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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]