Mark Brown's Blog

Well, after 2 weeks and one day of working diligently, well, about 3 hours a night give or take, I'm throwing in the towel on the Ununtu/BD and/or Ubuntu/Coldfusion thing.  I can not get either to work.  

I've followed 4 diffent how to's, reinstalled Ubuntu Desktop 6 time and server 3 times on 3 different computers. 1 mine and 2 I borrowed from work.  I've made sure to follow the tutorials verbatim.  Even to the point of making sure my directory structure matched the tutorials and I started cutting and pasting the commands in. I've even had the writer of one tutorials ssh into my machine to help me figure it out.  Still have not successfully served up one single coldfusion page from any of my computers.  

The only thing I haven't tried yet is trying to install it on something other than a Dell computer.  I can't imagine why that would make any difference, but I've tried it on a Optiplex GX 620, 260 and 280.  I'm not having any problems at all with any drivers in Ubuntu.  Problem there is I don't have access to anything other than Dell's, and don't want to buy a new pc just for this.

 They've all had wireless cards in them as my computer room doesn't have any cat5 anywhere close.  Does that matter?  I have no idea.

What I do know is I haven't actually written any ColdFusion for 2 weeks.   Now that's sad!

 I'm thinking what I may do at this point is get vmware installed and running, install windows on a virtual machine and host it all from there.

Why am I telling you all this?  I don't know, I guess I'm just venting.  Maybe after I actually  get some code written I'll quit feeling so defeated!  LOL 

 I'm going to decompress over an IPA from a brewery in Oregon now...