ColdFusion has numerous hot fixes and security bulletins published and available for download. However, navigating through the Adobe website to obtain all necessary patches can be a daunting experience. Once you have the patches, then there is the application of each patch. Through the ColdFusion Adminstrator, select the patch, apply the patch (if it doesn’t fail), stop and start services,…
Read More »ColdFusion 9.0.1 ships with Java 1.6.0_17. This guide will show how to upgrade to a newer version of Java. ColdFusion supports all minor releases of Java. For example, if ColdFusion supports JDK 1.6.0, all JDK 1.6.0_x updates are supported. JDK 1.7.0 is not considered a minor Java release. Unless explicitly stated that ColdFusion supports JDK 1.7.0, you cannot upgrade to…
Read More »Using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved Plugin (version 2.x) for WordPress has really given the code on this site more curb appeal. As many brushes that come with the plugin and searching through the third-party brushes throughout the Internet, I could not track down a brush for INNO Setup scripts. After a couple of hours and many attempts at this, I have…
Read More »There was a CentOS server where the IP address needed to be changed. Searches through the Internet revealed a series of commands that would do the trick. This script incorporates these commands into a single utility or bash script. This may not be all inclusive, but it did work for me on a CentOS 5.8 server. To use this script,…
Read More »There was a CentOS server where the name needed to be changed. Searches through the Internet revealed a series of commands that would do the trick. This script incorporates these commands into a single utility or bash script. This may not be all inclusive, but it did work for me on a CentOS 5.8 server. To use this script, simply…
Read More »SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev. It is prepackaged with a select handful of brushes, which includes several third-party brushes. There are many more third-party brushes that are available and not part of the plug-in package….
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Years ago, there was a couple of batch files that were floating around the Internet that were designed to defrag and shrink virtual machines created and used by VMware Workstation or VMware Server. Over time, the scripts became a little obsolete in that some of the command line functionality was lost from the removal of a utility, vmware-mount, from newer…
Read More »An older Pentium 4 computer recently had an IDE DVD burner that died. The quick replacement available was a SATA DVD burner. The BIOS recognized the drive, but Windows XP SP3 did not. It turned out to be a quick fix. Go to Device Manager and uninstall the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. After the computer rebooted, the controller automatically reinstalled, this…
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