Booting from a USB thumb drive isn’t really rocket science.  There’s plenty of websites out there that show you how to do this.  You can even run full Linux installations off a thumb drive.  But in all my searching out there, I still haven’t found a software package that can do this….

How about being able to just copy an ISO file to a thumb drive, and having your PC boot right from the ISO?  Essentially you’d need to have some software on the device that can boot, create a virtual CDROM device and then mount up the ISO to boot from it.

Basically I’m looking for something that will turn an thumb drive into a bootstrappng device for ISO files.  This could be highly useful for people (like myself) that don’t have an optical drive built into their laptops.  Anyone know of some such software out there?  Sound off in the comments to this post!

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I think I finally figured out why I get this weird deja vu feeling when I check my Twitter feed and a I see an update from CNet’s Rafe Needleman, like I’ve seen him somewhere else before. Well, I went searching the tubes today to find out. So, here’s a picture of Rafe from his Twitter page. This is what comes up in my feed every day.

And then I did a little searching out there…and Yes! I have seen him before. He played in that popular film with Vince Vaughn and that hot girl Christine Taylor. Dodgeball!

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