Mac Attack

Mac Linux USB Loader is a tool for the Mac that lets you create bootable thumb drives containing your favorite installation of Linux - but unlike other major tools like unetbootin, the drives it creates can be booted on a Mac. Built upon core Mac technologies and powered by Enterprise, Mac Linux USB Loader is free, open-sourced, and supports most of the major Linux distributions in use today - including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Kali Linux, and more!

If you have tried to create a bootable USB key from an iso image in Mac OSX using Disk Utility then you have probably encountered the frustrating and almost Windows-like cryptic error message "Could not validate source - Invalid argument" error. Looking in the system log via the Console app I suspect this is because internally DiskUtil tries to run /usr/sbin/asr to verify the image, which fails.   1 2 3 $ asr imagescan --source ubuntu-rescue-remix-12-04.iso only UDIF and NDIF images can be scanned. asr: image scan failed - Invalid argument. UDIF and NDIF are image formats used by Apple, and Disk Utility is pretty hopeless with anything that falls outside of these standards. The iso standard is short for ISO9660 and is a standard that defines the format of an image intended for burning to CD. Even after using hdutil to convert the image to UDRO (a UDIF Read-Only image) Disk Utility will still stubbornly refuse to help. Disk Destroyer Duplicator to the rescue Being Unix based, OSX has the command line dd utility available. Short for Disk Duplicator, dd is a block level reader/writer that makes raw copies from one file to another. But you want to copy the image to a device, right? That's fine, because everything in the world of Unix/Linux is a file - even devices. Informally referred to as Disk Destroyer, should you tell dd to output to the wrong device then your day is definitely going to be spoiled, so to avoid any mishaps we will make sure we know which devices on your system is your USB stick. You can determine this from the command line:

Module and Class Hierarchies

OcempGUI is an abbreviation for Ocean Empire GUI and denotes a toolkit, which contains a set of various user interface elements based on and for Pygame.

ABOUT Slut is a programming framework for generative, synthetic, interactive, network-enabled graphics. Slut generates images from processes. Such processes may be simple "construction plans" or they may depend on user input. They may be drawn from incoming network data or messages that are sent to the network. Produced images may be adaptive, accumulative or static. They may look and feel like computer games or they may inform like scientific visualizations. They may be lyrical, cynical, political, intrusive (literally over the network), simply beautiful or banal.

Game Objects is a collection of 2D and 3D maths classes, and algorithms for helping in the creation of games with Python. Suitable for PyGame, but independent of it.

A small collection (94 packages) of pointers to Python software for working in three dimensions

The Python Computer Graphics Kit is an Open Source software package containing a collection of Python modules, plugins and utilities that are meant to be useful for any domain where you have to deal with 3D data of any kind, be it for visualization, creating photorealistic images, Virtual Reality or even games.

euclid.py

The Boost Python Library is a framework for interfacing Python and C++. It allows you to quickly and seamlessly expose C++ classes functions and objects to Python, and vice-versa, using no special tools -- just your C++ compiler. It is designed to wrap C++ interfaces non-intrusively, so that you should not have to change the C++ code at all in order to wrap it, making Boost.Python ideal for exposing 3rd-party libraries to Python. The library's use of advanced metaprogramming techniques simplifies its syntax for users, so that wrapping code takes on the look of a kind of declarative interface definition language (IDL).

PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript and PDF files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.

Installing Python and PyGame

Setting Up a Pygame Program

Using a 3D mouse with modo 601 on a Mac