In the Linux world one has netstat and fuser to figure out which PID has opened a given socket. In Mac OS X, netstat does not provide PID's and fuser is missing...

I found this interesting article on how to solve this dillema.

Basically you use the lsof utility that displays a list of open files (a socket is handled as a special file) and the owner PID's:

About four days ago I started seeing very faint signs of diatoms on my glass - and knew it was not long before the pods would start showing up. Well, three days ago I started noticing them - thousands of tiny copepods.

This is a good day.

Seems I like consolidating things... I have just merged my reef blog with my main blog - I just hate all these billions of small sites floating around.

I'd much rather have one place where I can blog about everything and people can filter based on the categories they are interested in.

Hope this works better for everyone.

So yesterday I upgraded to 10.4.10 only to discover my Cisco VPN is not working anymore. It gives an Error 51... That was real bad since I have a client that I support using VPN.

I tried everything to revert to 10.4.9 but it is not that easy to roll back a service pack. Eventually I stumbled across an article on Parallel's forum indicating that my problem might be related to the fact that yesterday I also upgraded from 4124 to 4128...

I did the following to fix it:

My wife's Parallels broke today. For some reason it just died when starting up - no matter what mode we tried to start Windows XP in. We tried repairing Windows XP by means of the installation CD, but this caused even weirder errors.

So I ran a Disk Repair and Permissions Repair - neither working.

I then decided I am going to try and upgrade the disk image to the latest Parallels - 3.0. Well, whilst copying the .hdd file this happened: