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Embed a Railo ColdFusion/CFML Server

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This entry will walk you through step by step to enable you from within Eclipse to start and shutdown a custom install of the open source CFML engine Railo running off Apache Tomcat. Most importantly though you will be able to implement this without the need of touching any fickle XML Tomcat configuration files.

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MySQL lower/UPPER casing

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By default MySQL uses the collation of latin1_swedish_ci character set for all columns. First off in case you are wondering the ci after the second underscore means case insensitive. All SQL queries targeting this column will ignore the letter case of the query values and the field data. Other collations that end with cs are case sensitive, which in everyday use is often more of a hindrance. That is unless you are needing to store the names of pointers to data held on case-sensitive file systems such as those used by Unix and Linux.

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media hardware

Move or copy your entire DVD collection

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The goal of this post will be to explain how to transfer a large physical DVD collection over to a desktop/server or home theatre PC using free (as in beer) software. We will try to streamline this process and will show you what can be used to play your collection.

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windows

Mass Effect Windows Vista 64-bit troubles

The other day I had bought the 2 year old Mass Effect RPG from Electronics Arts on discount from Valve’s Steam service. I was amazed that on the first time run the game abruptly crashed with a cryptic message. This issue repeated on every attempt to load the game whether using the Steam launcher or running the binaries manually. There is a simple but not so obvious fix that wasn’t fully detailed in my attempts to search for a solution on the web.

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