Reality Me

Month: June 2006

  • Torn

    I’m tired. I want to go to bed.
    My wife is in pain. I want to come to her aid.
    My clients need their projects complete. I want to work through the night.
    I’m constantly conflicted. Such is life.

  • Woot! Wine!

    Woot has a new angle, they are selling wine. Yes, you heard correctly, http://wine.woot.com/”>. For connoisseurs of the grape, this could be an excellent way to acquire some fine wine at fine prices.

    For those that don’t know, Woot lists 1 product per day at midnight Central time (GMT -6) and sells it until they are out of stock. It might be junk or it might be an iPod $60 cheaper than anywhere else you could find one. Often the great stuff sells out in the first half hour of listing. Last I checked, Woot is affliated with Overstock.com.

    What is woot.wine? We were all pretty despondent when we couldn’t work out the logistics for massage.woot.com. We started to question the very idea of spinning off another new dot-woot. But then woot.com offered our Rinfrescante wine and we were positively deluged with inquiries from friends and family pleading for more (of course the cheapskates wanted more – they got it for free). This was enough “market research” for us. We reactivated our wine-industry hookup and wine.woot.com was conceived.
    …
    So every week, wine.woot.com will uncork a sweet new wine deal.
    Can I really buy wine on the Internet? Thanks to our esteemed Supreme Court, recent and dramatic changes in how wine can be sold and delivered in the U.S. allow wine.woot.com to bring wine directly from the winery to you.
    What states can you ship to?Thanks to stick-in-the-mud buzzkilling state legislators, wine may only be delivered to the following states:

    * Arizona (expect longer delivery times)
    * California
    * Colorado
    * Connecticut
    * District of Columbia
    * Florida
    * Idaho
    * Illinois
    * Indiana (expect longer delivery times)
    * Iowa
    * Louisiana
    * Massachusetts (expect longer delivery times)
    * Michigan
    * Missouri
    * Minnesota
    * Nebraska
    * Nevada
    * New Hampshire
    * New Jersey (expect longer delivery times)
    * New Mexico
    * New York
    * North Carolina
    * North Dakota
    * Ohio
    * Oregon
    * South Carolina
    * Texas
    * Vermont
    * Virginia
    * Washington
    * West Virginia
    * Wisconsin
    * Wyoming

    If your state’s not on the list, no wine for you! Take it up with your state assembly person. We comply with all federal, state, and local laws in providing this wine.

    Of course Tennessee is not on the list. We wouldn’t want to lose our reputation as being a bunch of backwards hillbillies. Now whar’s my shine?!

    Little sidenote, The Tennessee General Assembly website looks like one of the politicans had his highschool age child build the site. "Pages Created and Maintained by: Legislative Information Services"

  • Give me corporate America!

    So, just why do I want to give up the good life of working from home and go back to cubeville? So I can take stuff like this and turn it into stuff like that and still get a paycheck. Oh, and there is the "having food in the pantry" thing that seems nice.

  • Server Status

    I disabled a few unessential services, like FTP, did a magic reboot taking a brief stop in Safe Mode, and CFMX 7 started working! CFMX 6.1 continues to not work.

    Others have had this issue. I fail to see any clear resolution. Right now I am pondering uninstalling 6.1.

    Now to apply the latest 7 hotfixes then get back to work.

    Btw, this was done but may or may not have helped.

  • It’s a official…I’m stupid!

    The error "500 unexpected end of part" is caused by not including a backslash on a move operation with CFFILE.

    <cffile action="MOVE" source="c:\temp\foo.jpg" destination="c:\temp\newdirectory">

    Should be:

    <cffile action="MOVE" source="c:\temp\foo.jpg" destination="c:\temp\newdirectory\">

    Written that way makes it seem self-evident. However, the documentation states "If not an absolute path, it is relative to the source directory." implying that:

    <cffile action="MOVE" source="c:\temp\foo.jpg" destination="newdirectory">

    should be alright. The backslash is still necessary!

    The big burn on this stupid mistake is that I’m now a day and a half behind schedule on my work, my development server still doesn’t work, and I have to move forward by publishing my work directly to the client’s website (yuck!). Fortunately it is a staging server and not a production server.

  • Here’s a challenge for you

    Explain "modesty" to a 10 year old boy.

    Update: World Central’s Student Dictionary did the best job in the time I alloted to find it.

    This doesn’t help explain modesty.

  • ISSUE REPRODUCED ON A DIFFERENT SERVER!

    And the beast that stated my living hell is back! This time on the production server which is a CFMX 7 server.

    500 unexpected end of part
    unexpected end of part

    This occurred trying to submit a file via a form and recorded the filename in the database.

  • Frustrations with Computers

    The trouble with having to divert energy to troubleshooting is that it is absolutely non-productive and non-billable. I have two clients that are going into painful delays because of my server issue and another client getting anxious about wanting to know when things will start. I really just want to buy a new box and start fresh!

  • Summer mornings

    At 9:30am this morning:

  • What is Ward170-I386?

    In continuing to try to troubleshoot my server problems I look into the Add/Remove programs to confirm that I do NOT have .Net 2.0 installed on a Windows2000 server. I notice a program called Ward170-I386 but can find no information on this program. Do I uninstall it? What if I put it there out of need and have since forgotten.

    Update: Thanks to bananachunks for reminding me that it is an OLD version of War-Ftpd (an excellent FTP server!).

  • Server troubleshooting continues

    On trying to start the cfmx (6.1) service I get the following message:

    Windows could not start the ColdFusion MX Server on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 1.

    The event log shows (for Application):

    The ColdFusion MX Application Server service could not be started. Check that server “default” exists. Check the server “default” log files for more information.

    And for MX 7:

    The ColdFusion MX 7 Application Server service could not be started within 240 seconds. Increase the server startup timeout value using C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\jrunsvc.exe -starttimeout <seconds> "ColdFusion MX 7 Application Server".

    I wonder if this is related:

    Source:WinMgmt Warning! "WMI ADAP was unable to process the PerfDisk performance library due to a time violation in the open function."

    The event viewer shows nothing interesting for DNS Server, IExplore, or Security. System however shows a warning for source Browser:

    The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers fromthe browser master \\ROCKWELL on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{31C49F54-B9A1-4536-85E6-FCCF5D042F85}. The data is the error code. "Data: bytes: 0000: 35 00 00 00 5…"

    That’s interesting because Rockwell is my development machine and should not be master of anything. Other server event warnings/errors:

    Error: Source: Service Control Manager: The RMServer service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 0 milliseconds. No action.
    Error: Source: Service Control Manager: The RMServer service hung on starting.
    Error: Source: Service Control Manager: The ColdFusion MX 7 Application Server service terminated with service-specific error 2.
    Error: Source: Service Control Manager: The Windows Media Program Service service terminiated wtih service-specific error 16389.
    Error: Source: The ColdFusion MX Application Server service terminated with service-specific error 1.
    Warning: Time: 3:47 Source: BROWSER: The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \\FREUD on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{31C49F54-B9A1-4536-85E6-FCCF5D042F85}. The data is the error code. Data: Bytes: 0000: 35 00 00 00 5…

    Ok! What’s that?! \\FREUD is my wife’s computer and has no more business being a browser master than \\ROCKWELL. We were also fast asleep at that time.

  • Pee and Poo are now available internationally

    A Christmas or two ago I wanted to buy some Kiss & Bajs (that’s Swedish for Pee & Poo) as a gift for someone but they didn’t ship overseas. I even looked into having a friend from Europe buy some and send it to me. This crappy market seems to be growing and as consumers we are gaining choices in how to gift someone with excrement. I have yet to find a website that offers to deliver a flaming paper to someone’s doorstep.

  • Aspergers – Learning to function

    Tommy is really doing well!

  • Update on yesterday’s challenges

    Yesterday I hit the ground running at 2:30am and was taking names! Somewhere around 7am I had a problem with my server and productivity ground to a halt. I spent the entire day working the issue and still don’t have it working. My server is a development server accessible only to me and sports ColdFusion 4.5 and ColdFusion MX 6.1. It now also has ColdFusion 7 installed. CF 4.5 works fine. CFMX 6.1 and 7 both refuse to start as a service. The timing on this issue couldn’t be worse.

    From the cf7 runtime/logs/coldfusion-event.log:

    06/15 06:24:56 warning No sessionSecret has been specified in jrun.xml. Installing a self generated sessionSecret.
    06/15 06:25:01 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
    06/15 06:25:02 info JRun Web Server listening on *:8501
    06/15 06:25:02 info Deploying enterprise application “Macromedia ColdFusion MX” from: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
    06/15 06:25:07 info Deploying web application “Macromedia Coldfusion MX” from: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
    06/15 06:25:47 user JSPServlet: init
    06/15 06:25:55 user CFMxmlServlet: init
    06/15 06:25:55 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
    06/15 06:26:11 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
    06/15 06:26:11 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: Starting application services
    06/15 06:26:11 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: VM version = 1.4.2_05-b04

    and from coldfusion-out.txt:

    Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 92909), coldfusion server
    06/15 06:24:39 warning Unable to open C:\CFusionMX7\runtime/lib/license.properties
    06/15 06:24:54 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2920
    06/15 06:24:56 warning No sessionSecret has been specified in jrun.xml. Installing a self generated sessionSecret.
    06/15 06:25:01 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
    06/15 06:25:02 info JRun Web Server listening on *:8501
    06/15 06:25:02 info Deploying enterprise application “Macromedia ColdFusion MX” from: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
    06/15 06:25:07 info Deploying web application “Macromedia Coldfusion MX” from: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
    06/15 06:25:47 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
    06/15 06:25:47 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
    06/15 06:25:47 user JSPServlet: init
    06/15 06:25:55 user CFMxmlServlet: init
    06/15 06:25:55 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
    06/15 06:25:55 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
    06/15 06:26:11 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
    06/15 06:26:11 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: Starting application services
    06/15 06:26:11 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: VM version = 1.4.2_05-b04
    06/15 06:26:15 Information [main] – Starting logging…
    06/15 06:26:15 Information [main] – Starting crypto…
    06/15 06:26:26 Information [main] – Starting license…
    06/15 06:26:26 Information [main] – Starting License server …
    06/15 06:27:08 Information [main] – Starting scheduler…
    06/15 06:27:08 Information [main] – Starting WatchService…
    06/15 06:27:09 Information [main] – Starting debugging…
    06/15 06:27:09 Information [main] – Starting sql…
    06/15 06:27:10 Information [main] – Starting mail…
    06/15 06:27:13 Information [main] – CORBA Configuration not enabled
    06/15 06:27:13 Information [main] – Starting cron…
    06/15 06:27:13 Information [main] – Starting registry…
    06/15 06:27:15 Information [main] – Starting client…
    06/15 06:27:17 Information [main] – Starting xmlrpc…
    06/15 06:27:21 Information [main] – Starting graphing…
    06/15 06:27:36 Information [main] – Starting verity…
    06/15 06:27:36 Information [main] – Starting archive…
    06/15 06:27:36 Information [main] – Starting document…

    Update: I did receive an error message:

    Could not start the ColdFusion MX 7 Application Server service on local computer.
    Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

  • And for today’s out of context quote!

    Unique, ribbed, Latex sleeve surrounding embedded electronics for enhanced iPod® safety and increased user comfort.

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