Ricardo Parente's Blog

As I was finishing this guide on installing ColdFusion 9 on Ubuntu Linux I tweeted how many words made up the text (over 6,000). Several people commented on Twitter and Facebook saying things like: “[the length] seems a bit excessive,” and “is it that complicated?” The thing is, I’m covering much more than simply installing [...]

I am a Windows guy, no experience on Linux at all. Some time ago I decided to start playing with Linux. I had Vista installed on my laptop (from factory), and I hated it, very slow, lots of problems, mainly when I had to access our office’s VPN. So, since I had 2 hard-drives in [...]

This is not a ColdFusion post, but I found it very interesting for those who work with Linux systems. Jimmy Ray Purser, from Cisco, got attacked by a hacker on his dark net server who changed his root password. In his post, he explains how he got access back to his server.