MySQL on Windows became the latest victim of a worm on Thursday of this week. A worm call THE FORBOT NETWORK WORM. The worm, which also has Trojan horse features, infects machines by breaking into the default administrator
or ROOT account password. With access to the MySQL root account, Forbot was programmed to use a recently-discovered [...]
I came across this resource for IIS Information the other day. I am sure there are many out there but this looks pretty helpful. There are lots of subjects covered here from Installation and Configuration through the Management
Scripts, Performance Tuning, Securing, Troubleshooting and other items. The only downside is that the site [...]
How to add Datasources without CF Admin is a subject that surfaces from time
to time and in researching this for a particular genuine client need I came across this interesting post from Scotland’’s ColdFusion User Group Manager, Andy Allan. I like the look of what Andy is doing because he is using the CFC’’s that [...]
I was just wanting to refer to the ColdFusion Comparison Matrix for a client of ours with a question and sadly I see it is a PDF file and consequently takes what seems like eons to me to appear. It is a simple 4 page document with no hairy graphics.
It would be [...]
AOL users have often been a challenge where we are using IP Addresses as some sort of identifier to set or monitor access and perhaps authorization in web applications. We normally avoid using IP Addresses for something
that is crucially important in an application. However, we have a current client who insists on using [...]
Servers Alive is a superb utility which we have used for a long time to monitor our many servers and services. Version 5 has just been released and at a starting price of $139.00 you can get monitoring of the following protocols-services with a range of reporting and alerting options.
PING
TCP Services
UDP Services
DNS
Windows Servers – services, [...]
Jaguar Cars are showing their Advanced Lightweight Coupe as a show car at the Detroit Auto Show and it features Alpines award winning PulseTouch technology which uses Flash to help simulate the sensation of using real buttons on a touch screen. Centrally positioned the Alpine system controls all the key features of the vehicles [...]
I read this story in today’’s Los Angeles Times. It was on the front page which
is unusual for Techie type stories but of course this involves the FBI. As we
are not yet quite Macromedia-esque in terms of sales revenue at Webapper, reading of contracts worth $170 Million are still of interest to us ;o). [...]
RFID aka Radio Frequency ID is coming, there are various standpoints as to whether this a good or a bad thing, privacy concerns being one. One of the main areas which will be affected are Bar Codes which have now been with us for over 30 years. Whilst scanning Bar Codes requires the scanner [...]
Many of the things we have been used to as developers will be markedly different
for us if we wish to move into the world of Business Wireless devices. One stark
example of this is that we assume network reliability in the CF code we currently create, we assume the ubiquity of Ethernet-ATM etc. That will certainly [...]
