Re: Server Monitoring

2009-04-14 Thread David Livingston
This isn't a CF kind of way to do what you are asking, but it might be what you are looking for. We have used Nagios to monitor, log and troubleshoot servers in both of our datacenters and it can be very useful if you just can't sit in front of a machine 24/7. http://www.nagios.org/ http://

Re: 404's

2008-05-08 Thread David Livingston
This is for Win 2k server, but it probably hasn't changed too much in newer versions. Hope it helps. You can probably test on your local windows machine before deploying to server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727138.aspx Dave On May 8, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Jenny Gavin-Wear wro

Re: OCR Solutions

2007-12-06 Thread David Livingston
I don't know what your budget is but we have used these in several document management solutions and they seem to be pretty idiot proof. Plus you can collect data and do ocr. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15179-15179-64195-12126-64404-3330619.html Dave On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:3

Re: Newsletter Application

2007-06-28 Thread David Livingston
I don't know of a commercial CF app. I've certainly built a few of these in my career. What I use currently for clients is http://www.mailbuild.com/ . It takes all of the hassle out of programming and sending email newsletters. Also it has an api that lets you programatically manage subscri

Re: Transferring from MS SQL (2000) to PostgreSQL

2007-01-11 Thread David Livingston
If you just want a single IP to be able to connect the format is 555.555.555.555/0 . Obviously you replace the 555 stuff with your IP. Dave On Jan 11, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Matt Quackenbush wrote: > Jochem, > > Thank you. That was the problem. I didn't realize that it was > needed. > Remote c

Re: OT: Best free support (ticket) system?

2007-01-11 Thread David Livingston
http://www.simpleticket.net/ On Jan 11, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Jonathan Block wrote: > Any suggestions on a free customer support ticket system? We use > OTRS but > it's seems very out dated... but what it does it does pretty well. > We have > several employees who use it to manage support ticket

Re: Transferring from MS SQL (2000) to PostgreSQL

2007-01-10 Thread David Livingston
I concur with Jon. I'd use Character Varying. Dave On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Jon Clausen wrote: > No you're right - now days. I've had some issues with older drivers > where they would throw a syntax error on me so I always use character > varying with Pg just to be on the safe side. > > On

Re: Transferring from MS SQL (2000) to PostgreSQL

2007-01-10 Thread David Livingston
Here is what I have done in the past. Use enterprise manager to script out the tables to a sql script. Then do a find an replace on the script to convert the data types and remove all of the MS specific stuff. Once you have a good generic SQL script run it on postgres to create all of your

Re: Best book for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-29 Thread David Livingston
This might sound a little funny but I have found the online docs to be the most useful over all of the books I have bought. Of course maybe I just bought bad books. ;) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/ Dave On Dec 29, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Damien McKenna wrote: > Anyone have any recommendations for

Re: ColdFusion blogging software?

2006-11-16 Thread David Livingston
You can get a free blog at http://blogfusion.com/ or http://cfblog.com . We will also be launching a hosted version of the greatly awaited version 5 in the next few weeks. It is currently invite only. If anyone would like to try it out email me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get a code. The

Re: OT: Good Linux books

2006-10-30 Thread David Livingston
This is my favorite for folks that are new to Linux: http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=1593270356 How Linux Works by Ward, Brian Read chapters 1,2, & 4 and you will be well down the road of Linux basics. Dave On Oct 26, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Doug Brown wrote: > Hi all..There is so many book

Re: CFINCLUDE not including: FB3/Linux

2006-10-18 Thread David Livingston
Have you checked the permissions on the files after you upload them. The ftp server could be changing them on upload not allowing CF/ Apache to read them. Dave On Oct 18, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Josh Nathanson wrote: > Thanks Sandra, > > The cases all match up, and the file is definitely there. > >

Re: CF blog application

2006-10-17 Thread David Livingston
BlogFusion does MS access plus a bunch of other DB's and features. http://blogfusion.com If you are looking for a place for your personal blog you might want to sign up at cfblog. http://cfblog.com Dave On Oct 17, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Ali Majdzadeh wrote: > Hi: I need a blog application i

Re: Two Databases on Two Servers Conundrum

2006-09-29 Thread David Livingston
You could have the server in Guernsey connect to the one in the US and either do a push or a pull of data. Most places won't alow inbound connections but out bound are usually allowed no problem. You can usually set up a batch or shell script to run and update the data on a regular basis.

