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            <p>If you are a frequent visitor to this site, I hope you will be sad to see that it has fallen into neglect. The neglect is reflected by the log stats too, this week the site has delivered only half as many pageviews as it did the last week of November. Now it could be because of the holidays. I am hoping it is but last year there wasn't such a drastic drop.</p>
            <p>One of my resolutions for the new year that's coming up definitely will be to take better care of this site. I will definitely fix the wiki. It brought many moons ago due to an incompatibility between PHP and Mediawiki. Fixing the wiki is a lot of hard work because mediawiki (sadly) has become bloatware. A new software is needed.</p>
            <p>The site doesn't make any real $ fortunately hosting is sponsored by Rad Inks so it doesn't really matter but <a href="../../megaupload">megaupload</a> drinks up a lot of bandwidth do it's about time that the site starts making some money. A redesign with the adsense ads coming closer to the top of the page will eventually have to be done.</p>
            <p>This blog is static! though it's powered by Movable Type, the MT installation is actually on my local computer and not on this server. I post on my desktop/server and then use rsync to beam it up. The reasons being bandwidth at the local end costing a lot more when the blog first started than it costs now, and a fear of 'comment spam'</p>
            <p>Now that there have been so many posts it's kind of hard to migrate to another blogger and finding the time for the migration is going to be the hardest task of them all.</p>
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            <p>Finally found a YUM repository that has firefox 1.5. It's a place called <a href="http://www.nrpms.net">nrpms</a>. The yum update went very smoothly, none of the hassles found in the binary download on <a href="https://www.mozilla.com">mozilla.com</a> or the RPMs available all over the place.</p>
            <p>Since all the plug ins have to be reinstalled, I thought this is the best time to update the JVM (in view of the recent security issue). All the extensions have to be updated too, unfortunately quite a few of the extensions do not have updates and cannot be used with firefox.</p>
            <p>Of all the extensions, Live HTTP Headers and open Java console are the most important as far as I am concerned. Hat's off the guys who made them. Sadly both these extensions will not work on firefox 1.5</p>
            <p>Strangely enough when you access a page that contains an applet the browser will automatically pop up a java console. This rather annoying, specially for non technical users. If you close the console and view another applet, the console will not reappear and there is no way to make it reappear. This is rather annoying if you happen to be a developer.</p>
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            <p>Setting up and starting apache 2.2 went smoothly. The first hiccup occured when a virtual host was added. The site cannot be browsed. The log file says:</p>
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            <p>For the first time in a long time, a bug fix release of <a href="http://www.radinks.com/upload/dnd.php">Rad Upload</a> had to be made available.</p>
            <p>The previous release, version 2.20 introduced the ability to fire a <a href="http://www.radinks.com/upload/plus/javascript.php">javascript notification </a> when upload completes. It unfortunately introduced a small bug too. Users complained that the max_upload property, which can be used to impose a limit on the maximum size of the upload was being ignored.</p>
            <p>There are two different ways in which parameters can be passed to the applet, first by embedding it in the web page that contains the applet and the second way is to place the parameters in a radupload.properties file. It's the first approach that users had trouble with. Simply moving the max_upload settings to the radupload.properties file did the trick but we made a new release anyway.</p>
            <p>This is the last of the 2.xx versions. The next version of will Rad Upload 3 and we plan to add a loads of new features. The first beta will be available in time for Christmas.</p>
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            <p><a href="https://httpd.apache.org">Apache</a> 2.20 has been released. One of the most exciting features (as far as I am concerned) is large file support. Yes you can now use your favourite webserver to upload and download files greater than 2Gb in size. Naturally the ablity to upload such large files makes me very excited.</p>

            <p>Let's get on the to installation. These is the configuration directive used:

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            <div style="color:#000033; margin-left:15px">--enable-deflate --enable-rewrite --enable-so --with-mpm=prefork --enable-nonportable-atomics=yes --prefix=/usr/local/apache220</div>

            <p>I want to preserve my 2.0.xx installation so the new version goes into a different folder. It will listen on port 81 for sometime, while port 80 will be listened to by the old version. After some time the roles will be reversed.</p>

