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VisualRoute helps determine if a connectivity problem is due to an ISP, the Internet, or the web site you -- or your customers -- are trying to reach, and pinpoints the network where a problem occurs.
VisualRoute 2005 is available in five specialized editions, enabling on-demand connectivity analysis from a single computer, a remote server, a remote customer desktop or multiple points on a global network.
All editions include integrated traceroute, ping tests, reverse DNS and Whois lookups, and display the actual route of connections and IP locations on a global map.
Main features:
- Analyzes Internet/Intranet connectivity
- Locates the source of poor network response time (latency)
- Answers the question: Why can?t I reach a website?
- Locates poor connection quality (packet loss) and identifies the ISP responsible
- Answers the question: Is the slow performance due to my ISP or a problem on the Internet?
Enhancements:
- This update adds JavaScript support for the Server NOC and Server Pro editions.

Dont give away sensitive information, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files and letters, or traces of Internet or newsgroup activity with the old computers that you or your company resells, donates, reassigns to different departments or removes from operation.
Deleting all the files, formatting the hard disk or using the FDISK utility is not enough to stop people that will have access to the computer in the future to restore information using basic recovery programs.
East-Tec DiskSanitizer however removes all traces of data and software from the computer hard disk, by overwriting and destroying beyond recovery every sector and every bit of information.
Data is removed according with U.S. Department of Defense standards or custom user security levels. East-Tec DiskSanitizer can be operated from a floppy disk to sanitize any drive from the computer, regardless of the file system or the operating system.
After selecting the drives to sanitize and the security level, the product is ready to perform its job.
Powerful verification capabilities and full user control during the sanitizing process can provide the utmost assurance that all data has been completely removed beyond recovery. At the end of the sanitize process the product can generate a proof of correct data disposal by printing a sanitizing report or by saving it for permanent records
Main features:
- The data on drives formatted with East-Tec Sanitizer 2005 is destroyed beyond recovery using advanced wiping techniques that can stop both software and hardware tools from recovering any data.
- Meets and exceeds the U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information.
- Works with both IDE/ATA and SCSI disk drives
- The ability to sanitize any floppy or hard disks connected to the computer, or any independent partition from a hard drive without affecting other partitions, regardless of the file system and the operating system that resides on each drive (works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, etc.).
- Powerful verification capabilities that give the user the utmost assurance that all data has been completely removed from disk.
- Very fast wiping speeds by using direct memory access (DMA/UDMA mode) for IDE/ATA drives (where support for this mode is available)
- The ability of wiping data on several machines simultaneously by installing Sanitizer on bootable floppy, CD or DVD disks.
- The ability to maintain detailed logs of all sanitizing operations, that can be printed and saved for permanent records.
- Overall progress, average speed and estimated time indicators are available.
- Mouse support.
Advanced Features:
- Powerful command-line parameter options that allow advanced users to run the program from the command prompt, with no user interface (if desired) and create different wiping scenarios.
- Sanitizing BIOS Free feature that allows users to address the full hard disk capacity even if, on some old machines, BIOS does not support large hard drives.
- The ability to develop and use your own data-destroying algorithms, that perfectly suits your security needs.
- The ability to generate random data streams using ISAAC Pseudo-Random Number Generating algorithm.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4, released in February 2005, provides significant technology enhancements over the v.3 release. Areas of specific development include improvements in security capabilities, increased server performance and scalability, and enhanced desktop capabilities?all while ensuring a high level of compatibility with prior releases.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports a wide range hardware and software applications, and is the worlds leading enterprise-focused Linux environment.
The following section outlines a few of the major new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4:
Linux 2.6 kernel infrastructure
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 provides the most stable and robust commercial product based on the Linux communitys 2.6.9 kernel. Open source projects such as Fedora provided an environment for the Linux 2.6 kernel to mature significantly during 2004.
As a result, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 kernel offers numerous improvements over earlier kernels, including many enhanced algorithms and features:
- Generic logical CPU scheduler: Handles multi-core and hyperthreaded CPUs.
- Object-based Reverse Mapping VM: Improved performance in memory constrained systems.
- Read Copy Update: SMP algorithm optimization for operating system data structures.
- Multiple I/O schedulers: Selectable based on the application environment.
- Enhanced SMP & NUMA support: Improved performance and scalability for large servers.
- Network interrupt mitigation (NAPI): Improved performance for heavy network loads.
Improved storage and file system capabilities
Numerous enhancements have been incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 that improve the scalability and performance of the data storage subsystems, including:
- Ext3 performance: Block Reservations and Hash Tree Directories improve the performance of read/write I/O and directory scanning operations.
- Ext3 scalability: Dynamic file system expansion and file system sizes up to 8TB are now supported.
