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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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Pulse 2.1.2.4 Open Source Computer System Management Now Available

November 21, 2009
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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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Turn Windows 7 Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes for, get this: Free

November 11, 2009
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Jolie O’Dell over at ReadWriteWeb posted a great article about Connectify.me
They’ve sussed out how to make any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Since we just installed Windows 7 on a spare laptop, we figured it was about time to make Windows do something cool, so we installed the app.
We were quite literally up [...]

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10 Applications that can help you with Personal Information Management

November 9, 2009
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Lets face it, Post-It notes are great and convenient for jotting down notes, ideas, todo’s etc. But at the same time they can really suck and become totally impractical (when it comes to trying to find that one post-it). Personal Information Management (PIM) is very important to me.  Any given day I can have up [...]

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20+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Sysadmins

November 6, 2009
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The great folks over at Packet Life opened up their Library and provided 24 Cheat Sheets that all Sysadmins could appreciate. They kindly break the cheat sheets into categories (and in separate PDFs) that include:

Protocols
Applications
Reference
Syntax
Technologies
Misc.

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10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass

November 5, 2009
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Ben Dowling at Six Revisions wrote a great article about free network monitoring tools. When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may arise. [...]

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Buying Printers for Small Business

November 2, 2009
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While some small businesses today have managed to ween themselves from the world of paper, the vast majority of small and medium businesses are still tied, to some degree, to their printers and faxes no matter how hard we all try to move away from them.  Everyone recognizes the cost of acquiring printers, maintaining them, [...]

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10 tech mistakes small businesses make (and how IT consultants can help clients avoid them)

November 1, 2009
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Small businesses must concentrate their time and energy on knowing their own industry — and that often means that effective technology practices get overlooked. Erik Eckel over at Tech Republic explains the most common tech missteps he’s encountered, along with preventive measures to protect businesses and prevent serious problems.
“In today’s microwave society — in which [...]

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