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(Unverified)Oct 1st 2008 9:46PM
As a technician, currently i'm using Hiren BootCD & System RescueCD(gparted,partimage included) for my daily tasks. Another great lists & alternatives for me and as well as another IT Technician out there.Thanx Lee :D
WolvenSpectreOct 2nd 2008 2:23AM
Hiren's Boot CD is loaded with Pirated content and some of the shareware and freeware applications on there have commmercial licences (ie if you use them in a proffesional situation or one where you get paid you have to purchase and follow the EULA conditions).
If you get caught you, your employer, and your customer (especially if they are a business) can be sued and in some juristictions have the data and hardware involved siezed for evidence.
As a technician you can loose certifications or have them suspended, your employer can loose industry standings like Microsoft Partnerships and software legally licenced to the business, and your customer could have stuff like recovered data or their commercial licences pulled depending on the work you did for them.
(Unverified)Oct 8th 2008 7:48AM
I haven't used Hiren's Boot CD before (and this is offtopic for this discussion), but I glanced at the site, since it seemed odd to have so much "pirated" software publicly advertised.
The download is 383KB -- if *you* have copies of the supported software, you can build the disk with whichever ones you have. That's not illegal unless you build it with pirated/cracked copies.
Maybe there are also full ISOs (which would be obviously illegal) floating around out there in P2P, but that's not on their website. It seems like if you follow the rules, it's a useful utility.