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• How to handle this unfortunately non hypothetical situation with end-users?

  - by User Smith

  I work in a medium sized company but with a very small IT force. Last year (2011), I wrote an application that is very popular with a large group of end-users. We hit a deadline at the end of last year and some functionality (I will call funcA from now on) was not added into the application that was wanted at the very end. So, this application has been running in live/production since the end of 2011, I might add without issue. Yesterday, a whole group of end-users started complaining that funcA that was never in the application is no longer working. Our priority at this company is that if an application is broken it must be fixed first prior to prioritized projects. I have compared code and queries and there is no difference since 2011, which is proofA. I then was able to get one of the end-users to admit that it never worked proofB, but since then that end-user has went back and said that it was working previously......I believe the horde of end-users has assimilated her. I have also reviewed my notes for this project which has requirements and daily updates regarding the project which specifically states, "funcA not achieved due to time constraints", proofC. I have spoken with many of them and I can see where they could be confused as they are very far from a programming background, but I also know they are intelligent enough to act in a group in order to bypass project prioritization orders in order to get functionality that they want to make their job easier. The worst part is is that now group think is setting in and my boss and the head of IT is actually starting to believe them, even though there is no code or query changes. As far as reviewing the state of the logic it is very cut and dry to the point of if 1 = 1, funcA will not work. So, this is the end of the description of my scenario, but I am trying not to get severally dinged on my performance metrics due to this which would essentially have me moved to fixing a production problem that doesn't exist that will probably take over 1 month. I am looking for direct answers to this question. This question is not for rants, polling, or discussions as this is not the format for StackExchange. Please don't downvote me too terribly it is pretty common on this specific site of stack, I am looking for honest answers to this situation and I couldn't find a forum more appropriate.

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• Am I deluding myself? Business analyst transition to programmer

  - by Ryan

  Current job: Working as the lead business analyst for a Big 4 firm, leading a team of developers and testers working on a large scale re-platforming project (4 onshore dev, 4 offshore devs, several onshore/offshore testers). Also work in a similar capacity on other smaller scale projects. Extent of my role: Gathering/writing out requirements, creating functional specifications, designing the UI (basically mapping out all front-end aspects of the system), working closely with devs to communicate/clarify requirements and come up with solutions when we hit roadblocks, writing test cases (and doing much of the testing), working with senior management and key stakeholders, managing beta testers, creating user guides and leading training sessions, providing key technical support. I also write quite a few macros in Excel using VBA (several of my macros are now used across the entire firm, so there are maybe around 1000 people using them) and use SQL on a daily basis, both on the SQL compact files the program relies on, our SQL Server data and any Access databases I create. The developers feel that I am quite good in this role because I understand a lot about programming, inherent system limitations, structure of the databases, etc so it's easier for me to communicate ideas and come up with suggestions when we face problems. What really interests me is developing software. I do a fair amount of programming in VBA and have been wanting to learn C# for awhile (the dev team uses C# - I review code occasionally for my own sake but have not had any practical experience using it). I'm interested in not just the business process but also the technical side of things, so the traditional BA role doesn't really whet my appetite for the kind of stuff I want to do. Right now I have a few small projects that managers have given me and I'm finding new ways to do them (like building custom Access applications), so there's a bit here and there to keep me interested. My question is this: what I would like to do is create custom Excel or Access applications for small businesses as a freelance business (working as a one-man shop; maybe having an occasional contractor depending on a project's complexity). This would obviously start out as a part-time venture while I have a day job, but eventually become a full-time job. Am I deluding myself to thinking I can go from BA/part-time VBA programmer to making a full-time go of a freelance business (where I would be starting out just writing custom Excel/Access apps in VBA)? Or is this type of thing not usually attempted until someone gains years of full-time programming experience? And is there even a market for these types of applications amongst small businesses (and maybe medium-sized) businesses?

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• Dadaism and Agility

  - by alexhildyard

  We all have our little bugbears, and something that has given me particular pause over the years is the place of Agility in the software development life cycle. While I have seen it used successfully on both small and Enterprise-level projects, I have also seen many instances in which long-standing technical debt has also originated under its watch. Ironically the problem in such cases seems to me not that the practitioners in question have failed to follow due process (Test, Develop, Refactor -- a common "what" of Agile), but basically that they have missed the point (the "why" of Agile). It's probably a sign of my age that I'm much more interested in the "why" than the "what", since I feel that the latter falls out naturally from the former, but that this is not a reciprocal relationship.Consider Dadaism, precursor to the Surrealist movement in the early part of the twentieth century. Anyone could stand up and proclaim he or she was Dada; anyone could write cut-ups, or pull words out a hat, or produce gibberish on duelling typewriters under the inspiration of Dada. And all that took place at such performances was a manifestation of Dada, and all the artefacts that resulted were also Dada. Hence one commentator's engimatic observation that 'when one speaks of Dada, then one speaks of Dada. But when one does not speak of Dada, one still speaks of Dada.'What is Dada? Literally, Dada is what you say it is. But that's also missing the point. Dada is about erecting a framework within which utterances like this are valid; Dada is about preparing a stage for itself. Dadaism exemplifies the purity of a process-driven ideology -- in fact an ideology that is almost pure process, with nothing extraneous in the way of formal method, and while perhaps Agile delivery should not embrace the liberties of Dadaism too literally, some of the similarities nevertheless are salutary.Agile -- like Dada -- is an attitude; it is about *being* agile; it is not really about doing a specific set of things that are somehow *part* of being Agile. It is an abstract base rather than an implementation, a characteristic rather than a factor. It is the pragmatic response to the need for change in the face of partial information, ephemeral requirements and a healthy dose of systematic uncertainty. In practice this will usually mean repeatedly making the smallest useful changes to a system, recognising that systems evolve, and that all change carries risk. It will usually mean that instead of investing effort in future-proofing a system against a known technology roadmap, one instead invests one's energies in the daily repetition and incremental development of processes best designed to accommodate change quickly. But though it may mean these things in practice, it isn't actually *about* either of these things; it's about the mindset, the attitude that conceives of such responses as sensible solutions given the larger and ultimately unclassifiable thing that constitutes the development lifecycle of a specific project.

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• Headaches using distributed version control for traditional teams?

  - by J Cooper

  Though I use and like DVCS for my personal projects, and can totally see how it makes managing contributions to your project from others easier (e.g. your typical Github scenario), it seems like for a "traditional" team there could be some problems over the centralized approach employed by solutions like TFS, Perforce, etc. (By "traditional" I mean a team of developers in an office working on one project that no one person "owns", with potentially everyone touching the same code.) A couple of these problems I've foreseen on my own, but please chime in with other considerations. In a traditional system, when you try to check your change in to the server, if someone else has previously checked in a conflicting change then you are forced to merge before you can check yours in. In the DVCS model, each developer checks in their changes locally and at some point pushes to some other repo. That repo then has a branch of that file that 2 people changed. It seems that now someone must be put in charge of dealing with that situation. A designated person on the team might not have sufficient knowledge of the entire codebase to be able to handle merging all conflicts. So now an extra step has been added where someone has to approach one of those developers, tell him to pull and do the merge and then push again (or you have to build an infrastructure that automates that task). Furthermore, since DVCS tends to make working locally so convenient, it is probable that developers could accumulate a few changes in their local repos before pushing, making such conflicts more common and more complicated. Obviously if everyone on the team only works on different areas of the code, this isn't an issue. But I'm curious about the case where everyone is working on the same code. It seems like the centralized model forces conflicts to be dealt with quickly and frequently, minimizing the need to do large, painful merges or have anyone "police" the main repo. So for those of you who do use a DVCS with your team in your office, how do you handle such cases? Do you find your daily (or more likely, weekly) workflow affected negatively? Are there any other considerations I should be aware of before recommending a DVCS at my workplace?

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• Oracle HCM User Group (OHUG) 2014

  - by CaroleB

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We Have Your Answers at the Oracle Support Central for Oracle E-Business Suite. Bring your toughest questions to Support Central and meet an Oracle Support expert to get your answers! Don’t miss your opportunity to spend focused time working with a Support Engineer or Manager one-on-one. Support Engineers: Here to Help You Succeed Let us help you solve problems without having to log an SR. We can help you streamline and simplify your daily operations or reduce your risks. We can show you how to maximize up-time and lower your organizations costs through preventative maintenance. Learn about Oracle HCM Cloud, or our new tools and processes that get you answers faster, such as analyzers and patch wizards. Check out the Product Information Centers, Newsletters, and My Oracle Support searches tips and tricks. Stop by and meet a Support Engineer that you may have worked with on a past Service Request. Get an explanation for a product area that you may have more questions on. Oracle Support is ready to help you with the Oracle HCM applications that you rely on to run your business. Support Central: HCM Support Leadership Here for You The Oracle Support Central is open Tuesday through Thursday.  We have a Support Leadership team of managers here to discuss your crucial milestones or your intentions to upgrade or configuring Oracle HCM products. We can provide heightened monitoring and engagement for a successful milestone. We are here for any ad-hoc account reviews that you would like to initiate on your OHUG trip. Location: Las Vegas: Mirage: Montego A Contact: Gregory Clark or Carole Black    /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast- mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

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• Addressing threats introduced by the BYOD trend

  - by kyap

  With the growth of the mobile technology segment, enterprises are facing a new type of threats introduced by the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, where employees use their own devices (laptops, tablets or smartphones) not necessarily secured to access corporate network and information.In the past - actually even right now, enterprises used to provide laptops to their employees for their daily work, with specific operating systems including anti-virus and desktop management tools, in order to make sure that the pools of laptop allocated are spyware or trojan-horse free to access the internal network and sensitive information. But the BYOD reality is breaking this paradigm and open new security breaches for enterprises as most of the username/password based systems, especially the internal web applications, can be accessed by less or none protected device.To address this reality we can adopt 3 approaches:1. Coué's approach: Close your eyes and assume that your employees are mature enough to know what he/she should or should not do.2. Consensus approach: Provide a list of restricted and 'certified' devices to the internal network. 3. Military approach: Access internal systems with certified laptop ONLYIf you choose option 1: Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you find the others entries more useful :)If you choose option 2: The proliferation of new hardware and software updates every quarter makes this approach very costly and difficult to maintain.If you choose option 3: You need to find a way to allow the access into your sensitive application from the corporate authorized machines only, managed by the IT administrators... but how? The challenge with option 3 is to find out how end-users can restrict access to certain sensitive applications only from authorized machines, or from another angle end-users can not access the sensitive applications if they are not using the authorized machine... So what if we find a way to store the applications credential secretly from the end-users, and then automatically submit them when the end-users access the application? With this model, end-users do not know the username/password to access the applications so even if the end-users use their own devices they will not able to login. Also, there's no need to reconfigure existing applications to adapt to the new authenticate scheme given that we are still leverage the same username/password authenticate model at the application level. To adopt this model, you can leverage Oracle Enterprise Single Sign On. In short, Oracle ESSO is a desktop based solution, capable to store credentials of Web and Native based applications. At the application startup and if it is configured as an esso-enabled application - check out my previous post on how to make Skype essso-enabled, Oracle ESSO takes over automatically the sign-in sequence with the store credential on behalf of the end-users. Combined with Oracle ESSO Provisioning Gateway, the credentials can be 'pushed' in advance from an actual provisioning server, like Oracle Identity Manager or Tivoli Identity Manager, so the end-users can login into sensitive application without even knowing the actual username and password, so they can not login with other machines rather than those secured by Oracle ESSO.Below is a graphical illustration of this approach:With this model, not only you can protect the access to sensitive applications only from authorized machine, you can also implement much stronger Password Policies in terms of Password Complexity as well as Password Reset Frequency but end-users will not need to remember the passwords anymore.If you are interested, do not hesitate to check out the Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-on products from OTN !

