I’m a jQuery fan but not a jQuery expert so when Duane Moraes from Packt Publishing offered me copies of their new jQuery titles I was excited. I’m usually hesitant to invest in books for rapidly evolving technologies; I think it’s hard for the publisher to capture information and distribute it quickly enough to […]

My company has been in search of a 42u cabinet for our upgraded environment. After a couple of unplanned power outages that cycled our servers over the past few years, we decided to do due diligence and look around. We’re going from a 1/4 rack to a full, locking cabinet to support our […]

Huzzah! It is possible. I have CFMX7 running under CentOS-5 (RHEL-5) with SELinux enforcing. I imagine this will also work to correct CFMX8.
The Problems

The mod_jrun20.so and mod_jrun22.so provided by Adobe is broken in many ways. You can see my original post on recompiling the connector to support mod_deflate but it’s just […]

I recently bought a used 125cc shifter kart and I’m getting ready to go racing. I needed to pick up a karting suit as Nomex race suits aren’t permitted and my OMP suit is just a little too small. This time I wanted to be sure that I got one that fit well. […]

I have a need for an abstracted payment processing API and based on a thread on the CFGURU list, it’s obvious other people do too. A few weeks ago, I created a project called CFMERCHANT but found the name was taken so today it has been renamed to CFPAYMENT. You can see the […]

My earlier post yesterday asked if anyone had it working and the real answer is “no”. Some people have it working by saying “compress everything except these file extensions” using a configuration like this:
<Location />
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:pdf|wav|swf|doc|xls|rtf|ppt|mp3|avi|mov)$ […]

I’ve been collecting paperwork now for almost 3 years to apply for Italian citizenship. I have most of what I need. The person responsible for citizenship applications at the San Francisco consulate has been on leave for something like 9 months. The queue before she left was already nine months so when […]

I’ve been trying on and off to get Apache 2.0.x to compress HTML and XML output from ColdFusion. I’ve got CSS and Javascript compressing just fine and can verify it through the mod_deflate custom log format, but anything that comes out from ColdFusion via mod_jrun20 is returned uncompressed.
According to the Apache docs, the DEFLATE […]

Phishing attacks impersonate someone you do business with in order to separate you from your confidential information. Usually they are pretty hokey but the sophistication level has been steadily increasing over the last year.
I received a new telephone-based variation three times this morning. It’s a “Credit Union” attack with a very clever email. […]

That’s one exciting title. I found myself needing to migrate /var/log to a bigger drive as part of setting up a centralized syslog server. Normally, that’s not so hard but my requirements included:

Software RAID - mirroring drives for fault tolerance and no need for hardware RAID
Logical Volume Manager - LVM gives me additional […]