40 programs to copy and clone your hard drive
DaleThis is an update of version 2 of this post with the following additions: Acronis Disk Director, Acronis TrueImage Echo & Active@ Boot Disk. And since people have asked, I…
General George S. Patton
Quotes from: General George S. Patton Jr. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. Better to fight for something than live for nothing. Courage is…
Frank Brandenberg, the man who killed the CTOS operating system
Today is the “a little bit of history” post. I was going though some old documents I had from the days of working with the CTOS operating system, and I…
I can’t map a “$ share” on a Vista PC.
To fix, Short version: Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System registry key, create 32-bit DWORD value named LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy, and set it to 1 . Long version See the How to Geek for the…
How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Classic
This is the FreeAgent Classic. My one is a 160GB external drive. Step 1 – using a BLUNT object, such as a thin screwdriver, slide it along the front of…
“Taxation, Gentlemen, is very much like diary farming”
'Taxation, Gentlemen, is very much like diary farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. And I am afraid to say…
Creating a bootable USB key under Vista
Every Man + Dog has blogged about this, and since I used the technique to install the Windows 7 Beta on my diskless TC1100 tablet, I’d might as well post…
“I am the information warrior who …”
… I am the information warrior who adopts mixed defence strategies to combat the baddies. … so spoke the IT Security manager, who back in 2008, described Script Kiddies as…
Re: M16 similarities re. Iraq & VN
Subject: Re: M16 similarities re. Iraq & VN From: "KP" <nospam@please.com> Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Chopper wrote in message ... >Ok, I'm sure I'm going to reveal some ignorance here, but does…
Opinions are like …
“Opinions are like assholes - everybody has one. At his age your father should know that not everyone wants to see his butt, or hear his opinion.” - Jake Grafton,…