ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Instances

Which CF Instance and jvm config am I using?

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This is more of a quick reminder for myself.  Hopefully someone else will find it useful as well… If you have multiple instances of ColdFusion running on a server and one of those starts to runaway with the processor you just need to kill it and move on, right?  But, what if you what to know which instance it was?  If … Read more

WordPress and Smileys

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I don’t know about you but, sometimes on the web (twitter especially) the humor or sarcasm meant in a statement can be lost. So, I always try to add a little smiley so people know I’m not such a big jerk.  On a similar front, WordPress will convert text smileys into their graphic equivalent . The problem is, I can’t … Read more

CA Arcserve version 9.0 and IE 7

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I ran across an interesting error on a client's server this past week. Their nightly backup had begun crashing without any reported cause. The results of the last back-up simply said crashed.

The logs did not show any clear reason why this would be happening. Other than they had several instances of “Bad media” reported in some of their last actual back-up attempts.

Side note: Pay more attention to your back-ups people!! if you start seeing “Crashed” errors. Don't wait a month before asking someone for help!

We put new tapes in the drive and attempted the back-up job again. It would run the first section of the job until 5-10% then it would just stop. No errors.. Just stop..

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