Today my friend called me and told me that a particular word document was not opening on his computer.According to him ,his mother was working on the document and when she saved it ,the computer hung.That particular document could not be opened after restarting the computer. So I concluded that the meta data of the file was not saved correctly and hence word was not opening it. Also the problem with my friends computer was [...]

The biggest flaw in Gmount-iso, AcetoneIso ,Furius ISO Mount and mount.sh scripts is that THEY CANNOT MOUNT ISO IMAGES USING THE UDF FORMAT. I recently download WAIK from microsoft.com and tried mounting it in ubuntu using the following methods, mount.sh(kernel loop module),GmountIso and AcetoneIso. None of them could mount it correctly.The mount folder contained a single file called readme.txt This file contained the following message This disc contains a “UDF” file system and requires an [...]

DAA is a compressed image format developed by PowerISO. Many CD/DVD images are available in this format. More details here Wikipedia To burn DAA image files you need either PowerISO or Gburner both of which are commercial software. Alternatively you can convert it to iso images and then use Nero to burn it or Daemon Tools to mount it as a Virtual Drive

The most common way of editing Windows XP’s boot screen is by editing ntoskrnl. There is a more simple way of changing the boot screen.The only drawback is that the progress bar leaves a trail. First make create 16 bit 640*480 image and save it as boot.bmp in ‘c:\windows’ directory Click Start|Run and type c:\boot.ini. The file opens in Notepad. Look for an entry similar to this. "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect" Add /noguiboot [...]

I just found this site the other day.Its damn interesting. http://www.goosh.org http://www.goosh.org This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page. You can search google,login to gmail from this shell. To search google,just type web search query. Example web olympics. I dunno how its gonna help,but it is definetely gonna impress your friends. For more commands type help.