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Top 5 Email Client For Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Users

Posted on in Categories Business, Download of the day, GNU/Open source, Linux desktop, Linux laptop, OS X, Reviews, Security, Windows, windows vista last updated August 8, 2009

Linux comes with various GUI based email client to stay in touch with your friends and family, and share information in newsgroups with other users. The following software is similar to Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail and is used by both home and office user.

Webmail interfaces allow users to access their mail with any standard web browser, from any computer, rather than relying on an e-mail client. However, e-mail client remains extremely popular in a large corporate environment, small business, home and power users. An e-mail client (also mail user agent (MUA)) is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail. Mail can be stored on the client, on the server side, or in both places. Standard formats for mailboxes include Maildir and mbox.

The following are top five amazing piece of cross-platform software from various projects to make your life easy with wide variety of plug-ins / add-ons.

6 Tools To Find Out Website Load Speed

Posted on in Categories Apache, Beyond nixCraft, Business, Hardware, High performance computing, Howto, Linux, Linux desktop, Sys admin, Troubleshooting, UNIX, Windows, windows vista last updated July 15, 2009

Research shows that if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales. As a UNIX admin often end users and web developers complain about website loading speed and timings. Usually, there is nothing wrong with my servers or server farm. Fancy java script and images / flash makes site pretty slow. These tools are useful to debug performance problems for sys admins, developers and end users. Here are six tools that can analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. Use the following tools to:

  • Make your site faster.
  • Debug site problem, especially client side and server side stuff.
  • Better user experience.
  • Improve the web.

Poll: Common Causes Of Downtime In Your Data Center

Posted on in Categories Business, data center, Hardware, High performance computing, Linux, Poll, Storage, UNIX last updated May 27, 2009

Unplanned downtime may be the result of a software bug, human error, equipment failure, power failure, and much more. Last week was a bad one. We faced three different downtime:

  • First, there was a fiber cut for one of our data center resulting into routing anomalies due BGP reroute. Traffic was rerouted but updating those BGP tables took some time to update.
  • Someone from networking team failed to follow proper maintenance procedures for network device resulted into 55 minutes downtime.
  • One of our SAN hardware failure – Many internal UNIX / Linux web applications use SAN to store data including file server, tracking apps, R&D apps, IT help desk, LAN and WAN servers failed. This one lasted for 12 hrs. It was stared around midnight. The vendor replaced entire SAN hardware. Now we have dual stacked SAN as a backup device for internal usage.

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Seagate Barracuda: 1.5TB Hard Drive Launched

Posted on in Categories Business, data center, Data recovery, File system, Hardware, Linux, Linux desktop, Storage, Sys admin, UNIX last updated October 21, 2008

Wow, this is a large size desktop hard disk for storing movies, tv shows, music / mp3s, and photos. You can also load multiple operating systems using vmware or other software for testing purpose. This hard disk comes with 5 year warranty and can transfer at 300MB/s. But, How reliable is the 1.5TB hard disk?

Should You Buy An Extended Warranty For Computer?

Posted on in Categories Business, Hardware, Linux, Sys admin, Tips, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX, Windows, windows vista last updated August 7, 2008

Most computer manufacturer try to sell you extended warranty or a service contract. These warranty covers two years past the manufacturer’s one year warranty. Most sales employees or OEM (manufacturers) make so much commission from selling extended warranties. This is nothing but rip-offs, IMHO.