How to check hard drive real age

How to check hard drive real age How to check hard drive real age can be a very good question while purchasing a used system? Finding out how speedy is your hard drive can be found everywhere but how old is your hard drive can be a new piece of information. Crystal Disk Info can … Read more

ultimate list of free system utilities

System utilities always required by the system administrators and network support engineers when you need a utility you have to search from internet and waste some precious time on searching and downloading. I tried to make a list of these utilities and will update it in future so that someone can find it easily and save time. There is a long list and no one can sum it up but one can try. Please share your system utility with us.

Hard drive utilities

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

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File recovery

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm (Free file recovery)

http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html (Free file recovery)

http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ (Free Undelete)

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html (Free Undelete)

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Control your hosting servers with ISPConfig (Open Source)

People use CPanel and WHM to manage their hosting servers and those are not free and they have to pay a lot of money to purchase them and configure them. Why you have to do this if you have more sophisticated and more options in an open source software. ISPConfig Hosting Control Panel Software will let you do all the tasks that CPanel and WHM are offering. features are given as under:

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A list of LINUX VMware images

VMware is a great technology that completely give you freedom inside an operating system. You can run a complete operating system inside an operating system. There is no limitation and its not very hard to configure. Try out another operating system, test a different platform, preview a new distro. Hopefully this page of VMware images, or "Virtual Appliances" is useful.

Compatibility

These images will work in:

How to use these images

  1. Get the free VMware Player (or VMware Server, ESX 3, or VMware Workstation)
  2. Download the image you want to use (see the list below)
  3. Unzip it
  4. Load the image in VMware

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How to show IOS version in CISCO Router and Switches

CISCO routers and switches use the same set of commands and resembles very much to LINUX commands. You just need to remember the command and you will always remain the CHAMP. Commands are given as under to show the IOS and hardware information on CISCO router  and switches: Command: show version or show hardware

How to block bit torrent on CISCO router with NBAR

Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) is really a great idea, i know its not new one but worked for most of the purposes like blocking bit torrent traffic, mp3 and many more bandwidth wasting things. The resources provided here assist you in configuring your network to provide the appropriate level of service to these applications.You … Read more

How to get complete machine information in LINUX Command Line

Linux is great and command line is marvelous, you can get any information you like to know about your system just in milliseconds. You just need to remember a command and issue it on command line. Few very basic yet powerful commands are share as under to get complete information about your LINUX operating system, hardware, machine name and many more;

$ cat /proc/version

The above command Will give you a full string of information

uname -m

The above command Will give you the machine number ( like i686 )

uname -r

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Fedora 13 has been released

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software.I started using this since fedora 2 was in market and I was very much fan of this operating system. sophisticated, charming, good looking and many more features not like every LINUX distribution, The front end is really great. Fedora … Read more

how to check full hard drive size in LINUX Command line

Commands are really great in LINUX environment and specially in command line, they really rocks everything. You can get any information about your system you like. I was wondering and looking for a command that can give me the total hard drive size in LINUX. I can use a tool available on the internet but … Read more