udevinfo and udevadm

If you have ever tried to write UDEV rules , say, to get your external hard drive to mount at your preferred custom mount point, you will have found necessary to use the little utility udevinfo.

Recently this utility has been superseded by udevadm. However there is a way to get the old udevinfo output back with udevadm:

udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/your-device)

and you will have the same output you would have had with udevinfo. Very useful! Credits to Unlikely Source for the hack.

Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5

This blog post made some noise recently.

Let's see. HTML 5 is the next revision of the old and beloved HTML. Such a spec is still under development and, among other things, should specify (or at least suggest) what the standard media formats of the Web should be. HTML5 in fact specifies a

chm2pdf merges with xtopdf ?

xtopdf is a neat collection of Python utilities currently in development whose aim is to convert every sensible document format into a PDF file. Nice project. I'm currently beginning talks with its main developer to see if my little chm2pdf can find a space in there..

In the meantime chm2pdf already recieved 31 downloads! Really unexpected success but only a little feedback...

Announcing chm2pdf

Again in the world of interconverting formats, but this time it is something little I did myself. I had the necessity to print a CHM file but printing it page-by-page is of course painstaking. How I would have liked a PDF of that file... but how?

Well, I scratched my itch and I wrote a very little and raw, but functional CHM to PDF command line converter. You can find it here and it's called, quite obviously, chm2pdf. It is a small Python script that glues together chmlib (via pychm), pdftk and htmldoc. Installation and usage should be straightforward. Functionality is still pretty limited (images are still not converted, for example) but hey, it's version 0.0.2 ...

Let me know what do you think about it and drop me a mail for any feedback.