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281 of the best system administration tools

tlbox.com — Links sorted by popularity. Tools for: database, email, hard disk, internet, linux, macintosh, network, scripts, virus, and windows.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jun 11, 2007

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  • taylorhayward, on 10/11/2007, -2/+53I spent a lot of time rounding these up. I hope you find them useful. Enjoy!
  • Paperclip1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35Dugg for not being Top 5/7/10/101.
  • mattvogt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Because the 282nd wasn't that great?
  • wootah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Dang, I was really looking forward to this too!

    dugg for potential sweetness :)

    Edit: It better be sweet... or else...
  • ijustam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Because then the jokes regarding SPARTAAAA would become out of hand.
  • plhearn, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15Should have also spent some time preparing for the digg effect. Your site is giving a 504 gateway timeout error at the moment.
  • ernieoporto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Yeah, so what you're looking for is not more RAM, but redirecting to coral cache with the following in your .htaccess since only a web farm (at least more than one machine) or CDN can withstand the Digg effect.

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^Googlebot
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+.)?digg.com
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.tlbox.com.nyud.net:8080$1 [R,L]
  • edesignweb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9thanks! this is great!
  • josegutz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Note to self: Need Admin tool for re-routing mass Digg Visitors to alternate server locations when limit has been exceeded...
  • jonstafari, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7ummmm I just want to make my life easier at work.

    I use numerous tools already, but I'm all for seeing new features and better ways of doing things. and yeah, i've spent time properly setting my network and systems up, however, there's always the need to improve and enhance things. if there's something on this list that i dont use, or have tried; something that will make my job easier, believe me, I'll read it!
  • taylorhayward, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Just added 1gig to the server. Hopefully that will help. :-)
  • Darkhavans, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Thanks! That's a great site, it's easy to find things. We'll just have to see if it can handle the digg effect >:)
  • Mhykol, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Very nice resource!
    You have earned yourself a place in my bookmarks :)
  • jimmiejo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Coral and DotCache have a copy of the list, minus the rest of the site:

    http://www.duggback.com/mods/281_of_the_best_system_administration_tools/

    Be patient, it'll load.
  • LanEvo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4the best configuration tool:

    vi
  • ConceptJunkie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@donkz

    Nah, how about "281 of the MOST AMAZING AND ADDICTING sys admin tools!"

  • ho0ber, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Slow, but there: http://www.tlbox.com.nyud.net:8080/system_administrators/
  • TheBlindGuy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The comment spam was less impressive.
  • zulhadm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5digg effect already in full swing, I can't open the page :(
  • Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3281? Is that all of them? All you need is grep, awk, sed, find, du, and emacs.
  • jerrygofixit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2FixMyXP that lists all the 'run' commands is awesome, another neat thing to point out is if you create a shortcut in C:windowssystem32, it's available via Run (like I made a firefox shortcut in system32 called 'ff', so I can just Windows Key + R > ff to open firefox!)
  • taylorhayward, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yes. :-)
    http://taylorhayward.org
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Emacs? Vi[m] FTW!
  • tony4moroney, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2taylorhayward. arent you a pianist? i remember stumbling across your website before.
  • donkz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Should have named this "TOP 281 most stunning admin apps you'll see in this whole day"
  • hmmdar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Damn good idea!
  • ijustam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Zabbix > Nagios
  • bunnytrigger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1added you to my bookmarks as well.
  • xoon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I saw it for a brief moment! Looks great -- will check back after the D-Effect.
  • faskill, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Unable to select database

    :(
  • Vanderdecken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Whoops - duggback works if you use the dotcache link. http://www.duggback.com/mods/281_of_the_best_system_administration_tools/
  • omgsoemo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2This is a lot like the Leo effect
  • mikerb73, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1ha - I hope one of his tools is squid proxy cache.. this website is toast.
  • wootah, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1wow this site is just being hammered eh?
  • vonskippy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Site down - it doesn't matter.

    Unless you're a complete noob, or worse, a paper MCSE - all of these are obvious, old, or not worthy of the label "admin tool".
  • slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Cool!
  • ltgcrash, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1The clean interface makes it easy to find the right software tool for the job without having to sort through a bunch of junk. And the new Firefox extension makes it even easier to relocate them - much handier than using conventional bookmarks.
  • Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3@wootah (#7127727)

    ... or else ... I'LL UNDIGG IT!!1!111
  • DatuPuti, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1ouch. timeout still :-(
  • Vanderdecken, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0I've tried all the links given so far, and http://www.coralcdn.org/ Coral, but they're all hammered into oblivion. Prepare more for the Slashdot effect (original name). Until then, Dugg for good faith and trying to help all those admins out there. Maybe everyone should undigg it so that it becomes less popular and the load on your servers go down?
  • CMuffa, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0Does this article cover a tool that prevents posted links from going down when you try to view them. wtf!?

    Not yet dugg, because this could really be a link to a terrist site....IDK!
  • craftyguy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2"Unable to select database"
  • RodgerE1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0Unable to select database
  • OBKenobi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1The blogspam was most impressive.
  • rasensio, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1crappy server, no dugg
  • HogHunter, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Suffering from the digg affect. Even after just a few minutes on the front page. :-(
  • peeonks, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Why not make it an even 300? I guess that's just too many to deal with.
  • tmar89, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2These pages are always going to be popular because everyone wants to know how to be the perfect sys admin yet no one ever really wants to spend the time to do what's needed.
  • meshman, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2"Unable to select database"

    Oh yeah, real useful. How ironic.
  • echolalia, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2WINDOWS/system32/avoiddiggeffect.exe

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