Filed under: Security, Utilities, Open Source, Troubleshooting
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NetworkMonitoring posts
Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Commercial
Eve takes exotic network monitoring out of the movies and into the 21st century
by Grant Robertson May 24th 2007
Check out this 20 second video of what Eve looks like when you fire up Bittorrent on a quiet network.
Each remote host is displayed as a box out in virtual space -- you're able to adjust the perspective of the 3d view -- and you can finally watch all those packets bouncing back and forth. It may seem like just a pretty toy, but it has real practical uses that Ninja Strike Force hopes are worth a few bucks to proactive network monitoring teams.
Eve produces real-time visualizations of network traffic. Because human pattern matching far surpasses any man-made attempt at intuition, the idea behind Eve is that an administrator who becomes accustomed to the way her network 'looks' under normal activity would quickly spot trouble when it happens or would notice unusual flow patterns and be able to react quickly, and with valuable and understandable data at hand.
Eve will set you back about $34 bucks US, which is a tiny price for such an awesome tool. A crippled trial version shows you real data, but randomizes what you see when you look for detail on a remote host; Pretty, but useless.. kinda like Jessica Simpson.
Thanks Elliot!
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows
NetMeter - Another way to monitor your network connection
by Grant Robertson Mar 16th 2007
Yesterday we told you about FreeMeter, an open source project which allows you to keep track of how much dump-trucking you're doing to those Internet tubes. Download Squad reader Piyo upped the ante with NetMeter, another network monitoring app without the extra features of FreeMeter, but with a few tricks of its own. NetMeter isn't just transparent on systems running Windows 2000 or later, but also supports click-through, so your transparent NetMeter is also transparent to your mouse. That means you can lay NetMeter on top of anything with the transparency cranked up and never be forced to move it out of your way to get to another application awkwardly placed behind.
The application hasn't been updated in quite a while, but it's free, fully functional and works like a charm.
[Thanks Piyo!]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
