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UNetbootin - Bootable USB Media Made Easy

...the most useful developments of the past couple of years has been bootable USB sticks. Not just "LiveUSB" sticks, from which you can actually run... Read more

24 September, 2010
Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

...hard drive.MemTest86+ will cover the memory side, ultimately giving you a bootable DVD or USB key to work with to make sure your RAM... Read more

21 April, 2012 by Craig Simms
A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Linux Mint's recent climb to the top of the DistroWatch rankings and strong reactions to Ubuntu's Unity shell have led to speculation that Ubuntu's glory days could be over. We examine these two popular distros to see where they came from, where they stand and where they may be headed. Read more

10 February, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

...you need from the web, with the added option to make a bootable installer from a USB drive. You'll see differences from the Developer... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Simon Bisson

HP Pavilion dm1-4010ez - Installing Linux Mint 12

...are just extremely conservative. The ISO image can be converted to a bootable USB stick using the "Startup Disk Creator" utility on any running Mint... Read more

5 January, 2012

Samsung N150 Plus Netbook - Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04

...start to finish, including downloading the ISO image, converting it to a bootable USB drive, and installing it into a dual-boot configuration with the... Read more

31 August, 2010

Dream Linux 5 - New and Different

...installation instructions don't mention it, I was able to make a bootable USB stick with the excellent unetbootin utility, and install from that with... Read more

13 April, 2012

Vector Linux 7.0 GOLD Released

...not yet found a way to convert either of these to a bootable USB stick, so I have had to burn a CD of the... Read more

30 November, 2011
Dell PowerEdge R815

Dell PowerEdge R815

The first of the big-name vendors to deliver a server based on AMD's new 16-core Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) processors, Dell has stolen a march on the competition with an affordable yet highly scalable 2U platform offering all the usual PowerEdge trimmings. Read more

14 November, 2011 by Alan Stevens
HP ProLiant DL360 G7

HP ProLiant DL360 G7

The seventh generation of HP's compact ProLiant DL360 sees this best-selling 1U rack workhorse extensively revamped to extract even more in terms of scalability, availability and reliability. Read more

11 October, 2011 by Alan Stevens
Seagate Barracuda XT (3TB, SATA 6Gbps)

Seagate Barracuda XT (3TB, SATA 6Gbps)

Storage-hungry users will find the Barracuda XT a great balance of capacity, backward compatibility and speedy performance. Read more

18 April, 2011 by Dong Ngo
Dell PowerEdge R810

Dell PowerEdge R810

Dell has shoehorned 4-way processing into the 2U PowerEdge R810, bringing all the benefits of Intel's latest Nehalem EX processors and adding Dell's unique FlexMem Bridge memory-access technology. Read more

25 June, 2010 by Alan Stevens
EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1

EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1

...of your operating system, file system and partition scheme, through creating a bootable CD it can sector-by-sector copy you disk to assure you... Read more

24 May, 2012
Windows Login Recovery Enterprise 8.0

Windows Login Recovery Enterprise 8.0

...you can instantly get access to your locked computer by burning a bootable CD or DVD or USB flash drive on your own. No need... Read more

24 May, 2012
Easeus Partition Master Professional 9.1.1

Easeus Partition Master Professional 9.1.1

...solution with brand-new Windows-7-style interface and built-in WinPE bootable disk, it includes three main features: Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and... Read more

22 May, 2012

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

7 minutes ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

55 minutes ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

5 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

10 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

14 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

21 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

21 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

23 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

1 day ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

1 day ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

1 day ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report