ISO to USB script for Mac

Writing Linux ISOs to USB drives is always slightly annoying, especially on OSX.  Using OSX, you have to jump through hoops to convert the ISO into some weird format so that disk utility can transfer to the USB drive.  To simplify this 12 step process, I created a script to do the converting and writing process automatically.  All the user needs to do is type one command and the entire process is taken care of automatically. Usage of the script is simple too.  sudo ./convertiso.sh isofile.iso /dev/somedisk

Notice sudo is needed for this to work, as the script uses dd to write to a raw device.  Replace /dev/somedisk with the device path of the flash drive.  I've built in some basic protection, so in the event you make a typo, your hard drive won't be overwritten, but please check the device path before running.  I'm NOT responsible if you use this incorrectly and it breaks your machine. 

Download from my Github page.

Rolling Rant: Web Trends that Need To Die

I'll just keep appending to this list when I find something new on the interwebz that bothers me. 

I am not clicking through 31 pages so you can generate more ad impressions. Bye bye. 

Thank you, I have a scroll wheel that works just fine.   Hooray for no-script.

Scrolljacking: because letting the user scroll for themselves is dangerous

2017: Every website wants to show me notifications.  No, I don't want to clutter my desktop with updates every time someone writes a nonsense article on the internet.  Go to hell.