Run Linux Apps on Windows with andLinux
February 21st, 2008
Adam Pash has a great tutorial on lifehacker about how to run linux apps seamlessly on your Windows desktop with andLinux.
It looks easy enough to give it a quick try.
UnxUtils for Windows
February 8th, 2008
Another great tip from lifehacker…
From the distribution notes: “This are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.”
Online Bandwidth Calculator
February 4th, 2008
Here’s a useful bandwidth calculator that a colleague pointed out today.
Tabbed Interface for PuTTY
February 1st, 2008
Another great tip that I’ll use from the How-To Geek: install a little app that works with your free ssh client, PuTTY.
Get the PuTTY connection manager here.
What’s up with svchost.exe?
January 25th, 2008
The How-To Geek, which I will be reading regularly from now on, has a very nice article about svchost.exe — what it does and why there are so many instances of it running on our Windows machines.
Intro to Windows Server 2008
January 22nd, 2008
On Windows Weekly episode 45, Paul and Leo talked to Ward Ralston, group technical product manager for Windows Server 2008.
Free Linux-related eBooks
January 6th, 2008
From LinuxHaxor. Another great tip found on lifehacker.
Time to Update Wireshark
December 20th, 2007
It’s time to update your copy of Wireshark, everyone’s favorite packet analyzer. Why, you ask?
- follow UDP streams
- filter on SNMP OIDs
- improved Vista support
And if you don’t know about it already, head on over to Laura Chappell’s Wireshark University and check it out. Sign up for the free FIN Bit Magazine and download the free Wireshark Accelerators reference card (keyboard shortcuts for Wireshark).
Launchy gets an update
December 19th, 2007
Another great bit of news from lifehacker about Launchy 2.0.
Use Launchy to launch applications quickly
December 14th, 2007
You probably don’t need this if you have Vista, but I’ve been wanting a good application launcher for XP for some time.
Launchy is an open source application that indexes your Start Menu automatically, and it was easy for me to tell it to index some folders of .exe’s also.
Now I just hit alt-space and then start typing the name of an app, hitting enter when the correct app shows up. You can also use Launchy to type in queries for Google or Wikipedia, among many other tasks.
Found this one on freewaregenius. You can download Launchy here.
