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Whether you run Windows or Linux, whether you want to make an existing distro USB bootable or some of the nice little tools and system utilities, UNetbootin is the tool you want !

From their site: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Introduction

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.

A great example of how simple hacking is becoming using Back track and Metasploit: reverse VNC hidden in a Word file

More on Back Track : http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html
BackTrack is the most top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.

An excellent report resulting from a survey of 1,275 IT professionals around the world that were asked for feedback on their experiences making the switch to Linux in their organizations. Key findings:

Desktop Linux adoption is primarily driven by cost reduction
over 70% of respondents indicated cost reduction as the primary driver for adoption
ease of securing the desktop and a general lowering of overheads associated with maintenance and support

But deployment is currently limited, and challenges to further adoption frequently exist
adopters have only rolled out to less than 20% of their total PC user base at the moment
necessary to pay particular attention to challenges in the areas of targeting, user acceptance and application compatibility

This new feature in Gmail Labs is called Inbox Preview: while Gmail is loading, a simple, static preview of your inbox with your ten most recent messages is displayed..

More info: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-in-labs-inbox-preview.html

Moblin V2.0 Beta out and ready for netbooks!

More info: http://moblin.org/community/blogs/imad/2009/moblin-v20-beta-netbooks-and-nettops-its-here

Moblin v2.0 Beta Feature Summary

• New, visually rich user experience, optimized for
  Netbook and Nettops, building on the latest open source graphics

At first glance, Office 2010 looks pretty cool and Outlook finally got the same "RibbonX". The question now is: "Why 2 InfoPath?"

Check out my SkyDrive Photo Gallery for more screenshots:

So, all of my machines, both virtual and physical, are now up to date w/ the latest versions of their respective OS. But, these days, I have become very attached to my Ubuntu 9.04 laptop which provides everything I have demanded thus far.... So, here is what it looks like:

A few tweaks, applications installed, and voila... And w/ VirtualBox running, I can now try out the latest Windows 7 RC directly here:

• Drag-and-drop HTML Form Builder

  Zoho Creator's
  easy to use Web Form Builder helps you to create online forms easily
  and quickly . All you have to do is just drag-and drop the required
  fields into your web form. No Programming skills required!

Making the world's knowledge computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.

Back in the days, V-Pulse started as a SharePoint blog... Given that a few years have passed, a new version of Windows server has been released and WSS is now in SP2, I thought I would give it another try.

So far, so good for the installation...

Will look at what it takes to get it configured and available....