Tech Review: Tuesday, November 1, 2011

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

• Virtual CloneDrive 
• Nice freeware app for mounting an ISO in Win7

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/mount-an-iso-image-in-windows-vista/

• A nice review of Clone Drive and other such applications for Windows
• what do you do in linux?
• http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mount-iso-image-under-linux.html
• $ sudo bash
• $ mkdir -p /mnt/disk
• '-p' makes parent directories as needed
• $ mount -o loop <something>.iso /mnt/disk
• $ ls -l /mnt/disk

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-check-memory-usage/

• Checking the amount of memory free in linux
• $ free -m

How to Set Environment Variables

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519

To view or change environment variables:

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Click Environment variables.
4. Click one the following options, for either a user or a system variable:
• Click New to add a new variable name and value.
• Click an existing variable, and then click Edit to change its name or value.
• Click an existing variable, and then click Delete to remove it.

Re: Office Communicator

Also has the following problems:

1. Resource hog
2. No icon with the app in Win7

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice little application.  However, the menus are hidden in the top left corner of the windows.

Windows 7 - Enabling Recent Items

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7files/thread/09a26880-f143-4e5e-b97b-1bef8507582f

Doesn't seem to be enabled by default.

Right click the 'Taskbar', click 'Properties' > select the 'Start Menu' tab > click 'Customize' > in the dialog displayed, check off the appropriate menu link, 'Recent Items'

Office Communicator

Nice little application.  However, the menus are hidden in the top left corner of the windows.

OpenSSH Man Page.

http://www.openssh.org/manual.html

Used this to load file to a server.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8

Man page.

Blocking Websites with OpenDNS

http://www.ampercent.com/block-porn-websites-facebook-orkut-myspace-twitter-windows-firefox-opendns/6758/

Blocking Websites Using OpenDNS for Better Parental Control