Intel is going to release its latest generation of mobile CPUs today. New CPUs offer 20% increase in performance and 7% decrease in power consumption. So if you are planning to purchase a new laptop you might want to wait a bit and get the latest technology available. Technorati : Intel Del.icio.us : Intel Ice Rocket : Intel
Documenting is a part of the day-to-day duties of most systems administrators. We all know that it is kind of boring and pesky task. Still it has to be done to ensure that fellow sysadmins, managers and others would be able to understand what is happening on the network. Network documentation is easy in case of small network with only a couple of computers. But it is quite a lengthy process of the administrator has to deal with large networks with thousands of various components such as desktops, printers, routers etc. The Dude is a small FREE application that can help sysadmin to monitor and to document networks. The homepage of the Dude offers a small list of features that the utility has. Personally I ve found it to be quite useful as it can scan the network on its own using a number of protocols such as ICMP, TCP, DNS, SNMP. It would also try to probe for services available on these computers. The result would be something like this: Resulting network topologies can be exported as PNG or PDF files.The best part is that The Dude can be used free of charge!!!:-) Download link: The Dude 2.0 Beta 7 Technorati : dude, monitoring, network Del.icio.us : dude, monitoring, network Ice Rocket : dude, monitoring, network
Version 1.0.44.9 of AutoHotkey was released on August 9, 2006.AutoHotkey is a free keyboard management utility. It allows changing the meaning of buttons, create simple shortcuts (as well as very complex shortcuts), macroses and whole lot of other features. It is also possible to create custom executables which would have configs built in. AutoHotkey is extremely useful for those companies and users who need support for fancy characters which are not available on keyboards. It is also great to use AutoHotkey to replace complex shortcuts that some applications have (such as Photoshop) with simple ones. I am using AutoHotkey to change the meaning of function keys on my laptop.Please let me know if you are interested to have a small tutorial describing AutoHotkey. Technorati : keyboard, windows Del.icio.us : keyboard, windows Ice Rocket : keyboard, windows
2X has published a guide demonstrating how to implement desktopvirtualization within a company at no extra cost. Using VMware server and 2XThinClientServer,companies can convert existing desktops to thin clients,and have them connect to a virtual machine on one, or more, central VMwareservers. This solution is based on 2X ThinClientServer PXES edition,obtainable for free, and VMware server, also available at no cost. Thevirtual desktop runs Windows XP, and can use the same license already in useby the company.Obtaining the guide:The guide on desktop virtualization and how to achieve it using 2XThinClientSever and VMware server is available for download at:http://www.2x.com/virtualdesktop/ Technorati : SBC, Terrminal Services, Windows, thin client Del.icio.us : SBC, Terrminal Services, Windows, thin client Ice Rocket : SBC, Terrminal Services, Windows, thin client
BME is a small utility for monitoring of network connection. It can be used to monitor traffic sent/received, to build graphs, perform simple accounting. There are three version of BME. The simplest one is available free of charge.