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Diabetes Pilot for Palm Gives Diabetics The Right Balance of Health Tools

Palm OS program Diabetes Pilot diabetics tracks blood glucose, carbs, exercise, blood pressure, and insulin doses. More: continued here

Ad-Aware Pro Includes Extra Tools and Network Protection

Ad-Aware Pro protects against spyware, malware, rootkits, viruses, and network dangers–and gives you a moderately useful toolkit–but you may do just as well with free programs. More: continued here

BMC Buys Tideway for Component Tracking Tools

BMC has signed a deal to buy London startup Tideway Systems, maker of software for tracking and analyzing IT system components More: continued here

How to Increase Google PageRank

Google PageRank (PR) is a measure from 0 -10 of how important Google thinks a webpage is. In Google’s eyes a web page with a PageRank of 10/10 is very important and a web page with a PageRank of 0/10 is not very important. If you have the Google toolbar installed on your browser then it will [...]

How to Optimize Your Hard Drive and Registry with CCleaner

There are plenty of system optimizers and registry cleaners out there, but today I will tell you about a great free one called CCleaner.  It is very simple to use and can drastically increase your computers performance. CCleaner can delete all unnecessary temporary files from most browsers including IE, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera as [...]

How to Monitor MySQL’s performance

Here are some ideas, how you can monitor the database performance of your MySQL installation. Monitoring is always an iterative and continuous process. You need to learn what patterns are OK for your database and what are the signs of slight problems or even dangerous situations. Below are the main items you can use to [...]

How to Block IP address of any country with iptables

Sometime it is necessary to block incoming connection or traffic from specific remote host. iptables is administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT under Linux kernel. Following tip will help you to block attacker or spammers IP address.  The blocklist is create with an API I wrote and you can use wget to update [...]

How to Install Elgg – An open, flexible social networking engine

Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea. Elgg is open source. That means, when you use Elgg, you have [...]

How to Adjust Vista’s Visual Effects to Improve Performance

If Windows Vista is running slowly, you can speed it up by disabling up to 20 of it’s visual effects: like the transparent glass look, the way menus open or close, or whether shadows are displayed. To adjust the visual effects: 1.  Go to Start >> Control Panel >> Performance Information and Tools 2.  Select [...]

How to Implement Disk Quotas on Linux

This tutorial walks you through implementing disk quotas for both users and groups on Linux, using a virtual filesystem, which is a filesystem created from a disk file. Since quotas work on a per-filesystem basis, this is a way to implement quotas on a sub-section, or even multiple subsections of your drive, without reformatting. This [...]

How to Install Zimbra on Ubuntu

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 5.0 is a truly modern, innovative messaging and collaboration application. Zimbra is the leading open source solution for enterprise, service provider, education, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits. It’s no wonder Zimbra is a popular choice for today’s growing Mac and Linux email server base. Ajax based [...]

How many way to share the files in windows

7 Ways to Share Information in Windows Environment Got a document, graphic, spreadsheet, program, or just a thought you want to share with your co-workers? The method you choose to share it depends on the content you’re sharing, your personal work style, the tools you have, and if you’re at home, in your office, or [...]

Essential Linux Server Administrator Commands

Command Summary Use arp Command mostly used for checking existing Ethernet connectivity and IP address Most common use: arp This command should be used in conjunction with the ifconfig and route commands. It is mostly useful for me to check a network card and get the IP address quick. Obviously there are many more parameters, [...]

How to Build a diskette-based bandwidth management system – PicoBSD

Many users, despite having a good Net connection, complain about poor surfing and download speeds. While an organization could pay for additional bandwidth, a better option might be to manage the bandwidth they already have. There are numerous bandwidth management software tools available. In this article we will explore managing network bandwidth using the dummynet [...]

An Introduction to Basic IPv4 Routing

All of the operations considered in this article are operations upon a router, whether that router is a Linux box or Cisco dedicated hardware or some other type of machine. In this chapter I consider the traditional methods of IPv4 routing as using static configurations that are manually input by the network administrator. 1.1 Traditional [...]