Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD: "What is BartPE and PE Builder?

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a 'BartPE' (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!"

I have been using various methods over the years to recover, debug, crack, and fix Windows systems, and I think that Bart has created a very useful tool that all admins should learn to use before they are under the gun to get a sytem back into operation. Combine this Windows Live-CD with your in-house tools like Ghost, Mcafee/Trend/SymantecAV, Winternals/Sysinternals, etc., and you will be the hero of the day. -Bryan

Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger | The Register

Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger | The Register: "Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger
By John Lettice
Published Monday 4th April 2005 13:52 GMT

A Malaysian businessman has lost a finger to car thieves impatient to get around his Mercedes' fingerprint security system. Accountant K Kumaran, the BBC reports, had at first been forced to start the S-class Merc, but when the carjackers wanted to start it again without having him along, they chopped off the end of his index finger with a machete."

Security designs must always prioritize the security of personnel over the security of objects...-Bryan