- Logical Volume Management: A comprehensive update to the LVM provides new features such as read/write snapshots and transactional metadata updates, along with a flexible new management GUI. Mirroring and enhanced multipathing are scheduled for delivery by mid 2005.
- Scalability: Enhanced storage LUN management makes it possible to configure much larger storage subsystems.
- Automounting: The inclusion of AutoFSv4 provides sophisticated device access control, supporting features such as browsable mounts and replicated servers.
- Cost reduction: Support for Serial ATA disk storage provides increased performance, higher densities, and reduced cost per megabyte over traditional IDE devices.
New security capabilities
Provision of sophisticated security capabilities has been a specific development focus of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 release. New features:
- Mandatory Access Control: Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) provides a MAC infrastructure that complements the existing Discretionary Access Control security features provided by the standard Linux environment. In a MAC-based environment, application capabilities and privileges are set by predefined policies and enforced by the kernel. This prevents errant applications from compromising system security.
- Memory management enhancements: Several features, including Exec Shield and Position Independent Executables, combine to prevent applications from being exploited by attacks such as buffer overflows.
- Compile and runtime consistency checking: New buffer validation techniques in the GCC compiler and Glibc library greatly reduce the risk of faulty applications being compromised.
Improved desktop capabilities
Significant emphasis has been placed on providing a feature-rich, easy-to-use, desktop environment for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux family members (including Red Hat Desktop). A brief summary of new features:
- Personal productivity: Advanced user capabilities are provided by the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, the Firefox web browser and Evolution email client
- Plug-and-play device support: Easy handling of devices such as USB disks and digital cameras (as well as photo management applications such as gThumb)
- Multimedia: Applications for audio, video, and streaming content such as RhythmBox, HelixPlayer, Totem, and SoundJuicer
- User environment: GNOME 2.8 provides numerous enhancements for a more consistent graphical look and feel. Comprehensive management tools (e.g. printer and network management and VNC-based application session sharing) and utilities (e.g. Gaim instant messaging, and GIMP image processing) combine to provide a complete and highly functional user experience.
- Interoperability: Technologies that allow user login authentication with Microsoft Active Directory, NTLM authentication for web-based applications, Evolution mail client access to Windows Exchange Servers
- IIIMF: The Internet/Intranet Input Method framework provides the next-generation multilingual Unicode input method framework. It offers many features, such as full Unicode support and the ability to run multiple concurrent language engines.
Miscellaneous features
As a major new release, almost every aspect of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been enhanced. Some of the more important improvements:
- Compatibility with prior releases: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 includes compatibility libraries that enable most v.3 and v.2.1 applications to continue to run without modification.
- Languages: Focused on international standards, such as OpenI18N and GB18030, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has documentation and software available in 15 languages: English, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Devnagari, Bangla, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati.
- Auditing: In an update planned for mid-2005, a new auditing facility will be available that provides an open, bidirectional socket interface that can be used by auditing applications. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for SELinux and standard Linux events.
- File serving: Provision of NFSv4 provides features such improved security, operation coalescing and integrated file locking, while Samba provides easy access to Microsoft Windows printers and file shares.
- Software development: The latest GCC 3.4 compiler toolchain, and a technology preview of the forthcoming GCC 4.0 toolchain, are provided. These offer standards-compliant C/C++ and Fortran 95 development environments.
- Advanced configuration and power interface: Support for the ACPI standard enables a wide range of power management capabilities (battery monitoring, automated power down, suspend), and provides a foundation for increasingly sophisticated features in the future.
- Extras: Optional software is provided on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras CD and Red Hat Network channel. This includes features such as additional desktop applications (e.g. Adobe Reader, Macromedia Flash), Java environments, and printroom-quality Agfa/Monotype fonts.
Main features:
Server features summary
- Databases - Leading open source databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Development - Environments for C, C++, Java, Fortran with Perl, Python, CVS and Emacs
- Engineering - Computational tools including blas, pvm, and lam
- File servers - FTP, NFS, and Samba (CIFS)
- Mail server - IMAP/POP servers with Cyrus, Sendmail, spamassassin
- Networking - Complete suite of network servers and firewall
- Printing - CUPS/lpr printing systems
- Security - Extensive features including SSL, IpSec, MAC/DAC
- Web server - Apache server with numerous mod/php plugins
Client features summary
- Document preparation - OpenOffice.org office suite 1
- Extensive Microsoft interoperability
- Laptop power management - APM/ACPI
- Mail - several clients including Evolution
- Multimedia support - applications for multiple audio/video formats
- Plug-and-play device support
- RDP terminal services
- Remote desktop sharing/collaboration
- User interface - GNOME-based with optional KDE
- Web browsing - Firefox
- Wireless support
- X Windows system

