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DOS: Bypassing the Cyclic Redundancy Check (and other) Errors

Featured, How-To By Dec 20, 2008 1 Comment

I was terribly busy working on a case this week. Many of the documents in the case were scanned in .TIF (also known as TIFF, Tagged Image File Format) format. So, browsing through the documents in this manner proved terribly inefficient and I didn’t have enough time to look into third party programs that might help me look through .TIF…

Why I Still Use DOS

Featured, How-To By Nov 27, 2008 3 Comments

For some of you, the thought of DOS probably brings back horrifying memories of things like IRQ conflicts, MSCDEX, the config.sys, himem.sys, etc. Those days are over, but the best aspects of DOS remain a part of Windows, fortunately. Knowledge of DOS has been critical to my geeky endeavors over the last dozen or so years. Back in the nineties,…