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I stumbled upon this blog entry, where someone describes how to convert bin+cue to iso. I had the same problem as him:

While setting up a new VMWare image I found myself needing to convert an old .bin/.cue disk backup to iso format. Looking for a simple command line utility I came across BinChunker, a GPL-licensed *nix source that fit the bill to the tee. The official site has the source code and RedHat RPM’s but nothing for OS X.

A quick compile took care of that — BinChunker for OS X.

Download the utility, extract it to your Home directory and issue the following command from a shell prompt:

sudo cp bchunk /usr/bin/

To make sure your newly installed utility has the correct execute permissions and that its accessible to you through the terminal, run this code:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/bchunk

To convert a .bin/.cue pair to a .iso, you can issue this command:

bchunk myinputfile.bin myinputfile.cue myoutputfile

If you are getting a not found error, make sure that /usr/bin/ is in your path. To check this, type echo $PATH and look for /usr/bin/ in the result. If it isn’t there, type sudo nano /etc/profile and add /usr/bin; to the PATH=… line. Then press CTRL+x followed by Y to confirm and the enter key to verify the filename to save and exit nano. Then execute source /etc/profile to refresh the path.

Quote from Slashdot:

“The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update. The most exciting new feature provides the ability to encrypt an entire drive, prompting the user for a password during boot up; this makes TrueCrypt the perfect tool for non-technical laptop users (the kind who are likely to lose all of that sensitive customer data). The Linux version receives a GUI and independence from the kernel internals, and a Mac version is at last available too.”

I just did a clean install last night, and Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) rocks!

It looks amazing, and the best operating system did indeed get better.

I really like the stacks in the dock! I used to have shortcuts on my desktop for easy access to certain folders, but now, with the stacks, it’s even easier.

And there are quite some details that have changed as well. For example the lock icon under the AirPort menu, that differentiates the secured wireless networs from the unsecured.

The preview window in finder is amazing as well, and PDF files are rendered in milliseconds using the new version of preview

I do have to get used to the little lights in the dock, that show which programs are active. I kind of liked the old way better, but I’ll probably just have to get used to it.

update: Installing Leopard seems to have solved the DHCP issue I had with my new access point, but I’m not sure whether it’s the reinstall itself or Leopard that has solved it.. Anyway, I’m happy..

According to g-WH!Z, Leopard will be released on October 26th! Let’s hope so.. I know that I will buy it as soon as it’s released here in the Netherlands.

Come on, just look at this page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ and click on the ’take a tour’ button. How can anyone resist?

Since I’m a big VMware fan, it was kind of a bummer to see that VMware workstation was not available for the Mac platform. I remember signing a partition one or two years ago, to ask VMware to change that. And to my big surprise, I suddenly saw a beta of their new Fusion product, which seem to do exactly what I want. I was already running a trial of Parallels Desktop, but hey, this is VMware! Installed Fusion a few days ago, so let’s see how things turn out. So far, so good. Haven’t had any problems with a Windows XP Professional SP2 x32 guest so far.