Tools

YubiKey

Submitted by doug on Wed, 2010-02-10 08:27.Hardware/Infrastructure | Physical | Security

Open Source based USB secure access key

Thu, 2009-02-05 08:00

Stable

From Yubico web page:

Yubico's core product is the YubiKey®, the first USB-key for instant strong authentication to networks and services that works on multiple platforms and does not need any client software.

The revolutionary device plugs into any USB slot. With a simple touch on the YubiKey, it sends the user's identity and a secure one time pass code every time it is used.

Provided at unmatched price and ease of use and with an open source business model, the YubiKey is rapidly being adopted by enterprises, software applications and Internet services around the world.

Nooleus App Launcher for System Administrators

Submitted by andy_barry on Thu, 2010-01-14 09:15.Applications | System management

A graphical tool that allows you to create diagrams of your infrastructure and then use those diagrams to launch other tools.

www.nooleus.com

Mon, 2009-12-07 12:00

Active

Nooleus is a graphical tool that allows you to quickly create diagrams of your infrastructure (servers, databases, switches, etc), and then use those diagrams to launch any external tool such as Putty, VNC, Exceed, Sqlplus, URLs...anything you like really.

xwiki

Submitted by doug on Thu, 2009-12-31 07:57.Productivity

Java based extensible wiki

xwiki.org

Tue, 2004-05-18 07:00

Mature

From the Xwiki home page...

The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.

Enterprise

A fully-featured wiki for the Enterprise. It's also a second generation wiki offering the ability to install and develop small applications inside wiki pages.

Manager

An application to manage a farm of wikis, allowing large-scale organization and massive scalability.

mailcheck-imap

Submitted by syscomet on Sun, 2009-12-13 21:18.Email | MAIL

Command-line IMAP client for polling mail with various knobs for subscription management and a raw interactive mode

Thu, 2006-10-26 21:00

Stable

pbzip2

Submitted by doug on Sat, 2009-12-12 18:49.Backup

parallel implementation of the bzip2 file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines

Wed, 2004-09-08 18:00

Mature

PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2). PBZIP2 should work on any system that has a pthreads compatible C++ compiler (such as gcc). It has been tested on: Linux, Windows (cygwin & MinGW), Solaris, Tru64/OSF1, HP-UX, OS/2, and Irix.

NOTE: If you are looking for a parallel BZIP2 that works on cluster machines, you should check out MPIBZIP2 which was designed for a distributed-memory message-passing architecture.

pigz

Submitted by doug on Sat, 2009-12-12 17:56.Backup

A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines

www.zlib.net/pigz/

Mon, 2009-07-20 17:00

Active

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data. pigz was written by Mark Adler, and uses the zlib and pthread libraries. To compile and use pigz, please read the README file in the source code distribution.

threadzip

Submitted by doug on Sat, 2009-12-12 17:44.Backup

multi-thread compression using pipes and multiple processor cores

Mon, 2009-12-07 21:43

New

If you generate a datastream, and use typical compression, the compression usually takes 4x to 20x longer than the data itself.

Utilize all your cores and hyperthreading. Compress as "fast" or as close to "best" as you want. Do it in parallel and don't let your extra cores sit idle... Using threadzip.

If you’re backing up some large data set, you’re probably not going across a slow network link. You’re probably going locally disk to disk (or disk to tape), and you probably want the rate of compression to keep pace with the hardware I/O.

In my backups, I found with compression enabled, jobs run slower. At minimum 9% longer (via lzop), typically 16% longer (via gzip --fast) or 37% longer (via gzip), and worst case, 238% longer (via bzip2).

likewise-open

Submitted by Matt Simmons on Sat, 2009-12-12 08:21.Directory Services | Directory Services

Likewise-open is a free open-source tool for adding Unix-like machines to Active Directory

Mon, 2007-12-31 18:00

Stable

Likewise Open is a free, open source application that joins Linux, Unix, and Mac machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials.

Likewise Open Features
Joins non-Windows systems to Active Directory domains in a single step from the command line or from a GUI

Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and non-Windows

Enforces the same password policies for non-Windows users and Windows users

Supports multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts

Caches credentials in case your domain controller goes down

Password Safe

Submitted by Matt Simmons on Tue, 2009-12-08 06:39.Security | Security

Password Safe manages passwords securely

Mon, 2002-01-14 23:00

Active

Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list. With Password Safe all you have to do is create and remember a single "Master Password" of your choice in order to unlock and access your entire user name/password list.

Remus Information Manager

Submitted by doug on Wed, 2009-11-11 20:34.Anti-spam

Contact-Manager, Taskmanager, Work-Logger, MindMapping-Tool, Logger for Meetings, Bookmark-Tool, General Notetaking Tool, ...

remus-software.org

Mon, 2009-06-15 20:50

Active

RIM is a free OpenSource client application for the management of information with a connection to multitude of data repositories like Flickr, Youtube or Facebook and a desktop-integration for an optimal usage for the offline management, visualization and easy accessibility of information to the user. The biggest efforts of RIM are the linking of information throughout different repositories, the offline storage, the clean representation and the fast search through the information. Take a look at the videos to see RIM in Action.

RIM is a...

Contact-Manager, Taskmanager, Work-Logger, MindMapping-Tool, Logger for Meetings, Bookmark-Tool, General Notetaking Tool, Calendar, Password Store, RSS Reader, Image-Viewer, SourceCode-Snippet Collector, Videoplayer, Twitter Client, ...