Installing Windows 7 From a Flash Drive
February 27th, 2010If you have a copy of Windows 7 installation media as an ISO (disk image) you may want to put it on a flash drive. You might think that you’d be able to just click and drag the file onto the flash drive and be done, but that isn’t the case! Here’s how to do it
First, have a Windows 7 ISO (duh)
Next, download and install Microsoft’s ISO tool here. (That is a direct link, originally found the link here. If you’re doing this on Windows XP, go to that page and scroll down to “For Windows XP Users” to find two more downloads you will need.)
When you open the program, it will look like this. 
Adding a Hard Drive to a Windows Home Server
January 21st, 2010As the title says. Here’s the video:
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Fixing my Zune’s broken glass (again) on the cheap!
May 23rd, 2009A while ago I dropped my Zune flat on its face and fixed it myself with some parts from RapidRepair.com. Unfortunately, it seems that Rapid Repair’s replacement “glass” wasn’t glass at all but rather some cheap plastic that broke while the Zune was in my pocket with my cell phone.
Zune Repair: Replacing a Flash Zune’s Glass
March 6th, 2009Over a year ago I bought a second generation Microsoft Zune. I bought the highest capacity available with flash-based storage (8GB), instead of the higher capacity hard drive-based options, because I’ve already broken two like players in my lifetime—a forth generation 40GB Apple iPod and a first generation Creative Zen Vision (no suffix).
This time the problem wasn’t the storage. Last week I broke my 8GB, second generation Microsoft Zune, but this time I could repair the thing myself!
Lazy man’s way to prepare for IE8
January 23rd, 2009Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft’s up-and-coming browser to supersede Internet Explorer 7, has a very different layout engine than it’s predecessor. IE8’s engine is much more standards-compliant than any version of IE so far. Standards-compliance is great, but for IE it does yield some unfortunate consequences. Websites that produce special code for pages downloaded with IE7 often send the same quirky code to IE8, which renders the page according to the “official rules”. The end result is a webpage that doesn’t look right.
IE8 has a few features for the transition time between now and when IE7 (and older) usage drops to an insignificant level. First is Compatibility View. If the user sees a website that isn’t rendering correctly (for example, my website right now), he can click the “broken page” button in the navigation bar. 