One of the applications I use most often is the wget tool. You don’t realize how useful this tool is until you’ve used and then needed it but not had it available. Wget is, for all intent and purpose, a non-interactive web downloader that allows the user to, from the command line, download files without [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

SIW, which stands for System Information For Windows, is an excellent software program to display information about a Windows computer system. The program is offered as a free version and a pro version which is available as a business and technician version. System Information for Windows can display information about a computer system’s software and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Every network administrator needs a good network monitor for network management. But with so many to choose from it’s hard to know which one is best. This especially applies to the open source world. Go to Freshmeat.net and you will find 191 entries for open source network analyzers and network tools. Of those many are [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

NetTools is another server monitoring software that shows promise. The main advantage of NetTools is at the same time its biggest disadvantage. The software program runs on a Windows computer which means that it’s virtually impossible to let it monitor servers 24/7 unless the computer is always on. The Server Monitoring Software however is offering [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Tools, Uncategorized

It is sometimes required to issue a ping or tracert command to identify the source for a slow Internet connection or no connection to a server at all. I usually use those commands when I notice that websites that I own run slow or are not responsive at all. This can also be useful if [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, The Web, Windows

Great list of the top 100 network security tools voted by 3243 users of the nmap-hackers mailing list. Every tool mentioned has a description, a homepage link to the developers, icons that tell you if it works on your system and if it costs money. All utilities belong to a category, you have the option to display every category. (like vulnerability scanners)

Categories: Hacking, Security