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September 2008
Nimbus
by camel
Nimbus provides a free, open source infrastructure for remote deployment and management of virtual machines, allowing you to:
* Create compute clouds (make your own EC2 style service). For examples, see the science clouds page.
* Deploy "one-click" auto-configuring virtual clusters (see the cloud clusters page). They adapt on the fly into new network and security contexts so you can set them up once and run them over and over again, even across different clouds.
* Serve clients that are compatible with the Amazon EC2 service, see What is the EC2 frontend?
* Integrate VMs on a set of resources already configured to manage jobs (i.e., already using a batch scheduler like PBS). See What is the Workspace Pilot?
* Interface to Amazon EC2 resources, see What is the EC2 backend?
* Easily experiment with new remote protocols and backends, see What is the RM API?
Zivios - Opensource Enterprise Management
by camel
Zivios is a web based control panel which brings together vital open source technologies needed by medium and large enterprises. At it's core, Zivios provides identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote management of services.
Zivios offers an easy and extensible API, allowing organizations to extend the core application with additional plugins for their in-house or third party software.
Installing Zivios Server On Ubuntu | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
This howto explains installing Zivios Master Service version 0.5.0. Zivios is an n-tiered PHP-5 application, providing identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote management of services. It uses MySQL and OpenLDAP as it's data store, with OpenLdap being the primary back end for identity management and application integration and MySQL being used for panel specific data.
rsnapshot
by camel
& 7 others
rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems.
Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals.
Depending on your configuration, it is quite possible to set up in just a few minutes. Files can be restored by the users who own them, without the root user getting involved.
There are no tapes to change, so once it's set up, your backups can happen automatically untouched by human hands. And because rsnapshot only keeps a fixed (but configurable) number of snapshots, the amount of disk space used will not continuously grow.
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Remote Access and Desktop Control Software for Your Computer
by springnet
Over 40 million devices connected worldwide for remote support, access & backup. cross platform remote access. recommended.
April 2008
Retrieve a Remote File - by Email - Murphy Mac
by _Nico
récupérer un fichier par E-mail en applescript
Remote Buddy
by rmaltete
Remote Buddy turns the remote control in your hands into a key to your entire Mac®. No matter, whether you want to control applications and presentations, browse and playback your music- and video collection, watch TV with EyeTV, browse the web or your filesystem, make the globe turn in Google™ Earth, enter a text, move the mouse, play games or maybe just change the brightness of your screen - you can do this all with Remote Buddy! And so much more!
March 2008
Open-Source Classroom Management With iTALC On Ubuntu 7.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
This document describes how to set up iTALC on Ubuntu 7.10. iTALC is an open-source classroom management solution that lets you view and control other computers in your network. It lets you remote-control other computers, show the teacher's screen on all students' computers, lock workstations, send text-messages to students, power on/off and reboot remote computers, etc.
SSH dynamic port forwarding with SOCKS
by camel
SSH has numerous uses beyond just logging into a remote system. In particular, SSH allows you to forward ports from one machine to another, tunnelling traffic through the secure SSH connection. This provides a convenient means of accessing a service hosted behind a firewall, or one blocked by an outgoing firewall.
However, forwarding an individual port still requires you to change where your program connects, telling it to use a non-standard port on localhost rather than the standard port on the remote machine, and it requires a separate port forward for each machine you want to access. Dynamic port forwarding via SOCKS provides a more convenient alternative.
The examples in this article assume that you reside behind a restrictive firewall which does not allow outgoing SMTP connections except to a designated mail server. You want to connect to a different mail server, mail.example.net, on port 25. You have an SSH account on a machine shell.example.org, which does not reside within the restrictive firewall and can thus access port 25 on mail.example.net.