Re: cfblog.com

2006-09-26 Thread David Livingston
ColdSpring added. Coldfusion on Windows added. H a USP (unique selling proposition). So, there are lots of free places to blog on the web and Ray Camden plus a few others give their software away for free so you can host it on your own server. In short this is not meant to make you m

Announcing cfblog.com

2006-09-25 Thread David Livingston
Since acquring BlogFusion from Jake McKee we have been feverishly working on the newest version to get it released. As a precursor to that we would like to offer something back to the ColdFusion community. Announcing http://cfblog.com . A place for ColdFusion developers to blog for free. This

Re: Linux webserver

2006-09-12 Thread David Livingston
Suse has a great control panel called yast that makes a lot of tasks easier, but anyone using linux is going to want/have to learn the command line stuff after awhile. Also I have heard a bunch or good usability stuff about ubuntu. Coldfusion is not supported on ubuntu, but it is supported on

Installing CFMX 7.02 on Suse 10.x

2006-08-18 Thread David Livingston
So I had a bit of an adventure getting CF7 set up on my new Suse 10.1 box and I thought I'd share the problem and the fix. That way you would know, and the searchengines could pick it up in the archives. The first problem I had was with the installer: It kept kicking back an error saying that

Re: multiuser CF blog app?

2006-06-09 Thread David Livingston
Version 5 of blogfusion supports multi blogs (although it's still in beta). We just launched a hispanic blogging service with it. It has been almost completely revamped. It has CSS layouts and a few other nifty tricks that might make it worth taking another look at. If you want to see it in

Re: MySQL/CFMX7 is the death of me.

2006-02-06 Thread David Livingston
This might sound dumb but try changing localhost to 127.0.0.1 in this part: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDevDB Just guessing, I had probs with verity and the fix was changing localhost to 127.0.0.1 Dave On Feb 6, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Adkins, Randy wrote: > Ok for those of you who are fam

Re: MySQL 5 and CFMX7 (New Problem)

2006-02-03 Thread David Livingston
installed on? The only other thing I would suggest is check the cf and mysql logs to see if the provide any lower lever details/clues. Dave On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:26 PM, ColdFusion wrote: > Yes, it is displayed under System Information in > CF Admin > > -Original Message---

Re: MySQL 5 and CFMX7 (New Problem)

2006-02-03 Thread David Livingston
Did you add \ wwwroot \ web-inf\ lib into your java coldfusion class path? You have to restart CF after you add it so that the jdbc driver gets loaded in. Here is a link to how to install the postgress driver. The mysql setup should be similar. http://cfguru.daemon.com.au/archives/82.htm

Re: MySQL 5 and CFMX7

2006-02-02 Thread David Livingston
Have you tried one of the newer Mysql JDBC or ODBC drivers? http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/ http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/ Also check to see if Mysql is actually running on port 3306. Dave On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Adkins, Randy wrote: > Does anyone have problems

Re: Migrating app version 2.0

2006-02-02 Thread David Livingston
Here is what has worked for me in the past when I migrate MS-SQL DBs to Postgres which is pretty similar to MySQL. Export out a script of your db structure using Enterprise Manager. Edit the script and remove any MS-SQL specific stuff. Find out which data types need to have different names

Re: Disable Verity on Linux?

2006-01-31 Thread David Livingston
/etc/init.d/cfmx7search stop I don't ever see it spawn a bunch of processes but the actual coldfusion app does. Dave On Jan 30, 2006, at 5:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/l

Re: Serving .htm as cfm on linux

2005-11-22 Thread David Livingston
Ken thanks for the link. I found the apache version here and this did it. http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm? catid=143&threadid=1039875&enterthread=y Thanks, Dave On Nov 22, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Ken Ferguson wrote: > This is talking about IIS, but it does mention

Serving .htm as cfm on linux

2005-11-22 Thread David Livingston
I am trying to set up a way to serve .htm pages as cfm pages. The why is not important, that is what I want to do. I am running CF 7 on Suse 9.3 and Apache 2. I was hoping I could just change the AddHandler option and add .htm to the list. When I do that I get: [an error occurred while proces

Re: Convert Address to Latitude/Longitude

2005-11-04 Thread David Livingston
Maybe you could use a webservice? This google search looked promising. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+geocode+WEB+SERVICE&spell=1 Dave On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Troy Montour wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm trying to get a project finished by monday and the last piece I > need to do i

Re: Recursion anyone?

