Friday, August 17. 2012
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Thursday, August 16. 2012
Cool Gadget - Arduino Ethernet
Arduino 1.0 is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.
Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can be communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP.)
The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment.With the Arduino Ethernet Shield, this library allows an Arduino board to connect to the internet.
Cool Gadget - MikroTik RB751G-2HnD - 11n AP/Router
To help administrating your network, RouterOS also provides a large number of small network tools to optimize your everyday tasks. Here are some of them:
- Ping, traceroute
- Bandwidth test, ping flood
- Packet sniffer, torch
- Telnet, SSH
- E-mail and SMS send tools
- Automated script execution tools
- CALEA data mirroring
- File Fetch tool
- Active connection table
- NTP Client and Server
- TFTP server
- Dynamic DNS updater
- VRRP redundancy support
- SNMP for providing graphs and stats
- RADIUS client and server (User Manager)
Tuesday, August 14. 2012
Cool Tool - USB Network Gate
USB Network Gate is a solution which allows sharing any number of USB ports and devices on your computer over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet. Remote virtual machines can connect to your computer (server) and communicate with USB devices, plugged into shared remote ports, as if those devices were connected directly to virtual machines. All applications that work with remote USB devices won't see the difference and will treat them as local ones.
As USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux shares USB ports, not devices themselves, you can plug any USB device into shared USB port, then unplug this device and plug in another one, and it will automatically appear at the remote virtual machine without any additional configuration.
Currently, 3 versions of the product are available: for Windows, Linux and Mac. Different combinations of server-client model can be applied, for example, client may have USB Network Gate installed on Linux, and server - on Windows, or vice versa.
With USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux you can:
- Share USB devices on the local PC (server) so that they become available for usage on the remote PC (client)
- Share any number of USB devices
- Freely unplug USB device and plug in another one into shared USB port on the server - the device will automatically appear on the client
- Give custom names to your USB devices (label them) to let clients easily identify them
- Create callback connection (connection with a client initiated from the server side) - OEM License
- Set authorization password and enable traffic encryption
- Change traffic encryption, authorization settings and custom names on the go for already shared devices (Linux version)
- Disable current connection from the server side
- Access remote shared USB devices from virtual machine, remote desktop or blade server
- Access remote shared USB devices via Wi-Fi
- Two types of connection with remote devices are available: "Connect" and "Connect once", the latter allowing client to establish one-time connection without attempts to restore it if broken
- See who currently occupies shared USB device from other clients' side
Features list:
- USB devices can be shared on the server and subsequently accessed remotely by clients over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet
- Any number of clients can connect to remote shared USB devices
- Server and Client are handy combined into a single application
- No need to change existing network configuration to share and access USB devices
- No system reboot is required after USB ports sharing/unsharing
- Possibility to specify TCP port which will be used in connection
- All actions performed by the program are monitored and logged into Activity log
- Special icons assigned to USB devices let you know their statuses (shared, authorization is used)
- USB v1.1 and v2.0 compatible. USB v3.0 support
- OHCI, UHCI and EHCI standards for USB are supported
- Fully compatible with Hyper-Threading Technology and multiprocessor platforms
- Works on virtual machines (VMware, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V support)
- Works in RDP session
Sunday, August 12. 2012
Cool Tool - StarWind iSCSI SAN Version 6.0 (beta)
- Three active nodes for more availability.
- HA node can use other device types as a storage. It can be DiskBridge, IBV, Deduplication.
Deduplication
- Replication to remote iSCSI Tartet over WAN as an experimental feature.
- Data deletion support. Unused data blocks are overwritten by new actual data.
- 30% less memory usage (2MBs per 1GB of deduplicatied storage on 4kb deduplication block).
StarWind SMI-S agent: . This is now available as a separate download.
VMware vSphere Design 101 with VCDX Scott Lowe
In this on-demand webinar Scott provides you with an overview of the VMware vSphere design process and the complex decisions it involves. Scott also helps you get started with mastering design concepts by presenting a list of design resources for virtualization professionals. This free webinar covers:
- What is design and why you need it
- VMware vSphere design basics
- Common design misconceptions
- Is the VCAP-DCD certification right for you