TCPView saves the day
Posted: June 16, 2009 Filed under: windows | Tags: hardware, windows Leave a commentI was having some trouble with OpenVPN (windows) this morning, a confusing error:
TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [undef]:1194:
Address already in use (WSAEADDRINUSE)
Seems obvious right? I killed OpenVPN, and looked around for other processes, but none were evident. A friend suggested using TCPVIew, which like everything Mark Russinovich writes, is easy to install, super useful, and totally solved the problem almost instantly.
The culprit — PIDGIN, of all things! For some reason, it had port 1194 all to itself! Killing it, restarting OpenVPN worked like a breeze!
Installing a Reluctant Network Card on Debian
Posted: May 8, 2009 Filed under: Python | Tags: debian, hardware, networking Leave a commentI was having some trouble installing a network card on my home server. It wasn’t being autodetected. I’m weak on Linux hardware stuff, and networking in particular (since it’s always *just worked*), so this was starting from scratch. I had a few extra handicaps, in that I didn’t have the orginal box, and this card was one I’d bought months ago, physically installed, and forgetten to configure, so my bad! I didn’t even know the model number!
read on to see how I got it working
write-only by Gregg Lind 