IT Tips and How To's

The Seven Habits Habit 1: Be Proactive - Changes starts form within; highly effective people make the decisions to improve their lives through the things that they can influence rather than simply reacting to external forces. Habit 2: Begin with the end with mind. - Develop a principle– centered personal mission statement into long- term goals based on personal principle. Habit 3: Put first thing first. - Spend time doing what fits into your personal mission, observing the proper balance between production and building production capacity. Identify the key roles that you take on in life, and make time for each other. Habit 4: Think win / win - Seek agreements and relationships that are mutually beneficial. In cases where a win / win deal cannot be achieved, accept the fact that agreeing to make “no deal”, may be the best alternative. In developing the organizational culture, be sure to reward win / win behavior among employees and avoid inadvertently rewarding win / lose behavior. Habi

[1] Download itune from apple.com [2] expand iTunesSetup.exe into a directory Open CMD windows to expanded folder. e.g D:\DL\BROWSERS\iTunesSetup>dir Directory listing of iTunesSetup AppleApplicationSupport.msi AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi AppleSoftwareUpdate.msi Bonjour.msi iTunes.msi MobileMe.msi QuickTime.msi SetupAdmin.exe [3] delete MobileMe.msi and now install iTune by typing [4] iTunes.msi /passive

Convert .bin + .cue -> .iso on Mac OSX Download this : http://jamesnsears.com/code/bchunk.zip or http://he.fi/bchunk/ and compile 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 This will copy the file into a location where the system can find it at will (a.k.a. the path). Then, to convert a .bin/.cue pair to a .iso, you can issue this command: bchunk myinputfile.bin myinputfile.cue myoutputfile Short, sweet, and simple — and lightweight too, weighing in at only 20k. Sources: [1] http://gavin.mclelland.ca/2007/10/04/convert_bincue_to_iso_on_mac_osx/ [2] http://jamesnsears.com/2007/04/convert_bin_cue_iso_on_mac_osx.php

The syntax is pretty simple: hdiutil makehybrid -o ~/Desktop/image.iso ~/path/to/folder/to/be/converted -iso -joliet Mission accomplished. Author : Matt Berther Source: http://www.mattberther.com/2008/12/14/creating-iso-images-from-a-folder-in-osx/