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Moving On

Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400

As you can see, there's not much activity here anymore. You can find more of Nat's wisdom at webapper. Erik is now blogging at psykel. Happy Trails, grumps

SeeFusion really saved our asses

Thu, 25 May 2006 20:54:00 -0400

This past Sunday, the 21st of May '06, DNS transferred over to our servers for a big client site we rebuilt. Monday was sketchy with uptime declining, our server monitors beeping pretty much all day and us pulling our hair out trying to figure out the problem. Since then, we've been locked in a fight-to-the-death for the last few days with our monster server. [More]

a dead mobo

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:38:00 -0400

I've been out of email and IM communication for nearly three weeks because my workstation died suddenly. Well, not so suddenly. It had been complaining (bsod and boot problems) worse and worse for about two months, but one day it wouldn't turn on. I traced it down to a corrupt hdd, but corrupted due to a bad SATA raid controller Silicon Images 3112 onboard the Asus A7N8X. Grumpy said "You know Asus has a three-year warranty on mobos," and NewEgg is going to honor it. The board is two and a half years old at this point, but I just sent it back with an RMA. NewEgg, NewEgg, NewEgg!

V2000Z driver package

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:09:00 -0400

I'm having a lot of fun with WinXP x64 edition on my new laptop, the v2000z. Nicholas Guy (a.k.a. ShadowGuy) has assembled a complete collection of working drivers for the Compaq Presario V2000z for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. This is based on a big thread over at planetamd64.com. Here is the complete zip package: http://developer.fusium.com/fublog/files/presariov2000zdriverpackage.zip

the new laptop

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:31:00 -0400

I posted about a laptop choice, and it became a reality. Made to order in China, shipped via FedEx, arrived today. I bought the cheapest HDD offered, along with XP Home, and have put in a NewEgg 7200rpm 60GB HDD and am installing Win XP x64 as we speak. The good folks at planetamd64.com have the full list of 64-bit drivers needed for this laptop.

new laptop choices

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:12:00 -0400

Anyone have experiences with the HP/Compaq's V2000Z laptop? The Turion 64 is looking pretty sweet.

jrun4 not compatible with 64-bit JVM

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:48:00 -0400

I lamented on the inability to run CFMX as a true 64-bit app, but felt haughty enough to overcome the problem. Alas, I am giving up. The crux of the issue seems to be that although JRun will run with Java 1.5, it will not run with Java 1.5 on the AMD64 version.

64-bit ColdFusion

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:07:00 -0400

We got a new dev server: dual Opteron, 4GB RAM, dual raid, etc. So far very happy; now I'm trying to install through-and-through 64-bit applications on it. I have Windows Server 2003 64-bit installed, and planned to use IIS 6. Sun JVM (latest being 1.5.0_05) has an AMD64 version. But how can I run CF7 on it? I found this mm.com article, this other mm.com article, this descriptive MM forums thread, some old threads on CF-Talk, and blog entries by Ben Forta, Steven Erat and Pete Frietag. But it just seems too darn silly! Am I really going to have Tomcat or another Java/J2EE server to run CF7 as a war? Jrun 4 seems like older technology (although Jrun updater 5 does support Java 1.5). Any advice from someone who has either tried and failed or tried and succeeded in getting an all 64-bit platform running? I want 64-bit hardware running a 64-bit OS, with a 64-bit JVM with IIS running in 64-bit mode (rather than IIS5 isolation mode), and 64-bit capable ColdFusion, if that means running a 64-bit capable Java server with CF on top. I suppose this is just another example of Macromedia claiming that ColdFusion is enterprise-worthy when anyone, anywhere in any enterprise knows for god sakes that it sure as hell ain't.

sil 3114 vs. nvraid on asus k8n-dl

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:26:00 -0400

We got the parts for our new dev server yesterday, but I'm having a bitch of a time getting everything to work. Man, I shoulda bought a Dell. After dicking with ram, hdds, bios flashing, etc, I finally gave up on the Silicon Images 3114 serial ATA RAID controller onboard the Asus K8N-DL motherboard. Sure, I got Win2k3x64 installed on the sil, but things were weird. Like freezing up for a minute or so without CPU spikes. And reeeeeally long boot-up times. And post code beepings. And hanging at "Verifying DMI Pool Data...". Disabled the sil, enabled the nvraid, hunted down the 64-bit nforce platform drivers from NVidia's site (not Asus's site) to make my F6 disk, plugged in two 250GB Seagate sata drives, made a mirrored raid, and Windows installed in a flash. One of those installs where things just FLY. The Sil chip is out of the equation. Thankfully there are a total of 8 sata heads on the mobo.