Nerd tools

MadMax · 10th August 2010, 20:39

Spotted a bunch of threads in the past few days here and it almost reads exactly what I've been doing at work for the past week... going to put them into one place:

OS Move

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Originally Posted by Fx.

brutus's method works

otherwise use driverpacks.net to install all drivers for raid controllers.
or use paragon p2p to make it work after imaging it (also recommend paragon)

but yeah would def recommend imaging off then back onto newly created array rather than trying to hook the disks straight into it

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

What about using shadowprotect? install the 30 day trial, image it. Restore using hardware independent restore. Can do it all within the trial.

GPU Stressing

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Originally Posted by Trigger

FurMark
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

VMWare

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Originally Posted by BaM

VMware Server is free.
VMware ESXi is also free for non-commercial use, but hardware support is limited. I've got it to run fine on a <$1000 system - YMMV.

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Originally Posted by BassDemon

Microsoft Hyper-V server is free too

http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-ser...s/default.aspx

Although you need a Windows Vista SP1 or Win 7 client to administer it (and 10 minutes of config)

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeekiorage

Also Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Sun Virtual Box

Encription

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

If you're a real man and dig doing commandline shit, gnupg. It's the crypto tool I use most often.

If you want easy GUI drag and drop shit, PGP freeware will do encrypting and wiping of files. If you want to create encrypted or hidden volumes, Truecrypt as per xin's suggestion.

enough for now

Charismo' · 11th August 2010, 02:37

I'll have a stab at adding to this those that I have been using a lot:

Backup:

Cobian Backup (opensource)
IMO a brilliant, simple, free backup utility.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Sound/Music:

Airfoil
makes sending music or anything else around your network easy, allows you to pick the sound from any given application and send it to any remote pc or mac

CPU Overclocking/performance testing

Realtemp - self explanatory
Prime95 - stress testing
Fraps - frames per second monitoring, screenshots, recording, benchmarking in games

Photo management

Adobe Lightroom 3 (Mac/PC)
Apple Aperture (Mac)

Cloning drives

Clonezilla - free linux based ISO, makes cloning drives/partitions quite easy

Beccara · 12th August 2010, 00:01

No wireshark yet?

Its a must if your fault finding network issues local or remote

Charismo' · 12th August 2010, 00:17

what we need is a wiki really.

Heyzoos · 12th August 2010, 03:35

My Top 5 (today)
PuTTy
WinSCP
netcat
kismet
ossec-hids (not really a tool as such, but I sure do use it a lot)

PhX · 12th August 2010, 09:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beccara

No wireshark yet?

Lol at their website heading -- Wireshack - Go deep

Acido · 12th August 2010, 12:10

nmap
putty
malwarebytes
zulupad
ultravnc
pstools

Markh · 12th August 2010, 12:50

Xplorer2 Lite (tons better than Windows Explorer)
IrfanView (small and quick picture viewer/converter/resizer with batch processing ability)
CutePDF (free PDF printer)
Process Explorer (see what's running)
Synctoy (great for syncing tools/apps on your USB drive with a folder on your HDD)
Cobian Backup (good freeware backup software)
Everest (formerly Aida32, great system information program - good for IDing the RAM or M/board or whatever without having to open the case)
VMware Player (you can create a VMware machine with VMware Workstation and then install the free VMware Player on the custmers PC to run that machine)

MadMax · 14th August 2010, 18:23

http://www.xmarks.com/ - synchronise bookmarks between computers, browsers.

www.logmein.com - easy remote access to your machines (free, saves the need for freedns or pinholing)

www.teamviewer.com - quickly and easy way to log into someone's machine when they need help

MadMax · 14th August 2010, 18:27

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Originally Posted by Beccara

wireshark

SID|DensitY · 16th August 2010, 09:50

Fantastic thread.

I just have a couple here to list. as a lot of useful tools I use have been listed or are commercial/enterprise level.
TightVNC
Diskimage

A few here I've never heard of (clonezilla for one. which I'll try out when I upgrade my laptop's HD tomorrow), be neat if this turns into a huge list of free/open source tools that work on as well as some commercial products.

wugambino · 16th August 2010, 19:24

http://ninite.com/ - huge time saver

Charismo' · 17th August 2010, 17:14

whoa... ninite being one of the best new ones for me in this thread, nice!

crocos · 17th August 2010, 17:20

I use this every day: Notepad++

Simple. Fast. Easy. Free. Damn good.

crocos · 17th August 2010, 17:38

Also - For you command-line warriors that know & like the Posix tools available in *nix but are forced to work in Windows: UnixUtils.

Rocket · 17th August 2010, 17:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by wugambino

http://ninite.com/ - huge time saver

phoar that is ace

Charismo' · 17th August 2010, 20:20

I think we should get this thread stickied..

MadMax · 17th August 2010, 23:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by wugambino

http://ninite.com/ - huge time saver

/endthread

Trigger · 18th August 2010, 12:51

this just saved my ass today
http://lantricks.com/lanspy/

scan/probe ip range and provides SHITLOAD of info!

