Amit Singh talks about a cool new tool that his group at IBM Research demonstrated at a trade show earlier this month:
[It’s] a “personal jumper cable” to counter the “Blue Screen of Death” on PCs.
In a pinch, the Linux-based technology “transforms” a personal device, such as an MP3 player, a USB pen, or even a cell phone, into a powerful “Rescue and Recovery” device that can be used for things such as:
- Booting a PC “from” the personal device
- Accessing data from the PC’s unbootable drive
- Accessing specific backups located on the personal device
- Providing an emergency productivity environment (e-mail, Lotus Notes, web, …), even if the PC’s drive is completely dead
- Rebuilding the PC’s drive
- More …
An iPod mini was used in the PartnerWorld demonstration.
Let’s see… A Linux-based tool running on Mac hardware driving a Windows-based PC. I believe that may be about as cross-platform as you can get!
(Link via Geek News Central)
Ed Bott 