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"This table contains a list of systems, motherboards, storage controllers and network cards that have been tested and found to work with ESX 4.x or ESXi 4.x Installable. Please check out the source column for a system you are considering using as some systems will include special steps to enable ESX / ESXi to run on that system or have other issues to overcome. None of these systems are supported by VMWare for running ESX."

"The Retriever Digital Signage system designed by DRM Productions empowers everyone to use this medium by making it easy to control and afford. This system is designed to inform, advertise, alert, entertain and advise. You control your system from any computer with an Internet connection. Use our design templates to create your signage, or DRM Productions can help you customize your display to maximize the results."

NTPWEdit is a password editor for Windows NT based systems (like Windows 2000, XP and Vista), it can change or remove passwords for local system accounts. This program can NOT decrypt passwords or change domain and Active Directory passwords. This is essentially NTpasswd with a Windows GUI.

"Observium is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL based network monitoring system focused primarily on Cisco and Linux networks but includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems."

Free church nursery paging system using SMS text messaging.

"What browser am I using? Which Operating System (OS) am I using?"

Active Directory based Systems Management and Security Solutions Provider

Manage, troubleshoot and diagnose windows systems and applications.

DameWare NT Utilities & Mini Remote Control remote systems management software for Windows. Now Featuring Smart Card Login & Authentication

Free Windows utility to share multiple computers with one mouse and keyboard. Similar to Synergy or Input Director. Also allows copy/paste, simultaneous lock/logon across systems, and screenshots sent from one computer to another.

Replaces iTunes for file system and application management of iPhones etc. Can backup a single Application and Documents/Data to an .ipa file that it can also install to another device authorized on the same iTunes account. Good for, for example, transferring the Rock Band app with all purchases and scores to a new device, though the application is not in the App Store any longer and you cannot restore purchases via the Internet. Complete freeware, no ads or restrictions.

"Get Console is a portable field engineer app that runs on Apple iPad and iPhone, enabling Serial, Telnet and SSH connectivity to devices in the field, full session logging, configuration script management, remote control via web and integration into existing service desk systems. "

"I recently learned something about NASes that buyers looking to use these products for database and other simultaneous-file-access applications should know about. The issue is how Opportunistic Locking ("oplocks") are handled." "Opportunistic locks (oplocks) are a characteristic of theLAN Manager networking protocol implemented in the 32-Bit Windows family of operating system environments. Bascially, oplocks are guarantees made by a server for a shared logical volume to its clients. These guarantees inform the Client that a file's content will not be allowed to be changed by the server, or if some change is imminent, the client will be notified before the change is allowed to proceed."

"The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is designed to communicate with a managed ethernet switch using SNMPv1/v2c and map the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. The software is designed for use on Microsoft Windows® operating systems."

"We combine peer-to-peer technologies with advanced data replication algorithms to provide you with a private and distributed file system using your own devices."

Free tools like Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector and the Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Gadget for Windows 7 with links to other third-party systems/network admin tools. Very cool!

"McAfee provides an assortment of free McAfee tools to help in your software development. Simply select a tool and download it for free." System admin tools for forensics, password cracking, intrusion detection, network stress testing, and others. Many are not 64-bit compatible but there are some good, free gems.

"So ... we can effectively back up the configuration of our ESXi hosts (- 10 minute changes worst case) simply by backing up the state tardisk, then if the worst happens we can restore this and have our ESXi host with complete configuration restored in a matter of minute.  Luckily PowerCLI makes this very easy for us, the below script can be run as a scheduled task and will backup the state tardisk as often as the scheduled task is run."