What format is the database dump from the Georeferenzierung project? - database

I am searching for a way to access the data contained in a dump file of Wikipedia's georeferencing project offered on this site at the bottom of the righthand box. download link
After unpacking the .gz archive, a 4.7GB file named new_red0 remains without any file extension.
Can anyone help me open this file using Windows 10?

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Decompressing .lz file

Curiosity is one of my personal keys. I got a folder of an executable c application, this folder include many files some are files.so , files.ini and other files.lz and I decided to try do some kind of reverse engineering, so I have used a reverse engineering online tool for the files.so and files.ini are already opened via notepad as we all know, but now my problem is about opening files.lz, which i already know that it contains libraries to be used for functions on files.so
This is what i want to know and to have some help in it how can I decompress it via a desktop tool or even an online tool?
Should be Lzip.
When you are in the linux-world, one very usefull commands is file:
$ file myFile.lz
myFile.lz: lzip compressed data, version: 1

VB.Net Transferring A Windows Form App Onto A USB Stick

I am just wondering how do you transfer a windows form application onto a flash drive because every time I have tried after its transferred I click to open it and an error message displays saying:
"Cannot find the file 'F:\Vending Machine.vb.'
I need to be able to transfer it so when it opens I am able to edit the code and the appearance of the application as I would if I were to just open a new windows form application now.
Thank you
Marcus.
You will need to transfer the entire project/solution to the USB.
Transfering the already compiled .exe should open the latest build of your application. Transferring only a portion of the solution folder and then trying to open the .sln will cause errors on the files you have left out.
Clear your FlashDrive
Copy the entire folder(not the contents) to your flashdrive (C:\Users\Marcus's MPC\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Vending Machine)
Attempt to open the .sln
Based on your additional comments it seems you are not moving all of the files the solution needs. If you have files stored in other locations (like My Document) those will need to be reconfigured to work with the solution or you will have to mimic the environment.
I would recommend reconfiguring the project to consolidate any stray files you have.

Read omni.jar archive file with MiniZip library

Firefox store its default configuration information in omni.jar (older version) or omni.ja (later versions). Both omni.jar and omni.ja just are zip file format. So we can use many programs/libraries to compress or decompress them.
I want to get some default information of Firefox. So I must read some file in those omni file. I have used 7zip program to see the content of omni or MiniZip/Zlib library to read omni in my program.
With later version, omni.ja, it is read well. But with older versions, MiniZip cannot open the omni.jar file. Then I use 7zip to open those file: omni.ja was ok, omni.jar was fail. But with some other program, ex: WinRar, WinZip, ... both omni file is opened well.
I was google and get some information: with older version, Firefox has created the omni.jar file (a zip file format) with no zip standard. blah blah. But why WinRar or WinZip can read.
Anyone can help me to get MiniZip read omni.jar file with no error?
Thank you very much.
The solution is pretty simple: Your "old" omni.jar is broken. My omni.jar starts with PK.
I suggest to download Firefox from the official archive once more.
[EDIT] It seems that different builds of Firefox use different tools to built the ZIP archive. The en-US version uses a ZIP-like format which doesn't start with PK. While in theory the file format is valid (it contains data followed by the list of entries), almost no tool really supports this format (so WinZIP and WinRAR are the exceptions).
This intention is reflected by the rename of omni.jar to omni.ja: It's not encrypted, it's just a ZIP format that isn't widely supported and the US Firefox developers don't want to change this.
The other developers (for example for the de version) use official tools to build the omni archive so those versions can be modified with any tool.
You will need to find a way to update the archive using WinZIP / WinRAR or you need to download the original firefox sources and add your patches to the build process.

Use a Adobe Fireworks file extension other than .PNG for multi-layer master files

Adobe Fireworks saves both the master (multi layered source files) as flattened web-optimized graphics in the .png file format.
This is confusing in my workflow and sometimes the master .png file gets overwritten by a flattened web-optimized file with the same filename.
I have adopted the convention to ad _FW to the master file's source files for a while but it sometimes still fails.
Is it possible to make Adobe Fireworks to save it's master files with a different file extension than .png?
(So that it is similar to how you can use Photoshop to save it's files in a .psd file and web-optimized files are .png)
As far as I know, Fireworks can save its files only in Fw PNG layered (editable) file format, and the file extension is always .png. As a common convention between designers that use Fireworks, often a .fw is added before the .png, so a typical editable Adobe Fireworks file can have a file name like "sample_filename.fw.png". It's easy to remember that .fw.png files are editable and, as a bonus, you can still natively display them right in Explorer/Finder, preview them, view them in the browser, etc.
Maybe the next version of Adobe Fireworks (CS6) will have the option to save Fw PNG files by default with .fw.png file extension, but I'm not sure... :)

File extension .DB - What kind of database is it exactly?

I have a database file with .DB file extension. I have been googling and it looks like SQLite. I tried to connect to it using SQLite and SQLite3 drivers and I am getting an error "File is encrypted or not a database".
So I dont know if file is encrypted or it is not an SQLite database. Are there any other options what should the .DB extension should be? How do I find out that file is encrypted?
I tried to open it in the text editor and it is mostly a mess of charaters and some times there are words visible. I have uploaded the file here: http://cl.ly/3k0E01373r3v182a3p1o for the closer look.
Thank you for your hints and ideas what to do and how to work with this file.
Marco Pontello's TrID is a great way to determine the type of any file.
TrID is simple to use. Just run TrID and point it to the file to be analyzed. The file will be read and compared with the definitions in the database. Results are presented in order of highest probability.
Just download the executable and the latest definitions file into the same directory and then run TrID:
trid.exe "path/to/file.xyz"
It will output a list of possible file types for the file with a confidence rating. Here's a screenshot of using TrID to analyze a SQLite database file:
There's also a GUI version called TrIDNet:
If you're on a Unix-like platform (Mac OS X, Linux, etc), you could try running file myfile.db to see if that can figure out what type of file it is. The file utility will inspect the beginning of the file, looking for any clues like magic numbers, headers, and so on to determine the type of the file.
Look at the first 30 bytes of the file (open it in Notepad, Notepad++ or another simple text viewer). There's usually some kind of tag or extension name in there.
Both SQLite 2 and SQLite 3 have a very clear message: SQLite format 3 for SQLite 3 (obviously) and This file contains an SQLite 2.1 database for SQLite 2.
Note that encrypted SQLite databases don't have a header like that since the entire file is encrypted. See siyw's comment below.
On a Unix-like system (or Cygwin under Windows), the strings utility will search a file for strings, and print them to stdout. Might help you narrow the field.
There are a lot of programs besides database programs that use a "db" extension, including
ArcView Object Database File (ESRI)
MultiEdit
Netscape
Palm
and so on. Google "file extensions" for some sites that catalog file extensions and the programs that use them.
There's no conclusive way to know, because SQLite encrypts the entire database file, including the header.
Further, there's not a lot of difference to you, except for possible error text to a user if you're prompting them for a password.

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