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Amazon EC2 ‘WARNING UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE’

playing around today with Amazon’s EC2 web service… and got this error ‘WARNING UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE’ while trying to connect via ssh using the ‘ElasticFox’ firefox addon. Apparently ElasticFox assumes that you have your file located in /Users/youruser/ec2-keys/ … (i’m on OSX), and EC2 requires that directory to be CHMOD 700, and the .pem [...]

2Nov2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Creating CRUD Stored Procedures in SSMS

ok… now this is awesome:
http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/

15Oct2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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How to change the port in sql server management express (ssms)

I chased my tail around for awhile on this before finally coming across a post on google… those crazy folks at Microsoft decided that rather than using the standard IPAddress:port with a colon, they would use a comma instead! So… when you’re using SSMS to connect to a Sql Server on a non-standard port… this [...]

15Oct2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Decision making within the life cycle of complex systems

Matt and I were talking today about the role that decision making plays in our lives… and I mentioned how when you’re younger, you have fewer decisions to make… but they are more critical, while as you age, you have a greater number of decisions to make the older you get (until it plateaus at [...]

19Aug2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Creating SugarCRM Modules

This tutorial shows how to create custom modules in SugarCRM, my favorite open source CRM!
I’ve used SugarCRM for years, and have always loved it. *gush* … with the advent of v5.0, we now have the ability to build modules using the module builder. I’m so in love with this little thing!
 

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6Aug2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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New Website Launch (www.risingpropertyinvestments.com)

http://www.risingpropertyinvestments.com/
This site is a simple lead generation site built to bring leads in from folks who are looking for lease option homes. People with poor credit, no credit, bankruptcy, etc… who want to buy a home but are not qualified. The site is built in Flash and PHP.

22Jul2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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New Website Launch (www.wewillpaycash.biz)

http://www.wewillpaycash.biz/
This site is a simple lead generation site for our wholesale real estate investment business. Developed in flash and PHP, it is pretty simple… and hopefully effective!

22Jul2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Brain-Reading Headset to Sell for $299

(AP) — Hands cramping up from too many video games? How about controlling games with your thoughts instead? Later this year, Emotiv Systems Inc. plans to start selling the $299 EPOC neuroheadset to let you do just that.
The headset’s sensors are designed to detect conscious thoughts and expressions as [...]

22Feb2008 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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Air Installer Build from any directory

I’ve been building an air installation builder in CF… and I ran into some issues with it at first, so I figured I would document some of them here in case someone else ran into the same stuff…
First off, I’ve been using what is right now the latest beta version of ADT, which is part [...]

9Jan2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Managing Threads in ColdFusion

I started looking at <cfthread> today, and realized that it really does not have any sort of management facility built into it. while you can view / manage threads from within the server monitor…
1) you can’t get a status for a thread except from the calling page, or from another thread that was called from [...]

7Jan2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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