George Chetcuti’s Blog

Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts

With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.

9 Command-line
168 General
46 Implementation
27 Monitoring
299 News
99 Products
99 Security
5 Troubleshooting
16 Virtualization
  1. GUI-based Log Parser

    Log Parser is a very powerful and versatile query software tool that provides universal query access to text-based data, such as log files, XML files, and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Microsoft Windows operating system, such as the event log, IIS log, the registry, the file system, and the Active Directory services. Get more information... Read More

  2. Gartner’s market research on Application Delivery Controllers

    The market has dramatically been impacted by a new style of “buyer”... Read More

  3. Gemalto presents the findings of its investigations

    Gemalto presents the findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM card encryption keys by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)... Read More

  4. German IT experts believe that Windows 8 contains back doors

    The German researchers concluded that confidentiality and integrity will be no longer achievable on machines that have TPM 2.0 installed... Read More

  5. Get notified if your email account has been caught up in data breaches

    Haveibeenpwned.com provides users with a free notification service that informs them whether any email account they own has been caught up in recent data breaches... Read More

  6. GetGo Download Manager buffer overflow vulnerability

    Julien Ahrens (aka MrTuxracer) publishes root-cause analysis of GetGo Download Manager http response header buffer overflow remote code execution... Read More

  7. GoDaddy.com outage was not caused by DDoS attacks

    The global hosting service provider GoDaddy.com says that a series of internal network events has corrupted its router data tables and caused the intermittent service outages of last Monday. Go Daddy also denies claims made by hackers on Twitter that the outage was due to DDoS attacks against their services. Read the full press release here - http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=410... Read More

  8. Going Green – Choosing an Efficient Data Center

    By Kevin Leahy, Group General Manager, Data Center Business Unit, Dimension Data... Read More

  9. Goodbye Messenger Hello Skype

    Starting April 8th, Microsoft will begin upgrading customers from Messenger to Skype. The process will take a few weeks to complete. April 8th is the first day you may be required to upgrade. The initial target date by Microsoft was March 15th but now MS decided give users more time to make the transition... Read More

  10. Google Chrome is no. 1

    Google Chrome market share is now 32.8% exceeding Microsoft's Internet Explorer by approx. 1% which is at 31.9% according to StatCounter. Mozilla Firefox stands third with 25%. Read more here - http://www.businessinsider.com/google-overtakes-internet-explorer-as-most-popular-browser-2012-5?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29... Read More

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