What is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows?

UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. Some of the tools inlcuded are “free for personal use” copies so users need to respect these licenses.

DimDim: un concorrente Open Source di WebEX

Qualche tempo fa vi abbiamo parlato di WebEX, il prodotto di Cisco per le videoconferenze. Oggi vi vogliamo parlare di un suo concorrente diretto ma con una caratteristica in più: la licenza Open Source.

Si tratta di DimDim, un software con licenza GPL. DimDim si propone come un software per le conferenze aziendali e il suo punto di forza va al di là della semplice possibilità di parlare o di vedersi.

Free Telephony Project

The goal of this project is to provide free hardware designs for telephone systems. Both the hardware and software are open. You are free to copy, modify and re-use the hardware designs. The hardware for a complete embedded Asterisk IP PBX (including multiple analog ports or a T1/E1) can be built for a few hundred dollars. No PC required!

EAGLE Product information

The EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The name EAGLE is an acronym, which stands for  Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor

Set up OpenVPN in four steps

By Markus Feilner and Norbert Graf :

his article explains in four simple steps how you can use a home-based Windows PC to secure a notebook and circumvent systems such as the “Great Firewall of China”. With OpenVPN, mobile users can surf without fear of the restrictions that might otherwise affect them on the local network to which they are connected, and can access all Internet content without danger of being bugged or censored. Link

ZFS Coming to Linux?

ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We’ve blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that’s actually a pleasure to use. Link WikipediaEN WikipediaIT

What is Flumotion?

Flumotion is a streaming media server created with the backing of Fluendo.
It features intuitive graphical administration tools, making the task of setting up and manipulating audio and video streams easy for even novice system administrators.
Flumotion is released under the GPL. Link