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Network Lights lets you monitor network activity from your keyboard

December 7, 2009
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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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Device Doctor – Free Driver Update Software for Windows

November 28, 2009
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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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Buffalo announces world’s first USB 3.0 12x Blu-ray burner

November 28, 2009
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Japanese computer hardware company Buffalo has announced the world’s first 12x Blu-ray burner, which supports USB 3.0 on top of that. The BR-X1216U3 is backward compatible with USB 2.0 but will burn your Blu-rays with “just” 7x speed in that case.
You can only use it with a Windows machine XP/Vista/7. But actually there are no [...]

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Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives

November 9, 2009
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Chris Jacob over at Gizmodo wrote an interesting article about building your own Network Attached Storage device.
A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400 RPM drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom’s Hardware shows us that drive speed isn’t the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones.The [...]

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RackTables, a nifty solution for datacenter/server-room asset management

November 8, 2009
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Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration, etc.
Lots of system and network administrators come to the point where they have to maintain quite complex documentation of the racks, devices, links and network resources they have in [...]

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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash

November 7, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad tells us that 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 [...]

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