Red Stars

The reason why is pretty simple, DVDs are not remotely as fast as any other media, and in 2009, it’s starting to show. Flash drives are larger, faster, and more versatile than DVDs, and they’re costing less and less. But what about an older system that can not boot from USB storage? Well, there is an option, and that’s to use the destination drive as the source. Install the drive into a separate computer (via a usb dongle is fine) and follow these steps. Note that these directions work if you’re trying to make a bootable USB flash drive, too.

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This was more of a project than I was originally expecting, Microsoft prevents the Windows XP Powertoy Calculator from running in Vista in 2 separate places, but in the end, it runs perfectly in Vista, all the limitations are false. (Edit: I can confirm that this hacked copy works in Windows 7, too!)

Don’t feel like doing this yourself? No need!

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Today the stars were aligned and my VMWare installation decided to stop working. It’s time for an upgrade, anyways.

Oh, that makes sense. So lets uninstall the old version.

Can’t install the new, can’t uninstall the old. Time for some hackery!

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I always like to take backing up into my own hands, and a database is potentially the most important thing on your server next to only the code driving it all, which in nature typically has a local copy anyways.

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