Making a bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn’t all that tricky, but it’s always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008 installers.

The default options make it easy to roll a silent Windows install, or you can flip the custom switch and specify the exact setup parameters you want to use.

The handy app also has one more trick up its sleeve: moving Windows Preinstall environments. PE discs can be extremely handy for troubleshooting and repairs, and being able to painlessly zap them over to a USB flash drive means not having to burn a new copy every time someone’s haggard old optical drive decides to chew up your CD.

WinToFlash is a free download and is totally portable. It’s an excellent tool to add to your USB-related utilities.

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RASULULLAH SAW ada menyampaikan pesanan dan wasiat kepada isteri, anak, kaum kerabat dan umat Islam seluruhnya. Namun antara wasiat yang menarik dan boleh dijadikan bahan renungan
bersama ialah wasiatnya kepada menantu baginda, Saidina Ali Abu Talib.Sungguhpun wasiat itu khusus kepada Ali, namun kita sebagai Muslim dan muslimah, perlu menjadikannya sebagai iktibar lalu menjadikannya amalan.

Larangan dan suruhan Rasulullah saw melalui wasiat itu, adalah juga untuk kaum Muslimin dan muslimat. Malah, boleh dikatakan semua perkara dalam wasiat itu adalah ciri-ciri utama orang beriman.

Berikut adalah antara wasiat Nabi kepada Ali seperti yang diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Abbas:
Ibnu Abbas meriwayatkan, bahawa Ali Abu Talib berkata: “Pada hari perkahwinan dengan Fatimah,Rasulullah saw bersabda kepadaku, mengutarakan tiga belas wasiat khusus untukku:”

1. Wahai Ali, takutilah engkau daripada memasuki tempat mandi (hammam) tanpa memakai kain separas pinggang. Bahawasanya barang siapa memasuki tempat mandi tanpa kain separas pinggang, maka dia mendapat laknat (mal’un).
2. Wahai Ali, janganlah engkau ‘memakai cincin di jari telunjuk dan di jari tengah’. Sesungguhnya itu adalah apa yang dilakukan oleh kaum Lut.
3. Wahai Ali, sesungguhnya Allah mengagumi hamba-Nya yang melafazkan istighfar: “Rabighfirli fainnahu la yaghfirul-zunuba illa Anta” ( Tuhanku, ampunilah aku. Sesungguhnya tiada yang mengampunkan dosa melainkan Engkau). Allah lalu berfirman: “Hai malaikat-Ku, sesungguhnya hamba-Ku ini mengetahui bahawasanya tiada yang mengampunkan dosa melainkan Aku. Hai malaikat-Ku: Jadilah saksi, bahawasanya aku telah mengampuni dia”.

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KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia is considering imposing an Internet filter to block “undesirable” websites, on the grounds of maintaining racial harmony in the multicultural nation, a senior official said Thursday.

The move was quickly condemned by the opposition which described it as a “horror of horrors” that would destroy the relative freedom of the Internet in Malaysia, where the mainstream press is tightly controlled.

A senior official with the National Security Council (NSC) confirmed reports that the coalition government was considering imposing controls — effectively scrapping a 1996 guarantee that it would not censor the Internet.

“It is to keep out pornographic materials and bloggers who inflame racial sentiments. We need to maintain racial harmony. We cannot have full-blown democracy like in the United States,” he told AFP.

“This country must survive,” said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The memory of bloody racial 1969 racial riots is still strong in Malaysia, and the need to preserve peace between majority Muslim Malays, and minority ethnic Chinese and Indians, is commonly invoked by the government.

The NSC official dismissed suggestions that the proposal echoed China’s aborted “Green Dam” project, a plan to introduce Internet filtering software on all new computers sold in the country.

“It is not like China’s Green Dam nor is it a plan sparked by last weekend’s anti-government street protests,” he said, referring to a massive opposition-led rally against laws that allow for detention without trial.

Malaysia’s lively blogosphere has been a thorn in the side of the Barisan Nasional government, which was been in power for more than half a century but was dealt its worst ever results in elections a year ago.

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