Review of the Quicktest 500 ADSL Tester

February 17, 2010

Quicktest 500 is reviewed by Brendan Mulvaney of Sentinel Information Systems. Brendan also blogs as Sentinel – the fix is out there. For a busy technician out in the field the Quicktest 500 is a great tool for the quick and detailed testing of adsl lines. Without resorting to a laptop with adsl modem attached [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 6

February 12, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 6. How Does Orion Mark a Node as Down? – an explanation of what’s going on behind the scenes when a node goes into warning status, or when it’s actually down with Solarwinds Orion Zenoss code_swarm Source Visualization – an interesting visual representation of the evolution of Zenoss [...]

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Cool video graphically showing the development of Wireshark

February 10, 2010

Loris Degioanni over at CACE Technologies has produced an uber geeky animation showing the 11 year history of the Wireshark project. The video was produced with the aid of Codeswarm.

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Technology lag

February 8, 2010

I was interested to see a blog post discussing the benefits of the new 4G wireless standards currently in development. It struck me just how long it really takes for a technology to be in use by the majority of people. Here we are at the dawn of the 4G world and yet 3G isn’t [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 5

February 5, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 5. Running Wireshark as You – how to run Wireshark whilst not logging in as a super user Free Tool and Free Tips for Network Configuration Management – Josh Stephens introduces Network Config Generator, a new tool from Solarwinds, network engineers can create a [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 4

January 29, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 4. Orion Additional Polling Engine and Modules — What do I buy for modules…Nothing because it’s now free! – Solarwinds start giving away extra polling engines… Red Hat Launches opensource.com – Tarus Balog ponders what Red Hat will do with the opensource.com web site [...]

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Ipswitch acquires Dorian Software Creations Inc

January 27, 2010

Ipswitch, the people responsible for creating What’s Up Gold, have acquired Dorian Software Creations. Dorian Software are publishers of event log management software. Dorian’s event log management solutions for Windows and Syslog environments include: Event Archiver for automated collection, centralization and secure storage of log data; Event Analyst for event examination, correlation and comprehensive reporting [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 3

January 22, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 3. Starting a Journey at BSM Review Portal – Doug McClure announces his first contribution on the BSM Review site CloudCamp to Hold First OpsCamp for Cloud Operations and Development Professionals – John M Willis announces the first OpsCamp CloudCamp in Austin, Texas Ubuntu [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 2

January 15, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 2 2010. How Much is Downtime Costing You? Find out How to Reduce Downtime by 85%… Troubleshooting the Not-So-Obvious (by Tony Fortunato) Looking Back at Business Service Management (BSM) in 2009 – a review of 2009 from a Business Service Management perspective Data Centers [...]

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Lessons learnt from the failure of TimeTag

January 15, 2010

I have a confession to make: I’ve developed a failed open source project! There I’ve said it, it’s now public knowledge and I can hang my head in shame… lead me to the village stocks so you can all throw rotting vegetables at me. Happily, I don’t feel like that. Failure is, well, no big [...]

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