March 20, 2008

Convert uif Images in Ubuntu Linux

In my windows ages I was used to make backups in uif format. Sofar I couldn’t find any way to transform these images back from .uif to .iso. For all the people out there who don’t know what uif is:

Universal Image Format(UIF) is a powerful compression image file format for backing up CD/DVD. It is fast, reliable, and has rich set of features which include password-protected, data encryption, MD5 checksum support and much more. UIF can not only contain the complete data of CD/DVD just like ISO image, But UIF also supports backing up multi-session CD/DVD, Audio-CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Video.

Before I was always using magicISO in wine or virtualbox. Today I found a great tool to do that right inside ubunt. Just get the tool here and compile it and have fun!

March 5, 2008

Playing with Nokia Sportstracker

I was quite surprised that the N95 built in GPS also worked inside the train. Since I am abroad I switched off assisted GPS and Network help. The device obviously worked quite well anyway. Just check out my route here. It show the way from a bit before Nagoya to Kyoto on the Shinkansen.

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March 1, 2008

Funny Japan

so sleepy

You can see such things when you are walking in the shopping mall at nearly 9pm. Seems he was very tired.