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How to convert .daa to .iso in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

Use AcetoneISO2 (AcetoneISO). It cannot mount .daa files directly, but you can convert the file to .iso if you click on Conversion > Convert (it will ask if it can automatically install poweriso).

Features:

- Mount automatically ISO, MDF, NRG, BIN, NRG
- A nice interactive display
- Convert2iso / Extract2folder :
*.bin *.mdf *.nrg *.img *.daa *.dmg *.cdi *.b5i *.bwi *.pdi and much more
- Play a DVD Movie Image inside Kaffeine / VLC with cover downloader
- Generate an ISO from a Folder or CD/DVD
- Check MD5 file of an image and/or generate it to a text file
- Encrypt / Decrypt an image
- Split / Merge image in X megabyte
- Compress with High Ratio an image in 7z format
- Rip a PSX cd to *.bin to make it work with epsxe/psx emulators
- Restore a lost CUE file of *.bin *.img
- Convert Mac OS *.dmg to a mountable image
- El-Torito support to create ISO bootable Cd
- Mount an image in a specified folder from the user
- Create a database_of_images
- Extract the Boot Image of a CD/DVD or ISO
- Backup a CD-Audio to a *.bin image
- Service Menu for Konqueror

Loading GeoNames data into MySQL

http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/80.page

Get and unzip allCountries.zip and alternateNames.zip.

Create a database named geonames. Select it, then run the following SQL queries:

CREATE TABLE `geonames` (
`geonameid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`name` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
`ansiname` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
`alternames` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
`latitude` double NOT NULL default '0',
`longitude` double NOT NULL default '0',
`feature_class` char(1) ,
`feature_code` varchar(10) ,
`country_code` char(2),
`cc2` varchar(60),
`admin1_code` varchar(20) default '',
`admin2_code` varchar(80) default '',
`admin3_code` varchar(20) default '',
`admin4_code` varchar(20) default '',
`population` int(11) default '0',
`elevation` int(11) default '0',
`gtopo30` int(11) default '0',
`timezone` varchar(40),
`modification_date` date default '0000-00-00',
PRIMARY KEY (`geonameid`)
) CHARACTER SET utf8 ;


CREATE TABLE `alternateNames` (
`alternateNameId` int(11) NOT NULL,
`geonameid` int(11) NOT NULL,
`isolanguage` varchar(7) NOT NULL,
`alternatename` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
`isPreferredName` enum('','1') NOT NULL,
`isShortName` enum('','1') NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

load data infile '/permanent1/www/geonames/allCountries.txt' INTO TABLE geonames;
load data infile '/permanent1/www/geonames/alternateNames.txt' INTO TABLE alternateNames;

(your path will be different)

ALTER TABLE `geonames` ADD INDEX ( `name` );
ALTER TABLE `geonames` ADD INDEX ( `ansiname` );
ALTER TABLE `geonames` ADD INDEX ( `population` );
ALTER TABLE `geonames` ADD INDEX ( `alternames` );

ALTER TABLE `alternateNames` ADD INDEX ( `alternatename` );
ALTER TABLE `alternateNames` ADD INDEX ( `geonameid` );

Accepted in the Google Summer of Code 2008 program

I have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. I submitted two applications, to the WinLibre and Coppermine Photo Gallery projects. As both of them were selected, I got to choose which one I wanted. It was a difficult decision as I'm getting along very well with the WinLibre guys, but I chose Coppermine in the end. The reason is that the Coppermine project is more in line with my future career, which will involve distributed systems and data mining (~Artificial Intelligence).

Here are my two applications, if you're interested: mtodo and Scaling Coppermine.

Looking forward to try on the T-Shirt :D

Converting .img or .ccd to .iso with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

apt-get install ccd2iso

then

ccd2iso myimage.img myimage.iso

or

ccd2iso myimage.ccd myimage.iso

Update:

smarty@smarty:~$ apt-cache search bchunk
bchunk - CD image format conversion from bin/cue to iso/cdr

Convert text/txt files to Palm pdb doc format in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

sudo apt-get install txt2pdbdoc

then you can use the converter like this:

txt2pdbdoc pdas pdas.txt pdas.pdb

Where pdas is the title of the new document, pdas.txt is the source text and pdas.pdb is the destination pdb file.

Then you can upload it with jpilot.

S.M.A.R.T HDD Monitoring Commands

Drive: WDC WD1600JS-00NCB1
OS: Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

To install:
apt-get install smartmontools

To activate SMART on the HDD:
smartctl -s on -T permissive -d ata /dev/sda

Print all SMART information about the disk:
smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda

Run a long test on /dev/sda:
smartctl -t long -d ata /dev/sda

Output:

smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 64 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Thu Apr 17 09:55:21 2008

Use smartctl -X to abort test.

Decent (background) colors for mcedit

export MC_COLOR_TABLE="normal=lightgray,black:selected=black,green"

OR

export MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:editnormal=lightgray,black:editbold=yellow,black:editmarked=black,cyan"

Operating System / OS Development Links

http://www.osdev.org/

http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles

http://www.osdever.net/

.asia top level domain "invalid emails" fix for phplist

FYI, if you have a .asia website you need to change the is_email($email) function on line 341 in admin/commonlib/lib/userlib.php

Change it from

$pattern =
"^[\&\'-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ac|ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cat|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dev|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|home|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|je|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|loc|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|quipu|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$";

to

$pattern =
"^[\&\'-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ac|ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|asia|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cat|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dev|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|home|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|je|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|loc|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|quipu|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$";

I just added asia after as in the list of top level domains.

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