Difference between revisions of "Utilities"

Latest revision as of 17:32, 22 April 2016

Links to useful troubleshooting tools.

[edit] Status

• Time server status [1]
• Office365 [2]
• Cyren [3]
• Down For Everyone [4]

[edit] Online Utilities

[edit] Byte Conversion

• ByteConverter [5]

[edit] Time

• Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools [6]
• World Clock Meeting Planner [7]
• NIST Internet Time Servers [8]
• Date ± Days Calculator / Date ± Business Days Calculator [9]
• Time Difference Calculator [10]

[edit] UTF-8

• UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters [11]
• Unicode Blocks [12]

[edit] Troubleshooting Utilities

[edit] Ninite

• Ninite [13] Let's you download a bunch of useful tools all at once.

[edit] Browsers

• Chrome [14]
• Firefox [15]

[edit] FTP

• WinSCP [16]

[edit] Telnet

• KiTTY [17]
• PuTTY [18]
• MTPuTTY Multi tabbed PuTTY [19]

[edit] LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [20] make sure to choose LDAPBrowser not LDAPAdministrator.
• EWSEditor [21] is a powerful and more dangerous tool that LDAP Browser since it can change entries.

[edit] Text Editors

• NotePad++ [22] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [23] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [24] free, can open really large log files
• EditPad Lite [25] free, big files
• VIM for Windows [26] free.
• PilotEdit Lite [27]
• 010 Editor [28]
• slickedit [29]
• Log Expert [30] also tails.

[edit] Log Tailing

• baretail [31] for tailing a log while it is running

[edit] Office suite

• LibreOffice [32] good for editing csv files.

[edit] Database

• Toad for MySQL [33]

[edit] Microsoft

• BGInfo [34] puts server info on desktop.
• RAMMap [35] shows how windows is assigning physical RAM.

[edit] Disk

• WinDirStat [36] Windows directory size statistics. This can return data on the archive folder, but it will take significant time, about 8 hours for 2.4M files in 2.3M sub-directories.

[edit] Compression

• 7zip [37] more efficient then windows zip.

[edit] Remote Desktop

• RealVNC [38] to connect to Linux boxes remotely. Remember to enable Remote in YaST and add IPAddr:5901 when trying to get in.

[edit] PDF

• Adobe Reader [39]
• CutePDFWriter [40] has a PDF printer which is good for testing.