Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Namdaemun Gate

Such a great loss!

 

Namdaemun, Seoul, 11 February 2008

 

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Namdaemun - also known as the Great South Gate - was built in 1398, serving as the main southern entrance into the walled city of Seoul.

The two-storey pagoda which stood on a stone base was the oldest wooden structure in Seoul.

It was one of the few buildings to survive both the Japanese occupation and the Korean War.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Interactive Developer Map

 

"The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down to each product and technology and learn about new features, objects, Web services, namespaces, and schemas required to extend Microsoft Office and build custom Office Business Applications (OBAs)."

ClickOnce .NET 3.0 Application

Interactive Developer Map

Introduction to Windows Deployment Services

 

Short demo of Windows Deployment Service using Server 2008

Introduction to Windows Deployment Services [6 Min ] | Media | TechNet Edge

Windows Server 2008 Clustering

Demo of iSCSI based Hyper-V virtual machine on a fail over cluster

 

Windows Server 2008 Clustering [SCREEN CAST] | Media | TechNet Edge

How to setup iSCSI on Windows Server 2008

 

How to setup iSCSI on Windows Server 2008 [11 mins] | Media | TechNet Edge

"This is the second in a series of “How To’s” with Adam Carter. This time around, he provided a quick introduction to iSCSI, which is a technology which is part of Windows Storage Server which allows SCSI commands to be shared over the network to enable cheap and simple network storage options. In this 11min screen cast, Adam walks through iSCSI basics on the white board and then sets up an iSCSI target disk to share on one machine and then connects to this disk over the network to a second machine using the iSCSI initiator. This creates a new disk on the second server machine, which he then formats and puts into action. This is very useful for creating clustering scenarios, reduces the complexity of managing shared nothing SCSI ID’s and can be a very cost effective storage scenario. "

Monday, February 4, 2008

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Network Monitoring

 

Tobi Oetiker's MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher

What it does

You have a router, you want to know what it does all day long? Then MRTG is for you. It will monitor SNMP network devices and draw pretty pictures showing how much traffic has passed through each interface.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

What is Cacti?

Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.

http://cacti.net/what_is_cacti.php

Logging & Graphing

RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/index.en.html

 

Network Management Station - Cacti, Syslog, SNMP Traplog, Apache and MySQL

Network Management Station

VMware™
Network Management Station

Monitor and manage your network devices.
Manage everything from servers, printers, wireless gear to switches and routers.
Anything on your network that has an IP address can be monitored.
Full featured network management station capability.
SNMP and Sysloging, audible alerting and threshold monitoring made user friendly
and cost effective.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310

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