Buttar

Azhar Ali Buttar has 20 years of experience working in different domains within IT industry. From network protocols to server hardening, he knows about multiple areas and has been working side by side with MNCs to provide cost-effective security and infrastructure solutions. Azhar’s expertise lies in off-site and hybrid infrastructure deployment using multiple platforms which includes, but not limited to, Azure, AWS, Google and Private Clouds. He has also been leading several infrastructure and security teams to deploy and perform security optimization in multiple projects, and now leads Nocastra with his decision-making and client-oriented skills.

FreeBSD 8.1 has been Released

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In my last post about FreeBSD I shared an overview of this marvelous operating system that believe on security, speed, high performance and reliability that no one else can give till now. People say that FreeBSD servers can run more than three years continuously without restarting, no windows server can think about this period. The … Read more

Weather updates on Command line Debian Lenny

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Command line is really fast and efficient to use in day to day life if you know how to use it. Today I found a very good package for debian lenny command line to watch the weather report. Weather-util is a command line utility to see the weather updates on your debian lenny command line where you just need to enter a very simple command to get the update weather on your screen.

This command-line utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable of returning data for localities throughout the USA by retrieving and formatting decoded METARs (Meteorological Aerodrome Reports) from NOAA (the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and forecasts from NWS (the USA National Weather Service).

Help can be found from the manual pages written in very simple and clear English. commands are given as under to get the help:

man weather

The above command will give you a complete help with sample examples to get the weather updates on your command line.

How to Install weather-util on Debian Lenny?

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Repair Windows Boot Loader Problems For Free

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Yesterday one of my friend called me and asked me that how to repair windows boot loader? I asked few questions and found that he was actually trying to install windows XP with windows 7 and the scenario was something like this. He first installed windows 7 and then installed windows XP and was not … Read more

How to Restore .DBX file in Outlook Express

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Outlook express is really a great e-mail client for windows users to manage and access the e-mails. I really like it and use it as my POP3 and IMAP e-mail client. Outlook express ships free with windows XP and earlier versions but in windows vista and onward like windows 7 Microsoft has introduced new e-mail … Read more

Huge List of Windows Explorer Alternatives

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Windows explorer crashes most of the times and create lot of problems for experts. It really waste more than required time on recovery and restoration. I was looking for some alternatives of windows explorer to see if they work fine and save a bit time. Windows explorer alternatives are available in a huge number in the market and can be downloaded easily but most of them are not free. Free windows explorer alternatives those are available on internet are not having very much rich feature list. I found few alternatives of windows explorer with very rich feature list. they can show the size of the whole drive, folder, file, can compare file, can compare folder, and a lot more. I am also going to share a huge list of alternatives of windows explorer in this post.

1 – SE-Explorer – free portable file manager for Windows

Replace standard Windows Explorer with SE-Explorer – simple and powerful dual panel file manager with tabbed interface and lots of build-in viewers. Most common and powerful features are already shared in this post. It can also inspect DLL for problems and errors.

2 – FreeCommander  – freeware file manager

Dual-panel freeware file manager with built-in FTP client, archive handling, multi-rename, wipe files and MD5 checksums. There are many more features, to see the list go to Free Commander website.

3 – Far Manager – File and Archive Manager

It’s a very simple program that can manage files and archives in windows very efficiently and with a great speed. It works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions like viewing files and directories, editing, copying and renaming files and many other actions.

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Send Free SMS to 24 Countries

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Sending free SMS to countries like UK Ireland Australia Germany Austria Switzerland France Belgium Spain Portugal Czech Republic Netherlands Sweden South Africa Norway Malaysia Denmark USA Slovakia Finland Serbia Romania Russia Greece was not so easy before I found these marvelous groups of websites. These web sites are offering free SMS to most of the … Read more

Download Free Portable Applications

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Portable applications are very handy to use in daily life where you don’t have much time to install and configure ordinary applications. Portable free applications are available across the internet and can be downloaded from different sources. The need of time is to find a single source from where we can download almost all kinds … Read more

Download Free Web Based Help Desk Application

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Modern IT requires lots of efforts to maintain the network capacity and availability. There is a complete set of five books for ITIL where you can find the standards and basic principles of Information Technologies. How to make sure that IT infrastructure is up and running up to the given percentage of time and the … Read more

Download Free Windows Security Essentials

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I have been working in IT department for almost six years and trying many security software’s to protect my computer as well as precious data. Many users home and corporate ask me this question that which one is the best free windows security software because its almost impossible for a single user to buy an … Read more

Download Free DVD Player Software

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VLC Media Player (It Plays Everything), It really plays everything. People like to find and download Free DVD Player Software and ends up with some non genuine applications that creates lots of problems. I found a free DVD player software, its really efficient and can play everything without any problem with very little updates and … Read more