Tag: macromedia

PowerPC and Debian

I’ve moved architecture and Linux distro by upgrading to a PowerBook G4.

I think we’ve finally given up on try to get Macromedia Coldfusion MX anywhere near stable on our Linux distro. Macromedia are making us jump through a lot of troubleshooting hoops, I don’t even think we can reproduce the problem yet. We’re helping the client implement some Windows servers now instead. The only really difficult or unsolvable problems we have always involve closed source software. I really rather dislike working with it. Matt started documenting some of our ‘progress’, but I doubt the results we have are coherent enough for anyone to find useful.

8/4/2003 Add Comment

Linux 2.4.20, Clockspeed, Firestorm IPX and Macrostupid Coldfusion

Upgraded to Linux 2.4.0 with a few patches such as Gianni’s ECSC security patches, FreeS/WAN IPSEC, CPUFreq and more. Now I’m losing time again on my Dell Inspiron 8200. Dan Bernstein’s Clockspeed isn’t helping; I don’t think it’s meant for drift such as this (caused my frequency scaling I think).

I have also been putting some time into the IPX support in Firestorm I originally started. I’ve fixed a couple of things Gianni broke during his clean-up, and have begun work on a matcher. This adds support for IPX in snort signatures, which is kinda cute.

Having lots of trouble getting Coldfusion “MX”(tm) to work on Linux for a client. It is invariably unstable and crashes thousands of times a second (see diary: Nov 25 2002). Macromedia want to charge us $500 to report this. Apparently we’ll get our money back if it is confirmed as a genuine bug. We’re considering billing for the bug hunting we’re doing for them instead. With the tens of thousands of SIG4 and SIG11 crashes we’d be quids in charging per bug. Now if only an open-source project such as PHP existed.

9/12/2002 Add Comment

Coldfusion MX on Linux

SECURITY WARNING: SIG 11 sent to [cfusion:19752]...
last message repeated 32187 times

25/11/2002 Add Comment