One of my other discs got slightly scratched up. Managed to get it going long enough to create the ISO and mounted it with VCD. This is the kind of thing I use it for. Wonder if you can mount an ISO of an audio CD?
This is cool. It scans EULA's for "interesting phrases."
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html
EDIT: Anyone try
Evernote? Looks interesting but Im leery of signing up online.
ANOTHER EDIT: Also, any password managers that work in Firefox? The built-in one is a bit rudimentary and sometimes grabs the wrong forms. And my short-term memory is a bit cruddy (damn concussion!)
I've heard that
LastPass works well with Firefox, and know several people who are big fans of it. It also will synchronize across different machines, so you can access your passwords at school if need be. I haven't used it because at the time I learned about it, it didn't work with Opera. I use
KeePass instead, which is entirely offline (and thus good if you have passwords to Word files or whatever on your hard drive), but it doesn't integrate with browsers. Still works for keeping passwords secure and not forgotten though.
EULA Analyser may be useful from a legal perspective I suppose, but the only time I've ever found anything in a EULA interesting is when they have sections about how you aren't supposed to use their music player software to make nuclear weapons (iTunes), or when the EULA is in large part a parody of most EULAs. My general policy is to skip the EULA unless it's short enough to read quickly - ideally no scrolling, but no more than two standard EULA pages, and no legalese. If I encounter such an unusually short EULA, I actually tend to read it (hint to any EULA-writers out there...). Basically I don't think it would be worth analysing the EULAs for the unlikely event that they'd actually have something I'd consider interesting.
Evernote I haven't tried although I've considered it. I guess I don't get how it would be better than a well-organized folder structure on my hard drive with a bunch of PDFs, photos, text files, and whatnot contained therein. Because I only use one computer, and my phone isn't useful for productivity, even now that it has Internet. Even when I go to a school lab it isn't a problem to bring my laptop if I think I'll need info I have on it for some reason, or I can just GMail myself files I'll need at another computer. I didn't find DropBox to have significant value for me, using it on one computer, so I don't know how different Evernote would be.
Good question about Audio CDs on VCD. Might have to make a virtual
Calling All Dawns to figure out the answer. The CD I have that I'm most concerned about going kaput is actually my Civ3 Vanilla CD, which sounds like a helicopter when it's read, probably not surprising consider the amount of use it has. So I made a virtual CD of it just in case. I don't think the original will survive another eight years.
