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Coping with corrupt jpegs in Mac OS X and qucktime player

I might mention that there are still some jpegs that will crash the quicktime encoder that are valid according to jpeginfo, but it gets most of them.

The Debian packages I always forget to install

I just built dfu-programmer for etch with these steps, and attached it to the parent article (I guess I should implement attachments for comments.)
  1. Go to the Debian packages page for the Lenny package.
  2. Download the original source and debian diffs.
  3. Unpack the original sources
    tar -zxvf dfu-programmer_0.4.3.orig.tar.gz
  4. Apply debian patches... 
    zcat dfu-programmer_0.4.3-1.diff.gz | patch -p0
  5. Hop in
    cd dfu-programmer-0.4.3
  6. Build packages
    fakeroot ./debian/rules binary-arch
  7. Fail... fix x flags on rules
    chmod +x debian/rules
  8. Fail... install libusb-dev
  9. Success! I now have a dfu-programmer_0.4.3-1_i386.deb in the parent directory.
  10. I can't test it, my only Etch machines are remote servers, but it installs ok and I expect it works.
I probably should have modified the version number to mark it as an Etch build, but this works for private use.

The Debian packages I always forget to install

hello

can you tell me how to install dfu-programmer on debian etch?
i can not find the package with apt.

greetings remo

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

I successfully started a converted windows vista evaulation vhd I'm still fighting with the mouse and vnc :)

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

the bsod is probably a 7b error (inaccessible boot device, you may need to fix system registry hive to use standard ide but it's tricky and you need a windows box or of course a working windows vm :D)

contact me if interested (sherpya@netfarm.it)

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

I've fixed the compilation error and made it 64bit aware, I still need to test it anyway here the download link:

http://oss.netfarm.it/download/vhd2img-64bit-aware.tar.bz2

(use wget or direct link, a link from a page will cause 503)

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

Hello again,

Well, err, uh, duh!  I poked around in the .c file and removed the whole license preamble then it compiled just fine.  Sorry about that.  It worked great but the resulting .raw and converted .qcow2 file give me a BSOD when run with kvm.

Thanks,
Patrick.

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

Hello Jim,

This looks like just what the doctor ordered but it failed to compile for me:

Did I do something wrong or do you have any suggestions to help fix it?

Thanks much,
Patrick -> patrickkirchner   AT yahoo . com

Current Directory = /tmp/vhd2img
-->make
cc -g -MMD -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -Werror    vhd2img.c   -o vhd2img
vhd2img.c:38:38: error: missing terminating ' character
vhd2img.c:59:37: error: missing terminating ' character
vhd2img.c:67:67: error: missing terminating ' character
make: *** [vhd2img] Error 1

Bah, a product bites the dust.

Oh cruel Apple. 12 hours after releasing the Apple Store they processed my application and sent me a key to test on my iPhone.

Decisions.

Three handy security tools for Debian

I think a better tool would be one that used a central repository with a copy of each package and called on the observed machine to generate on the fly signatures of files with a random seed.

A truly nasty rooter could still thwart that by faking things in either the C runtime library or the appropriate system calls.
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