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By recording your cell phone’s serial number, when your phone disappears, the cell phone company can render the phone useless even if the sim card is changed.
To check your mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following on your phone:
star-hash-zero-six-hash ( * # 0 6 # )
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Web 2.0 is a registered trademark and has been since 2003! CMP Media, the trademark holder, co-produces the Web 2.0 conference. So for you developers out there talking and publishing about Web 2.0 hype, you are infringing on a trademark.
I just finished a fun piece of code for a client. In addition to web server logs, they have a prioprietary advertising campaign tracker. They needed data aggregated and queries optimized which was phase 1 and included some MS SQL stored procedure magic, queries of queries (ColdFusion), and manually creating query result sets.
Phase II was to minimize the amount of text presented, show results in graphs, and create a way for an advertising client to view only their data. Fortunately, ColdFusion comes through with a fancy tag called CFChart and after the server configuration was debugged, graphs appeared. Then text on the screen was hidden using CSS (and I’m really starting to use and enjoy the cascading aspect of css) and made to appear through JavaScript.
Since some charts show way too much data, a form was added to filter the data and only show lines on the graphs that are relevant to the end user’s needs.
Still think this country is as free as it used to be?
unelected bureaucrats at the commission have decreeed that Americans don’t have the right to use software such as Skype or PGPfone if it doesn’t support mandatory backdoors for wiretapping
[Source] Link thanks to Tom Maszerowski
I changed multiple variables at once so all of this may not be necessary. The final solution to the CFChart doesn’t work / won’t display / is blank problem is to add a virtual directory in IIS under the website wanting to use CFChart for "CFIDE" and another virtual directory for "JRunScripts". The last post in this thread helped me realize that having virtual directories for CFIDE and JRunScripts in the webroot was not sufficient.
Allan – CFUG Spain 5 Dec 2004 21:16:55 [ permanent link ]
What you have do is:
- Create the file GraphData.cfm in the CFIDE directory. (As a file can’t be empty stick a comment in there )
- Make sure the IIS website entry has a virtual directory to CFIDE (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE)
- Make sure the IIS website entry has a virtual directory to JRunScripts (C:\CFusionMX\runtime\lib\wsconfig\1)
Then restart CFMX server and Bob should be your uncle.
Allan
Update: Insult to injury. 6.5 hours ago, someone online recommended I confirm my mappings for CFIDE and scripts. I misinterpretted their question and blew it! Time to self-deprecate.
So I’ve spent most of the day working on this issue. To recount, I’m trying to use CFChart to plot some data but the webpage returns blank. What we know:
The zero byte file reference was interesting. For people having trouble with CFChart or RDS you may need to know:
Some ColdFusion Administrator functions, as well as RDS and cfchart functionality, rely on two ColdFusion templates. However, these templates do not exist by default. You will need to create the following zero-byte files, since IIS will check for them during processing.
- Open Windows Explorer.
- Navigate to the web_root/CFIDE directory, typically located at \inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE.
- Create a blank file named GraphData.cfm.
- Create a directory called main.
- Navigate to the new directory at web_root/CFIDE/main.
- Create a blank file titled ide.cfm.
- Repeat steps B-F for any additional instances of web_root/CFIDE.
At this point I’m running out of time. Can I do this with a different solution?
So I take on two quickie low cost, fast turn around projects and they are eating me alive!
The first is a ColdFusion reporting project that is simply supposed to take the existing statistics report and produce a chart using CFChart. Works fine on my CFMX6.1 development server but apparently IIS6 and CF7.1 don’t play nice when it comes to CFChart. The problem is with IIS but Adobmedillare has been kind enough to release a hot fix that doesn’t work. "This hot fix explicitly generates HTTP headers before the chart data."
The second simple project is a PHP COTS shopping system (x-cart) that needs some customization. Only, it’s not using PHP per se. The customizations are all done using SMARTY. The challenge with programming, particularly web application programming, is constantly having to learn new languages/frameworks/methodoligies and being able to turn work like its old hack.
Using this simple CFChart example works in CF6.1 and fails in CF7.01 even after the hot fix.
<cfchart>
<cfchartseries type="pie">
<cfchartdata item="New car sales" value="50000">
<cfchartdata item="Used car sales" value="25000">
<cfchartdata item="Leasing" value="30000">
<cfchartdata item="Service" value="40000">
</cfchartseries>
</cfchart>
Anyone have extra tickets for CFUnited? I’d love to go this year but can’t justify the cost of the event.
UPDATE: Just tried the ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 Cumulative Hot Fix 2 with no luck. Note the hot fix advises:
Any individual hot fixes previously installed that are now contained in this cumulative hot fix should be removed.
…
we recommend always using the latest version of the cumulative hot fix
In short, remove any previous *.jars and only install the latest fix.
One of my favorite games will be back again. I find it slightly disturbing that there is a sentence in this article which reads "if you are too young to remember…"
The Roomba has made playing with robotics at home easier than The Hero ever did! Roombas are fun to watch and websites abound about Hacking the Roomba. There is even a streaming vaccuum cam sitting on a Roomba to let you watch the world from a Roomba’s point of view.
Understand that the Internet you know and love is being threaten. Take 6.5 minutes to watch this video to better understand net neutrality and why you should be in touch with your representative in Washington.
UPDATE: Be sure to watch this one also which presents the other side of the debate. Here’s a comment I just made at Say Uncle:
I think that link should be balanced with the other side.
Knowing the Internet on the technical side as intimately as I do, I think both videos leave out critical information. I’m still weighing my thoughts on the issue. Right now I think the 6.5 minute video in favor of regulation presents better arguments. The hands off video is more strongly deceptive in making people think that Google and the giants are getting a free ride which they aren’t. They have to pay for connectivity just like the rest of us and bandwidth at their magnitude can get expensive. Any small time publisher that has found the front page of Instapundit, Digg, Slashdot, BoingBoing or the rest knows the pain.
I still have to think this one over.
For you developers out there troubleshooting CSS, Aardvark is an extension for Firefox which greatly helps troubleshoot your css since it will show the elements with labels. Aardvark is not listed on Mozilla’s official list of extensions which typically means that the extension is not completely compatible with Firefox, sloppy, or the developer just didn’t submit it. I like Aardvark but had to quit using it when Firefox released version 1.5. Only today did I realize that Aardvark had a new release.
I definitely recommend adding Aardvark to your list of development tools!
Riya brings an interesting angle to photosharing and album management. Riya uses facial recognition to automatically name the people in your photos. Now when you take 500 pictures on a family vacation you can upload the photos and search for all photos containing a particular person. Very nice! Riya is currently in an unstable beta. Flickr should buy them.
Free phone calls for US to US and Canada to Canada! Skype is doing an awareness program and giving away free calls from computer to landline to increase market penetration until the end of the year. Skype me! Learn more about Skype.
The Blue Frog is offering to keep spam out of your inbox. I haven’t tried it but thought I’d let others know it is an option.
In my recent post regarding Queries of Queries I should have pointed to a site with some information others my find useful.