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• I need help installing Ubuntu 11.10 to multi-drive system

  - by CookyMonzta

  I have a machine with 3 hard drives; the primary, which is 750GB (drive 0), and 2 others, each of which is 640GB (drives 1 and 2). On the last screen before the actual installation begins, this is how my hard drive configuration looks: /dev/sda [DISK0, 750GB] /dev/sda1 ntfs 104MB [Win7 System Reserved] /dev/sda2 ntfs 499,997MB [Windows 7 Pro] free space 250,052MB [This space intended for Windows 8] /dev/sdb [DISK1, 640GB] /dev/sdb1 ntfs 400,085MB [Windows XP Pro] free space 240,049MB [This space intended for Ubuntu] /dev/sdc [DISK2, 640GB] [This drive intended for various backups] free space 160,033MB /dev/sdc5 ntfs 480,101MB [Acronis Secure Zone] As you can see, I have 3 drives, all SATA. I have Win7 on my first drive (0), WinXP on my second drive (1) and a secure zone for daily backups on my third drive (2). I want to put Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot on the drive that also has XP. I've already used 400GB for XP and I have 240GB remaining, for which, my intention was to create a 4GB swap file and use the rest for Ubuntu itself. This is what my second hard drive looked like, for my intended setup before installation: /dev/sdb /dev/sdb5 swap 4,095MB [Linux swap] /dev/sdb6 ext4 235,951MB [Ubuntu 11.10] Needless to say, this is only the second time I have attempted to install Linux. I managed to get 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon working on an old machine. I have two problems with this installation: Ubuntu asks for a location to install the boot loader (i.e., "Device for Boot Loader Installation"). I already have a boot loader; namely, Acronis OS Selector (from Acronis Disk Director 11). So I decided to put the Ubuntu boot loader in /dev/sdb6 (where I intend to install Ubuntu), to keep it from interfering with my Acronis OS Selector. Once I hit "Install now", I ended up with the following error: "No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu." What am I missing? Did I attempt to put the boot loader in the wrong place? I assume I did, because as I am writing this entry, I am looking at LinuxIdentity.com's Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal magazine, and I see a screenshot (Figure 7 on Page 13) that implies that the boot loader can be installed anywhere, including the first hard drive (in the MBR, which would obviously force me to reinstall the Acronis OS Selector) or even on a floppy. But why do I get an undefined root file system error? I thought /dev/sdb6 was the root file. Obviously I'm missing something in the installation procedure. Should I try installing it in Windows using the WUBI Installer? I assume that, if I attempt to install Ubuntu from WinXP (on the second drive), it will automatically install Ubuntu on the empty partition alongside XP. But will I have the option of creating a swap partition? And what if the WUBI Installer searches all of my drives and decides to install Ubuntu on my first drive's empty partition (which I have left empty for Win8 upon its release)?

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• How do I know if I am using Scrum methodologies?

  - by Jake

  When I first started at my current job, my purpose was to rewrite a massive excel-VBA workbook-application to C# Winforms because it was thought that the new C# app will fix all existing problems and have all the new features for a perfect world. If it were a direct port, in theory it would be easy as i just need to go through all the formulas, conditional formatting, validations, VBA etc. to understand it. However, that was not the case. Many of the new features are tightly dependant on business logic which I am unfamiliar with. As a solo programmer, the first year was spent solely on deciphering the excel workbook and writing the C# app. In theory, I had the business people to "help" me specify requirements, how GUI looks and work, and testing of the app etc; but in practice it is like a contant tsunami of feature creep. At the beginning of the second year I managed to convince the management that this is not going anywhere. I made them start from scratch with the excel-VBA. I have this "issue log" saved on the network, each time they found something they didn't like about the excel-VBA app, they will write it in there. I check the log daily and consolidate issues (in my mind) mainly into 2 groups: (1) requires massive change. (2) can be fixed in current version. For massive change issues, I make a copy of the latest excel-VBA and give it a new version number, then work on it whenever I can. For current version fixes, I make the changes in a few days to a week, and then immediately release it. I also ensure I update the same change in any in-progress massive change future versions. This has gone on for about 4 months and I feel it works great. I made many releases and solved many real issues, also understood the business logic more and more. However, my boss (non-IT trained) thinks what I am doing are just adhoc changes and that i am not looking at the "bigger picture". I am struggling to convince my boss that this works. So I hope to formalise my approach and maybe borrow a buzzword to confuse him. Incidentally, I read about Agile and SCRUM, about backlog and sprints. But it's all very vague to me still. QUESTION (finally): I want to tell him that this is SCRUM! But I want to hold my breath first and ask whether my current approach is considered SCRUM or SCRUM-like? How can I make it more SCRUM-like? Note that I have only myself, there's no project leader or teams.

