Python

Save time and burn that ISO without unRAR'ing it first

It is annoying sometimes you download some ISOs and they come in RARs but this is just how it is for now. Nowadays I have a quad-core system that really doesn't take much time to extract even a dual-layer ISO out of maximum compressed RAR set, but I still use this script to burn. You can disable skipping SFV checking, etc, but I would not recommend that as wodim does not care if unrar returns an error. It will burn erroneous data from that point on.

The whole point is that you are piping what unrar gives to stdout to wodim's stdin.

A shell command would be similar to the following:

Mount ISO files easilly with KDE 4 ServiceMenus

I have never had fun typing the mount command manually. It is annoying, sometimes runs into problems, and sometimes fails altogether. I also rather like clicking in this case, just like I would have done in DAEMON Tools on Windows or similar.

I also use KDE 4 now, and the Service Menus system has changed only slightly. The .desktop files are now located in a number of places:

  • /opt/kde4/share/services/ServiceMenus/
  • /usr/share/services/ServiceMenus/
  • /home/aaron/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
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