2005-10-26 Thread David Livingston
An easy way to do recursion in cf is to use a custom tag. One of the things you will have to do is have your top level be set to a parent id that wont get used in any levels below it. I like to set the top level to zero or one. The first time you call your custom tag you just pass the top lev

Re: Recommend a good CF-based LMS/WBT Application?

2005-10-13 Thread David Livingston
It's not a Cf based one but it is open source and gaining momentum. http://www.moodle.org Dave On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Alexander Sherwood wrote: > Hello All, > > Anyone have experience with a CFML-based Learning Management System > and/or Web Based Training Application? We are considering

Re: Credit card storage

2005-09-22 Thread David Livingston
Bank of America now uses cybersource (http://cybersource.com) as their processing service. They do not provide any api's or support for coldfusion. I ended up using their php solution and calling it from the command line using cfexecute. Not the cleanest solution but it works. FYI Dave

Re: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying Dynamic Data?

2005-09-10 Thread David Livingston
I stumbled across this while researching something else. I thought it fits into the topi, sort of. It's kind neat. http://www.activewidgets.com/grid/ Dave On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Rick Root wrote: > Rick, > > Are you asking us how to pound in a nail without using a hammer? > > I see from t

Re: cfFile - uploading safely

2005-09-10 Thread David Livingston
A few other safety tips for uploads: -Upload files into a temp directory then copy them over to their final destination. If you can, remove execute permissions on the file. If its just for download read and write should be sufficient. -Virus scan everything that gets uploaded into the temp dire

Re: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying Dynamic Data?

2005-09-09 Thread David Livingston
One of the things I always hear developers talking about is separating the layout/design/presentation from the data/code. CSS is really great way to do that. All you have to do is present very simple html code and CSS can do the rest. Here is a project that I am developing right now that we d

Re: multiple cfoutputs vs one as a wrapper

2005-09-08 Thread David Livingston
Bugzilla is a pretty decent one. I know it integrates with a few of the more popular open source source control programs like CVS and Subversion. http://www.bugzilla.org/features/ Might be worth looking into. Dave On Sep 8, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Ray Champagne wrote: > Hey all: > > I'm tasked wi

Re: Cybersource CF tag

2005-09-06 Thread David Livingston
Unfortunately yes. I already have an Authorize.net tag. Dave On Sep 6, 2005, at 7:57 PM, Will Tomlinson wrote: > Dumb question. Do you have to use cybersource? Can you use > Authorize.net possibly? > I have one for them. > > Will > > ~~

Cybersource CF tag

2005-09-06 Thread David Livingston
I am looking for someone who has or can write me a CF tag for processing credit cards through cybersource's payment gateway. They publish examples for most scripting languages: http://www.cybersource.com/support_center/implementation/downloads/ I just don't have time to write one from scratch. I

RE: OT : embedding a PDF

2001-03-01 Thread David Livingston
http://www.adobe.com/products/docserver/main.html Adobe has a product that does just this. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT : embedding a PDF This is a bit off topic but I was thinking abou

RE: Mutiple CFTalk messages

2001-02-08 Thread David Livingston
Me too. Dave -Original Message- From: Windle, Kevan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Mutiple CFTalk messages I'm getting multiple copies of postings today. Is it just me? ***

RE: How do I put the little image in the address bar in IE?

2001-01-29 Thread David Livingston
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp Hope that helps. Dave -Original Message- From: Milks, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT:How do I put the little image in the address bar in IE? Hi, I have

Cross browser file save as/open dialog

2001-01-26 Thread David Livingston
Does any one know a way to push a file to the browser that would spawn a save as/open dialog and let them download a file. I can't use an for security. I don't want to give the path away if they view source,etc. Thanks in advance, Dave Livingston David Livingston General Bandwidth 51

RE: Content Management software which works with CF

2001-01-23 Thread David Livingston
http://www.ektron.com/single.cfm?doc_id=37 I saw a demo of this a while ago. It looked pretty slick. Dave -Original Message- From: Cary Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management software which works with CF We u

RE: Allaire on a Mac?

2001-01-23 Thread David Livingston
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RE: Allaire on a Mac?

2001-01-23 Thread David Livingston
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ Or just run linux on your Mac and make it real useful. Dave -Original Message- From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Allaire on a Mac? It is actually not that far fetched when one co

RE: wow...

