Here's a couple things... http://mcnlive.org/ - MCN Live, a live CD that can also be installed on a flash drive. There's Knoppix, too. http://www.knopper.de
http://www.sysresccd.org/ - another live CD that can edit Windows NT passwords. http://portableapps.com/ has a collection of Firefox, Filezilla, GIMP etc., all portable and launchable from a flash drive. And, well, the author's own Windows demoronising/essential tools package (it will write to Windows directory, so for most of the installed items it'll require an admin account, but Sysresc CD might help with that). This also flips around three hundred registry settings to somewhat more humane, making Windows a tad faster and more bearable. http://my.opera.com/S-Priest/blog/commander-kit On 24.02.2008 at 22:52 Dan H. wrote: >Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. > >Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and >certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- >administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing. >M$ Office, M$IE, Lotus Notes 6 (soon to be migrated to Outlook Express). > >I've never really used Windows before and thought of it as just another >system -- I like Debian, you like Windows, no sweat. > >Boy, what a piece of crap. It boggles the mind. This is how the world's >office workers get their work done? Or do they? > >I managed to install Opera in a directory owned by myself, but whenever I >try to open any page it keeps asking me for usernames and passwords, >which IE somehow seems to inherently know about. That thing doesn't even >have tabs or a decent bookmark handler. That's the #1 browser in the >world! WTF? Am I missing something here? > >OK, this rant really doesn't belong in this group, but I need some >sympathy right now. > >Thanks for listening, >--D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]