• On the Road

    On the Road: Home Just Isn't the Same

    There’s a Blues Traveler song about how when you go home it’s never the same that you remember.  This is because you change but also because places have a habit of being trapped in time in your memory while not in reality.  In my last two trips to Dahlonega, my home town, I have not seen a single person I know.  Or have I?  Would I recognize any of them?  I have a feeling I would remember them as they were, like I remember the town as it was, rather than knowing them for who they are.

  • Xsan

    Xsan: Affinity

    cvaffinity can be used to assign an affinity to a storage pool in Xsan.  An affinity maps a specified directory to a storage pool.  Therefore, if you have a dedicated capture station and you want to make sure it always has 4gbps of throughput then you can create a storage pool called capture, mark it for use with affinity only, create a folder called capture and assign the affinity for the capture storage pool to the capture folder on the volume.  Now all data written to that folder will be written through the affinity and therefore provide a certain level of Quality of Service to that affinity.

  • Mac OS X Server

    “PWD Failed to Start Listener” Errors in CommuniGate

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal PWD Service issues on Communigate Pro When running Communigate Pro on a Mac OS X Server, many users have had issues with an error that reads: PWD failed to start listener on [0.0.0.0:106]. Error Code=network address (port) is already in use The PWD service in Communigate Pro is used to interface with Stalker’s custom API for programming extensions to Communigate. This can often just be ignored unless you need to use the PWD service. This error is caused because another service is already running on port 106 for TCP traffic. Using netstat –a will tell you that it is the passwordservice that is running…