2001-01-16 Thread David Livingston
Go to macromedia.com. It gives all the details. Dave -Original Message- From: Aaron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: wow... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Everyone seen this? :) Macromedia and Allaire to Mer

RE: image root resolving

2001-01-11 Thread David Livingston
You could set an application variable that points to the images directory. then just reference it where ever you need it through the directory structure. http://yourdomain.com/images/"> EX: OR I hope that helps. David Livingston General Bandwidth 512.681.5794 [EMAIL P

RE: CFHEADER

2001-01-08 Thread David Livingston
Here is the piece of code I use it works fine in IE and Netscape. Dave -Original Message- From: Peter Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFHEADER It seems the following won't work, well in at least IE5.5.

RE: Cold Fusion controlled CD-RW

2001-01-05 Thread David Livingston
http://www.goldenhawk.com/dos.htm This looks like it might do the trick. Dave -Original Message- From: Bernd VanSkiver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Cold Fusion controlled CD-RW Know of any software that takes command line

Dynamic Visio charts and cf

2000-12-29 Thread David Livingston
Has anyone out there ever seen or built Visio charts dynamically with CF? Thanks in advance, Dave Livingston ~ Paid Sponsorship ~ Get Your Own Dedicated Win2K Server! Instant Activation for $99/month w/Free Setup from SoloServer PIII600 / 128 MB RAM / 20 GB HD

RE: This is weird

2000-12-28 Thread David Livingston
If you are inserting into a text field make sure your value has single quotes around it. 'retreat' instead of retreat SQL = "INSERT INTO CommunityEvents (CommunityEventID, CommunityEventName, LastUpdate) VALUES(HPRO-12-28-2000, 'retreat', {ts '2000-12-28 18:42:56'})" -Original Message- F

DoS in coldfusion passwords

2000-12-28 Thread David Livingston
Don't know if anyone has heard of this one. It was discovered a while ago, but you never know. http://www.foundstone.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?Content_ID=37 Dave ~ Paid Sponsorship ~ Get Your Own Dedicated Win2K Server! Instant Activation for $99/month w/Free Setup f

RE: Securing Word Documents etc

2000-12-19 Thread David Livingston
You can store them on a non-public directory (i.e. not under inetpub)and use cfcontent to push them to authorized users. Dave Livingston -Original Message- From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Securing Word Docume

RE: Help on Pulldown - Please help...getting coldfusion rage here

2000-12-14 Thread David Livingston
Try doing a dynamic select statement with out the cfselect tag. EX: #court_nm# - #county_nm# -Original Message- From: Kim Ahlbrandt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Help on Pulldown - Please help...getting coldfusion rage here

RE: Customizing Email with CFMail

2000-12-06 Thread David Livingston
try, #emailbody# I didn't test it, but I think It should work. Dave Livingston General Bandwidth 512-681-5794 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Customizing Email wi

RE: SQL 7.0 Question

2000-11-30 Thread David Livingston
Yes, you don't need * when doing a SQL delete statement. Dave -Original Message- From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL 7.0 Question Ok I just did a local upgrade from Access 2000 to SQL 7.0 and everything works great

RE: Can Application.cfm secure html files?

2000-11-17 Thread David Livingston
If you set up.html files to be processed like .cfm files Application.cfm will protect them. http://www.infranet.com/ProcessHTMAsCFM.htm Dave -Original Message- From: Douglas Jordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Can Application.cf

RE: Netscape 6 out UGH!!!!

2000-11-15 Thread David Livingston
It gives you an option to save the setup files to disk. You should be able to copy those to a CD and do an install from the CD. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Netscape 6 out U

RE: Setting up a webserver

2000-11-15 Thread David Livingston
You should only need SP6a. Every service pack contains the fixes of previous service packs. So the most recent is all you should need. Dave hey, i havent done this in awhile, and i've only done it once. But i'm trying to set up a webserver on nt, this is going to be a local intranet deal. I'

RE: fusebox

2000-11-14 Thread David Livingston
Well it isn't a methodology, but iiFramework (http://www.iiframework.com) is an application framework that makes a lot of the basic stuff like authentication and content management easier. Dave -Original Message- From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2

RE: Remote DB Alteration

2000-11-08 Thread David Livingston
You can use SQL statements to update, create, and modify tables. Also you can open up the Access file and modify it if you open it on the actual server the file sits on. I don't recommend it though. Your chances of getting corruption probably double. Dave Livingston General Bandwidth [EMAIL PROTEC