Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
Top level category to nest all my tech related posts
Well…. For various reasons I’ve had to replace my Blackberry 7100g cell phone. When I first got it two years ago it worked really well for about 1 week… Then it started dropping calls, turning itself off, etc… So I went back to the Cingular Store where I got it and they made me call Blackberry and … well.. they … Read more
Well, Being as Coldfusion version 8 (aka Scorpio) has been released, I decided to try and get my server copy updated as well… However, being a CHEAP … I decided only to move up to version 7.. I really couldn't pass it up. My server was running version 6.1 and I could have upgraded to 8 for ONLY $649.00.. But, … Read more
Well, today is starting to shape up quite nicely. This morning Adobe announced the beta release of Coldfusion 8 (Scorpio). Head over and check it out.. From the examples going on over at Ray Camden's Site It looks like this release will be well worth it!! And Also, a friend of mine just e-mailed me with this little tid-bit: Fred … Read more
If you live in an area without a local User group… I do… then I would suggest signing up for the: Click here to check outThe Online Coldfusion Meetup Group! The next meeting will be about: “Attack of the Spam Bots” RSVP now Jake Munson, creator of CFQuickDocs, will discuss various methods for preventing spammers from attacking your forms. CAPTCHA … Read more
Just how fast IS you connection? I know… your ISP says that you are getting 3meg down x 768 up but, are you? If your Internet connection seems slow, you should do some checking before complaining to your ISP. There are many sites available with Internet speed tests. Internet speed tests let you know how your connection is actually doing … Read more
I got a note this morning about an interesting article over at IT Security. It's been called one of the safest operating systems of all time, but Mac's OS X Tiger may not be as safe as it seems. This list provides its top security issues and how to plug them. They've just released a report detailing some “Holes” in … Read more
One of the things with this Vista machine is the fact that I didn’t have all my trusty book marks from FireFox any longer.
It’s easy to get your Favorites from Internet Explorer… just copy the Favorites folder in your user profile to the new machine and you’re done. But, FireFox…. there’s no file to copy for them. But, luckily in FireFox it’s easy as well.