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Technology
Who's rewriting my /etc/nsswitch.conf, eh ?
Submitted by Falken on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 20:29.First my OpenSuSE machine at work decides to have it, and now I discover the reason why my Kubuntu laptop has been having horrible intermittent DNS resolution problems.
The offending entry in both cases was on the 'hosts:' line and said something like 'mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]' part away along.
When is a structure not a structure ?
Submitted by Falken on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 14:30.Question: When is a ColdFusion structure not a structure, as checked by isStruct() ?
Answer: When the structure is a CFC !
Bulk loading data in to databases
Submitted by Falken on Sat, 05/07/2008 - 17:16.There was a thread on CF-Talk about how best to split a large file up into records and then import them into a database - it happened to be MySQL but this note applies to every database I've ever used (including Oracle and MSSQL).
When is the ColdFusion administrator password not the ColdFusion administrator password ?
Submitted by Falken on Wed, 02/07/2008 - 14:39.Q. When is the ColdFusion administrator password not the ColdFusion administrator password ?
A. When the password contains a £ sign.
SETI ain't boring
Submitted by Falken on Thu, 19/06/2008 - 22:14.I wrote a while back (SETI at home getting boring ?) about giving up with the SETI at home project, but I never actually did, and as I have a few more CPU cycles spare these days, I've even started to help out with the ClimatePrediction.net distributed project - which should hopefully allow us to still be here long enough to hear an alien signal.

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