Charismo' · 4th September 2010, 01:38

guess we aren't getting any luck getting this sticky'ed?

Delphinus · 6th September 2010, 15:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charismo'

Backup:

Cobian Backup (opensource)
IMO a brilliant, simple, free backup utility.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

I'm assuming this images entire partitions?
What do people use for just certain files/directories? Ideally with versioning/incrementals etc.

Markh · 6th September 2010, 16:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delphinus

What do people use for just certain files/directories? Ideally with versioning/incrementals etc.

Cobian is the one for that.

Delphinus · 9th September 2010, 21:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Markh

Cobian is the one for that.

Hey this is awesome! Just what I need. I like how it creates normal zip/7zip files as well, so you can open them with anything instead of requiring some specific software to do the restore.
Although that leads to problems if you wanted to restore a chain of incrementals. Is there a better way to do this than extract the Full then each Incremental to the same place, overwriting each time?

Rince · 14th September 2010, 15:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by wugambino

http://ninite.com/ - huge time saver

Haven't tried this, but looks interesting!
Is there provision for installing the apps to non-std locations (e.g. a drive other than C:\)?

crocos · 14th September 2010, 16:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rince

Haven't tried this, but looks interesting!
Is there provision for installing the apps to non-std locations (e.g. a drive other than C:\)?

OOTB, no.

Possibly with Ninite Pro - I haven't looked into that.

EDIT: Apparently not.

dylan · 14th September 2010, 17:14

nice thread.

NMap - nmap.org

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Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are avalable for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), and a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff).

Nmap was named “Security Product of the Year” by Linux Journal, Info World, LinuxQuestions.Org, and Codetalker Digest. It was even featured in eight movies, including The Matrix Reloaded, Die Hard 4, and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Rince · 15th September 2010, 08:37

ninite review with alternatives:
http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/s...are-installer/

sounds like AllMyApps might be better

Lightspeed · 17th September 2010, 13:23

Handbrake is the ultimate for video encoding.

Super is awesome for transcoding, stripping/adding audio layers, subtitles, etc. Despite its awful website.

Rince · 27th September 2010, 08:45

From a discussion on trying to copy 60m files: RichCopy

crocos · 27th September 2010, 09:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

Handbrake is the ultimate for video encoding.

It's a good 90% tool. Far from the ubertool it's made out to be though.

Cyberbob · 27th September 2010, 10:42

Getting tape drives to be recognized by Hyper-V virtual machines.

KernSafe iStorage Server

Lightspeed · 27th September 2010, 14:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by crocos

It's a good 90% tool. Far from the ubertool it's made out to be though.

Yes, I was a bit liberal with my "ultimates" and "awesomes" there. Solid tools, but nothing sublime.

MadMax · 1st October 2010, 20:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

www.logmein.com - easy remote access to your machines (free, saves the need for freedns or pinholing)

if you have device that can browse the web displaying images, you can remotely log into your pc. if that includes a pointer (n95) you can control it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

http://www.xmarks.com/ - synchronise bookmarks between computers, browsers.

sadly, xmarks is shutting down :/

[BT]Monza · 1st October 2010, 21:13

Hiren's bootcd on usb stick

MadMax · 8th October 2010, 18:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juju

So I just got a nice shiny new laptop for work which I'll be taking home here and there so it does have a little exposure to being stolen - what tools do you guys use in case it does get stolen - like the ones where it'll try get the location based on SSID's and takes photos with the webcam?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bent

I use prey on my nexus one and laptop - http://preyproject.com/

Claymore · 12th October 2010, 13:25

Does anyone have some links to good server auditing/documentation software similar to what AIDA64 spits out?

Rocket · 18th October 2010, 19:07

Super - video encoder - easiest i have found so far.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Trigger · 4th November 2010, 14:06

http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...list-world.htm

most comprehensive list of free security tools / firewall / network / useful applications / computer fixing / backup / encryption / everything

MadMax · 11th February 2011, 12:19

does anyone remember a certain network program that had a bunch of buttons for various tools across the top including tracert/ping graphs and the like, along with lookups and the likes? each tool would open in a new subwindow. quite a few years old now

^BITES^ · 11th February 2011, 13:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

does anyone remember a certain network program that had a bunch of buttons for various tools across the top including tracert/ping graphs and the like, along with lookups and the likes? each tool would open in a new subwindow. quite a few years old now

Cain and Abel?

14th August 2010, 18:23	#9
MadMax Stuff	http://www.xmarks.com/ - synchronise bookmarks between computers, browsers. www.logmein.com - easy remote access to your machines (free, saves the need for freedns or pinholing) www.teamviewer.com - quickly and easy way to log into someone's machine when they need help __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 14th August 2010 at 18:27.

18th August 2010, 12:51	#19
Trigger Laserman	this just saved my ass today http://lantricks.com/lanspy/ scan/probe ip range and provides SHITLOAD of info! __________________ Are you slow? The alleged lie that you might have heard, me saying, allagedly moments ago... That's a parasite that lives in my neck.

