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The IT Crowd is a British sitcom.
I greatly enjoyed both seasons (a total of 12 episodes).
Though somewhat and sometimes primitive, The IT Crowd is highly enjoyable and recommended for watching.

Today, using memtest86, system speed test, hddspeed and some other DOS utilities for diagnosing and testing PC hardware, I decided to put together my own simple bootable utility CD disk. But first, I did some searching to find if something similar exists.

It does exist - Ultimate boot CD. That CD has numerous freeware testing and diagnosing utilities which will help you - if you are up to some good old (read “small fast”) DOS utilities. And not that old, actually - modern hardware is supported.

The only modification I’ll do to the Ultimate boot CD will be adding freeware Biew bin/hex viewer/editor. Surely, more utils to come - with original size of just 115MB, there’s plenty of room to add extensions. You can even extend the CD image with non-free software, like Partition Magic.

P.S. To diagnose and fix software problems - have a look at System Rescue CD.

CodeCodex Wiki.

Found this one useful when looking for string conversion to uppercase - CodeCodex has it for 10 languages (alas, Ada isn’t among them - but it’s present in tiny pieces here and there, when searching for it at CodeCodex).

Quite an entertaining story:
SCIgen at wikipedia
SCIgen tool
SCIgen blog

Finally, just a useful resource if you need a shiny name for your brand-new 2.0-beta project: anagram server.