About Me and This Site
I work in the IT industry, currently for a large national newspaper publisher. I use this blog to post any useful pointers i come across, or anything i think might help people.

Most of my time is taken up with system admin tasks in a Microsoft environment, but I also dabble in the odd bit of programming, web design and report writing (the business intelligence kind)

If you think there is any software I might find interesting, books worth reading or anything else to do with me or this site feel free to email me at luke@beakersoft.co.uk

Whats on my USB Stick

Like most geeks, I carry a usb pen drive around with me, you never know when you might get called upon to fix something! I use a pen drive with a read only hardware switch, can be very useful to have in case of a major virus outbreak.

• Bootable to a copy of Slax
• 7zip to handle most kind of file archives
• ClamWinPortable to scan for virus
• Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for mounting ISO images
• PuTTYPortable for ssh access
• Recuva for trying to get deleted files back
• Foxit reader for opening pdf’s
• EraserPortable for clearing files completely
• OpenedFilesView for seeing what files are opened by the machine
• Various password sniffers from www.nirsoft.net
• CCleaner for removing junk files from Windows

Visitor Locations

Last.fm chart