TiddlyWiki: A wiki in a single file

TiddlyWiki is a single HTML file. It’s written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick. Open the Wiki on your harddisk, edit it, then upload the file onto your webserver. That’s it.

IP, TCP and UDP Packet Headers: Easy to read Drawings

Matt Baxter has some drawings that help to better understand the structure of the headers for IP, TCP, UDP and ICMP. Just normal RFC info presented in an easy to read format.

http://www.visi.com/~mjb/Drawings/

Top Five Reasons to use Network Monitoring in Your Network

If your company conducts business via the World Wide Web, optimum performance of your business website is not only critical for the growth of your business but also for its survival. Here is a list of the five most important reasons why you should always monitor your website, and its other components.

150 FREE Windows & Office Programs from Microsoft

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download — finding them all is extremely difficult. Until now, thanks to the Road to Know Where!

Web2.0 Logo Creator

Nice online logo creator for web-2.0-ish logos….

http://h-master.net/web2.0/

Sketch-It — Custom Sketches for a buck!

1. Send a link to a photo you took to Scott Moore’s Sketch-It. Portraits, pets, houses, whatever it is, they’ll draw it. (No link? Email the file. Special request? Just type it in!)
2. Pay a buck via Pay Pal (using your credit card)
3. Sit back and wait for your art to arrive!

Well, of course I tried it once with a photo of mine. Here is what I got after 2 days:

[via Photojojo]

The current satellite image of the globe as wallpaper

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you’re logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.

Note: You must turn on the automatic updating of the cloud-image in an extra dialog!

The Top 3 Bandwidth Monitoring Methods: SNMP, Packet Sniffing and NetFlow

The differences between the three most commonly used bandwidth-usage monitoring methods (i.e. SNMP, Packet Sniffing or NetFlow) are explained using animated graphics on the website of Paessler, a company that sells network monitoring software.

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Flipclips: Convert video clips from your camera into Flipbooks

FlipClips takes your short video clips and prints them into little flipbooks. Just go to their site, upload a clip, choose a title and cover design, and $9 and 10 days later, you’re got yourself a custom-made, full-color flipbook.

Go to FlipClips.com

[via Photojojo]

Restoring Image Backups Onto Other Hardware or Into a VM – With Ease

Using image backup tools like Acronis Trueimage it is easy to create image backups of a Windows system in order to perform “bare metal recoveries” in case of system failures or disk failure. But restoring such an image onto different hardware (or into a virtual machine) was quite complicated (if not impossible), because Windows does not support switching e.g. the controler type of a Windows installation…

Acronis is now offering Universal Restore that helps out:

Acronis Universal Restore allows you to restore to different hardware or to a virtual machine, providing complete disaster recovery.

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You can restore an image to a new system in 5 easy steps.

• Step 1: Boot your replacement system with the bootable media you created and select Recovery in the Acronis True Image menu
• Step 2: Select the image to restore and the Acronis Universal Restore option
• Step 3: Acronis Universal Restore initiates the restore process
• Step 4: Acronis Universal Restore detects the hardware and installs drivers

• The product detects the machine type and installs appropriate drivers for Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• The product detects hard disk controllers (SCSI and IDE)

Or

• The product prompts you for driver locations

Step 5: The machine reboots

Did not try it yet, but it sounds promising. Maybe I will finally migrate our Exchange Server onto new hardware this fall….