Handy Tool

The fact that there are 'hidden windows' is enough to make me paranoid. The fact that a windows-crash can hide all of you windows is pretty annoying too. For just these reasons, you need unhider.

It lists hidden windows and allows you to unhide them.

Planet Spoon

My Planet Feed Aggregator is done!!!



See the how-to here.

Finally Fixed the Disappearing USB Hard Drive

Under openSuSE 10.3 on the new server, the following fix appears to address my disappearing USB hard drive:

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=61388

Simple Monitoring

Sometimes you just need a simple monitor to verify when machines and protocols go down. Enter nefu from University of Michigan. It is a simple compiled program that generates syslog and html reports from simple pings and port tests. You can point it at a bunch of nodes on the network and give it dependencies and it magically keeps track of everything.

I like it because it gives me a report that allows me in a matter of seconds to diagnose a number of potential problems.