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April 25, 2005

LDAP Related sites

Filed under: Computer Software,Tech Related — Suramya @ 4:37 PM

LDAP GUI Client: http://luma.sourceforge.net/download.html
Using OpenLDAP: http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/ldap.htm

– Suramya

April 22, 2005

Disaster recovery tools

Filed under: Computer Software,Tech Related — Suramya @ 11:55 AM

Everyone knows that disaster can strike anywhere and at anytime. These tools will help you recover your system from the unexpected downtime.

FAI (Fully Automatic Installation):

With fai, you configure your updated, armored, well working machine before the installation. In case of a disaster, you simply reinstall without any interaction. Fai is even capable, to leave a partition untouched.

Setting up encrypted tunnels

Filed under: Computer Software,Security Tools,Tech Related — Suramya @ 1:04 AM

Sometimes its desireable to setup an encrypted tunnel between two networked computers so that you can transfer data between them without letting anyone snoop the traffic.

The following are some of the programs that enable you to setup secure tunnels:

cryptcat:

Cryptcat is the standard netcat enhanced with twofish encryption.

stunnel:

Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL. It allows you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon’s code.

zeebede:

Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed â??tunnelâ?? for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems.

SSH Tunnels:

SSH allows you to redirect local and remote ports over a secure SSH connection. The main advantage of this is that no extra software needs to be installed on the systems in order to use it.

In you know of others let me know and I will add them.

– Suramya

April 20, 2005

Program to manage your Movie Collection

Filed under: Computer Software,Tech Related — Suramya @ 4:32 AM

Avi Manager:

This script helps you to manage your (large) movie (DVD,DivX) collection. It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users. aviManager attempts to find the best movie to watch if you give it a list of people who are going to watch it by using their past preferences.

MS Word Clone for Linux

Filed under: Computer Software,Tech Related — Suramya @ 4:30 AM

TextMaker is a word processor that launches lightning-fast, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup and still has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP/2003 files without losing formatting or content.

The biggest advantage in my book is that it doesn’t look ugly. -) Try it out. They have a free trial available which lets you read .doc files but doesn’t let you save in it.

– Suramya

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