CFAnywhere -- One step backward.

2004-05-29 Thread Dick Applebaum
I earlier reported that I was successful getting CFAnywhere running entirely from CD -- this is still true! But it has been pointed out to me, by Steve Duys, that the McKoi db may lack some basic features that you would likely need to run youron CD or on the Desktop.These are: -- a rather

OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Mike Kear
( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in

OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread mkear
( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Gerry Demaret
Mike Kear wrote: There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in the registry, it finds its way back again. I'll track it down eventually

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Doug White
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Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread techmike
I definatly second Spybot SD.The new version (1.3) seems to be a lot more effictive at blocking such things.fixmy (dot) net is another place you can obtain it along with more spyware info.. -mike -Original Message- From: Gerry Demaret [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Davis
The online tests at www.pcpitstop.com http://www.pcpitstop.com/may find some of the simpler security holes for you: they'll automatically (if you choose) set IE and Outlook to more secure settings.It's not a really spyware/virus scanner (although they do offer an online virus scanner) but rather a

the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Don
Hi, I've inherited an app that does not lock session variables.The app runs under CF5.0. Have read cflock best practice for CF5.0. Here are a few questions: (A) CFLOCK 1) heard that cf5 server and cfmx server handles cflock differently, so, would cflock best pratice for cf5 applicable to cfmx if

RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Davis
I lied - it appears they have begun offering an online spyware/adware checker at pcpitstop.com Jim Davis _ From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page The online tests at

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Dan Blickensderfer
I use Ad Awarehttp://www.ad-aware.comIt's very good. Dan - Original Message - From: Mike Kear To: CF-Talk Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:42 AM Subject: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page ( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking

RE: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Tom Kitta
I am a bit rusty on this topic, but this is all what I remember. If anyone finds a mistake please correct me. -Original Message- From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited Hi,

Re: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Don
First, Tom, let me thank you for your knowledge and sharing.Please see my follow-up below. Don I am a bit rusty on this topic, but this is all what I remember. If anyone finds a mistake please correct me. -Original Message- From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday,

Encrypted URL?

2004-05-29 Thread CFDEV
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to have someone download a software that is not on my server, it's on the server of a member, for which I have the URL but I don't want anyone to know that real URL. I don't know if I 'm clear... I have members who has software accessible on their websites

Re: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
[Tom Kitta] The name is used when you don't actually lock the persistent scope variables. The lock doesn't care what's in it, it just single threads all requests. Thanks for the clarfication, good to know, in other words, when NAME is used regardless of the value of NAME itself CF server

De-Duping from 3 queries

2004-05-29 Thread Michael Kear
I'm writing anemailing application and we're going to be selecting our addresses from 3 different subscribertables, based on a whole bunch of criteria. I want to merge the 3 queries from the tables into one, then de-dup so we only send one email to each subscriber. Is the followingthe best

Re: Encrypted URL?

2004-05-29 Thread Claude Schneegans
I don't know if I 'm clear... Perfectly. The only way I can see is to get the file yourself with CFHTTP, then send it to your user. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this

RE: CFLogin AD

2004-05-29 Thread Raymond Camden
This sounds like a syntax error. Can you post the manage.cfm file, or lines 15-25 or so. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

RE: Encrypted URL?

2004-05-29 Thread Eric Jones
Do what the spammer do. Convert all your characters to there url equivalent... it see this page for conversion... http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/html2.htm Eric Jones Editor Caffeineinfused.com http://www.caffeineinfused.com/ http://www.caffeineinfused.com -Original Message- From:

RE: Encrypted URL?

2004-05-29 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Pat, I'm looking for a way to have someone download a software that is not on my server, it's on the server of a member, for which I have the URL but I don't want anyone to know that real URL. Can someone gave me ideas on how to do this? Unless your server is actually serving the file to the

RE: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Tom Kitta
[Tom Kitta] Well, as always in these situations I did a quick check as how things are in the real life. Here is my code: cfset mm = GetTickCount() cfloop index=m from=1 to=1 step=1 cflock timeout=30 throwontimeout=Yes type=EXCLUSIVE scope=SESSION cfset session.blob = 123 /cflock /cfloop

RE: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
[Tom Kitta] Well, as always in these situations I did a quick check as how things are in the real life. Here is my code: cfset mm = GetTickCount() cfloop index=m from=1 to=1 step=1 cflock timeout=30 throwontimeout=Yes type=EXCLUSIVE scope=SESSION cfset session.blob = 123 /cflock

