Archive for August, 2007

Upgrading to Thunderbird 2 on Ubuntu Feisty

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Upgrading to Thunderbird 2 on Ubuntu Feisty
Add the following two repositories and check for updates
deb http://ubuntu.iuculano.it feisty thunderbird
deb-src http://ubuntu.iuculano.it feisty thunderbird
References
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdNewVersion

Proudly Supporting Ron Paul at Sea World & Universal

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I  spend a few days in Orlando with my family visiting Sea World & Universal .  With much protesting from my wife , I wore my Ron Paul For President  t-shirt the entire time.

Finally… Linksys 802.11G Working on Ubuntu

Friday, August 24th, 2007

After trying for over a year to get my Linksys WPC54GS card working on a Linux laptop, I finally got it working today!!!
Here are my steps

Open a terminal and type “lspci” this will give you a listing of pci devices on your computer.

Look for one that looks something like this

“0000:05:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom [...]

Changing The Default Thumbnail Size In WordPress

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Instructions for WordPress 2.1 or 2.2 and later
Open /wp-admin/admin-functions.php and look for the following code:
$max_side = apply_filters( ‘wp_thumbnail_max_side_length’,
128, $attachment_id, $file );
This works a bit differently than earlier versions of WordPress. The number specified here (128 by default) is the maximum size of either dimension. You can still just change this to whatever number you like [...]

BellSouth/ATT: Making It Really Easy To Rat You Out

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Not that I am doing anything wrong or have anything to worry about, but BellSouth/ATT has made it very easy to rat me out. I did a quick whois on my IP Address, and noticed two interesting things

A very easy way to report any of my abuse
A very easy way to request a subpoena [...]

Reporting A ColdFusion Bug To Adobe

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Use this URL.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Unclogging My Postfix Server’s Arteries

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Every once in a while my postfix mta get clogged with spam and undeliverable mail.  This causes wanted email to take a long time to be sent/recieved.  In order to resolve the issue, sometimes I get rough with the server and use the following command.
postsuper -v -d ALL deferred
This will basically delete all emails in [...]

Where ColdFusion Looks For Your CFC

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Yes this was copied from the manual, but now I will never forget. Here is the order in which ColdFusion will look for your CFCs!

Local directory of the calling CFML page
Web root
Directories specified on the Custom Tag Paths page of ColdFusion Administrator

See the note for unix/linux machines!!!!!!!!
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Specifying the CFC location
When you instantiate or [...]

Application.cfc Skeleton

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Here is my Application.cfc Skeleton
<cfcomponent>
<cfset This.name = “TestApplication” >
<cfset This.Sessionmanagement=”True” >
<cfset This.loginstorage=”session” >
<cffunction name=”onApplicationStart” output=”false” hint=”Runs when ColdFusion receives the first request for a page in the application.” >
<cfreturn true >
</cffunction>
<cffunction name=”onApplicationEnd” output=”false” hint=”The application ends: the application times out, or the server is stopped” >
<cfargument name=”ApplicationScope” required=”true” />
</cffunction>
<cffunction name=”onError” output=”false” hint=”Runs when an uncaught [...]

sudo bang bang (sudo !!)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

!! tells bash “repeat the last command I entered.”  How is this useful? I can’t tell you how many times I have received the error “Operation not permitted” while chmoding something. So instead of retyping the command as superuser, I can just type “sudo !!”.  This will run the previous sodoed
references
http://www.deadman.org/bash.html