Category Archives: Tech Zone
Top 10 Free System Troubleshooting Tools for SysAdmins
To conclude our SysAdmin Week series, we thought of sharing 10 of the best free tools / packages for troubleshooting system issues – one of the biggest headaches for sys admins! These tools should help you, as an admin, to …
26 Ways to Say ‘Happy SysAdmin Day!’
Around the world and across the Internet, July 26 is known as SysAdmin Day. For 14 years, the last Friday in July has been set aside as a way for users to show a little appreciation for the SysAdmins that …
The Top 20 Free File Management Tools for Sys Admins
Following yesterday’s post, we have compiled another list of free tools for sys admins. Today’s list presents 20 of the best free tools for file comparison, archiving, encryption, renaming, de-duplication, merging, copying, syncing and search. Even if you may have …
The Top 20 Free Network Monitoring and Analysis Tools for Sys Admins
We know how administrators love free tools that make their life easier and, to supplement the list provided on 101 Free Admin Tools, here are 20 of the best free tools for monitoring devices, services, ports or protocols and analysing …
SysAdmin Day: We’re Taking it to Another Level!
In case it wasn’t clear enough last year, we love sys admins and SysAdmin Day is very important to us. So we decided to turn SysAdmin Day into SysAdmin Week – because one day is really not enough! Throughout this week, …
Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit
A Rescue Disc can be a life saver for a Sys Admin. Packed with various diagnostic and repair tools they can do things like fix a Master Boot Record (MBR), recover a password, detect and clean a rootkit or simply …
How to Avoid Becoming the Villain (Part 2)
Life is full of surprises. I recently wrote an article titled How to Avoid Becoming the Villain on why it is so important to configure your servers correctly so that people cannot exploit them for illegal purposes. A few days …
Education is Your Only Defence against Shoulder Surfing
All the technology products in the world will never protect you against shoulder surfing. Shoulder surfing occurs when someone overhears or sees another person entering their credentials into a system and learns what they are. It has happened to most …
Top 20 Free Disk Tools for SysAdmins
Here are 20 of the best free tools for partitioning, cloning, diagnostics, repair, recovery, encryption, wiping or drive information. This list is intended to supplement the list provided on 101 Free SysAdmin Tools. Even if you may have heard of some …
The Hidden Security Threat
Although not all stories in the tech press are directly related to security, they often highlight issues that can be excellent educational material. A recent story in The Register about a researcher who wanted to map the Internet caught my …









