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Misuse of sharing the wave “Invite others to Google Wave”

So here we go. You must be familier with a wave called “Invite others to Google Wave” if you have been with Google Wave for a couple of weeks. Or by any way if this wave is added in your account. see below

Exactly to some of you, this notice might be annoying if you think that it was not that important to publish as this fact is very good to be known by any one. And no one will share this wave any way. If you think so then you are like me. I was having the similar thought before I noticed some thing……

So I considered to post this information here as I just have noticed some people(some of my contacts ofcourse) on Google Wave, mistakenly or by chance or may be for testing purposes, have added me in their private wave “Invite others to Google Wave” and I can use all the invites they have in that wave to send the invites to my relatives or friends.

Figure 2: Waves private to me only

Green marked wave in above image is the one private to me only. And you can see another same wave with red mark also with another red marked contact in it on left who shared this wave to me. Oh.. now it looks important to be known….. yehh…..? not yet?

Ok  beyond this the most stupid thing I have noticed that some people have made that wave “public” and everyone can access that wave and as well can use these invites to send through out. do not believe me? see below

Figure 3: Public Waves

 Above screenshot is showing some of the public waves you can explore them by typing “with:public” in search box. And see what I have marked in these public waves. The same “Invite others to Google Wave”. Yes I could not use any of the invite in that wave because they had all been vanished by some other users. Ofcourse they were supposed to be if they goes public.

So finally, the purpose of this post was just to make users aware of some unknown facts. I hope now you have known what you have to do with that wave and what have not to do with that.

I hope this post might be helpfull for many.

Please leave your comments. They really matter to me

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32-bit Coldfusion with IIS on 64-bit Windows

Many of you might have faced the following error while running any version of Coldfusion previous than CF Enterprice 8.0.1 update. Coldfusion Enterprise 8.0.1 Update was released later by Adobe and that felt good with the IIS on 64bit Windows(Vista and now with Windows 7 – 64bit). but the Coldfusion till CF8 was not good to work with IIS on 64bit Windows.

Just look at the HTTP Error 500 you normally get when try to run any Coldfusion8  32-bit application on IIS7.

Be patient, let it be described first. One thing to take in mind is that you do not get any kind of issue while installing any 32-bit Coldfusion version on the 64-bit Windows. But the problem bound specifically to IIS running on the 64-bit Windows when you request any Coldfusion 32-bit  application on that server. In that situation above is the error what or like what you get in your browser.

Microsoft, previously, made it enabled in Windows Server 2003 SP1, for IIS6 to run 32-bit Web applications on 64-bit Windows using the WOW64(Windows-on-Windows-64). Follow the link below to read the article at Microsoft website.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/13f991a5-45eb-496c-8618-2179c3753bb0.mspx?mfr=true

You should read the following article as well to configure your IIS6 to run the 32-bit Coldfusion web applications
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/405f5bb5-87a3-43d2-8138-54b75db73aa1.mspx?mfr=true

Coldfusion8 32-bit on IIS7

And for the purpose, using IIS7 to run 32-bit Web applications on Coldfusion8 or earlier CF versions, you need to set your IIS7 to run in 32-bit mode instead of 64-bit. You should try the following steps if you are stuck with using Coldfusion8 or earlier versions and want to run it under IIS7.

1. Click Run in the start menu and type “cmd” to open the Command Prompt.
2. Type the following command in the Command Prompt.
   %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.applicationHost/applicationPools -[name='DefaultAppPool'].enable32BitAppOnWin64:true
3. And press “Enter” key

What now? looking for more? There is nothing more. You are all done. Your IIS7 is now set to run 32-bit Coldfusion Web Applications. You should not face the above error again and you should be able to run your earlier Coldfusion apps with IIS7 without any problem.

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