Posts on X2Q tagged iso. Updated as new posts are published.
A practical reference for BIN/IIN lookups: what the issuer identification number is, the table of which prefix ranges belong to which card network, and the three ways to look a BIN up — read it off the ranges yourself, use a lookup site/API like binlist.net, or query it programmatically. Includes the 6-vs-8-digit caveat and what you can and can't tell from a prefix alone.
The card networks expanded the issuer identifier on a payment card from 6 to 8 digits. For anyone doing BIN/IIN lookups it means a 6-digit prefix is no longer guaranteed to identify a single issuer — you often need 8 digits to disambiguate. Here's the what, the why, and the practical fallout.
bchunk (binchunker) splits a .bin/.cue CD image into .iso for the data track and .wav files for each audio track. The canonical tool for turning a mixed-mode BIN/CUE into something you can mount or burn.
Linux can't loop-mount a raw BIN/CUE pair the way it mounts an ISO. The simple fix is to convert the BIN/CUE to ISO with bchunk and mount the ISO; for mixed-mode or audio discs, cdemu emulates a real optical drive instead.