From linuxpoison.blogspot.com di is a disk information utility, displaying everything that df does and more. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be highly portable across many platforms. di Displays usage information on mounted filesystems.  Block values are reported in a human readable…

From webupd8.org Synergy+: Control Multiple Computers With A Single Mouse And Keyboard [Windows, Linux, Mac OSX] With Synergy+, you can share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers (and operating systems, as Synergy+ works on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX) using only a LAN connection. The applications should be really useful for users with…

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com High Speed Network Authentication Cracking Tool – Ncrack Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a modular…

From thegeekstuff.com When I drafted this article, I really came-up with 7 sysadmin habits. But, out of those 7 habits, three really stood out for me. While habits are good, sometimes rules might even be better, especially in the sysadmin world, when handling a production environment. Rule #1: Backup Everything ( and validate the backup…

From webupd8.org TestDrive is an Ubuntu application that is especially designed for non-technical users to easily download and run the latest Ubuntu development daily snapshot in a virtual machine. TestDrive also works for other Ubuntu flavours such as Kubuntu or Xubuntu. You don’t have to do anything, TestDrive will even handle the ISO download and…

From http://cloudstudy.hostpo.net/ Practically every cloud computing provider – from Google to Rackspace, Amazon to Salesforce.com – has suffered through an outage at some point. When outages happen, skeptics question the viability of cloud computing. Talk to anyone invested in the cloud, though, and it doesn’t take long to understand that outages are just one of…