Universal Extractor

If you ever wanted to have a free software that would be able to handle all the different zip formats then you might want to take a look at the open source program called Universal Extractor. Universal Extractor can only be used to extract archives handling this task excellently. It supports a multitude of zip [...]

Perl script to monitor disk space and send an email

How to write a perl script that can monitor my disk space under UNIX or Linux and send me an email alert?

There is a nice perl system routine called Perl df or Filesys::DiskSpace. This routine displays information on a file system such as its type, the amount of disk space occupied, the total disk space [...]

Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop

This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system (XP, 2003, 2000, NT4 SP4+) into a VMware virtual machine with the free VMware Converter Starter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server, and also in VMware Workstation and other VMware products. Vmware Converter comes in [...]

Access Your Computer Files Remotely from Anywhere

Need to edit a contract? Look at the latest sales report? Share a family photo? If it’s on your PC and how are you going to get it when you’re at some other place? You might think that installing a FTP service on your home computer will solve this problem but don’t forget, many companies [...]

How to Download Songs from Myspace

It seems that someone found out a way to create download links to the mp3 files that one can listen to on the profile pages of the bands that have a myspace website. The script to decode the myspace url and extract the mp3 links is working well and uses Ajax for ease of use.
All [...]

The complete guide to optimizing Windows XP

Windows XP will be the dominant operating system for the next years even though Microsoft released the successor Windows Vista just a few days ago. The major disadvantage of Vista is that it is hardware hungry and poses problems to users of Windows XP who would like to change but can’t because of the hardware [...]

Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Vista available for download

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) is now available for download. It contains all important tools for deploying Windows Vista: ImageX, Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM), Windows PE, and many more. The DVD image also contains the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and the WinPE Language Packs.
Sometime ago, I mentioned BDD 2007. I wrote that [...]

How to setup Linux antivirus and antispam mail server

Librenix has a posted small and sweet article that explains basic steps to configure and install a mail server with antivirus / antispam in minutes.
From the article:
This article illustrates a situation where you need to set up your own mail server (be it your home mail server, or a small office one). It actually shows [...]

How to fix the Mozilla Firefox web browser if it will not start

This may sound a little weird but sometime Mozilla Firefox will not start. You click on Firefox icon and nothing happens. So how do you fix the Mozilla web browser if it will not start?
This may happen due to two following reasons:
a) Mozilla Firefox may be running and it is not responding at all
b) [...]

Looking for an Open Source alternative to that commercial program?

Look no further.  Open Source Alternative has a huge database chock full of OSS applications which are fun, free and may even give you a warm fuzzy feeling.
They’ve got lists of programs for Linux, Mac or Windows users.

Looking for an Open Source alternative to that commercial program?
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