If you love that crazy Berserk Hurk

You should clicky this link to help him win the title of Master of the Universe.

We can do this, I command of you my personal army.... or something.

Burn Discs over the network

With the deluge of cheap "netbooks" that came out a few years ago there are lots of people that have a mobile little computer but no way to burn discs.  Lifehacker pointed out a sweet little piece of software from Paragon called Net Burner.  I don't have much use for it being a huge nerd I've owned an external dvd multi-writer since near the beginning of time (don't ask how much it costs because I may be forced to cry if I remember).

Any how, I came across this because we have a few of the Lenovo Ideapad U260's here at work.  Think macbook air size running windows 7 on a core i5.  They are ridiculous and a nice piece of kit, go figure the executive staff around here love them.  With the "it doesn't matter that you ran it over with your car" warranty they are in Apple price territory but still damn nice except for the lack of burning drive.    This gives them the ability to burn to their desktop pc's drive.

Reimage.com support software

Given the number of people that I give casual support to, I am often on the look out for solutions that allow me to support them without having to go to their homes and troubleshoot. My current weapon of choice is Logmein; which saves them having to know their IP address and lets me show them the steps I am taking to complete a task. This type of scenario works well for the high-speed internet users in your life, but is not a very great solution overall given that it relies on their internet connection being in a working state, and still requires my time to correct issues. I found this company Reimage.com from an ad link in a technology feed that I read and was wondering if anyone had used their product and could attest to how well (or poorly) it works. It seems that it would be a decent product to base a tech support business on, provided that it was functional and added support of vista/windows 7 in the near future. I realize that some people are not keen on it, but I have been running Vista for sometime, now on modern hardware with no issues (legacy support is a different story).

The idea seems pretty simple that you install the software and it runs a diagnostic to determine what parts of XP are broken and attempts to download the working pieces off their repository. Seems like it would be a workable scheme, but the pricing is interesting. I realize if they offered a just one for free plan that most customers would never end up paying, so I am don't fault them for their monetization plan. I will likely give it a go for the single license and use the money back guarantee if I am not satisfied with the outcome.