ROXTerm: a good-looking, fully functional terminal application for Linux

Since the GNOME developers recently dropped transparency from the native terminal emulator application, you might be looking for an alternative. There are many available, but I would recommend you consider ROXTerm [1]. It's effectively a drop-in replacement for the GNOME Terminal application. Its features include: drag-and-drop support for files, a tabbed interface, the ability to drag tabs outside the main window to create separate windows, and extensive configuration options. [1] ROXTerm home page: http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/

SOLVED: Writing a hybrid ISO image to a USB stick/key/thumb drive on OSX is very slow

Being new to OSX and my iMac, I couldn't understand why writing an ISO image to a USB thumb drive was very slow, sometimes taking around 2 hours. Having done the same under Linux I *knew* it wasn't supposed to take that long. Finally I searched for and found the solution in a superuser entry [1], I found a solution: prefix the device name with "r". I also learned that the block size parameter must be specified in lower case on OSX: "bs=1M" instead of "bs=1M" under Linux. WARNING: The device parameters I have used in the following examples may not match the device parameters required in your configuration. *DO NOT* simply copy-and-paste these commands. For example, the following is a command I might use under Linux:

dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

The equivalent command on OSX would be:

dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m

Note the "r" in the output device's name, also that the "m" is in lower case. [1] http://superuser.com/questions/421770/dd-performance-on-mac-os-x-vs-linux