• personal

    Getting Married

    Today I am getting married.  It’s awesome, scary, amazing and a little weird, but I am so excited.  My parents met Lisa’s parents yesterday and everything seems to be going according to plan.  We’re in Catalina, where we will be saying our vows and partying like rock stars later today!!!

  • Windows Server

    ASP Defined

    ASP stands for an Active Server Page, a type of web page that is hosted on a server that supports the ASP scripting engine.  ASP is a file that contains text, HTML, and/or ASP scripting commands. ASP files use/require the *.asp extension.  Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) supports ASP. You can also use ASP with varrying forms of (or add-ons for) Apache such as Apache::ASP::Install.

  • Business

    Apple's Market Share

    Originally posted at http://www.318.com/TechJournal According to a report by JupiterMedia Corp, Mac OS X is becoming more and more of a standard in the small to Enterprise business categories. The report states that in organizations with 10,000 or more employees, 21% use Mac OS X on their desktops in the office. In businesses with 250 employees or more, 17% of the employees run Mac OS X on their desktop computers at work. Mac OS X is taking market share aware from traditional Linux and Unix installations. One explanation for this is that Mac OS X is easier to use than Linux and Unix, especially for desktop computers. Another explanation is…

  • Mac OS X Server

    DIsable Insecure Passwords in 10.4 Server

    You can use the NeST command to control which protocols that Open Directory uses in Mac OS X 10.4 server. To do so you’re going to use the -setprotocols option from the command line, followed by the protocols you would like to disable and then the off string. For example, the following would disable APOP: NeST -setprotocols APOP off The following would then reenable it: NeST -setprotocols APOP on

  • Mac OS X,  Xsan

    Rebuilding Arrays on Xserve RAIDs

    Sometimes a drive fails, or a RAID controller goes down on an array with a redundant drive (eg – RAID 5 or RAID 3) and the parity on a RAID must be rebuilt. This should happen as quickly as possible. However, it can result in data loss and in the event of a second drive failure on the array most of the data could be lost. The data may be safe, and should be backed up as quickly as possible. Once the data is backed up, then you should perform a rebuild of the parity for the array. To do so open RAID Admin from /Applications/Server and click on the…

  • Mac OS X Server,  Xsan

    Xserve RAID: Reset Controller

    Unmount any Xserve RAID volumes hosted by the RAID (especially Xsan volumes).  Press the reset button  on the back of the controller module for about ten seconds.  You should see the controller restart and then the controller should be reset.  Sometimes you need to reset both controllers.  You don’t have to reset the whole controller to just reset the password.  To do that, you can press the reset button for about 1-2 seconds and then try to authenticate through RAID Admin to reset the password.  By default the password to view the Xserve RAID, once reset is public and to edit settings, the default password is private.  By default the IP…

  • Mac OS X

    April Fools – Trash Rather than Cut

    You can set the cut function of the Finder to move items into the trash rather than into the clipboard: defaults write com.apple.Finder AllowCutForItems true It’s not the nicest of jokes to play on people though… So to undo it: defaults write com.apple.Finder AllowCutForItems false Happy April Fools Day