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Want to Keep a Close Eye on XP? Then Download the Microsoft XP Management Pack

Written by IT News on 9:09 AM

But it is a veritable management pack fiesta over at Microsoft
By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor | softpedia.com

Do you want to keep a close eye on Windows XP? Then download the Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP Operating System Management Pack. According to the Redmond company, the pack designed to be deployed on Windows Server 2003 will offer users the possibility to enjoy an extensive collection of monitoring capabilities assessing processor performance, Logical and Physical Disk performance and free space, memory and network usage. The tools will also provide an insight on the health of key Windows Operating System Services and
will produce availability and event reports.

"The Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP Operating System Management Pack provides monitoring of the basic health indicators of a Windows Client system, such as processor, memory, disk health, availability, and key performance metrics. Optional alerting on threshold monitoring is available," Microsoft informed. The management pack is available for download here.

But it is a veritable management packs fiesta over at Microsoft. The Redmond company has made available for download an impressive list of tools, also covering Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2003), Windows Server 2000/2003 Terminal Services, Information Worker, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows Server 2000/2003 Internet Information Services and Exchange Server 2003.

In terms of the Windows client the Information, Worker Management Pack will enable you to watch closely the health, reliability, and performance of various applications including Internet Explorer, Media Player, MSN and Windows Messenger, Windows Explorer, Communicator, LiveMeeting, as well as a wide variety of Office programs. Monitoring is available for early versions of the applications such as IE5 as well as for the latest variants including Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft explained that the Information Worker Management Pack also offers: "generic monitoring capabilities that work for all listed applications, and specific monitoring capabilities for individual applications. Generic monitoring: Crash detection, Hand detection, CPU utilization, Memory utilization. Individual application monitoring: Outlook mail access, Web access and Data source."

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Free awesome 2.0 / 2.1 RC1

Written by IT News on 9:33 AM

Awesome is a tiling window manager initialy based on a dwm code rewriting. awesome is extremely fast, small, dynamic and awesome.

Windows can be managed in several layouts: tiled and floating. Each layout can be applied on the fly, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

Managing windows in tiled mode assures that no space will be waste on your screen. No gaps, no overlap.

Tiled layout
With tiled layout, windows are managed in a master and a stacking area. The master area contains the windows which currently need most attention, whereas the stacking area contains all other windows. The master area can be splited in several rows and column, as you want.

Floating layout
In floating layout, windows can be resized and moved freely, just like a usual window manager. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the layout selected.

Tags
Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with those tags. Each tag can have its own layout.
Tags can be compared to virtual desktops, but it's more powerful: you can quickly merge and show several tags at the same time, and go back to only one tag after.

Status bar
awesome contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the layout, the title of the focused window, and text read from standard input. The selected tags are highlighted with a different color, while the tags of the focused window are highlighted with a small point. awesome draws a small border around windows to indicate their focus state.

Every aspect of awesome is configurable via a configuration file: awesomerc.

Here are some key features:
· Very stable.
· No mouse needed.
· Multihead support (Xinerama or Zaphod mode).
· Some real transparency support (using Composite extension and xcompmgr for now).
· Some XRandR support.
· No Lua integration, no 9P support, no editable tagbars, no remote control, and comes without any additional tools.
· Only a single binary.
· No limit on its source size, awesome have features we want.
· Doesn't distinguish between layers: there is no floating or tiled layer. Whether or not the clients of currently selected tag(s) are in tiled layout, you can rearrange them on the fly. Popup and fixed-size windows are always floating, however.
· Customized through editing a configuration file, which makes it extremely easy to configure. You don't have to learn Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X resource files), or recompile source code each time you do something:, just edit the configuration file, for god's sake.
· Reads from the standard input to print arbitrary status text (like the date, load, battery charge).

What's New in 2.1 RC1 Development Release:
· This version includes bugfixes, new widgets that are supported for the statusbar, and better EWMH support.

Developer: Julien Danjou
License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
Price: FREE
Last Updated: December 12th, 2007 20:19
Download awesome 2.0 / 2.1 RC1