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Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1112.01 (Windows)

Windows-based network/system monitoring software designed to simplify network monitoring, runs as a service, and is able to notify administrators via email, pager, cell phone, or net send. Overseer can monitor Web sites via HTTP/HTTPS, network devices via ping, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 services, Windows event logs, and available disk space. Overseer watches...

Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensible Software Solutions, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Password Generator 1.0 (Mobile)

Random password-generator used for creating easy-to-remember passwords based on phonetic bases. Passwords up to 9999 characters can be created, with a quick "copy" button to put this password on your clipboard for pasting elsewhere. Great for IT professionals who need to change passwords regularly. Should work on all ARM-based PocketPCs.

Tags: Password, Mobile, Password Generator, Sensible Software Solutions

Software downloads 2002-10-27

Sensible Soccer '98 demo (Windows)

Many soccer games can be difficult to play on a PC, so Sensible Software has attempted, by concentrating on playability, to create a soccer game that you can play on your PC while maintaining a strong sense of realism. You can play in seven stadiums, listen to more than 50...

Tags: Team, Player, Microsoft Windows, Sensible Software Solutions, Sensible Soccer 98, Games, Team Management, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 1998-07-02

Additional Resources

Edubuntu followup

A number of readers posed both thoughts and questions related to my Wednesday post, "The state of Edubuntu...Thoughts?" While the expected "Why the hell would you use *nix anyway?" sorts of questions were thrown in for good measure, many readers had solid recommendations based on experience while others had...

Tags: Linux, Thin Client, Edubuntu, Thin Client Setup, Thin Clients, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-06

The state of Edubuntu...Your thoughts

The state of Edubuntu...Your thoughtsThe state of Edubuntu...Your thoughtsIt's still linux so unless you want your students to be lagged behind technology for about 10 - 15 years then don't do it. Plus the overhead of having to maintain it with a daily patch cycle and constant recompiling and...

Tags: Thin clients, OPEN SOURCE, LTSP, server, Edubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Software & Services - 2009 dictates value delivery a must

Sunday morning - 7 am â€" suburban Chicago Driving down a major retail stretch of road Whizzing past one closed retailer after another â€" many of these now closed for good Pass a worker removing signage from a failed retailer ...

Tags: Software, Economy, Business Economy, Sales Strategy, Retail, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Management, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Leak: the new Mac mini?

Leak: the new Mac mini?never seen the attraction of cheap macswhy would you? It's not like you are going to save space with a small case when the alternative is no case at all on an iMac. Price? Are Mac users really all that price conscious?iFloppy DriveI'm pretty sure the...

Tags: Desktops, Minis, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, new Mac Mini, Mac-user

Discussion threads 2008-12-21

Agresso's answer to ERP addiction

Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...

Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Where are the expense management startups and Dirty SaaS?

My Irregular chums have been fiercely debating the need and merit of a sensible expense management solution that combines the best of online purchasing with accounting and the ability to re-bill (where appropriate.) It all started when there was a discussion around Concur and Rearden Commerce...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Receipt, Microsoft Corp., Zoli Erdos, Vinnie, MDI, Microsoft Excel, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-04

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...

Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Will Mesh take the Web from open source?

Will Mesh take the Web from open source?Just My takeFrom what I understand, Mesh is going to be a good thing. These days, we have so many devices that it will be good to be able to access all of them from one centralized location or one main computer. For...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, Web

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better

I'm not against Windows; Unix just works betterIt is one thing to lie ....... to the people here but don't lie to yourself. You are most definitely against Windows and Intel. You have made enough anti-Microsoft and anti-Intel statements to prove that point beyond doubt.All niceBut you almost...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Examining Intel's Skulltrail platform - and Skulltrail "on the cheap"

On Saturday an old friend got in touch with me.  He's found himself due to being unexpectedly made redundant moving from being an amateur video editor into doing this for a living.  He's now finding that he's getting more and more work in but that his current hardware platform is...

Tags: Board, Quad-core, Memory, Motherboard, Intel Corp., Skulltrail, Intel D5400XS, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-10

SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or die

SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or dieWhat's the process for creating an SLA when you use cloud infrastructure?Phil - this is really interesting on many levels, but one of the things I am wondering is how does a SaaS application provider put together an SLA for clients when they...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, SaaS CRM, SaaS company, outage

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusion

Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusionSorry, Michael. Wrong. :-)The addition of Yahoo, similar to aQuantive, spells enterprise goodness all around. Remember what the greatest asset of the web 2.0 "revolution" is? It's people. Mashing up these next-gen new media pioneers with old school MSFT is only going to spell...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Friday Rant - When antivirus software goes bad

I've long held the belief that antivirus software can be almost as bad as the malware it's trying to protect you from.  In fact, I believe that it's a lot worse.  Over the past few years the "days since having a security software related hassle" board is...

Tags: Software, Malware, Antivirus Software, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-14

Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspace

Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspaceMessage has been deleted.And your pavilion is an All-in-one?Not even sure why you need to resort to name calling. The computer has nothing to do with the network or bluetooth adapter anyways. Again, having them 1mm apart may have a lot to...

Tags: Mice, Wireless LANs, computer, mouse, Wi-Fi, wireless, Bluetooth, wireless mice, Bluetooth Mouse

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte - Transcript

ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Michael Harte of Commonwealth Bank. Thank you Michael, for joining us today. What technologies are you particularly excited about? Harte: We’re a very diversified financial services group, and we cover...

Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Gorillas and antitrust regulators

Gorillas and antitrust regulatorsMicrosoft's biggest gain from the settlement...... is the recognition of conquered territory. Quoting an article from March, 2007:"According to Kroes, Microsoft held 35 to 40 percent of the workgroup server market in 1999, when the EU first began investigating claims that the software giant was abusing...

Tags: Litigation, Desktops, antitrust, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-22

Fortify calls Apache tools insecure

Fortify calls Apache tools insecureIt's true, but not Apache centricI have yet to compile anything that does not have external dependencies. Be it from a local CMS, a remote internal to the company CMS, etc. There is as much likliehood of an insider planting the trojanware as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Apache Software Foundation, open source, Apache Tools, Palamida, security, tool

Discussion threads 2007-10-11