Useful Software (Linux and Windows)

Useful Software (Linux and Windows)
Keystore Explorer (GUI for keytool) - http://www.lazgosoftware.com/kse/index.html
TinyCA (Certification authority GUI for Linux) - http://www.lazgosoftware.com/kse/index.html
xca (small CA) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xca/
ejbca (J2EE CA) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca/
SSLScan (Fast SSL Scanner) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslscan/

Windows utilities

Windows Utilities

autoruns - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902
process explorer - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653
file renamer - http://sourceforge.net/projects/file-folder-ren

winmerge - http://winmerge.org/
getfoldersize - http://www.getfoldersize.com/en_getfoldersize.htm

Useful JVM Options (mainly related to GC troubleshooting)

-XX:+PrintFlagsInitial - Prints all JVM options with default values
-XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags - Prints the command line flags that were passed
-XX:+PrintFlagsFinal - Prints all JVM options after processing the command line

-verbose:gc - logs garbage collector runs and how long they are taking
-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps - Prints timestamps at garbage collection
-XX:+PrintGCDetails - includes data from -verbose:gc but also adds information about the new generation
-Xloggc:gc.log - redirects the gc logs to a log file rather than the standard output

Installing Google Chrome on a debian Linux system using google's repository

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable