http://tracylogan.com/ Working on Perfekt en-us Sat, 19 May 2012 05:20:05 -0400 Sun, 02 May 2010 20:43:00 -0400 MachBlog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss machblog@tracylogan.com webmaster@tracylogan.com http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=5B06FB7B-CF3F-217D-FFD9E7D31DA27A5C Months after I struggled (and failed!) to get full-resolution & dual-monitor graphics support on my Z61m after installing 9.10, the amazing Ubuntu community managed to resolve the problems (as usual, due to the ATI video card). Happily, that same su... Linux Ubuntu Sun, 02 May 2010 20:43:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=5B06FB7B-CF3F-217D-FFD9E7D31DA27A5C http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=50D976B4-EB2F-21B8-65C7590276165670 My friend Steve stopped by with his Sansa e260 in an unusable state, with what people are calling "the dreaded Blue Ring Of Death", where the player won't boot, won't connect, and won't even turn off (until you hold the power button for > 15 seconds)... Misc Music Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:15:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=50D976B4-EB2F-21B8-65C7590276165670 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=3A3926AE-C147-CC5C-34D73AF3861D006A I've finally found time to track down the solutions to the constant Eclipse crashes under Ubuntu that have kept me booting Windows for coding -- and hope to save someone else that time! The crashes occurred any time I did anything -- such as tryin... [more] ColdFusion Linux Ubuntu Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:50:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=3A3926AE-C147-CC5C-34D73AF3861D006A http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=21EB5121-E0FF-7CE4-4A4880F7E541FD93 I recently needed to check all databases for a given table name, but couldn't quite remember the undocumented MSSQL stored procedure to iterate through each database on a server. Google eventually came through, but as usual, I thought I'd save mysel... SQL Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:10:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=21EB5121-E0FF-7CE4-4A4880F7E541FD93 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=977B4E82-F30F-8765-3C87D858210D3321 Years ago, I ran into a delightful tool for scripting data in MSSQL 2000 (something that's easy in MySQL, but apparently overlooked by MS) -- probably thanks to Phil Cruz' blog about it. It's been extremely handy from time to time, but this time, we... ColdFusion SQL Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:51:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=977B4E82-F30F-8765-3C87D858210D3321 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=FC8DD7AF-AA21-6FE9-AD9FC2EEFA107446 While looking for a quick and easy way to present HTML/XML code as simply as #htmlEditFormat(theHtml)#, but with a prettier output, I stumbled across exactly what I was looking for in this post by Anuj Gakhar about a little-known Java source-formatti... ColdFusion Tools Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:17:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=FC8DD7AF-AA21-6FE9-AD9FC2EEFA107446 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=8B34E070-FAA1-4F46-2A15953E8B0FC6B8 I'd previously blogged how to turn on the "always generate change scripts" flag in Enterprise Manager for MSSQL 2000 -- the same idea is present in Server Management Studio, though once again not terribly easy to find the first time you nee... SQL Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:49:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=8B34E070-FAA1-4F46-2A15953E8B0FC6B8 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0ABEE227-0155-88B1-CF92025575FEC17C One of our sandboxed CF instances started throwing a 500 error out of the blue; it'd been restarted (apparently by our hosting company) just prior to the error beginning to occur. After spending a bit of time trying to figure out *why* this was happ... [more] ColdFusion Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:53:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0ABEE227-0155-88B1-CF92025575FEC17C http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=69F02856-CB4A-5614-94008AC150ED0B51 Installing Flash has (finally!) gotten easy for those of us running 64-bit 8.04 with FF3 -- or, more likely, this time, I didn't run into the snags of previous attempts (I've been using SwiftWeasel for all Flash apps for quite a while!) @Kilz over a... [more] Linux Ubuntu Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:08:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=69F02856-CB4A-5614-94008AC150ED0B51 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=67B25993-C532-EA7F-83D9EEF795C3FD61 It's been a busy night on the fermentation front; not only pickles, but the year's first batch of sauerkraut as well! This time, we picked up a beautiful crock from our local Miami Valley Pottery -- not a sauerkraut-specific container, just a one-ga... Fermentation Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:08:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=67B25993-C532-EA7F-83D9EEF795C3FD61 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=67A845A9-0405-505B-B03CDB6E58E73DAB It's been two weeks since I started this year's first batch of Dill Pickles; they turned out pretty good, but the red-pepper flakes Alton Brown suggested were NOT (in my opinion) a good idea.  