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S.M.A.R.T. Linux is a bootable floppy distribution containing tool (smartmontools) for monitoring IDE/SCSI hard disks (using Self-Monitoring, Reporting and Analysis Technology). Why floppy? Probably because all other distributions containing this useful utility are CD versions [and not...

flashrom is a utility for identifying, writing, reading, verifying and erasing flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images. IMPORTANT: If something went wrong during flashing, do NOT turn off/reboot your computer. Instead, let us help you recover. We can be contacted...

Visopsys is an alternative operating system for PC compatible computers. Under development since late 1997, this system is small, fast, and open source. Visopsys features a simple but attractive interface, real preemptive multitasking, and virtual memory. Though it attempts to be compatible in...


Platforms: *nix

Detect and display hard disk drive and SSD health and temperature information without starting the installed operating system. The software can be started from a suitable bootable floppy, CD, pendrive, memory card or USB hard disk to diagnose IDE/SATA hard disks and SSD devices in the system...


Platforms: MS-DOS, Other

CreateCD utility is designed as a command-line-based alternative to the GUI-based CD-Recording process in Windows XP and Windows 2003. It has several benefits: 1. Allows for unattended operations from batch files. A non-zero exit code is returned on failure 2. Supports erasing CD before...


Platforms: Windows

S.M.A.R.T. Linux is a bootable floppy distribution containing tool (smartmontools) for monitoring IDE/SCSI hard disks (using Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). Why floppy? Probably because all other distributions containing this useful utility are CD versions [and not everybody...


Platforms: *nix

Briefcase Plus is a utility for backing up and synchronizing collections of files on two different computers, just like the Windows Briefcase. But in comparison to the Windows Briefcase, Briefcase Plus has the following advantages: only modified files are ported to the briefcase. The briefcase...


Platforms: Windows

RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run off of a 128 MB USB pen drive. RUNT Linux project consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to zipslack. It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on...


Platforms: *nix

NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use...


Platforms: All

Free flash speed reading training. Speed reading is not only flash words. Speed reading is some thing more. The main idea of speed reading is to start reading faster.


Platforms: Windows, Mac

Laptop-Hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping for disk drives with full DMA support under Linux. It requires kernel 2.6.15+ and ACPI. I think it ought to work on just about any laptop, although Im not as familiar with ACPI as Id like to be. It works fine on my T22. There could be issues...


Platforms: *nix

LAlarm is a free laptop alarm. LAlarm emits a loud alarm sound when a thief tries to steal a laptop and it destroys sensitive data if the laptop is stolen. It also sounds an alarm when a laptop is outside a predefined safe perimeter or left unattended in an unsafe place. Furthermore, it alarms...


Platforms: Windows

Score Reading Trainer helps you improve your (musical) score reading skills by practicing with random scores. It works in a very simple way, you choose the clef, the key and the accidentals you want to practice as well as thee range of notes and then, the program generates a on-screen score...


Platforms: *nix

Compaq Laptop to Hotspot Converter converts your Compaq laptop to a wireless hotspot. By this software, your Compaq laptop (Windows platform) is turned into a Wi-Fi hotspot so that you can share the Internet with your second laptop, friends or mobile devices. Of course you do not want to...


Platforms: Windows

Every time a Windows system is installed in a laptop the same changes should be done (specially useful for laptops) to try to keep the system a bit more secure. Lapsec is not designed to fully harden a system. It tries to add another layer more over the continius hardering task. For example, as...


Platforms: Windows, 2003, Windows Vista, XPX64, 7, 7x64

Laptop configuration software is finest tool to retrieve complete information about the system. User not only can gather information about his own computer but also be able to retrieve the information of others system. PC analyzer software has developed to generate report of operating system,...


Platforms: Windows

Floppy Madness is a small program that will try and access the floppy drive at user specified intervals. If this does not seem fun, just download it and see. By default it will launch hidden and access the A: drive every minute. But users can access the setup information where they can change the...


Platforms: Windows

Flobo Floppy Bad Sector Repair This is a Free Floppy disk repair tool. The program eliminates bad sectors of Floppy disk surface. It does not hide bad sectors in the file system, as Scandisk like utilities,it really restores them. Most damaged disk have incorrectly magnetized disk surface. There...


Platforms: Windows

Damn Small Linux Not is built on Damn Small Linux technology. Damn Small Linux Not is also small, bigger than DSL but smaller than most. Damn Small Linux Not provides a reliable, and compact array of applications based mostly on the GTK2 libraries. DSL-N is not an evolution of DSL, it is not...


Platforms: *nix

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest...


Platforms: *nix