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• Oracle Could Lead In Cloud Business Apps Within Year

  - by Richard Lefebvre

  Below is the reprint from an article, writen by By Pete Barlas, Investor's Business Daily, published on Investorscom: Oracle (ORCL) is all but destined to become the largest seller of cloud business-software applications, analysts say, and perhaps within a year. What that means in the long run is much debated, though, as analysts aren't sure whether pricing competition might cut into profit or what other issues might develop in the fast-emerging cloud software field. But the database leader, which is either No. 1 or 2 to SAP (SAP) in business apps overall, simply has the size and scope to overtake current cloud business-app leader, Salesforce.com (CRM), analysts say. Oracle rolled out its first full suite of cloud applications on June 6. Cloud computing lets companies store data and apps on the Internet "cloud" and access it quickly and easily. The applications run the gamut of customer relationship management software to social networking sites for employees, partners and customers. For longtime software giants like Oracle, the cloud is a big switch. They get the great bulk of revenue from companies and other enterprises buying or licensing software that the customers keep on their own computer systems. Vendors also get annual maintenance fees. Analysts estimate Oracle is taking in a mere $1 billion or so a year from cloud-based software sales and services now. But while that's just a sliver of the company's $37 billion in sales last year, it's already about a third of the total sales for Salesforce, which is expected to end this year with some $3 billion in revenue. Operates In 145 Countries Oracle operates in more than 145 countries vs. about 70 for Salesforce. And Oracle has far more apps than Salesforce. Revenue doesn't equate to profit, but it's inevitable that huge Oracle will become the largest seller of cloud applications, says Trip Chowdhry, an analyst for Global Equities Research. "What Oracle has is global presence," he said. "They have two things driving the revenue: breadth of the offering and breadth of the distribution. You put those applications in those sales reps' hands and you get deployments not in just one country but several countries." At the June 6 event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison emphasized that his company could and would beat Salesforce.com in head-to-head battles for customers. Oracle makes software to help companies manage such tasks as customer relationships, recruiting, supply chains, projects, finances and more. That range gives it an edge over all rivals, says Michael Fauscette, an analyst for research firm IDC.

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• Forced to be trained [closed]

  - by steeb

  is it OK to force employees to take a training in order to make them sign a contract to stay in the job for X years? Here I'm the only developer in the company and before this job I've developed in VB6, VB.Net and others. There are others technicians here but they query the database server to make reports and make little programs but do not spend all day in programming. I was hired here to manage some legacy data to be migrated to a new system and I used my experience to accomplish the task. I also have made some utilities and other developments. Since we went live with the new system I've been developing a lot of side programs, add-ons and changed the source code of it and basically I've been learning from it since then and became some sort of jack of all trades when some feature needs to be changed or corrected. I have one and a half year in this company but during the last 8 months I've been entirely programming in the system. There have been times when even the implementers ask me how I accomplish certain things. The issue here is that the company has come and told me and other co-workers (which do not program in the system but know basic programming and databases) to have a basic training to program for the new system's platform and when we finish it we will sign a contract to stay in the company for an unspecified time. They have offered also an unspecified better salary. I'm feeling very suspicious cause I know the basics of system and I don't understand why I have to take it, being known by everybody all developments I've made. I gathered with my boss and told him that I should not take that course because I feel that I can learn more with all the daily requirements I've been asked and they should save that money. But he responded me that I have to take it and sign after that. I think they want me to be with them for a long time, and I'd like to, but my opinion is that I would like to stay in the company because I feel comfortable in all laboral aspects (including salary) but not because I signed a contract forced to do more tasks and forced to say no if I have others and better job offers. What advice can you give me in this kind of situation?