The pickles were reasonably crisp, a good amount of ... Fermentation Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:00:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=67A845A9-0405-505B-B03CDB6E58E73DAB http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=679FCF07-E122-0273-F43BAEEA3F35CC41 I'm giving another try to the Dill Pickle thing -- last year's really went bad, so I'm trying a different recipe (oh, yeah, sure, like it was the *recipe* that failed . . . !) This one is from Alton Brown, that wacky food scientist guy; I lik... Fermentation Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:57:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=679FCF07-E122-0273-F43BAEEA3F35CC41 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=679DCEE8-EDF6-4720-11336E134AB2B58A After a few decades of *wanting* to make cheese, I've finally decided to actually do so. I picked up a Hard Cheese Kit (other option was Soft Cheese, not Easy Cheese!) at the local fermentation supply store (Main Squeeze, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, ... Fermentation Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:56:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=679DCEE8-EDF6-4720-11336E134AB2B58A http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=FE802701-F6AB-F26C-68710E678A5CE621 We had another unexpectedly delightful musical treat at the closing day of Rochester's Lilac Festival -- starting off with a band whose name we didn't catch, with one of the few drummers I've seen recently playing a relatively large (26"?) bass ... Music Sun, 18 May 2008 22:46:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=FE802701-F6AB-F26C-68710E678A5CE621 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=395A211B-DDD4-5EC7-410E0C4E56A53297 This lead from a local-news story caught my eye: At least two people were injured Wednesday afternoon in a Cold Spring crash. Turns out the story is actually about an automobile accident, datelined Cold Spring, KY -- NOT really the frightening (but... ColdFusion Humor Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:18:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=395A211B-DDD4-5EC7-410E0C4E56A53297 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0AB9D460-DF0F-ABFE-4D4F9FE5AAF59266 In a rare bit of corporate April Fool's humor (albeit unintentional!), IBM apparently set a Sytem Update default to auto-run on the first of the month.  This completely swamps the "Package Index" servers, resulting in the "The Pac... [more] Misc Tools Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:19:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0AB9D460-DF0F-ABFE-4D4F9FE5AAF59266 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=201D1494-D098-034C-9FD64FED89649B27 Not that it's really just Ubuntu, and not that it's really that hard, and not that you can't find the answer by searching long enough . . . but to save you that 10 minutes: Ubuntu (and other distros) are now nice enough to tell you how to get what y... Linux Tools Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:31:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=201D1494-D098-034C-9FD64FED89649B27 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=47D0C292-A111-04AC-740F9CFC36505C66 Ever wish FireFox would stop trying to fix "broken" URLs by prepending www. (or appending .com) to the server name?  If, like me, you find that more irritating than helpful, you can disable it globally: [more] The Web Tools Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:32:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=47D0C292-A111-04AC-740F9CFC36505C66 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=DD2F9A42-F731-543F-AA4A6750C92BCC84 I still remember the rush of geeky delight I got when following someone's suggestion to turn off "Report Execution Times" in CFAdmin -- a ten-fold decrease in page load time is a thing of beauty! Happily, that same feeling is once again av... [more] ColdFusion Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:53:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=DD2F9A42-F731-543F-AA4A6750C92BCC84 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=54F10D71-A075-ABBC-DABE4D1E278A6A2F Using the EN_US locale, ColdFusion thinks the first day of the week is Sunday, and calls that Day 1 (even though its best friends told it not to!).  With that locale, many other applications, including MySQL (and even MSSQL) also think the first... [more] ColdFusion Standards Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:24:00 -0400 http://tracylogan.com//index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=54F10D71-A075-ABBC-DABE4D1E278A6A2F