Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

I find myself working with a lot of ISO files these days. It's an easy way for software companies to ship betas and trial code. Most of the time, though, I don't want to burn the disks to install the software. ISOs are disk images, and there are software tools to mount them as virtual drives on your PC.

Microsoft's free tool is good, as is Daemon Tools. But they don't work on Vista.

Then I came across Virtual CloneDrive. It's small, free, and works on pretty much every Windows box and version I've tried it on - including Windows Vista RC1.

Well worth downloading.

I'm still not sure what it is with the sheep...

Just in time for our next international jaunt, the current hand luggage restrictions on flights from the UK are being eased.

Hand baggage restrictions imposed in the UK after an alleged terrorist plot to attack airliners are to be eased from Friday, the government has said.

Passengers will still only be allowed one piece of luggage but the maximum size permitted will increase to that of a small roller-suitcase.

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The new size limit for carry-on luggage will increase to 56cm x 45cm x 25cm (22in x 17.75in x 9.85in approx).

Here's the full announcement from the DTI's web site.

Click along to Amazon UK's page for the Zune, and look at the "by" section...



"by Apple Computer"? Some one needs to check their proofreading!

Spotted by stevewpalmer in another place....