I got this info about the program in case it’s any help. I’m in the new Vista version of MSConfig and the button used to disable this thing at boot is greyed out

File Name: TCrdMain.exe
Display Name: TOSHIBA Flash Cards
Description: TOSHIBA Flash Cards
Publisher: TOSHIBA Corporation
Digitally Signed By: VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA
File Type: Application
Startup Value: C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\FlashCards\TCrdMain.exe
File Path: C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\FlashCards\TCrdMain.exe
File Size: 530552
File Version: 1.0.0.7
Date Installed: 11/12/2006 18:27:12
Startup Type: Registry: Local Machine
Location: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Classification: Permitted
Ships with Operating System: No
SpyNet Voting: Not applicable

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OK, for some reason the disable button is lit up now, I’ve disabled it, rebooted and I’m happy to say I’ve solved the problem. The instrcutions from star to finish (in Vista) are:

Click Start
Click on Control Panel (make sure there’s a dot next to “Control Panel Home” on the left hand side of the Control Panel window)
Click “Change Startup Programs” (Under Programs)
Change the Category drop-down menu to “Startup Programs”
Scroll down the list until you see Toshiba Flash Cards under the Toshiba Corporation heading, then click on it
Click the Disable button at the bottom-right of the window
Reboot
Login
Press Fn+F6
Breathe deep sigh of relief
Go to bed

Spiderpig, spiderpig, does whatever a spiderpig does….

AcetoneISO, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things.

- From AcetoneISO Homepage

The use of AcetoneISO is pretty easy and much similar to DAEMON Tools. Just give AcetoneISO a try, and save time of burning a CD/DVD

P/S: By the way, you can find some interesting information of how to mount a ISO file at UbuntuForums.

In case you use Yahoo with Pidgin, you may sometimes find this error saying “Could not establish a connection with the server: Error resolving scs.msg.yahoo.com. Name or service not known”. Sometimes trying to connect multiple times may solve the issue, but sometimes it may never connect. Now this can get very irritating, so there is a fix for it. If you carefully look at the error, it says “Error resolving ..”. Now this is mostly some communication problem with the pager server scs.msg.yahoo.com. So the fix is like this :

Step 1: Open Pidgin, then go to Accounts -> Add/Edit (or just press Ctrl+A)

Step 2: Then select your Yahoo account and Click on Modify

Step 3: Then Go to Advanced

Step 4: Now under Pager Server, replace scs.msg.yahoo.com with 66.163.181.166 or 66.163.181.173.

This ip you get when you ping scs.msg.yahoo.com

$ ping scs.msg.yahoo.com
PING scs.msg.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=321 ms
64 bytes from cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=320 ms
64 bytes from cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=323 ms

Step 5: Now click on Save and and Enable Your yahoo account again, this time you hopefully should be able to connect. In case you still cant try the second, i have mentioned 2 IPs.

Note: Basically what you are doing is directly providing the IP address of scs.msg.yahoo.com thereby saving time and the need to resolve scs.msg.yahoo.com.

Update: If the above instruction doesn’t work with you, try to update your Pidgin version. You can check out getdeb.net or launchpad.net for the newest one.

It is easy to open and view Microsoft Compiled HTML Help files (.chm) from Ubuntu. You actually have at least two options: xchm or gnochm.

To install xchm run the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install xchm

To install gnochm run:

$ sudo apt-get install gnochm

To view a .chm file using xchm you just have to run:

$ xchm chm-file

Alternative to open it with gnochm simply run:

$ gnochm chm-file

Or in a simplier way, you can just double-click on the file’s icon.