Author: yuval

McAfee killed my machine. Now it is safe [McAfee Absolved]

Post author By yuval
Post date December 3, 2004
No Comments on McAfee killed my machine. Now it is safe [McAfee Absolved]

UDPATE:::::::::
It appears that installing Thunderbird 1.0 (replacing Thunderbird 0.9) provided an improvement lightyears better than the issue that I am describing below. VirusScan is hereby completely absolved.
ORIGINAL POSTING:::::::::::::::
I am using a Dell laptop for work and although it is not a fire-breathing implement, it is no slouch. Then again, it was really discouraging to suddenly have to contend with the fact that CPU was running at 100% and the machine hated switching Windows (despite 128 MB video card) when I had Eclipse, Tomcat and gAIM running. Uncool.
The culprit – McAfee Security Center – part of the VirusScan online – which ran at 98% CPU usage. Unacceptable.

I am looking for virus protection from a different source. Thanks, but no thanks.

SQL Server

Copying SQL Server databases having full-text catalogs

Post author By yuval
Post date November 29, 2004
No Comments on Copying SQL Server databases having full-text catalogs

I was having a problem using SQL Server data transformation services’ database import feature. It appears that the problem was (found by my buddy and co-worker Rob) with the fact that I had a stored procedure that relied on a full-text catalog.

Since the catalog is not copied with the database, the stored procedure, that uses the full-text-search-specific predicate CONTAINS, caused the problem. Not copying it, solved the issue. I then needed to re-create the index and then re-create the stored procedure.

Java

Cocoon source missing blocks

Post author By yuval
Post date November 23, 2004
No Comments on Cocoon source missing blocks

I am taking an XML/XSLT class and in order to spare myself the need to share the machine with other XSLT newbies such as me, exhausting its resources to death, I decided to go ahead and install Cocoon.

It appears the good folks at Apache decided that providing binary builds is not a great idea so it was me getting the source and building it using the included build.bat (or build.sh) files. I downloaded to considerable file (44-46 MB) and ran the script. To my disappointment, I failed to get anything created as the webapp that Cocoon can become.

I then tried creating the webapp using the
build webapp
instruction that is reported around the Internet.

I then received the ever so cryptic
%COCOON_HOME%\src\blocks\stx\java not found

I failed to find any answers at the time (although I did now) and that was very frustrating.

It appears that the missing folder – blocks\stx\java – is an empty folder. Some decompression programs, merrilly omit expanding the directory if there is nothing there and so I was, totally puzzled. So as the link above suggests, just create a java folder and the problem is solved….