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Arden Weiss
I too use AdAware 6.0 (along with the memory resident Ad-Watch) in addition to Symantec virus protection software. Further I also have a firewall in place as provided by my Belkin wireless router.The entire set of product types are required to provide a good defense to the various intruders our

Re: DNS question

2004-05-29 Thread Ewok
since your running DNS It's probably safe to assume you have a webserver that handles multiple sublevel domains you can use site headers (or identities in IIS) in your webserver to do it. I have many different projectsand they are all viewed by http://projectname.mydomain.com all set up through

Re: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Don
Tom, I'm re-writing that portion of other's code using SCOPE attribute of value session for locking now to support concurrent users for the app. Will test it to see result and update you and Isaac. Thanks again. Don P.S. Incidentally I noticed a lot of people using createUUID() for the named

Working with very large numbers

2004-05-29 Thread Jim McAtee
Does CF (v5) have a means of doing math with very large numbers?Example: cfset a = 57104432845826048260 cfset b = a + 1 cfoutput pre a= #a# b= #b# b= #NumberFormat(b, )# /pre /cfoutput Output: a= 57104432845826048260 b= 5.71044328458E+019 b= 57104432845826048000 [Todays

Re: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Don
I love mud, Issac, :) I think you made some valid points.To create a cf lock like cflock name='session' ... is totally and obviously senseless. Don [Tom Kitta] Well, as always in these situations I did a quick check as how things are in the real life. Here is my code: cfset mm =

RE: the ever popular cflock best practice revisited

2004-05-29 Thread Matt Robertson
Don wrote: In sum, it seems applying cflock is part of best practice for both preCFMX and CFMX. Yes, it's a part of each but for different reasons.In CF5 on down, you lock persistent scopes because if you don't you are taking your application's life in your hands.As was said earlier, you can wind

ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Don
One would never expect a production server running with 256 MB RAM but it's true I just found out from my client.The thing is it's totally beyond me that Dell would roll out a machine with this little amount of RAM and label it as a SERVER and sell to customers even three or fours years ago. Now,

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Doug White
With 5 to 10 concurrent users the box will run, but will be somewhat kludgy, especially if the SQL DB is on the same box (not recommended) Recommended minimum RAM is 1 GB If the Existing RAM is ECC RAM, the upgrade will be around $450.00, but is just DR RAM, the upgrade will be about half that

RE: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Paul Vernon
Don, If they're PowerApp web 100 servers then I can believe it as I used to have four of those in a load balanced array running IIS5/CF5 on 256Mb RAM. Not one of the applications used the session scope at all though. We turned it off and opted for the client scope so we could have roaming

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Don
Paul, Thanks for sharing your experience with DELL server, sorry I did not provide more info about the DELL server, it's 1550 for WEB server (IIS 5.0) and 2550 for Access 2000. About client variable vs. session variable, I'll keep it in mind. Don Don, If they're PowerApp web 100 servers

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Don
Thanks. They are Dell 1550 for WEB server (IIS 5.0) and 2550 for Access 2000 (intend to upgrade to SQL Server) (they have a total of 4 boxes). And I intend to recommend installing CF5 on a box that has most RAM and Access db on the box that has second most RAM. With 5 to 10 concurrent users the

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Doug White
It will be good to upgrade to SQL2k, because concurrency is an issue with Access 2000, and it will not scale up very well. == Our Anti-spam solution works!! http://www.clickdoug.com/mailfilter.cfm For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Don
Agree 100% and that's what I advised my client and thanks for being on my side :) It will be good to upgrade to SQL2k, because concurrency is an issue with Access 2000, and it will not scale up very well. == Our Anti-spam solution works!!

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Matt Liotta
Of course you can easily handle 1 request per second with Access and that equates to more traffic than many sites need to deal with. Who cares about concurrency when you don't need it? -Matt On May 29, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Doug White wrote: It will be good to upgrade to SQL2k, because

Re: ugly truth

2004-05-29 Thread Don
Client wants to run 30 concurrent users testing/training. Still Access? And I don't want to argue with a client. Of course you can easily handle 1 request per second with Access and that equates to more traffic than many sites need to deal with. Who cares about concurrency when you don't need

CFC Document Root Element is Missing Error

2004-05-29 Thread Les Mizzell
Evening, I'm using a modified CFC originally from the Macromedia site to grab a RSS News Feed. The .cfc file is in the same folder as the doc calling the CFC. It works perfectlly on my local machine. However, when I put it out on the server, I get a Document Root Element is Missing error