Array Designer project can help design thousands of efficient, highly specific oligos to make microarrays for SNP genotyping and expression studies with the click of a button.
For investigating gene control elements in the post-sequencing era, the software designs tiling arrays for interrogating intragenic and intergenic regions and now the software also designs resequencing arrays for analysis of large genomic sequences and genetic variation within the clinical trial population.
Main features:
- Oligo microarray software: Array Designer designs highly specific oligo microarray for SNP genotyping and expression studies.
- Oligo microarray design software which helps you design probes for expression and SNP studies.
- Array Designer is a highly flexible and scalable microarray software, for designing oligos/primers for large projects.
- Array Designer is a microarray software which offers a high-throughput, greatly automated approach for designing highly specific optimal oligonucleotide probes for microarray experiments.
- cDNA microarray design: Array Designer by default, uses optimized design parameters for cDNA microarray design.
- For DNA microarray design, the carefully chosen default parameters help make the design a success.
- Array Designer, with its highly sophisticated algorithm, may be the best available dna microarray software for microarray design.
- Whole genome array-Whole genome arrays have been useful for studying the poorly understood aspects of trancriptome, natural antisense transcript because they can simultaneously monitor gene expression on both strands of genome
- Tiling array- Tiling array are used to investigate transcription factor binding sites TFBS, not only upstream of genes but also in intronic and intergenic regions.
- Resequencing arrays- In addition to standard probes, Array Designer also designs resequencing arrays useful for analysis of large genomic sequences and genetic variation within the clinical trial population.
- Flexible input formats- Supports sequences in GenBank, FASTA. Loads multiple sequences from a single GenBank or FASTA format file.
- Standard PCR Reaction Conditions- Optimizes PCR primers on all sequences to amplify with uniform reaction conditions.
- Multiple probes- Designs the best probe per sequence or multiple probes per sequence for increased accuracy of detection.
- SNP detection- Designs SNP probes for both hybridization and primer extension detection.
- Flexible Hybridization Probe Locations- Probes can be designed to span each site, or can have 3 end anchored at each site, or can be optimized within a specified region around the site.

Firewall Builder is multi-platform firewall configuration and management tool. It consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. Firewall Builder uses object-oriented approach, it helps administrator maintain a database of network objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations.

Firewall Builder currently supports iptables, ipfilter, OpenBSD PF and Cisco PIX. Technical summary of features supported by the policy compilers for all platforms can be found in the section "Modules" (see menu on the left).

Being truly vendor-neutral, Firewall Builder can generate configuration file for any supported target firewall platform from the same policy created in its GUI. This provides for both consistent policy management solution for heterogeneous environments and possible migration path.

With the additional purchase of Firewall Builder for PIX, Firewall Builder functions as a sophisticated policy management software for Cisco PIX firewall with access to all functions of PIX including newest features added in v6.3.

Firewall Builder allows for management of multiple firewalls using the same network object database. Change made to an object is immediately reflected in the policy of all firewalls using this object. Administrator only needs to recompile and install policies on actual firewall machines.

In Firewall Builder, administrator works with an abstraction of firewall policy and NAT rules; software effectively "hides" specifics of particular target firewall platform and helps administrator focus on implementation of security policy.

Backend software components, or policy compilers, can deduct many parameters of policy rules using information available through network and service objects and therefore generate fairly complex code for the target firewall, thus relieving administrator from having to remember all its details and limitations. Policy compilers can also run sanity checks on firewall rules and make sure typical errors are caught before generated policy is deployed.

KRUD is based on the ever popular Red Hat distribution with a couple of twists thrown in. Twist number one is that KRUD is a subscription based distribution.

Unlike other big boys, KRUD subscribers get a monthly KRUD update mailed to them. Updates include all the original Red Hat errata, security updates for all included packages, as well as new packages and utilities Kevin has dug up.

Even when Red Hat runs though a major revision change, KRUD is right there behind them.

KRUD is a Linux Distribution which tracks Red Hat and Fedora Linux. It is updated every month, and is available by CD and CD Subscription.

Weve been making KRUD since 1999. We do it because it saves us time, and it makes updating our systems easier. So far, weve done about 200 releases of several different RH based distributions.