Number 10 on “Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is SpyBot Search and Destroy (available at www.safer-networking.org).As many of you know your pcs usually become slower over time. This is usually due to spamware, spyware or viruses. SpyBot is one of my favorite removal programs due to its ease of use as well as the […]
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Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs
Again I am dropping the ball on updated this blog on a regular basis. Not enough hours in the day I guess… Anyway over the next couple of weeks I will be posting several articles about My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs. This is a collection of programs that I have put together based […]
PXE and Network Booting.
This article will hopefully help at least one techie out there. Please drop me a line if it does. I have been experimenting with PXE network booting of servers, desktops and laptops lately.If you don’t know what this is I will give the “in a nutshell” version of the explanation. PXE stands for Preboot Execution […]
Its been a while
Not sure what to say. Its been a while since my last post….just busy I guess.I will try to add content more frequently by I cant make any promises 🙂
DOS to NIX text format
For those of you that have ever created a text file on windows and then transfered to a Unix or Linux system you may have run into a problem with the text format. A text file created in DOS or windows may have a different file format than what Unix or Linux likes. The file […]
Too many Zombies???
Ever run a “top” command on a linux machine and notice a number of “zombie processes”? Zombies are already dead processes that you really cant get rid of without a reboot.Ususally they are harmless and take almost no resources. To view what process ids are the zombies you can use this command from a command […]
How to view SWAP information on Linux
Here is a small utility I have used to check the amount of swap space on linux machines. Generally you would like to have 1 to 1.5 times the amount of swap space as you have RAM. On a linux machine you can check the swap values with the following command run from a command […]
Dreamweaver Class start in October
I will be teaching a Continuing Adult Education class at Keefe Tech vocational school in Framingham MA starting the first week in October. For those who are interested please see www.ktconed.org for more info.
Testing large file transfers
Another good item to put in your admin bag of tricks is small one line script that will create a file of any size on linux. To create a file of any size run this from a command shell in linux dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile bs=100M count=21 The above line will create a file 2100 MB […]
tcptrack – Connection Trace Utility
Well here goes. Forgive my newbie-ness when it comes to blogging. I will get the hang of it soon. My first real article will be about a linux network tool I found called TCPTrack. I generally use Centos and Redhat Linux versions and I have found that this tool has helped me several times. What […]