Month: September 2010

How to convert and burn a .dmg (Mac OS X) disk image on Linux

September 1, 2010 by mark

Today I wanted to burn a .dmg file, but I didn’t have an Apple computer available. So, running Linux I started to google for a solution, and found one. You need the dmg2img tool, which can be downloaded from http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/, if it’s not available as a pre-built package for your Linux distribution. On Ubuntu you … [Read more…]

No 64bit flash player for Linux

September 1, 2010 by mark

I’m not sure whether this is good or bad… but Adobe has removed it’s 64bit flash player for Linux (don’t know about other platforms). This means no flash-content for me, running Debian Squeeze amd64. The alternatives are .. none? The gnash player (which has a Mozilla plugin) is useless for everything but movies and will crash and hog … [Read more…]