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ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be found in the ImgBurn context menus.

 
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

If you never heard of this tool than now you should download and install it ;). I am using this tool to burn cd-roms from my Windows Server 2008 Hyver-V whitebox and it works smoothly. Beside all burning features one other which comes handy is to grab a folder and create a ISO file; than mount the ISO file with Hyper-V or ESX virtual machines. I used this feature many times when working in the test and production environments. 

Click here to download the ImgBurn tool.

vRD 2008 is a tool for the management of remote Windows computers via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). vRD is ideal for administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple servers. Connection-specific settings and login credentials can be organized in folders and subfolders for quick access.

visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 is currently one of the most popular products in the market of RDP tools. visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 Express (vRD 2008 Express) offers a multiple number of enhancements and new features compared to the freeware version vRD 1.5, such as the extended support of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (incl. 64-Bit), an overview on all logged in users and connection history.

Limitations of vRD 2008 Express:

• up to 15 objects
• 5 credentials storable
• no Database-Modus available
• duration is valid until 3-31-2009

With some enhancements and limitations the tool is still out there for public. I used the freeware versions before and still like the Office interface. Good opportunity to check the tool yourself before buying it. Looking into the future plans of mRemote and vRD I think I will buy the license somewhere next year ;).

Please register and download the tool from here if you want to test it.

Don’t worry the limitations is working after you start creating the 16th connection:

Today I hit my first problem when creating a new JeOS virtual appliance based on Ubuntu. After I mount and extract the VMWare tools; I tried to run the ./vmware-install.pl script and got the warning below.

/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config.pl
The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were
not installed by the VMware Installer.  Please remove them then run this
installer again.

vmnet
vmhgfs
vmblock
vmmon

Execution aborted.

I did not install any VMWare tools before, but somehow these VMWare modules were included in the ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386.iso file. Go to following directory and remove the mentioned directories.

cd /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-virtual/ubuntu
ls
sudo rm -r vmnet/
sudo rm -r vmhgfs
sudo rm -r vmblock
sudo rm -r vmmon

That’s all. Rerun the install script.