I have converted to Mac, got my new Mac Pro on Friday and it is fast. Apple knows how to make sexy products.

I have to load up the Seattle source material and fix a couple of problems with the edits. So Seattle will be a little bit longer.

I have a few projects on the go now, so not sure how much time I can dedicate to editing. Work comes first, well family does, but you know how life goes!

Pow Web sucks!

Just moved to DreamHost.com, big improvement!

Speed and Space equals Super Deal!!!

I have been having a problem with SQL server on the Small Business Server 2003 R2 running away with over 1 GB of RAM. This has lead to high memory alert messages from the server. I did some goggling and found this article at DogRiley - Your Network WatchDog.

sqlservr.exe high memory usage for SBSMonitoring process

Syntax of commands
osql -E -S servername\sbsmonitoring

sp_configure ’show advanced options’,1
reconfigure with override
go
sp_configure ‘max server memory’, nnnn
reconfigure with override
go

I followed his example with my server named gentoo

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>osql -E -S gentoo\sbsmonitoring
1> sp_configure ’show advanced options’,1
2> reconfigure with override
3> go
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system
administrator.
Configuration option ’show advanced options’ changed from 0 to 1. Run the
RECONFIGURE statement to install.
1> sp_configure ‘max server memory’,100
2> reconfigure with override
3> go
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system
administrator.
Configuration option ‘max server memory (MB)’ changed from 2147483647 to 100.
Run the RECONFIGURE statement to install.
1> quit

Here are some resources for short cut keys on the Mac

From Apple
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

A Widget
http://www.musingsfrommars.org/downloads/widgets/

Big List
http://www.silvermac.com/mac-os-x-keyboard-shortcuts/

What a way to spend 2 days of my easter weekend. I added some RAM and added a drive to the RAID array of the main server.

I needed to dived the extra space over 3 partitions currently on the server, so I needed a partitioning tool, and I did not want to pay for it. I have used Knoppix in the past and loaded up QTParted, and it has worked well. I went to use this tool again, but found I could not move partitions. So I did some searching and found GParted, and they had a Live CD.

So I made sure I had a complete backup and booted up the CD.

Very basic interface, but it was all that was needed, nothing more. The program scanned my drivers and found everything. I then proceeded to resize, and move partitions. The tool did everything I needed! I then Hit apply, and a warning came up saying it might take a long time, and I assumed maybe a few hours.

11 hours later the first partition was done, now came the other 2. just under 20 hours from starting, the process was finished. The only complaint that I have is that there was no message box on the screen reporting that the operations were complete.