15th September 2010, 08:37	#27
Rince SLUTS!!!!!!!	ninite review with alternatives: http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/s...are-installer/ sounds like AllMyApps might be better __________________ Slow internet is worse than no internet. It's like putting your penis in once and then being required to make out for 2 hours --Matt "The Oatmeal" Inman

27th September 2010, 08:45	#29
Rince SLUTS!!!!!!!	From a discussion on trying to copy 60m files: RichCopy __________________ Slow internet is worse than no internet. It's like putting your penis in once and then being required to make out for 2 hours --Matt "The Oatmeal" Inman

4th November 2010, 14:06	#38
Trigger Laserman	http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...list-world.htm most comprehensive list of free security tools / firewall / network / useful applications / computer fixing / backup / encryption / everything __________________ Are you slow? The alleged lie that you might have heard, me saying, allagedly moments ago... That's a parasite that lives in my neck.

11th August 2010, 02:37	#2
Charismo'	I'll have a stab at adding to this those that I have been using a lot: Backup: Cobian Backup (opensource) IMO a brilliant, simple, free backup utility. http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Sound/Music: Airfoil makes sending music or anything else around your network easy, allows you to pick the sound from any given application and send it to any remote pc or mac CPU Overclocking/performance testing Realtemp - self explanatory Prime95 - stress testing Fraps - frames per second monitoring, screenshots, recording, benchmarking in games Photo management Adobe Lightroom 3 (Mac/PC) Apple Aperture (Mac) Cloning drives Clonezilla - free linux based ISO, makes cloning drives/partitions quite easy

12th August 2010, 00:01	#3
Beccara	No wireshark yet? Its a must if your fault finding network issues local or remote

12th August 2010, 00:17	#4
Charismo'	what we need is a wiki really.

12th August 2010, 03:35	#5
Heyzoos Robosexual	My Top 5 (today) PuTTy WinSCP netcat kismet ossec-hids (not really a tool as such, but I sure do use it a lot)

12th August 2010, 12:10	#7
Acido	nmap putty malwarebytes zulupad ultravnc pstools

12th August 2010, 12:50	#8
Markh	Xplorer2 Lite (tons better than Windows Explorer) IrfanView (small and quick picture viewer/converter/resizer with batch processing ability) CutePDF (free PDF printer) Process Explorer (see what's running) Synctoy (great for syncing tools/apps on your USB drive with a folder on your HDD) Cobian Backup (good freeware backup software) Everest (formerly Aida32, great system information program - good for IDing the RAM or M/board or whatever without having to open the case) VMware Player (you can create a VMware machine with VMware Workstation and then install the free VMware Player on the custmers PC to run that machine) __________________ 'noone' is NOT a word! Try 'no one' instead.

16th August 2010, 09:50	#11
SID\|DensitY	Fantastic thread. I just have a couple here to list. as a lot of useful tools I use have been listed or are commercial/enterprise level. TightVNC Diskimage A few here I've never heard of (clonezilla for one. which I'll try out when I upgrade my laptop's HD tomorrow), be neat if this turns into a huge list of free/open source tools that work on as well as some commercial products.

16th August 2010, 19:24	#12
wugambino Electric Boogaloo	http://ninite.com/ - huge time saver

17th August 2010, 17:14	#13
Charismo'	whoa... ninite being one of the best new ones for me in this thread, nice!

17th August 2010, 17:20	#14
crocos	I use this every day: Notepad++ Simple. Fast. Easy. Free. Damn good. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية Last edited by crocos : 17th August 2010 at 17:22.

17th August 2010, 17:38	#15
crocos	Also - For you command-line warriors that know & like the Posix tools available in *nix but are forced to work in Windows: UnixUtils. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

17th August 2010, 20:20	#17
Charismo'	I think we should get this thread stickied..

4th September 2010, 01:38	#20
Charismo'	guess we aren't getting any luck getting this sticky'ed?

17th September 2010, 13:23	#28
Lightspeed	Handbrake is the ultimate for video encoding. Super is awesome for transcoding, stripping/adding audio layers, subtitles, etc. Despite its awful website. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

27th September 2010, 10:42	#31
Cyberbob	Getting tape drives to be recognized by Hyper-V virtual machines. KernSafe iStorage Server __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

1st October 2010, 21:13	#34
[BT]Monza	Hiren's bootcd on usb stick

12th October 2010, 13:25	#36
Claymore	Does anyone have some links to good server auditing/documentation software similar to what AIDA64 spits out?

18th October 2010, 19:07	#37
Rocket	Super - video encoder - easiest i have found so far. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html __________________ Later Boltz!

11th February 2011, 12:19	#39
MadMax Stuff	does anyone remember a certain network program that had a bunch of buttons for various tools across the top including tracert/ping graphs and the like, along with lookups and the likes? each tool would open in a new subwindow. quite a few years old now __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.