Looking for the absolute best protocol analyzer out there? My favorite by far is none other than Wireshark, an awesome program that allows deep inspection into hundreds of protocols in real-time. The program runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and just about any other OS platform out there. There are a host [...]

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There is a lot of great open source software out there that can help make the life of any IT Administrator easier and I’ve written about several like a, b, c. However, there are a couple of applications that stand out for their features, their ease of use, and their cost. Spiceworks IT Desktop is [...]

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SpeedUpMyPC is a commercial product developed by Uniblue company, and is aimed at improving computer performance. As I wrote recently in a previous post, I am not a big fan of software marketing to skyrocket computer performance, because most of computer performance problems are the result of bad computer habits, and lack of maintenance. Also, [...]

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While reading online I often stumble with words that I don’t know or I don’t have a clear understanding of their meaning. That’s why I always have a dictionary with me. reading without understanding some words is really hard to grasp concepts or ideas. I have been using ifinger for a long time, and I [...]

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Now that we have installed Windows Server 2003 on the VM machine check the previous post here “Installing Windows Server 2003 in a VMware machine“ is time to install an anti-virus on the server. It seems that there are countless free anti-viruses for client operating systems but almost nothing to none for Windows Server 2003. [...]

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TCPVIEW is a TCP and UDP port connection monitor that let you see a detailed list of connections established on your system; pretty much like the DOS command netstat does, but besides the cute interface TCPVIEW offers some other conveniences. As you can see from the picture above, tcpview gives you the name of the [...]

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The other day I was searching for a site where to download movies and I stumbled with a nice site which promised to allow me to download just about any movie I could think of in the world. I signed up for 29.99 to their service, and to my surprise I found out I have [...]

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