My Optorite CW4002 has been exhibiting an odd issue. It will no burn over 32x, despite being a 40x CDRW drive. I have known good disks (newer build Ritek 40x), and it outright refuses to burn faster.
Here’s a screenshot using Nero’s CDTest on my PC with the 100E firmware:
![\[Too slow\]](http://www.holwegner.com/up/firmware_100e.jpg)
And now, with the upd...
It seems that Nero NRG format is a fairly trivial overlay about the ISO9660 CD format. The easiest way to convert an NRG to an ISO is to strip the first 307200 bytes; the rest will be your resulting ISO-9660 image.
For example; to mount an NRG in linux via loopback: mount -t iso9660 -o loop,offset...
This is very-very-very raw; and not necessarily the best solution. What this will do is obtain a web page specified, then print out the data as it is received.
$site = “http://www.holwegner.com/”; $raw = implode(‘’, file ($site)); echo $raw;
Eventually, I will follow iup with the proper means to...
Before I get back on the road yet again, here’s a quick little (horrible) PHP snippit. A friend of mine is learning PHP, and asked me how to strip all of the ‘unprintable’ characters out of a string. ctype_alpha() can not be considered portable enough yet, and of course, there is no isascii() in PHP...
MKVToolNix 0.8.6 has been released; and with it, my official MacOS X port.
This release touts several bugfixes, and a functional ‘mmg’ front-end for MacOS X.
You will probably want the Apple Installer format package from my software page.
This is an interesting coincidence…
A friend across-country found this in the paper today, and knowing that I lived in the San Francisco area felt the “need” to forward it on. Thanks, SG – it gave myself, and a few other local friends a nice chuckle.