Category Archives: Software

Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can use Let’s Encrypt to obtain a trusted certificate at zero cost. Automatic: Software running on…  Read More 

OPNsense Firewall

OPNsense is an open source firewall distribution based on FreeBSD. Typical deployments are stateful perimeter firewalls, routers, wireless access points, DHCP and DNS servers, VPN endpoints, and UTM-machines. The OPNsense project is a fork of PFSense Firewall. The OPNsense distribution can be downloaded for free and installed on computer hard disks, SSDs, Compact Flash cards…  Read More 

SpinRite Data Recovery Software

SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces. The first version was released in 1988. Version 6.0, still current as of March 2015, was released in 2004. SpinRite is run from a bootable medium (floppy disc, optical disc, bootable…  Read More 

Sysdig Troubleshooting Tool

Sysdig to give admins and developers unprecedented visibility into the behavior of their systems. Traditionally, system-level monitoring and troubleshooting still largely involve logging into the machine with SSH and using a plethora of dated tools with very inconsistent interfaces. And since most tools don’t offer any kind of history, you’re left struggling to reproduce the…  Read More 

Gluster Distributed File System

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space…  Read More