Canfield Research Group LLC

Drupal 5 changes the way the cookie domain is calculated. If you are using ports to direct traffic to systems behind a firewall (or for whatever reason) Drupal 5 will errantly add the port to the cookie domain. As far as I can tell the RFC that specifies how sessions are maintained (RFC 2109) does not allow port specifications. The PHP code used in Drupal 5 does NOT strip ports from the cookie_domain. The solutions I found are:

1. Comment or disable the code in session.php that modifies the cookie_domain. This makes it work somewhat like it did in Drupal 4.x from what I can tell.
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*In Progress*

This entry is not a formal review. It is just some quick notes I wanted to track as I researched project management software. Hopefully others with similar situation will find the information a useful starting point.

Project management can get complex very quickly and software to help manage projects is very useful. Even small projects can become tricky to monitor, especially when they are on a fast track or involve a lot of research dependencies. ... Click to read more

I have chosen Chief Architect as my design tool for my Father’s remodeling business. It beat out the other major competor VectorWorks. Chief Architect can do residential and interior design far faster and easier than VectorWorks can and residential design is what this evaluation was based on.

I personally prefer VectorWorks because it is a more of a platform. Eventually I, or others, could fill in all the holes I mention in my VectorWork review and it would be far supior to anything I have found on the market today. ... Click to read more

Chief Architect version 10 Findings

I have purchased a copy of Chief Architect 10.0 Enterprise. This version costs about $2,300 and comes with the CAD, renderor and a huge number of video training guides. My goal is to learn enough about home design to assist my father who is a general contractor specializing in small remodels.

Currently the remodel plans are done by hand and he would like to make the process easier and provide more capabilities such as 3D views for design purposes. Unfortunatly I am not a draftsman or architect. ... Click to read more

In general the state of PC based PVRs is a bit immature. These are general oberservation of the core software that PVR’s are built upon, commercial or private. The lack of a CD Player option is very weird. When I or my Lady wishes to play a CD we bought the last thing I am going to do is try and explain to her how to rip it! A drop it in and it plays seems to be the “right way”. The same applies to external media cards from cameras. Should the pictures be extracted and saved to a predetermine dlocation, possible by date? Almost anything is better than doing nothing! ... Click to read more

I wanted to make use of the dual-head capability of my GForce card under MythTV. The utlimate goal is to use an always on LCD screen as the interface (Video, Music, etc.) and the TV for video. A GForce 4000 can do this after a bit of work.

To get this to work requires seperate displays where resolution can be independently set. The core of the documentation can be found at http://download.nvidia.com/solaris/1.0-8178/README/appendix-o.html. ... Click to read more

The following error was repeated many times in a client’s event log: ... Click to read more

• The COM+ Event System attempted to fire the EventObjectChange::ChangedSubscription event but received a bad return code.

On a client’s system I could not get automatic updates to work. They would download but then fail to install.

I cleared the download cache first. Note that this does NOT solve the problem but does clean things up and that makes diagnosis easier.

• Services / Automatic Updates / Stop
• Delete the C:\windows\SoftwareDownloads directory

• Services / Automatic Updates / Start

I then restored the SensLogn registra settings. These were totally absent (Notufy/SensLogn was missing). I have yet to determin what and when these went missing. ... Click to read more

I love the idea of the Google Toolbar, especially the spell checker. But I had to wonder how it worked. Its not rocket science but it is a nice implantation of client/server code. The idea is that text is sent to Google via XML and returned to the toolbar via XML. For a moderately fast connection this is all very nice and can be extended to multiple operating systems easily.

The problem is that the text is sent clear-text to an organization that is not under the author’s control. ... Click to read more

Initial results of my search for an image scanner today. ... Click to read more