Last week I read a half-witted blog post citing “3 Reasons why we shouldn’t use Linux”. I’ve got one tip for TechBirdy, the blog author. sudo apt-get a clue TechBirdy’s reasons are either borne out of complete ignorance, or from a desire to spread pure FUD.
Continue reading Three More Reasons Not To Use LinuxThe While Do Loop One of the most common structures in programming is the Do Loop. The version that I’m going to show today is the While Do Loop. The basic structure of the While Do Loop is: while condition A exists, execute the loop. Here’s an example program that counts to ten and then …
Continue reading Bash to Basics: The While Do LoopWhy a Bootable USB Drive? Most computers sold these days don’t have a 3.5″ floppy drive, yet many computer manufacturers still only provide BIOS flash utilities that require booting to a DOS environment. Luckily there is a free version of DOS called FreeDOS and a utility called UNetbootin to the rescue. Using these two free …
Continue reading Create a Bootable FreeDOS USB Drive on WindowsOne of the most powerful features of the Linux command line interface, (and other shells that conform to the POSIX standard) is the ability to pipeline output from one command as the input to another. This is done using the vertical bar or pipe character [ | ].
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Pipelining OutputI’ve previously shown how to create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu and FreeDOS. While the technique in that post is educational, there is a much easier way. Use UNetbootin to do the work for you.
Continue reading Create a Bootable FreeDOS USB Drive on Linux With UNetbootin