I recently installed Ubuntu 9.4 onto my fairly new Dell XPS laptop. Everything has been fine until I encountered one of the more annoying things I find about Linux, its sound and audio set-up. The operating system depends on multiple sound interfaces that essentially compete to do the same functions. It reminded me of PC audio back in my youth under MS-DOS.

I stumbled upon this bug today that drove me nuts trying to figure out what was wrong. I was using the Linux file program within the Railo <CFEXECUTE /> tag to extract MIME type data from a large collection of files, so it could be inserted into a database. The problem was Railo kept on getting stuck in a prolonged loop. After much troubleshooting I realised the affected files all contained spaces within their file names.

Today I upgraded my VirtualBox virtualization software to Sun’s newest and greatest version. Everything worked to plan except that my Bridge Networking on all my virtual machines broke.

I created this tutorial mainly for ColdFusion and CFML developers who create applications and need to test those applications on a wide variety of CFML platforms. Railo in a virtual Ubuntu Server allows you to test and develop on a Linux platform while also checking for Railo CFML compatibility. As an added bonus, because we will be setting up a barebones, virtualised server with no graphical user interface, the resources used on your host machine will be much lower.

I created this tutorial mainly for ColdFusion and CFML developers who create applications and need to test those applications on a wide variety of CFML platforms. Open BlueDragon in a virtual Ubuntu Server allows you to test and develop on a Linux platform while also checking for BlueDragon compatibility. As an added bonus, because we will be setting up a barebones, virtualised server with no graphical user interface, the resources used on your host machine will be much lower.

I love the series of Harmony remotes from the Swedish based Logitech. The Harmony series of remotes have really bought usable universal remotes prices down to an affordable level, even though Logitech acquired the technology through a corporate buyout.