Sunday, September 28, 2014

XBMC installed. Bye bye ChromeOS

vyas:~ vsanzgir$ hdiutil
hdiutil: missing verb
Usage: hdiutil <verb> <options>
<verb> is one of the following:
help             flatten
attach           imageinfo
detach           internet-enable
eject           isencrypted
verify           makehybrid
create           mount
compact         mountvol
convert         unmount
burn             plugins
info             resize
checksum         segment
chpass           pmap
erasekeys       udifderez
unflatten       udifrez
vyas:~ vsanzgir$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/Downloads/xbmcbuntu.img ~/Downloads/xbmcbuntu-13.0~gotham_amd64.iso
Reading Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)…
Reading XBMCbuntu                        (Apple_ISO : 1)…
Reading  (Windows_NTFS_Hidden : 2)…
...............................................................................
Elapsed Time:  1.614s
Speed: 455.9Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/vsanzgir/Downloads/xbmcbuntu.img.dmg
vyas:~ vsanzgir$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         250.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS HDD                    *249.7 GB   disk1
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            NO NAME                *1.0 GB     disk3
vyas:~ vsanzgir$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3
Unmount of all volumes on disk3 was successful
vyas:~ vsanzgir$ sudo dd if=~/Downloads/xbmcbuntu.img.dmg of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m
Password:
736+0 records in
736+0 records out
771751936 bytes transferred in 146.883519 secs (5254177 bytes/sec)
vyas:~ vsanzgir$ diskutil eject /dev/disk3
Unable to find disk for /dev/disk3
vyas:~ vsanzgir$

Ref: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Battle for the net!

Friends-

I just submitted a comment to the Federal Communications Commission in support of Net Neutrality.

The important email below is from the groups behind the new Battle for the Net website -- it explains how you can join their September 10th "Internet Slowdown" protest in support of Net Neutrality.

Please read on and join me in taking a stand!
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This week's “Internet Slowdown” is taking off. We're driving hundreds of thousands of calls and emails to the FCC and Congress in support of Net Neutrality. The final comment deadline is in just a few days.

More than 50 organizations have their participation in the Internet Slowdown. Dozens of major websites — including reddit, Netflix, Mozilla, Kickstarter, Etsy, Wordpress, and more — made it known that they will take part too.

Will you join them -- and thousands of smaller sites and hundreds of thousands of activists?
If you have a website: Installing our widgets is simple, and will make it easy for your visitors to speak out in support of Net Neutrality. Just click here to get the code:https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/
If you don't have a website: Please forward this email to your friends who do. And visit BattleForTheNet.com to learn about other ways you can take part.
This is a critical moment for the Internet and for our democracy.
Here's how Etsy's CEO put it in an op-ed that ran in Wired this morning, announcing his company's participation:
To be sure, the cable and phone companies are counting on our apathy. After all, businesses are often more conservative than activists and tend to not want to jump alone. But not this time. Our employees care, our communities are invested, and after months of progress, we now have a real shot at victory.
Please join Etsy, dozens of organizations and companies, countless websites, and hundreds of thousands of activists by taking part in the Internet Slowdown.
If you have a website: Installing our widgets is simple, and will make it easy for your visitors to speak out in support of Net Neutrality. Just click here to get the code:https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/
If you don't have a website: Please forward this email to your friends who do. And visit BattleForTheNet.com to learn about other ways you can take part.

Together, we're going to win this fight.

-Demand Progress