Reality Me

As I continued my journey I envisioned the glory that I would find beyond the next bend. There would be an inn where I could rest me weary feet and put down a pint or two. As I made the bend, Murphy the Leprechaun sprang from a bush waving his hands and chanting. Suddenly the path split and extended. Murphy declared, "Aye’ve split me treasure and placed it in pots at the ends of these paths. It’s all yours! If’n you meet me challenge."

I gandered down the left split rolling gently downhill and a good 3 day’s journey saw a huge rainbow then a sharp cliff. Looking to the right, the path climbed a steep hill then meandered down to the inn and continued on. At the inn was a smaller rainbow and the path had stretched to make the inn a good 5 day’s journey.

Murphy continued, "Get to me gold an’ it’s yours but you must make the journey in 2 days. You can have both pots if you move quickly. The size of the rainbow represents the relative size of the treasure. At the end of two days, me spell will break and the path will return to normal leaving you stranded where you stand. I recommend ye make it to the inn within two days!"

And then he was gone.

Update: Looks like he threw some trolls on the path to make it interesting.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!).