            <p>There wasn't any trouble at all with the <em>./configure</em>, <em>make</em> or <em>make install</em> steps. The httpd.conf file has to be edited to reflect the different port number before the server can be started.</p>

            <div style="color:#000033; margin-left:15px">Listen 81</div>

            <p>the start up message seems to have changed too.</p>

            <div style="color:#000033; margin-left:15px">It works!</div>

            <p>Now to install PHP 5.1.1. Since things have gone smoothly upto now, something should fail.</p>

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                <pre>Warning!  dlname not found in /usr/local/apache220/modules/libphp5.la.
Assuming installing a .so rather than a libtool archive.
chmod 755 /usr/local/apache220/modules/libphp5.so
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/apache220/modules/libphp5.so': No such file or directory
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
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make: *** [install-sapi] Error
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            <p>There's more to life than poking around a PHP engine, so I gave up on it and compiled 4.4.1 with the save configuration directive and had no trouble with the install step either. PHP5 can be used with the 2.0 version of apache.</p>




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            <p>After having gone through the thoroughly boring installation steps for Cold Fusion MX 7, now it's time to figure out how to start the server. They seem to have conviniently forgotten to put this information in a readme file or to include it in the getting <a href="https://www.macromedia.com/examples/cfgettingstarted/experience/index_content.cfm">started page on the Macromedia site.</a>. A quick look at the bin/ folder reveals that that the server can be started with the <em>coldfusion start</em> command. (duh obvious).</p>
            <p>The getting started page does not include a hello world example either. I rekoned that the following will do:</p>
            <p>&lt;CFOUTPUT&gt;Hello World&lt;/CFOUTPUT&gt;</p>
            <p>That still leaves me with the task of figuring out where the file should be placed. My installation folder is opt/coldfusionmx7 so I reckoned opt/coldfusionmx7/wwwroot would be a good place. Wrong.</p>
            <p>Type http://localhost:8500/ into the browser, A directory listing will be revealed. It clearly shows the presence of my hello.cfm file. Click on it, and the server written by a bunch of morons will tell you that:</p>
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            <p>I am trying out Cold Fusion for the very first time. There was a big fuss many years ago about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion">cold fusion</a> of Hydrogen. It turned out to be a damp squib. Coldfusion software leaves me a bit cold. The download is a whopping 276Mb. There are complete linux distros that include JVMs and GCC that happen to be smaller.</p>
            <p>You would expect a product with such a gigantic download to have a GUI installer. In the case of Macromedia, the company famous for their UIs, they haev simply overlooked this point.</p>
            <p>A huge portion of that installer seems to be taken up by a JVM, which is more than a bit silly because an update date version of the JVM can be downloaded separately by those who do not have it.</p>
            <p>The EULA seems to take up a fair precentage of those 276 Mega bytes as well. There are so many pages to scroll through, you get the impression that this is an attempt to confuse even the most seasoned lawyer.</p>
            <p>Finally, the installer took me to the next step where it contained about not been able to find C++ compatibility library. It's looking for an old 2.2.5.x while what comes with Fedora Core 4 is 2.3.5.x</p>
            <p>The next step you see another reason why the installer is so bloated; the same installer works for three different editions of Cold Fusion. This is even more lame than old versions of Jbuilder wherethe only difference between the free and the enterprise editions were in the license key.</p>
            <p>Just when you get fed up with the whole thing it tells you a joke, just to lighten your day. <em>After</em> presenting a list of choices in a (text only ) menu, you are asked to 'Please select one of the following options'.</p>
            <p>After answering another half a dozen questions the installer finally copied the files to the HD. It takes up all of 400 MB. Windows users may think nothing of it but on linux we don't use bloatware.</p>
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            <p>Downloaded firefox 1.5, like the last time I tried to <a href="545.html">install firefox</a> things refused to go smoothly. Interesting that the download site has changed to <a href="https://www.mozilla.com">mozilla.com</a>. What hasn't changed is the insistence that they do a browser detection and try to force a file down your throat.</p>
            <p>The firefox-1.5.tar.gz file that was delivered does not contain an installer, you just expand it and run. But run it will not.</p>
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