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KontrolPack: Control Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X simultaneously
June 30, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
KontrolPack is a cross-platform network controller. KontrolPack provides a large list of network related features such as : remote shell command execution, file transfer, network overview, etc… The objective of this project is to improve system interoperability by connecting remote computers, regardless of their operating system, and remotely executing shell commands over the network. You can manage your computers and execute the same shell commands on them regardless of the operating system. On top of this, it provides an easy interface that can be used to view your LAN activity and manage your network without difficulties. Users who are using this software on any supported operating system will be able to perform administrative tasks remotely on multiple computers that run on different operating systems without any technical issues. For example, from a machine running a GNU/Linux distribution you can send an order to a hundred computers running MS Windows telling them to restart or to defrag their root partition. You can also retrieve IP addresses and routing tables from a variety of computers in order to help manage a network. Sometimes single commands are not enough, and it is possible to execute batch files and scripts simultaneously throughout the network.
Interesting Article: http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/1040-manage-hundreds-of-machines-from-a-single-interface-the-easy-way-with-kontrolpack
Website: http://www.kontrolpack.com/index.php
iTALC: Intelligent Teaching And Learning with Computers
April 24, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!
In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you’re free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC’s license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!
iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such assee what’s going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshotsremote-control computers to support and help other peopleshow a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) – the teacher’s screen is shown on all student’s computers in realtimelock workstations for moving undivided attention to teachersend text-messages to studentspowering on/off and rebooting computers per remoteremote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scriptshome-schooling – iTALC’s network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC clientFurthermore iTALC is optimized for usage on multi-core systems (by making heavy use of threads). No matter how many cores you have, iTALC can make use of all of them.
Interesting Arcticle: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/300663-view-control-instruct-with-italc
Website: http://italc.sourceforge.net
TightVNC: Remote control software
February 7, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. TightVNC is:
* free for both personal and commercial usage, with full source code available (GPL-licensed);
* useful in remote administration, remote customer support, education, and for many other purposes;
* cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Website: http://www.tightvnc.com/
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