Often one needs to create PDF of their reports OR image file.
I prefer openoffice for all kind of pdf generation.
For webpages you have firefox plugins
But when your windows users demands to make pdf of their backoffice application
Image printer could be the best fit.
You can download freeware imagepriner
After installation you’ll find below image on your desktop.
This is for the configuration, this lets you select file store location & file type.
Since a year I have been installing Linux using USB. So far never felt like creating image for later use as usb creation using Unetbootin & Fedora LiveUsb creator is very easy and hardly takes time. My colleague is been using Komku-SP-usb.exe for WinXP installation. Creating XP USB installer takes time & requires intervention, one might feel to keep image ready for later use.
This is where USB image tool works, it takes backup of entire usb disk which can be restored. The only downside is it creates image for the size of usb drive, meaning if you are using 4Gb drive and have utilized only 1Gb, this tool will create image of 4Gb. Which is fine, we can use smaller drives while creating images.
Note: I have not tested restoring same image on diff make / size usb, but it should work.
Prerequisites .net
Start Backup
Start restore
Linux Administrator prefer to use SSH / SCP for shell / file transfer use.
Many of us works in mix Linux – Windows environment and might want to use SSH / SFTP for Windows to get better security.
http://www.freesshd.com/ provides free SSH & FTP server for Windows. This can also be used as Telnet / FTP server.
I configured both on Windows XP, bellow are few images if you want to try.
After installing freeSSHD all I had to do is creation of user to get ssh working.
Following images are for freeFTPD.
If you try ssh to freeFTPD you’ll get following warning.
You will get sftp using both freeFTPd & freeSSHd.
If you wish to implement sftp, freeFTPd is better as it will block shell access.
I am handling corporate mail server, often sales team sends mails to all clients for new products.
We are using Qmail based mailing list.
For our business it is mandatory to register email addresses using client registration form.
In manual email id registration many a times entered email ids are invalid.
Although mailing list takes care of invalid email ids. I was looking for better alternative for my Back-office team to verify email ids rather sending mails on individual ids.
From one of my friends blog I found about Expert Email Validator.
This tool can be used to validate max 500 email ids at once.
Download Email Validator
One of my user needs to create a password protected folder in its pen drive. This is very simple but one more special requirement he asked for, if he insert that pen drive in any another pc he can able to see that folder over there without any software installation. This is quite tricky requirement. I found a tool for it i.e. Rohos Mini Drive. It’s a freeware with some limitations.
Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program. Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool.
Download the program from here. Install it and run it.
After installation the Rohos Mini Drive, insert your USB pen drive to the computer and run the Rohos Mini Drive application. Click on Setup USB Key
Insert a password.
It will create a partition namely K: with 297mb space. You can customize the partition size by clicking Change button.
Just you have to add file in this newly created partition, when you done just eject that partion as well as the pen drive.
For testing purpose you can insert this pen drive to any another PC. There it will show you one roho_mini_pendrive icon. Double click it and insert your password that’s it now you can access your password protected partition on that computer.
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