Monthly Archives: November 2006

Portable Apps

Posted on 30 November, 2006 by Daniel

This fine project has packaged up a heap of open source applications to be run from a USB flashdisk or similar. I’d seen the files on SourceForge before, but never had any use for them until today – when I … Continue reading →

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Windows Command: ftype

Posted on 14 November, 2006 by Daniel

While on the MS newsgroups, I read about a funky little command line utility that i’d never heard of. According to Microsoft, ftype: “Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations” You can list all your associations by … Continue reading →

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phpIP

Posted on 14 November, 2006 by Daniel

A handy little php/mysql utility to replace that piece of paper/Excel spreadsheet with you IP address information. www.phpip.net: IPv4 address managment suite My only gripe with it at the moment is that you can’t populate the “Description” field from information … Continue reading →

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Setting up Zabbix on Fedora Core 5

Posted on 10 November, 2006 by Daniel

Just been looking into a replacement systems monitoring box for work. It seems that Zabbix is the most professional. ZenOSS looked good, but requires Python to be installed on the Windows Server clients in order to run the monitoring client. … Continue reading →

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