burning iso images to cd / dvd in Windows Vista

for my own reference and to help anyone out there looking for this
took me a while to find it because I was looking for "burndvd"... arrgh
keywords: cdburn, dvdburn, burn, rktools

you can use the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools, after you install this kit, you will get a couple command line utilities under c:\program files\windows resource kits\tools\

cdburn.exe
dvdburn.exe

usage:

cdburn image

updated Notepad is out

Notepad2 that is =o)

The most important changes in Notepad2 2.0.x compared with version 1.0.12 include support for ini-file storage of the program settings, modeless find and replace dialogs, multiline find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, and many more.

There's also some regressions, i.e. ANSI code page support has been reduced to the system default, the bookmarks feature has been removed, a few syntax schemes have been dropped, and Notepad2 does no longer run on Windows 9x. If you need any of these features, you'll have to stick to Notepad2 version 1.0.12.

read the full list of new features here

if you are still using Notepad, you might want to give Notepad2 a chance, is just as light weight as Notepad, but much more powerful

time to update your PDF reader

If you are not using Foxit reader yet, do your self a favor and download it now; now if you had used it before and you had problems with some pdf files, this is the time to give it a second chance, version 2 just came out and at least in my experience I am able to open all the files now, including those that I couldn't open before

Foxit reader is a lot faster than acrobat reader, and it doesn't install any additional garbage, is just what you would expect from a "pdf file reader"... that's what it does, and (now) it does it well