Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Protocol-Less URLs?
Ok, I happened upon this recently, and it sort of blew my mind. Section 4.2 of RFC 3986 provides for fully qualified URLs that omit protocol (the HTTP or HTTPS) altogether. When a URL’s protocol is omitted, the browser defaults to the underlying document’s protocol. “Put simply, these “protocol-less” URLs allow a reference like this…
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ColdFusion 9.0.1 Update Fails on Windows 2008 Status: ERROR Additional Notes: ERROR – cfmx-patch-move-files-all.xml Failed to copy C:ColdFusion9libcfperfmon_9.dll to C:Windowssystem32cfperfmon_9.dll due to C:Windowssystem32cfperfmon_9.dll (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)
On Windows 2008 and 2008 R2, when running the ColdFusion 9.0.1 updater it will fail to complete successfully. Each time failing with the same message in the install log (The Adobe_ColdFusion_9.0.1_InstallLog.log is not written to until the upgrade installer is closed. As long as it is still open, it has not written to the log…
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Determine version of ColdFusion
Determining the version of ColdFusion can be a task you need to perform from time to time, to find out the version, create a page on the site with the following content: <cfdump var=”#SERVER#” /> As far as I can tell, there is not a simpler way of obtaining version without access to the ColdFusion…
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Creating the ColdFusion Client Variable Storage Database and Tables within MySQL
ColdFusion does not create the proper tables for client variable storage when using MySQL as the database engine. This is valid in ColdFusion 9 and also still present in ColdFusion 10. These tables should be created manually for client variable storage to function. Two tables are required. CDATA and CGLOBAL. Details about theses tables are…
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com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up. The root cause was that: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up.
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up. The root cause was that: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up. CF can not open a TCP socket to the database server. Check that the database server is actually running, listening on…
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ColdFusion CFIDE Folder
System Information Server Details Server Product ColdFusion Version 9,0,2,282541 Edition Standard Serial Number XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Operating System UNIX OS Version 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 Adobe Driver Version 4.1 (Build 0001) JVM Details Java Version 1.6.0_29 Java Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. Java Vendor URL http://java.sun.com/ Java Home /opt/coldfusion9/runtime/jre Java File Encoding UTF8 Java Default Locale en_US File Separator / Path…
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A Fire Massage
In the following video, I get my second fire massage. They feel amazing, to me. I have had friends go through them and enjoy them as well as others that say it is too painful for them. A friend of a friend once asked for them to ‘make it hurt’ and came away with what…
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Easy Admin Color Schemes Causes Transparent Sub Menus Since Upgrade to WordPress 3.5
I saw someone upgrade their WordPress install to 3.5 and run into an issue where the background on menu sub menus would be transparent. Turns out the fix was rather simple. Go to Admin Color Schemes -> All Admin Color Schemes. Edit under the scheme of your choice, and add the following CSS in an appropriate…
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2012 Edge Web Hosting Holiday Party
I was fortunate to attend the Edge Web Hosting holiday party (2012) this year. We had it at Fogo de Chão in Baltimore. This was my first time at the restaurant I highly recommend it. The food was fantastic as were the drinks. [nggallery id=65] As you can see I was only able to remember to get a…
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Common (RHEL Red Hat, Ubuntu Server, and CentOS) Network Interface Configuration Locations and Basic Format
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) File found in: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=%IP Address% NETMASK=%Netmask% GATEWAY=%Gateway% ONBOOT=yes Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS File found in: /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address %IP Address% netmask %Netmask% gateway %Gateway% CentOS release 5.8 (Final) File found in: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=%IP Address% NETMASK=%Netmask% GATEWAY=%Gateway% ONBOOT=yes
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