Filed under: Internet, Web services
Happy SysAdmin Day!
Here's a gallery of sysadmin pics we found on the internet, but feel free to share your own in the comments or tag a Flickr photo "downloadsquad" and it'll appear in our tag pool.
sysadmin posts
Here's a gallery of sysadmin pics we found on the internet, but feel free to share your own in the comments or tag a Flickr photo "downloadsquad" and it'll appear in our tag pool.
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Desktop Central packages 11 handy tools for sysadmins
by Lee Mathews Feb 24th 2009
Manage Engine develop a number of excellent products for network administrators. Even better, some of their tools - like Desktop Central - are completely free.
Desktop Central is a handy application that packages several useful utilities for sysadmins, including remote task management, software inventory, remote command prompt, wake on lan, and remote shutdown/restart. Reporting tools (users/groups, disk space, inventory) support exporting their results to CSV or plain text.
The tools are most useful in a domain setting, though several of them will work just fine in a workgroup setup as well.
Desktop Central is free, but you will have to put up with an advertisement for Manage Engine's enterprise software on the main screen. It's a minor distraction, and doesn't appear elsewhere.
Desktop Central is a handy application that packages several useful utilities for sysadmins, including remote task management, software inventory, remote command prompt, wake on lan, and remote shutdown/restart. Reporting tools (users/groups, disk space, inventory) support exporting their results to CSV or plain text.
The tools are most useful in a domain setting, though several of them will work just fine in a workgroup setup as well.
Desktop Central is free, but you will have to put up with an advertisement for Manage Engine's enterprise software on the main screen. It's a minor distraction, and doesn't appear elsewhere.
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Commercial
Three apps for the Windows sysadmin - Holiday Gift Guide
by Todd Ritter Dec 1st 2008
Hyena ($199) - This Windows application is an Active Directory admin's sidekick. In addition to acting as a an AD Users/Computers snap-in on steroids, it also lets you easily change local account usernames and passwords on multiple computers, create helpful lists of group members, and manage services. Hyena also makes it easy to quickly view the currently logged in users of a machine and shutdown or reboot a group of computers.
Filed under: News
How could we forget ; Happy System Administrator's Day
We've been reminded that it's System Administrator's Day. Ok, reminded isn't the way to put it. We were attacked brutally by our hosting / content management staff with admonishment about how we never buy them flowers or candy anymore. So, for all the system administrators out there, happy sys admin day. If you do your job well, what you do day-to-day goes largely unnoticed, and that's a talent that the modern world couldn't function without. Download Squad raises a glass to you, and we'd like to thank the hardworking staff which keeps Download Squad humming along in effortless perfection for all they do; Even if we don't send you flowers anymore.
Filed under: Windows
Ten tools for every admin
by Jordan Running Jan 2nd 2006
Okay, we've seen plenty of lists of apps for every user, or every Windows user, or every Mac user. But what
about the sysadmins? This list of 10
tools for every admin is a good start, if very Windows-centric. The list is a bit different than it might have been
a few years ago, with now-essential tools like a virtual CD app, VMWare or Virtual PC, a USB key, and even an RSS
reader making the cut. Okay, admins, what tools did the author miss that you couldn't live without?[Via Digg]
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 ...
