Booting from a USB

Booting from a USB is not always the easiest thing in the world.

Following are a couple of websites that will help with this dilemma.

Make a Windows Vista bootable USB drive or a Win 7 bootable USB drive.

This link is more information on installing Win 7 from a USB flash drive.

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There is a lot of great information about creating bootable USB drives here. This site has a lot of other information that a hardware techie should know.

This list link is for a tool that will help you out with mounting a file to your computer.

You need a tool to mount an ISO or image check out this drive.

Helpful tips in MS Office

check out this link it has a lot of helpful advice on MS Office and other important IT training.

I Get It.

Spanning Tree Protocol

The following link is to a Cisco web page that does a great job explaining what the Spanning Tree Protocol is.

This is a great site

Virtual Box from Sun

Here is a link to the correct page on Sun's web site for you to down load virtualbox.

You want to select the file that is labled Windows (32-bit/64-bit)

A link to a learning styles questionnaire

This is a brief questionnaire to help students determine their learning styles.

Click here to take survey.

Referances

It is always nice to be able to find out what that term or acronym means. This site is dedicated to network terms. It should be a great help when you need to look up a definition.

Network dictionary

Check it our.

What MS is thinking about with Win 7

Here a link that tells us a little bit about what Windows is thinking with the release of Win 7

We have now moved to GPT to replace MBR disks

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/gpt_faq.mspx#ETEAC

and

http://www.itworld.com/nlswindows070220

Definition of terms according to IBM

http://mbsg.intel.com/mbsg/glossary.aspx#2

AMD VS Intel

Check out the 2 links below

the first is for AMD

http://products.amd.com/en-us/default.aspx

The second is for Intel

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/

A link about the inside of motherboard

The informaiton is a little bit dated but it still applies

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=339936