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EDIT 2009/12/11: Microsoft Provides a tool to do this for you – Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool which is available for download here . If you need instructions on how to use the tool, see the Microsoft Store Help on the ISO-Tool ( http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool ). It surprised me to find that there are very few dead-simple guides to creating a bootable USB thumb/pen/flash drive for a Vista and/or Windows 7 installation. I cobbled together the following from VistaPCGuy and another source I don’t remember right now. This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS. These instructions assume that you have a computer with Windows Vista installed on it.
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We give a lot of attention to XBMC here, and with just cause. It's an open-source, cross-platform, highly-customizable media center solution that outperforms just about every commercial option out there. Here's how you can make it even better.
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Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap - Feature ...
You won't find a better media center than the open-source XBMC , but most people don't have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. Here's how.
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I wanted to create mythtv frontend with low power consumption to my existing mythtv 0.21 backend. I have kind of been waiting for 0.22, but since I found nice repository with ready made binaries with VDPAU support, and my order for Zotac MB delivered I just had to give it a go. If you are not in such hurry, you are propably better off waiting for the 0.22 release. Here is my story: