- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- World Time Clock 2.8, Clock for World Citizen — In today's world, interweaved with digital communications and accustomed to freelance work, for many of us there is a vital requirement to "feel the time". It stands for always understanding "what time is it now" for all of your friends, coworkers and interlocutors all over the world, in different countries, cities and time zones. It also stands for flexible planning of your actions and reminders in time zone-aware manner (for example, "call Jim, at 10 AM his time"). World Time Clock is a simple…
- Kwok Information Server 2.3, IT Management with Pleasure — Every IT business, even the smallest one, needs to manage some, at least the most basic kinds of information related to their business. Of course, when it’s a company of «two directors and one worker», it can manage all of its operations through sticky notes or Excel worksheets. But, becoming serious, becoming organized, with multiple orders, clients, employees, and rooms definitely requires specialized software for…
- Server Monitor 3.4.0, Know The Problem In Proper Time — There are two kinds of system administrators: those who think «my system can’t fall» (optimistic kind), and those who thinks «if the system falls, I want to know it as soon as possible» (realistic kind). The second kind of sysadmins are more valuable: they can do wisely even in complex conditions. Server Monitor is a software for those wise realists: reliable server monitor, able to detect…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- DTMF Dial 1.0.0.14, It Dials! — Our phones haven’t always dialed with tone that we are used to today. Before the sixties, that was pulse (and still IS in some places and countries), a series of clicks, which was about as many clicks as the dialed digit was. Tone dialing (correctly called Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, or DTMF) is about an individual tone for each digit; it is faster, more reliable and allows dialing automatically with nothing else but just…
- iSCSI Cake (CCDisk) - an elegant solution for sharing server-side storage resources across your LAN/WAN — When you need to share your server’s resources across your network — no matter great or small — you can achieve this in a number of ways. However, there is a surprisingly elegant solution of this problem that you may not be aware of yet. iSCSI Cake is a storage server which enables you to export the server’s storage resources to multiple clients that will be able…
- Remote Files Server - an affordable alternative to expensive and cumbersome file sharing systems — As your corporate or community network grows in size, you may eventually bring some order to it and get rid of hundreds of randomly named folders clogged with thousands of file with equally indecipherable names. This would be a relatively easy task for an experienced network administrator using a server operation system. But what if you are not that advanced and just need to configure proper access to shared files for…
- Server Control Tower. PA Server Monitor — “How’s my server doing?” “What’s going on with it now?” “Hope, I haven’t missed anything important.” — These are the most typical things server administrators are concerned with. In order to not miss anything important, some of them never leave their seats. (Or, if there are many servers, they run around them to make sure everything is o’kay.) Others pick the…
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