• Windows XP

    Office 12 – A New Look

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Microsoft has released the beta version of Microsoft Office, version 12. This new version is packed with new features and of course, a new look for documents. Office 12 no longer has drop down menus. This has been a hallmark of Microsoft Office since the first version. Nearly every other productivity suite has been built around drop down menus on every platform since the days before point-and-click. Microsoft has replaced drop down menus with a new concept that they are calling the ribbon. When you click on what were once drop down menus, the toolbars change to include only the features relevant to that…

  • Articles and Books,  Mac OS X Server

    Review of my Mac OS X Server Little Black Book

    Title: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book, Author: Charles Edge Publisher: Paraglyph Press, distributed by O’Reilly Published: 2006 Price: $34.99 URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097140/ Roger Smith, SVMUG, June 18, 2006. Audience: Users and system administrators trying to get the most out of Mac networking with Tiger Server. Content: The book is divided into 18 chapters, each focused on some aspect of server functionality. My opinion: Very much task-oriented, this would get a lot of use next to the console of a Tiger server. It is setting next to my server and will stay there. There is an embarrassment of riches these days when it comes to OS X Server books. Until 10.2…

  • Uncategorized

    On the Road: Charleston

    Of course I’m gonna’ love a city with my name!  My family once visited here for vacation.  Another positive, good memories.  But the history, the richness of culture, the vibe.  This is a great city.

  • Xsan

    Xsan: cvadmin

    Xsan Admin is a little wonky sometimes.  This isn’t to say there are bugs, just that sometimes given the environmental factors it can be slow to respond.  But once your SAN is up and running you can pretty much do all the admin tasks you’ll ever need using cvadmin rather than Xsan Admin.  cvadmin is an interactive command line environment and will always need to be run with escalated priveleges (er, sudo).   So use the following command to see which Metadata Controllers are available and to see which is your primary per volume: sudo cvadmin man Now you can use sudo cvadmin and from within the interactive cvadmin command…