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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!

Using a 3D mouse with modo 601 on a Mac

Skencil is a Free Software interactive vector drawing appliction. Known to run on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, it is a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes. A somewhat unique (for a drawing program) feature of Skencil is that it is implemented almost completely in a very high-level, interpreted language, Python. Python is powerful, object-oriented and yet easy to use. Just a few highlights about Skencil's features Bézier Curves Transformed text and images Bézier curves, rectangles and ellipses can be used as guides Gradient fills Blend groups Writes EPS files Text along a path many more...

gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of the libev event loop. Features include: Fast event loop based on libev (epoll on Linux, kqueue on FreeBSD). Lightweight execution units based on greenlet. API that re-uses concepts from the Python standard library (for example there are Events and Queues). Cooperative sockets with SSL support » DNS queries performed through threadpool or c-ares. Monkey patching utility to get 3rd party modules to become cooperative »

Stackless Python, or Stackless, is a Python programming language interpreter, so named because it avoids depending on the C call stack for its own stack. The most prominent feature of Stackless is microthreads, which avoid much of the overhead associated with usual operating system threads. In addition to Python features, Stackless also adds support for coroutines, communication channels and task serialization.

Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python.

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.

The FOX toolkit is an open source, cross-platform widget toolkit, that is, a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface (GUI). FOX stands for Free Objects for X.

The subprocess module allows you to spawn new processes, connect to their input/output/error pipes, and obtain their return codes. This module intends to replace several other, older modules and functions, such as: os.system os.spawn* os.popen* popen2.* commands.*

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology which focuses on creating and exploiting domain models (that is, abstract representations of the knowledge and activities that govern a particular application domain), rather than on the computing (or algorithmic) concepts.

Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that would otherwise be done at runtime.

Or in C# using Automatic Properties with compiler generated backing fields: public class Pet { public PetName Name { get; set; } public Person Owner { get; set; } }

The central component of any game, from a programming standpoint, is the game loop. The game loop allows the game to run smoothly regardless of a user's input or lack thereof.

Gosu is an open source 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages, available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. The C++ version is also available for iPhone and iPad.

idiomatic Python dictates that you (almost) never do type-checking, but instead rely on duck-typing for polymorphic behavior. There's nothing wrong with using isinstance to understand inheritance, but it should generally be avoided in "production" code

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: