http://yournewswire.com/cia-911-wtc7/

79-year-old retired CIA agent, Malcom Howard, has made a series of astonishing claims since being released from hospital in New Jersey on Friday and told he has weeks to live. Mr. Howard claims he was involved in the “controlled demolition” of World Trade Center 7, the third building that was destroyed on 9/11.

Mr. Howard, who worked for the CIA for 36 years as an operative, claims he was tapped by senior CIA agents to work on the project due to his engineering background, and early career in the demolition business.

That's nice information. What software you people are using for this purpose ? are there any free/open source options ?

@jaredbusch said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:

Corning and imaging are two totally different things as the others have said. You need to define what you actually want to do here more clearly.

Okay. I believe I want to know more about Imaging. Actually the curiosity to know about Imaging arise from my previous post, where @scottalanmiller mentioned "Imaging should take around thirty minutes and, in reality, we are often getting that number lower and lower." It was regarding restoring the system when it is not working properly.

Hi all,

I know little about Imaging software.

I think we are talking about Imaging backup which doesn't reside in the system itself like Recovery Partition, through which we can restore the system to Factory default settings.

And I am aware of cloning software like CloneZilla, through which we can restore to that specific time (programs and settings). It doesn't seems practical for me to do it individually.

So we are talking about using at work and network backup/centralized one, preferably with an Agent will do good work ? Is that FOG kind of software referred to be as Imaging Software ?

I always had storage problem to try or start doing imaging to make things easier. Following are few confusions/queries :

1. I believe imaging is the system backup, excluding data (or other partitions), unless we include.

2. Lets say we are trying to take image of Windows machine (system/C partition only), if it's partition size is 100GB and used some 44GB for OS, what size imaging software will occupy after backing up ? 100 GB or 44 GB ?

3. There will be any incremental and schedule kind of imaging backups ? to take back to working stage ? as it's not practical to take the PC back to zero (fresh Windows)...

4. If FOG is an example for software referring to as reimage in this thread (https://mangolassi.it/topic/15746/why-restart-works-technical-reason/22)
   So I need to setup FOG of some linux server, add storage (lets say some NAS) and take image backups on network, how will be the performance ? I am afraid it will kill the network. So user can work while image backup is going on ?

5. Whether single windows image will work for different model machines (HP, Dell, Lenovo etc.), since they have different components and drivers ?

Thanks for response !

Is there any relation with Salt Stack or with it's code ?

That's nice. Gonna login once in a while to check out the improvements. Will be waiting for completion of software to use for patching and remote management at our work.

Hello all,

I heard of SodiumSuite a lot here in this community. So I have registered, and I found it to be some agent-based monitoring and management tool, so I ran the agent on some test VM, it didn't shown anything on my account on https://sodium.waxquixotic.com after few days I logged in again, I found it pulled the information of Windows system, but cannot do anything like add/remove software, windows updates etc.

So what exactly SodiumSuite is ? is that alternative for Manage Engine's Desktop Central, Comodo One RMM Suite ?

where we can manage (add/remove) software, install patches, remote control etc. ?

I am seeing so many things coming soon on my account, is that ready for production use at all ?

What's the official site ?

Thanks !

@scottalanmiller said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@eddiejennings said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

I'll often have users do a restart, but if the issue is recurring, then I'll take the time to try to find the root cause.

Instead of re-imaging?

I just wonder, how we can simply jump to re-imaging or reset or re-installation, unless necessary or investigating the issue, it may repeat if cause is not from that computer...?

That's nice information.

@Dashrender @JaredBusch
That sounds reasonable reply, in fact I am doing it by default, I mean not spending much time if it's not very production or repeated issue. Just wanted to know if I am not alone that don't know the reason for some specific issue

Appreciate if you can elaborate the first query, which is Restart ?