5 Portable Network apps

A recent techrepublic.com article, had a good list of 5 Portable Network Apps which included:

Connection Monitor
TCPView
DNS Benchmark
Pale Moon Portable 
EasyPHP

The nice thing about these is the ability to be run off portable media. Portability can be an advantage, at times, especially in network monitoring.

Looks like another good reason to get the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard.  Cambridge university is offering a free online course in building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to HowToGeek for the posting. 

http://www.howtogeek.com/123593/get-hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-via-free-os-building-course/#comment-191722

Raspberry Pi

I remember reading about this device about 1 to 2 years ago. I stumbled upon it yesterday again. The Raspberry Pi is a basically a credit card sized single board computer that has capable power to run a Linux kernal based Operation System. It can even run HD video from the integrated 256MB CPU/GPU chip. I am very tempted to get one of these, just to see what it can do. Prices range from $25 or $35 dollars, depending on the model chosen. A very cool device.

Raspberry Pi Launch

Windows 7 no-reformat, nondestructive reinstall

An interesting walk through in re-installing Windows 7 without losing any user accounts, data, installed programs,or system drivers. This one was written by Fred Langa of windowssecrets.com.

Win7's no-reformat, nondestructive reinstall

How-to-Geek site

I've learned a great deal from an excellent resource called How-to Geek. Tons of information, laid out with excellent organization. Highly recommended!

Microsoft Safety Scanner

Looks like Microsoft did sneak a new on demand anti-malware scanner past us. Most would have been unaware of the new application if not for keeping up with various IT newletters, blogs and web sites, such as I do on a daily basis. This small application is downloaded as an .exe file and instead of being installed onto your Windows enironment, it is just ran directly from the .exe file to start the scanning process. One of the downsides to the program is that you have to re-download the file again, after ten days, to include the latest definitions for the program. If your willing to live with the small inconvienence, it looks like a good additional on-demand malware scanner, in additional to you main persistant anti-malware program. Just don't depend on this one alone as your main anti-malware program for your Windows OS environment.

Microsoft Safety Scanner download

32 bit vs 64 bit

A good overview of 32 bit vs 64 bit systems

32 bit vs 64 bit