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Disk2vhd: Virtualize Existing Systems

Rebuilding a working system from scratch can be time consuming, because of that its a good idea to use P2V or Physical to Virtual tools that automate the process for you. One of them is Disk2vhd by Sysinternals created to ease the transition process from baremetal to virtual with a...
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RAMMap Memory Analysis Utility

Sysinternals has made another great tool available, RAMMap which is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows. In simple terms you get more information about how the memory is being used in the system. Use RAMMap to gain understanding of the way Windows manages memory, to analyze application memory...
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3TB Hard Drives Are On The Way

Seagate announced the availability of consumer grade hard drives in the 3TB range. While the increase in density was expected (normal of the storage industry), I can't help but feel a disturbance in the force. Users and clueless IT technicians are bound to consolidate data that used to be...
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UDP Flood Script

There are some situations when network and system administrator(s) may need to UDP flood network devices with the purpose of testing them under stress. The preferred method I use is by means of a Perl script created by Ivan Pepelnjak from ioshints.info. The script is highly configurable allowing the user to...
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