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Countdown to TechEd: All about Bag and BOFs – Five Weeks Remaining

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May 012013

I am still working on getting caught up on the social side of TechED. This weeks countdown show covers a couple different things including the official TechEd bag that everybody looks forward to getting. Check out the video below and let us know what you think of the bag. As always head on over to the official channel 9 page to get allot more info on TechED.

Additional Resources

The Krewe Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheKrewe/?fref=ts

Channel 9 – Official TechEd Forums
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechEdNA#fbid=9RNWEXa8Kqm

Contact To Follow On Twitter
Official TechEd: https://twitter.com/TechEd_NA

Video Highlights (source: channel 9)

Episode #6 of the 2013 countdown season has Joey and Rick absconding away with a prized item from TechEd NorthAmerica’s office at Corp. Come on – how can we talk about it if we don’t put “The Bag” to the test… Oh – we also talk about the Birds of A Feather voting process and where your voice can be heard.

Vote for your Birds of Feather sessions
Taking THE BAG out for a test drive!!!
Can a 17″ laptop fit?
What else can you put in there?

Get out there and interact Online:

C9 TechEd Forums (NorthAmerica and Europe)
Twitter: use the #msteched hashtag for NA, #TEE13 for Europe.
Facebook: NorthAmerica and Europe

Get out there and REGISTER if you haven’t already!

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Ultimate Boot CD 5.2.3 Released

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Apr 302013

Ultimate Boot CD has released version 5.2.3. Please let us know what you think about the tool in the comments below. If you would like to download it follow the link below to download it below from Server Ninjas. If you get a chance stop by the Ultimate Boot CD website and thank them for this great tool. We are just a distributor of the ISO. The project team over at Ultimate Boot CD does the real work.

Download:

http://www.serverninjas.com/ultimate-tool-list/boot-utilities/ultimate-boot-cd/ultimate-boot-cd-download

Overview From The Ultimate Boot CD Website

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.

Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn’t you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!

Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version.

New features in UBCD V5.x include:

New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices.

New! UBCD V5.x now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.

When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

There is allot more information over at the main Ultimate Boot CD website. Please follow the link below!

Ultimate Boot CD Main Site

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vnStat – A Console Based Network Traffic Monitor On Ubuntu

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Apr 292013

I have started to do additional work with Ubuntu server over the past few months. The application I have been running on the serves consumes and generates a lot of network traffic. The easiest solution I have found to capture network traffic usage on Ubuntu server is vnStat. This tool is a network traffic monitor that is very easy to implement. The tool vnStat tracks hourly, daily and monthly traffic for the selected interfaces. You can also monitor real-time traffic on a selected NIC. Check out the quick install and examples of some of the reports you can run from vnStat. Please let us know what think about this quick and easy program to monitor network traffic on your Ubuntu server.

Ubuntu Server Quick Install

1. Log into the server.

2. Run the following command – “sudo apt-get install vnstat”

3. Note the active interfaces on your server.

After the install you will be able to gather reports about bandwidth usage. Examples are based on a machine with one NIC.