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New Toy: Kodak Pulse, 7

Hi. Just came round searcing for info on the Kodak pulse frame. Any news about your webcam project? thanks. S.

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

I haven't actually mounted the resulting image file yet, but the conversion seemed to run OK. If you want to check your output image file contents, for information on what is actually in there, you can use the "disktype" package
from sourceforge (disktype.sourceforge.net). That program is also included in your favorite package manager. It'll make it a bit easier to figure out where your
partitions are located. This is a sample output, using my newly converted image file. "disktype myimage.img"

Regular file, size 31.00 GiB (33286000640 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 29.31 GiB (31473008640 bytes, 61470720 sectors from 2048, bootable)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext3 file system
    UUID 09DE2E1E-2C2F-4378-A8E6-59C8723865C7 (DCE, v4)
    Volume size 29.31 GiB (31473008640 bytes, 7683840 blocks of 4 KiB)
Partition 2: 2.687 GiB (2884632576 bytes, 5634048 sectors from 61472768)
Type 0x82 (Linux swap / Solaris)
Linux swap, version 2, subversion 1, 4 KiB pages, little-endian
    Swap size 2.687 GiB (2884624384 bytes, 704254 pages of 4 KiB)

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

I just built qemu from the source for OS X 10.7 on Mac. I had to use these flags to get the make to complete without an error on compiling darwin-user:

>> ./configure --disable-darwin-user --disable-sdl --enable-cocoa --disable-kvm --disable-bsd-user

Then i directly converted a Windows 7 x64 created VHD image into a raw... well it's not done yet, but seems to be running fine. The latest qemu-img does understand the source file is .vhd and so the command I had to use is:

>> qemu-img convert -O raw source.vhd output.raw

next step is to use dd to lay down the raw image onto a hdd partition...

Converting VHD to raw disk images, or even VMDK.

Basically it boils down to trying all the plausible offsets until you find the right one

Wow! It is not needed! If you have cylinder-aligned partition, just skip 63*512 bytes. If you have megabyte-aligned, 1024*2*512.

New Toy: Kodak Pulse, 7

hey i just bought one of these and i found this sequence of events very interesting...

1. look on the outside of the box, the activation code for use on kodakpulse.com is there - interesting, right?

2. log into kodakpulse, make some fake account (disposable/verifiable email address

3. register units that are still on the shelf for sale, send pics to them

4. someone you don't even know buys the units and sees YOUR pictures that you chose for them to see

could be offensive, or a scam (go here to win big = virus), or just for pure fun, etc

what do you think?

Debian Lenny and grub with /boot in LVM

I have been trying to do this for 3 whole days and I finally found this post by accident. I have tried to do this with Arch Linux and Fedora and had no success. Even Google yielded no answers until I tried "Debian grub2 lvm /boot" and found this. Even though this is not written for squeeze I managed to take the bottom half and make this work. I even went as far as asking on 2 forums and in IRC channels for multiple OS's, even bugged some friends and got the usual "why would you want to do that?". Sir, I cannot thank you enough. Looks like I'm a Debian user now thanks to blogs like this.

Thoughts on random Mac OS X hangs

Further thoughts on INSERT-QUEUE-HANG…

The error text comes from the CFNetwork framework. The question, is what is it inserting into or querying? Some sort of cache seems reasonable.

I read through the latest CFNetwork sources Apple has made available on their open source server, but these are pretty old (10.4?) and don't have these tests in them.

But at least it's a pointer.

Creating subaccounts for Amazon's S3 storage service.

If you want to go straight Python, it looks like using boto is easier than wrestling Amazon's tools to the ground:

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Python @ Tomatohater

This uses those orthogonal policies I mentioned above. It disturbs me a bit because if I ask the question "Who can access this bucket?" I have to go ask all of the users, which seems wrong.

New Toy: Kodak Pulse, 7

Have you found any recent information on how I can delete pictures by email or without using the Kodak pulse account? Is there an API for the Kodak pulse account or can it be made?

tinycamd - an efficient webcam daemon

Hi Jim, FYI trying on a Linksys WRT160NL router with OpenWRT Backfire:

root@openwrt:~# tinycamd -d /dev/video0 -s 1280x720 -f 5 -F mjpeg -p 8090 -v

formating 1280x720 pf=MJPG

got format 1280x720 pf=MJPG

driver does not support VIDIOC_G_JPEGCOMP

fps=5

fps came out 1/5

Starting listener on 8090...

Failed to create watchdog for request thread: Success

Segmentation fault

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