Julian Knight's List: IT

"Free" UNIX Shell accounts (actually requires a PayPal donation but $1 is the minimum so it is not much!).
Provides SSH access on multiple ports including 80 and 443 & allows port forwarding.

silenceisdefeat.org/ - Preview

security linux hosting on 2008-11-03 and saved by 40 people

Very handy, short, guide to setting up Cygwin with some sensible advice on tweaks. Cygwin is a comprehensive UNIX style command environment for Windows, it comes with many UNIX utilities. ** NOTE: Remember though to check your Windows PATH and sort out the crud otherwise Cygwin can be mighty slow **

www.jamiedigi.com/...getting-started-with-cygwin - Preview

windows reference software on 2009-07-15

Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, anywhere. Use SharedView to put your heads together and collaborate - create, convey, and communicate…across physical boundaries, through firewalls, and down to the smallest details.

www.connect.microsoft.com/...content.aspx - Preview

windows collaboration software freeware on 2009-08-03 and saved by 16 people

Excellent Adobe PDF document viewer with loads of features including commenting. Portable version also available. Free for private AND commercial use. Quick and well designed.

www.docu-track.com/...pdfx_viewer - Preview

software windows portable on 2009-09-24 and saved by 99 people

# Software inventory, network inventory, PC inventory. Inventory every IT thing you manage.
# Network monitoring, Exchange monitoring, license monitoring and more. Stay alert!
# Asset reporting, inventory reporting... share a report. Report to your heart's content!
# Helpdesk & IT Portal. Let 'em submit a ticket! Now you can track every IT task and project.

www.spiceworks.com - Preview

software network management freeware on 2009-03-06 and saved by 153 people

Excellent write-up of some of the key principals to bear in mind when working on Identity Management (IdM) projects.

www.identigral.com/...tity-management-is-a-lifestyle - Preview

IdM on 2009-10-02

Outlook-like email & calendaring client

www.emclient.com - Preview

windows software freeware on 2009-10-09 and saved by 25 people

Publishes a standard for workflow - NHS CFH require systems with workflow to adhere to this pending an eGIF workflow standard

www.wfmc.org - Preview

work workflow on 2009-10-26 and saved by 30 people

Organisation promoting standards for healthcare systems integration

www.ihe.net/ - Preview

work healthcare on 2009-10-26 and saved by 7 people

Interesting data agregator server similar to Yahoo! Pipes but runs on IBM Websphere. Pull data from various sources including Excel spreadsheets and republish as RSS feeds & create web UIs.

www-01.ibm.com/...mashup-center - Preview

web development payware software windows linux on 2009-11-20 and saved by 7 people

A method for calculating approximate effort in software engineering based on function point analysis.

www.google.com/search - Preview

development reference on 2009-11-20

A partition and disk cloning tools (similar to Ghost but free). Works with MANY file systems.

clonezilla.org/left.php - Preview

freeware software windows linux macintosh backup on 2009-11-22 and saved by 2 people

A possibly interesting application that enables easier access to external data. Create dashboards.

www.protosw.com/ - Preview

development database on 2009-11-25 and saved by 27 people

Talks about the need for log-based user activity monitoring (rather than just network traffic monitoring). A useful reminder that RBAC systems need monitoring and enforcing.

www.cloud-compliance.com/...User-Activity-Monitoring - Preview

IdM on 2009-12-04