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PowerISO for Linux (Unrecognized Parameter error)

May 11th, 2009 Arun Manivannan 1 comment

Just realised today that PowerISO (http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm)  is available for Linux and its free too.  I have a weird feeling of liberation nowadays though i have been using Linux for more than two years now.

The manual goes like this

PowerISO   Copyright(C) 2004-2008 PowerISO Computing, Inc
Type poweriso -? for help

Usage:    poweriso <command> [parameters] [-switches]

<Commands>

list <image file> <directory>    List files and directories in image file.
Example:  List all files and directories in root direcory of /home/sam/test.iso .
Command:  poweriso list /home/sam/test.iso / -r

extract <image file> <dir/file name>   Extract files/directories from image file.
Example:  Extract all files and directories in root direcory of /home/sam/test.iso
to /home/sam/test recursively.

Command:  poweriso extract /home/sam/test.iso / -od /home/sam/test

convert <image file>    Convert image file to other format.
Example:  Convert /home/sam/test.daa to standard iso file
Command:  poweriso convert /home/sam/test.daa -o /home/sam/test.iso -ot iso

Do take note of the “/” before -od and -r. It throws a weird “Unrecognized parameter:”

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Middle finger for Microsoft !!!

May 10th, 2009 Arun Manivannan No comments

Microsoft is becoming a house of ironies in more ways than one.   Sick support of ODF on Office 2007 SP2 has been old news. Now the latest news hanging around is that their search is going to be Hadoop/Hbase based.  I am sure you are already thinking “Isnt Hadoop, an Apache project?”. Yes it is. So much for the anti-open source shouts from them.

MS Search = ( ( ((Hadoop)Lucene)Java) + ASF) && (! .Net) && (!Dignity)

That’s their business formula, I guess. I wish i could curse now !!!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10235400-16.html

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/09/201210

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