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Jun
7th

Reading Linux File systems in Windows

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under Windows, linux

If like me you dual boot Windows and Linux, no doubt you will have come across the odd time when you have needed that über important document you need to work on urgently only to realise that it is saved on your Linux partition and you are logged in to Windows.
A while ago that type [...]


Jun
1st

How to play Vintage games with DOSbox

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under Dos, OS X, Windows, linux

MS-DOS has been around for many years now. Whilst I started working with PCs towards the end of the MS-DOS era many of the first PC games I can remember playing  were run in MS-DOS.
Many old DOS games simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems and this is where DOSbox helps, DOSBox [...]


May
23rd

A Quake style console for your Gnome desktop

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under linux

Ever wanted a terminal similar to the consoles that you would see in computer games such as Quake and Unreal Tournament? You know the type where you press the tilde (~) key and a console will slide down from the top of the screen and when pressed for a second time it slides back up?

If [...]


May
11th

Mounting .ISO images in Linux (Part 2)

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under linux

Now let’s focus on adding that Mac like feature which will enable us to mount an image with just a few clicks of the mouse (without adding any extra software).
Download these two scripts here and here, move these into your bin folder by running this command in the terminal:
sudo mv iso-* //bin/
The two scripts that [...]


May
11th

Mounting .ISO images in Linux (Part 1)

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under linux

In this tutorial we will cover how to mount ISO files as a virtual drive, this will have pretty much the same effect as if you were using Alcohol 120% or Daemon tools in Windows.
MAC OS-X has a fairly neat feature built into the operating system that I have pretty much fallen in love with [...]


Mar
15th

Printing to a Windows XP printer share from Linux or OS-X.

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under OS X, Windows, linux

Network printers can be fairly expensive and are not usually something a normal home user will consider buying. Hopefully this simple guide will enable you to print over the network from your Linux or OS-X machine to that cheap inkjet printer you have connected locally (either USB or Parallel) to your PC running Windows [...]


Feb
1st

Preparing your drives and Installing Ubuntu

Author: Nick Bembridge | Files under Windows, linux

The first thing we will have to do is make sure that you BIOS will boot from the Ubuntu CD on startup, to get into your BIOS you will have to press either [DEL] or [F2] (there are other keys but those are the most common) when your machine first boots up. You should [...]


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