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4 Free Must Have Android Apps for Sysadmins

May 15, 2010

System Administrators/Engineers have a lot of responsibilities. The top priority is uptime. There are a number of tools we rely on that help us stay on top of our networks health but we can’t always have a laptop/netbook strapped to our chest. Now these days we can do a lot of things on our [...]

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Microsoft To Kill Windows XP SP2 Support

December 8, 2009

Microsoft is reminding customers that the end date for support for Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as some other versions of the Windows operating system, is already on the horizon.
“The company will officially end support Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Client on July 13, 2010, [...]

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Network Lights lets you monitor network activity from your keyboard

December 7, 2009

Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs Light Emitting Diode indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface. Network Lights lets you monitor network activity upload/download from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.
“I’d recommend against running Network Lights on a laptop which [...]

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Even Microsoft says IE6 must Die!

December 1, 2009

Stephen Shankland over at CNET informs us that Microsoft is actively urging IE 6 users to upgrade. (If they allowed Windows 2000 users to upgrade to IE7 they wouldn’t be in this mess. They created their own monster in my opinion.)
Microsoft has begun a campaign to actively urge users [...]

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Device Doctor – Free Driver Update Software for Windows

November 28, 2009

Device Doctor is a freeware/donationware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for “unidentified devices” in the Windows Device Manager. Device Doctor queries their own manufacturer driver database and immediately fetches the correct driver files for your [...]

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Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

November 24, 2009

Stephen Shankland over at cnet writes:

Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead.
The technology in question is hardware-accelerated graphics and text using interfaces called Direct2D and DirectWrite that provide an easy way to [...]

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Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate SMB Collaborative Website

November 22, 2009

Can’t convince the boss to shell out some bucks for Sharepoint server? Oh what’s that…He doesn’t trust Google with company resources? Ok well, you still need to figure how to set up a collaborative website/cms/wiki whatever you want to call it. In this case we will use the term “wiki” because that is the solution [...]

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Pulse 2.1.2.4 Open Source Computer System Management Now Available

November 21, 2009

Pulse 2 helps organizations ranging from dozens to 100 000+ heterogeneous computers to inventory, maintain, update and take full control on their IT assets. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ computers spread on many sites. It supports heterogeneous platforms such as MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Mandriva, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu., etc.), Mac OSX, HP-UX, IBM [...]

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Open source Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra PDF Speeds things up

November 20, 2009

Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad hit another home run:
“Adobe has done a lot to improve Reader in recent versions. I’m more than happy to run an open source alternative, however. Sumatra PDF is ridiculously small (a 1.2Mb download), lightweight, and handles the PDFs I throw at it without skipping a beat.
Today, Sumatra has finally hit [...]

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Google Chrome OS: The Video Demo

November 19, 2009

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security… Blah Blah Blah here is the video:

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