Configure USB flash drives so you can in...

This is how I configure USB flash drives so that I can install Windows from USB (WAY faster than using a disk). 1. Insert the USB drive into the computer, and make sure you can see it in Explorer. 2. Launch a Command Prompt All typing from this point will be done in this same window. 3. Type: DISKPART {ENTER} This will start DISKPART.exe, which we will use to get this drive formatted and bootable. 4. Type: list disk {ENTER} This will give you a list of installed disks, but they are labeled using the disk’s number, not the name or drive...

The 40 Most Popular Tools For Your Syste...

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. http://www.7-zip.org/ Acronis True Image with Universal Restore – Disk Imaging tool http://www.acronis.com/ Belarc Advisor – Audits installed software, list keys, hardware, Microsoft patches, and generates a report http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html Clonezilla is an OpenSource clone system with unicasting and multicasting! Goodbye to Ghost http://clonezilla.org CPUz. Accurate PC motherboard, RAM, graphics card details and MUCH more without opening up the...

Verizon’s Nexus One to be sold onl...

This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but Android Central seems to have obtained a screen shot from a deep, dark, top-secret Verizon system that indicated that the upcoming CDMA version of the Nexus One will be “available only through www.Google.com/Phones.” That, of course, matches T-Mobile’s strategy of quietly letting Google do its thing — and Verizon’s strategy of keeping its network “open” — so you’ll just have to remember to not line up at your local store at 8PM the night before the launch,...

Latvian ‘Matrix’ Hacker Expo...

A hacker on a mission to expose greed and waste in high places is rapidly becoming a folk hero in recession-hammered Latvia. The hacker, who uses the name Neo from the hero in the Matrix film series, has exposed the salaries of top government officials online and revealed that managers at a bailed-out bank lied when promising they would take pay cuts. He has also revealed that state-owned companies secretly handed out bonuses while begging for government help. “A lot of...

bloom box...

http://slashdot.org/palm/21/10/02/22/1915250_1.shtml This looks like it could he a answer to alternative...

Windows Phone 7 Series Preview...

look promising -...

Google Granted the Right to Buy and Sell...

Back in December, Google took steps to form Google Energy, a subsidiary created for the express purpose of buying and selling electricity in bulk. In January, the company filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enter the market, and yesterday received permission to purchase and resell wholesale energy (PDF). Google says it made the move primarily to better manage its high electricity costs, but also to give it more flexibility in pursuing the goal of becoming completely carbon neutral. “We want to buy the highest quality, most...

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.3 Overview...

if you like wireshark you should like this. Microsoft Network Monitor 3.3...

Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent...

According to a recent report, malicious PDF files now account for 80% of all exploits in 2009.   There are many blogs that will be able to analyze it ever which way for you; but I wanted to keep it short and sweet and focus on what does this mean for you and I?   The obvious answer is we need to keep your software up to date.   The not so obvious answer…  How about switching to an open source software such as Foxit Reader that doesn’t have these issues?   That’s what my company has chosen to do. Foxit won’t help any with the Flash problems,...

ipad...

I expected more from the creative minds from Apple. The ipad is the latest addition to Apples arsenal and its lacking. Its a glorified ipod touch. Maybe next time Apple… ...