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Amazing App With System Inventory Lite

Jason Bean — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:31:20 +0000

I found an amazing little application today as I was working on a client PC. I was looking for something like Belarc Advisor, that Milo just reviewed and I regularly use on PC’s. The problem was I wanted something that didn’t need an installation, but that could just run off of a thumb drive hopefully. I FOUND IT!

As you can see from the image above, you just click the type of information you want inventoried and click “Go”. The great part is that it builds the report into Excel so you can easily work with the data in a format you’re probably familiar with already for data collection.

The application is a single HTML Application (.hta) file that’s only 99KB in size. It runs from a USB drive and works on machines you don’t even have to have admin access rights too. Which was another requirement I had in my search.

System Inventory Lite worked absolutely perfectly for my needs. Don’t get dismayed by the “Lite” portion of the name either. It merely refers to the fact that you can get as much or as little information as you want in your system inventory.

As you can also see, if you have a network of machines and you can access the machines, you can tell the application to grab an inventory off of those networked machines as well.

What an amazing little application in a 99KB package. I couldn’t have asked for much more than this.

Image: Screen grab of Excel spreadsheet and System Inventory Lite interface

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Amazing App With System Inventory Lite

Memory Chip Prices are Going Up

Milo Riano — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:19:51 +0000

The hurting economy continues and according to Simon Chen, chairman of A-Data Technology, DRAM prices are going up in the third quarter of this year. While some optimists feel that the prices are going back to cost levels, tough times ahead are going to see these prices go up.

The news came out during the Computex Taipei trade show where A-Data showcase their memory products, overclocked DDR3, and SSD kits. Simon says that full recovery is going to happen later on 2010.

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Memory Chip Prices are Going Up

This is not the way to save your passwords

Jesse — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:56:43 +0000

Look, I know 15 character, multi-symboled, including 3 numbers and 4 capital letter passwords are no picnic or walk in the park and should probably be outlawed but this is no way to store them. There are plenty of password managers out there like KeePass, Billeo, and PassPack (now known as Passpack) — so please use them instead of this.

Check out the blog post at SECURE-ID’s blog below.

Image Courtesy Of: http://securid.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/new-way-to-store-passwords/

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This is not the way to save your passwords