• Mac Security

    war*ing

    War dialing or wardialing is a method of automatically scanning telephone numbers using a modem, usually dialing every telephone number in a local area to find out where computers or fax machines are available, then attempting to access them by guessing passwords. ToneLoc was a popular wardialing computer program for MS-DOS written in the early to mid-1990s by two programmers known by the pseudonyms Minor Threat and Mucho Maas. The name ToneLoc was short for “Tone Locator” and was a word play on the name of the rap artist known as Tone Lōc. The utility was created for the purpose of scanning for dial tones or modem carriers in order…

  • On the Road

    On the Road: Nashville

    Country music is sure big in Nashville.  It seeps into everything else.  Luckily, I grew up with country music and to some degree like a lot of it.  If you find yourself in Nashville though, the thing that stands out to me most is the might quantities of fried food that get consumed here.  Once again, lucky for me, I grew up with that too and love it.  Just can’t eat too much of it, which is hard to do here… PS – Too many Tennessee Volunteer fans.  Don’t they have jobs or something?  Note to self: look into the unemployment rate here and see if an overabundance of fans…

  • Xsan

    Installing Xsan 1.x

    You will install the xSAN software on all of the systems that will be running as Metadata Controllers and on all of the client computers. To install the xSAN software: Run the Install Xsan.mpkg file from the Xsan Install Disc. Read the Welcome to the Xsan Installer screen and click Continue. Read the Important Information and click Continue. Read the Software License Agreement and click Continue. Agree to the Software License Agreement by clicking on the Agree button. Select the volume for the Xsan software to be installed on. Once your Destination has been selected, click Continue (see Figure 2.x). Figure 2.x Select a Destination If you would like to…

  • Uncategorized,  Xsan

    Xsan: LUN

    An Xserve RAID can be split into multiple logical units, referred to as a LUN.  Each side, or channel, of the RAID is, by default a single LUN. You can use the RAID Admin utility (located at /Applications/Server) to format each of these as multiple LUNs if you wish.  When the LUNs are formatting (which generally takes 48 hours) you will start to see them in disk utility.  Do not assign a file system to them yet if you are to use them with Xsan.  Instead you will use the cvlabel command to label each of your LUNs, which marks them as able to be used by Xsan.