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  • Shameless Guitar Player

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_X7mMU6Gb0

  • Zubat post text

    You know zubat? The one that always gets in your way in a cave? The reason they do that is because they are flying type, surrounded rock types such as geodudes, and onixes. Their chance of survival is slim. They run up to trainers hoping to be rescued from their hell, by being captured, but…

  • IMDB says Edwin Bush is an (Adult) Actor

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153006/

  • PlayStation 2 Virtual Reality Headset

    I found all too little information on the PlayStation 2 Virtual Reality Headset and was even told in 2004 or 2003 by a Sony representative that what I had seen and read about in magazines was a prototype, and that it was never actually for sale.   Within 10 minutes I found it for sale on the Japan Sony…

  • SCP for practical uses

    A basic example: scp filename user@host.com:/path/where/you/want/it SCP The scp command allows you to copy files over ssh connections. This is pretty useful if you want to transport files between computers, for example to backup something. The scp command uses the ssh command and they are very much alike. However, there are some important differences. The…

  • FusionReactor and Forwarded Headers

    In some cases, FusionReactor may be behind a load balancer or CDN, or any other type of proxy that updates the source IP as seen by the server. It helps to see where the requests are actually originating from. For that, FusionReactor has an option for this: http://www.fusion-reactor.com/support/kb/frs-351/ See the Requests>Settings>Proxy, which lets you tell…

  • Installing ColdFusion 11 Under cPanel

    First, you need your installation defaults, find the installer.properties example below: INSTALLER_UI=SILENT SILENT_LICENSE_MODE=full SILENT_SERIAL_NUMBER= SILENT_PREV_SERIAL_NUMBER= SILENT_INSTALLER_TYPE=standalone SILENT_INSTALL_ODBC=false SILENT_INSTALL_JNBRIDGE=false SILENT_INSTALL_ADMIN=false SILENT_INSTALL_SOLR=true SILENT_INSTALL_PDFG=true SILENT_INSTALL_FOLDER=/opt/coldfusion11 SILENT_ENABLE_PROD_SECURE_PROFILE=true SILENT_ENABLE_PROD_DEFAULT_PROFILE=false SILENT_ENABLE_DEV_PROFILE=false SILENT_ADMIN_IP=127.0.0.1 SILENT_JETTY_IP= SILENT_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin SILENT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=Adm1n$12 SILENT_ENABLE_RDS=false SILENT_RDS_PASSWORD=Adm1n$12 SILENT_JETTY_USERNAME=admin SILENT_JETTY_PASSWORD=Adm1n$12 SILENT_CONTEXT_ROOT= SILENT_AUTO_ENABLE_UPDATES=true SILENT_MIGRATE_COLDFUSION=false SILENT_PREV_CF_MIGR_DIR=/opt/coldfusion10 ENABLE_RDS=false ENABLE_WSRP=false ENABLE_JSDEBUG=false ENABLE_CFR=false ENABLE_CFSWF=false ENABLE_CFFORMS=false With this file, you can install ColdFusion 11 with the following: ./ColdFusion_11_WWEJ_linux64.bin…

  • Switching SSLs when on Multiple HTTPS Bindings

    I had to switch out a certificate on a server and got the below error messages, documented here to make this familiar int he future. I was worried that it would break the other sites on the server, 2 others using the old certificate. Instead the server updated the certificate on all 3 and all…

  • ColdFusion 11 init.d script

    I recently installed ColdFusion 11 on RHEL, but the cfinit script did not exist. I then pulled up a ColdFusion 10 init script, updated the CF10-CF11 bits, corrected the coding error for the CFSTATUS section particular to my OS and have the script below: #!/bin/bash # chkconfig: 345 90 14 # description: starts the ColdFusion…

  • cPanel License Verification and Update Script

    /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt You can run the above to re sync the local status/key.  To verify your machine is licensed, browse to the following and enter in the external IP address: https://verify.cpanel.net/ Personal use case scenarios for needing to run the aforementioned script are changing the IP on the machine, or if the license has been upgrades, from…

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