- Remote Performance Observer 3.0 Guards. — Maintaining the working state of 3-4 computers in an office is rather easy. But, maintaining 5-10 computers is much more difficult. Maintaining two dozens computers turns into a hard and complicated process, which requires certain professional skills. And, how about maintaining hundreds of computers? In fact, it is almost impossible without a number of special tools. However, such tools are very useful for maintaining…
- WinLock Remote Administrator 1.22, Total Authority — How one control the computer’s usage? Yes, this question is too wide. How can one control the *public* computer’s usage? If the number of users is limited, the admin can create an account for each user and control them. However, this approach hides some problems: Sometimes there are no permanent users, only the «accidental» ones; sometimes the Windows’ built-in user restrictions are insufficient; sometimes there…
- RemBoot - The Remote Reboot Utility. — Serious work with remote Windows servers sometimes suffers from lack of control over those servers. Of course, letting just about ANYBODY to control your server is not the greatest idea. But the owner and administrator of the server often feel that their hands are tied when the computer is miles away, the support team is fast asleep and unlikely to respond quickly to a pager, and all that is needed is a quick system rebooot…
- RexTrafficMonitor 1.0. LAN Traffic Clearly Visible. — RexTrafficMonitor is a professional-strength specialized tool for LAN analysis. It handles all LAN packets and writes them to a log-file available for the further processing by human or machine. The information handled includes all packet parameters: source and destination IP addresses, port numbers, exact time, and packet size. Please note that RexTrafficMonitor logs all packets going through the computer, even transit ones, so ALL network traffic…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- EMCO Remote Desktop Professional — Administering networks is something all system administrators do on a daily basis. Unfortunately, minor issues and major problems tend to happen from time to time and in most cases require immediate and resolute actions, as any network downtimes affect the whole company and its clients. However, sometimes problems come when they are least expected — for instance, when the system administrator is away or on a sick leave and…
- 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…
- Live Desktop - remote assistance from any location — How many times over the past year did you have to explain a simple task to a computer novice on the phone? And even if you thought that the task was extremely easy and self-explanatory, your vis-à-vis probably had a totally different opinion and couldn’t grasp your ideas. When verbal instructions are no longer efficient, you end up driving over to the unfortunate user and fixing the problem in a couple of clicks…
- 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…
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