Jeremy Simmons: The Blog

Using the Disk Utility application on OSX, it's easy to get an image of a CD as a file on the hard drive.
The unortunate thing is that the image file is going to be a DMG by default.

I wanted to convert this to an ISO, so I could burn the file to media later with software that understood this format.

Conversion is fairly painless. Drop to your console, and use the following.

hdiutil convert /path/to/filename.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/to/savefile.iso

I have a love-hate relationship with Visual Studio. I spend most of my computing-work-day in this program, and I really hate when I have to fix the 'quirks' that it gets me with.

Today's bug happened when I was trying to document the use of a custom error page by documenting the section of the web.config that was necessary in the XML comments for the class definition.

I was met with resistance, and finally a crash from visual studio for my efforts. No worries. A quick search, and I'm back in business.

Thanks to the blogosphere, namely this fine guy http://blogs.msdn.com/djpark/archive/2007/11/29/public-hotfix-vs-2005-sp1-unresponsive-when-typing-in-an-xml-doc-comment.aspx, I'm a happy camper.

FIX: Visual Studio 2005 stops responding when you type "<" or ">" in the " <![CDATA[]]>" tag if you enable XML documentation for a project http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940201/en-us

It's nice when there's a patch for things, before you need them. I could say it would be nice if you didn't need them at all, but lets face it. I write worse code than the VS folks.

Thanks for the patch guys, keep rocking the code.