free webconferencing for up to 10 participants

Vyew web conferencing with voip and whiteboard

• vyew.com/site/product/pricing for more than 10 participants
• vyew.com/site/product/comparison

googpedia

goog have created their own wikipedia called google knol ! it’s a wiki where you can control who can edit your contributions !

• http://knol.google.com/k/collaboration-in-knols#

and where you can put your goog analytics and your goog adsense adverts on !

web test tools

just spent an hour or so adding and updating ohloh.net enlistments and tags so you can now make an informed choice on which free libre open source web test tool to use

• https://www.ohloh.net/p/curl-loader/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/funkload/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/multi-mechanize/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/linkchecker/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/loadui/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/pylot/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/pyunit/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/pyunitperf/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/soapui/analyses/latest
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/webunit/analyses/latest

github now free for open source

github now has a free git plan for open source projects with

• unlimited public repositories and unlimited public collaborators

denyhosts or fail2ban ?

should i use denyhosts or fail2ban to protect my servers ?

apparently denyhosts uses tcp wrappers and only protects ssh whereas fail2ban uses iptables and can check more ports but looking at ohloh both seem to be unchanged for 2+ years old and they both only have 12 users !

• www.ohloh.net/p/denyhosts
• www.ohloh.net/p/fail2ban
• http://www.linuxquestions.org/denyhosts-vs-fail2ban-aka-tcp_wrappers-vs-iptables-3036/

fail2ban

• http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/MANUAL_0_8
• http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ_english

 

Windows 7 SP 1

If you can’t find Windows 7 SP 1 listed in your Windows Updates check that KB976902 is installed. You may save downloading the extra 50 updates before installing Windows 7 SP 1 !

Finally dont forget to run Windows Update after you have installed Windows 7 SP 1 to pick up any extra Windows Updates.

UK PostCode data is now “free” and “open”

UK PostCode data is finally “free” and “open” and available as “Code-Point Open” which is a postal geography dataset subject to the  UK OGL licence

• data.gov.uk/dataset/os-code-point-open
• ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html
• ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
• data.gov.uk/apps/mapit

thanks to the efforts of the following

• dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
• freeourdata.org.uk/
• freepostcodes.org.uk/
• freethepostcode.org/
• www.openstreetmap.org/
• random.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodes/
• npemap.org.uk/

osm

osm

DELL OpenManage 5.1 and 6.2

DELL OpenManage 5.1 is avaliable on a CentOS 4.4 Live CD

• http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-51-live/README.txt
• http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-51-live/livecd-howto.txt
• http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-51-live/

DELL OpenManage 6.2 – 6.4 can be installed via yum !

• http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Linux+OMSA+Historical
• http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/
• http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.2/

robtex sysadmin swiss army knife

robtex sysadmin swiss army knife internet tool(s)

• RBL checks multiple RBL’s if a list is specified
• DNS checks detailed dns information for a domain or a hostname
• IP-number checks ip number information such as dns reverse and forwards
• C-net checks an entire c-network
• whois lookup checks whois information for a domain
• route checks a specific routed prefix ()
• AS numbers checks information on an AS-number
• BGP announcements checks prefixes origined from a specific AS-number
• AS macros checks who belongs to an AS-macro (example: as-ams-ix-peers)
• RFC documents Request For Comments (rfc2822)
• DMOZ

Open Source Observatory and Repository for Europe

The Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations (OSOR) is a platform for exchanging information, experiences and FLOSS-based code for use in public administrations and includes

• a pan-European federation of Open Source Software repositories
• The European Union Public Licence