  However, one area things are not so great… documentation for installation on Linux.  After having to reinstall on my notebook, I decided to somewhat document the hidden part of the process. After downloading [...]
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Using source control for config management

By jonmoore | Published: April 22, 2009
A project involving asterisk has forced me to find a way to help manage my configurations. I’m going to give using subversion a go at helping me to keep some level of change control and really simple backups, and I’m going to share my thoughts on that here. This post doesn’t have any [...]
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Super simple, limited and basic look at tar

By jonmoore | Published: November 13, 2008
Create a tar archive tar -c -f archive.tar * Create a compressed archive with gzip tar -c -z -f archive.tar.gz * You can also condense down the commands like so.. tar -czf archive.tar.gz *
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