Archive for February, 2007

Mounting ISO files..

I have been using VMWare for a while and love the feature to mount an ISO file as a drive letter in the virtual environment.  It extremely convenient and it is much faster than using CDs or DVDs to do installs.   Recently I found the need to use an ISO file.  Sure I could burn [...]


Emergency Shutdown of Windows

Chances are that if you use Windows you have had to just shut down your machine when it become instable.  I am not trying to pick on Windows.  Most of the time it isn’t Windows fault, it is fairly common for poorly written applications and drivers cause the OS to malfunction.  This isn’t anything specific to Windows, if you run a buggy application [...]


Sending Large Files?

Isn’t it frustrating when you need to send a file that is too big to be sent as an attachment?   Sure you can break it up into smaller files to be attached to multiple e-mails, but why go through the hassle.   I usually use a FTP server to send files like this.   I stumbled [...]