July 2010

This last step is hardly worthy of its own blog post, so I will spice it up a bit with giving a custom icon on the PC side. When I get home, I will have to do the equivalent on the Mac side. There appear to be ways to do this on the PC for [...]

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Call it what you will, it’s a pain to get rid of that CMD window that pops up when you double-click a .bat file. This post will address how to do that so we can elegantly launch our the ideal Linux USB pendrive with a simple icon double-click, whether we’re on a PC or Mac. [...]

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Note: If you want a ready-made tiny virtual Linux using QEMU that runs with a double-click from your Mac, Windows or Linux machine that’s set up with default QEMU networking and an SSH and HTTP port allowing in-bound communication from the host, then try my linux distribution, Levinux. Okay Padawan, while I’m dying to put [...]

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Note: This effort has come a long way since I wrote this article. Check out the virtual USB stick Linux called Levinux. So this is the real-deal: a USB flash-drive virtual machine that will readily boot under either a Windows or Mac, running directly from the removable device without an install. Due to the decisions [...]

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