While I have not made extensive use of the Sam Spade link, I can see how it would come in handy. Personally, I enjoy the Geektels section and have made use of the worldwide traceroute function to test access time to sites.
The site is extremely useful and provides a good feature set for some common functions that almost every network administrator needs from time to time. The Whois section allows you to do a lookup straight from the Geektools site and will automatically find the best server to use for your query. While Geektools does not provide an interface that automatically submits the traceroute request to the various sites, it does provide a thorough list of places where you can go to test your Web site around the world. The Traceroute link on the Geektools site allows you to perform a traceroute from any of the linked locations on the site-and there are a lot of them. In fact, the Sam Spade site offers a whole host of utilities to promote privacy, to determine the actual source of a spam message, and more. Neither of these utilities is hosted at Geektools. This section provides links to Sam Spade (the incumbent online spam tool) and a utility called blq, which queries the MAPS lists to see if a particular host is on it.
#Geek tools windows#
The client installs as an application on these platforms and is quite useful, although the default setting of the utility in Windows has it start as an icon in the system tray, which is somewhat annoying and unnecessary. Geektools has both a proxy utility and an excellent whois client utility for Windows, Macintosh, and Palm handhelds available for download. Here’s a look at what the other four sections of the site have to offer. For example, a search of the RFCs for VOIP returned the screen seen in Figure B.
#Geek tools how to#
While this is a useful utility, some explanation of how to use it would be extremely beneficial to users of the Geektools site. AGGIS-This tool is used to manipulate CIDR IP address ranges.The calculators and tools that are available include the following: For folks who visit a hotel that has a good connection but that is not listed on the site, Geektools offers a submission form they can use to get the list updated. The Geektel section of the site is broken down by country, state, and city and includes all of the contact information for the hotel, including a link to the hotel’s Web site and a link to the technology or Internet provider the hotel uses.
#Geek tools software#
In addition to this RFC search utility, Geektools offers various calculators, some software and spam tools, excellent traceroute and whois utilities, and a listing of “geektels” (hotels with good connections to the Internet available from within each room).
Others could easily make use of some of the information as well, particularly the RFC search function. The content and utilities available on Geektools are quite useful, especially for those who work in the networking and systems administration areas. I browsed to it with my LYNX browser, and aside from the fact that I had to manually choose the link to take me to text mode, the Geektools site was 100 percent viewable. Set up by the techies at CenterGate Research Group, Geektools ( Figure A) hosts a variety of everyday tools on a site that is “capable of being used by any browser including LYNX, with minimal color (16) and minimal resolution (640 x 480), with no cookies, or Java.” The site does indeed live up to this claim.
In either case, an online administrator’s toolkit called would have come in handy. Or perhaps you wanted a whois client that looks up all registrars simultaneously while keeping things simple.
Maybe you could have used a good traceroute utility that would let you test from anywhere in the world. Whether you were working on a networking project or designing a Web site, you’ve probably wished you could put your hands on a tool to make the job go more quickly. When it comes to networking connectivity and managing mail and Web servers, offers some great online tools that can benefit nearly every admin. Networking entails a variety of challenges, so you need an extensive toolbox to work efficiently. Every administrator should take advantage of Geektools
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