Interested in Crypto?  then you should read this interesting blog post on Kryptos (see photo). http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/clue-kryptos/ Kryptos is a legendary “sculpture” with an embedded secret message hidden by the designer that has yet to be uncovered. Read about Kryptos here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

In a display of just how horrific federal agencies can use the Anti Terror laws etc. to bully or harass people of a different opinion you should read;

Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cellphones Searched at Border
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/hacker-border-search/

The sum of the article is that known and respected computer-security researcher Moxie Marlinspike was detained by federal authorities for 4½ hour when reentering USA, his equipment was confiscated and possibly cloned (returned to him afterwards), all because his name has made it to a federal watch list.

Comment by Mike@Readmydamnblog
This is  just so absolutely absurd, it’s a clear proof on how the new Anti Terror laws etc. are being abused by law enforcement to harass people that do not play by their tune. Information wants to be free, you can’t bully people into submission.

Have you ever had to explain to a non IT person how to burn an ISO image? It can be a challenge, and understandably so – if you don’t understand the fact that an ISO file is not just a regular file then it does not make much sense..

Anyhow, here is a good tip for you;

Download ISOCDBURNER from this site;
http://bouchez.info/cdburner.html

It is almost fool proof 🙂  Only thing to note is that the program file need to be in the same directory as the .ISO file, but other than that nothing can go wrong 🙂  even your aunt, mother or sister can do this 🙂

Need a few more features but still a fairly foolproof software, take a look at this;

http://www.isoimageburner.com/