Storage: Giving the product a ‘very high on my check-this-out meter’ ranking, Mario Apicella peers under the hood of emBoot’s winBoot/i. “It’s tempting to say that you could cover the cost of deploying winBoot/i with the cost of the drives spared on each server. However, I won’t say that because the main reason to boot your servers from iSCSI volumes should not be to save money on drives, but to give your data center a more manageable and forward looking structure,” Apicella writes in Giving Windows a boot to iSCSI. Best of the blogs: Another Dell laptop has ignited and turned into a flamethrower after it began making popping noises, this time in Australia. This one follows on the heels of a fiery laptop in Illinois last week and another in Osaka, Japan last month. Dell owners, are you concerned? The Screening Room: Episode #7 features Dr. Donald Thomas, who began his career as an engineer before turning to medicine. In host Jon Udell’s words: The story this month is partly about the mTuitive toolkit, and partly about the tablet-based application that Dr. Thomas’ company, Mentat Systems, is building on top of that toolkit. But mainly it’s an exploration of two themes in the development of expert systems. First, what makes an expert system useful to the people it aims to support? Second, what makes a toolkit for building such a system useful to the developer who aims to provide that support? Watch the screencast.