Entries Categorized as 'Windows'

Resize your Windows/Linux Partitions Without Spending a Dime: A free alternative to PartitionMagic* and the likes

Date July 28, 2006 by Isaac

I’ve always been an Open Source fan, but I must say that I am particularly impressed by the quality of GParted. GParted allows you to non-destructively resize and manipulate hard drive partitions. Many Live CD’s contain GParted and allow you to resize various filesystems such as: FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, XFS, and more. In my [...]

Creating a drop-down list in Excel

Date June 22, 2006 by Isaac

What? An Excel tip in a software testing blog? It seems I spend way too much time creating reports for my managers, so I do rely heavily on Excel. While creating a generic risk assessment spreadsheet I wanted to only allow certain values in some of the cells. After a quick google and some playing [...]

Mounting an ISO image under Windows

Date June 19, 2006 by Isaac

I’m a big fan of the KISS principle, so when I run into a utility that is simple, yet effective, I jump all over it. Recently, I found one such utility from Microsoft of all places. The problem is that occasionally I need to mount an ISO image so I can access it like a [...]