Review


One for the artists

Currently my windows based tablet pc is non operational – waiting for a maintenance window to get it repaired. Some of  the applications that showed the tablet to greatest advantage were based on direct manipulation – for example art related and creative tools which harness the touch and pen interfaces, So I was quite pleased to see […]


OMG ! OMD

Have been enjoying the new functionality and look and feel of the Nagios “addon” – Check_MK which you can find more about here. I was also looking for a faster means of implementing and so when I found a site offering a much quicker solution to implement I thought this can’t be bad. The Open […]


Epicor configuration and system administration

Had the opportunity this week to spend time with an Epicor implementation and configuration specialist on a project for a client. Given that we have already provisioned the virtual infrastructure for the client – the admin training was an opportunity to guage what changes in configuration would be required to move from a three virtual […]


Don’t be blue with Blue Screens Of Death

A colleague recently mentioned a tool for  getting to the bottom of those pesky BSOD that users report after the fact.   BlueScreenView (available here) scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’ crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, […]


WebDrive 10 – whats new

The latest version of Webdrive – the tool that can map a drive to an ftp or other remote location Changes and updates include Unicode Support – WebDrive is now fully Unicode based providing the ability to access filenames in multiple languages simultaneously.  (Very useful for clients with localised branch offices) New Site Wizard – […]


Press Turbo for your VM Monitoring

Am currently testing VMturbo from www.vmturbo.com – its a tool to allow you to see your capacity planning issues with your vmware infrastructure. Primarily the areas it covers are – Infrastructure monitoring – Problem detection – Performance Reporting and Alerting – Capacity Reporting and Alerting   There is a community free edition – which has the […]