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mRemote: A Remote Connections Manager

This tool should be a part of any self-respecting SysAdmin’s toolkit. mRemote is “a full-featured, open source, multi-tab remote connections manager”.

What does this mean?, you say. It means you’ve got one neat console where you can manage all your remote connections in one place. mRemote currently supports these protocols:

I haven’t set it up fully yet, but it will be really handy to have all my web-based admin areas and SSH to Linux boxes in there too.

mRemote

A side note, it uses the same rendering engine as Firefox, so some web-based admin pages may not display properly. This, however is no fault of mRemote or Firefox’s.

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Be gone, extended view

Does the “extended view” in the services console in Windows XP bug you? Want to change the default view? If so, Continue reading ‘Be gone, extended view’

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Portable Apps

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 had to boot a machine into BartPE and use ClamAV.

These will be moving into a permanent home on my new 4GB flashdrive when it arrives.

PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives | Your Digital Life, Anywhereâ„¢

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