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• The Connected Company: WebCenter Portal Activity Streams

  - by Michael Snow

  Guest post by Mitchell Palski, Oracle Staff Sales Consultant Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Social media is sure to have made its way into your company or government organization. Whether its discussion threads, blog posts, Facebook-style profile-pages, or just a simple Instant Messenger application; in one way or another, your employees are connected. What are the objectives of leveraging social media in your organization? Facilitating knowledge transfer More effectively organizing team events Generating inter-community discussions to solve problems Improving resource management Increasing organizational awareness Creating an environment of accountability Do any of the business objectives above stand out to you as needs? If so, consider leveraging the WebCenter Portal Activity Stream as part of your solution. In WebCenter Portal, the Activity Stream feature provides a streaming view of the activities of your connections, actions taken in portals, and business activities that looks a lot like a combined Facebook and Twitter newsfeed. Activity Stream can note when a user: Posts feedback (comments) Uploads a document Creates a new blog, page, event, or announcement Starts a new discussion Streams messages and attachments entered through WebCenter Publisher (similar to Twitter) Through Activity Stream Preferences, you can select which of these activities to show or hide from your personal Activity Stream. Here’s what you get: Real-time stream of activities with in a Portal or sub-Portal increases awareness across your organization or within a working group Complete list of user actions reduces the time-to-find for users that need to interact with the latest activities in your portal Users can publish to their groups when tasks are finished for complete group traceability and accountability, as well as improved resource management. Project discussions and shared documents that require the expertise of someone outside of a working group now get increased visibility across your organization. There’s a reason that commercial Social Media tools like Facebook and Twitter have been so successful – they spread information in an aesthetically appealing and easy to read format.  Strategically placing an Activity Feed within your Portal is analogous to sending your employees a daily newsletter, events calendar, recent documents report, and list of announcements – BUT ALL IN ONE! 

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• Developing web sites that imitate desktop apps. How to fight that paradigm? [closed]

  - by user1598390

  Supposse there's a company where web sites/apps are designed to resemble desktop apps. They struggle to add: Splash screens Drop-down menus Tab-pages Pages that don't grow downward with content, context is inside scrollable area so page is of a fixed size, as if resembling the one-screen limitation of desktop apps. Modal windows, pop-ups, etc. Tree views Absolutely no access to content unless you login-first, even with non-sensitive content. After splash screen desapears, you are presented with a login screen. No links - just simulated buttons. Fixed page-size. Cannot open a linked in other tab Print button that prints directly ( not showing printable page so the user can't print via the browser's print command ) Progress bars for loading content even when the browser indicates it with its own animation Fonts and color amulate a desktop app made with Visual Basic, PowerBuilder etc. Every app seems almost as if were made in Visual Basic. They reject this elements: Breadcrumbs Good old underlined links Generated/dynamic navigation, usage-based suggestions Ability to open links in multiple tabs Pagination Printable pages Ability to produce a URL you can save or share that links to an item, like when you send someone the link to an especific StackExchange question. The only URL is the main one. Back button To achieve this, tons of javascript code is needed. Lots and lots of Javascript and Ajax code for things not related with the business but with the necessity to hide/show that button, refresh this listbox, grey-out that label, etc. The coplexity generated by forcing one paradigm into another means most lines of code are dedicated to maintain the illusion of a desktop app. What is the best way to change this mindset, and make them embrace the web, and start producing modern, web apps instead of desktop imitations ? EDIT: These sites are intranet sites. Users hate these apps. They constantly whine about them, but they have to use them to do their daily work. These sites are in-house solutions, the end-users have no choice but to use them. They are a "captive audience". Also, substitution will not happen because of high costs. But at least if that mindset is changed, new developments would be more web-like.

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• What will be the better way for data retrieval on application that needs to handle limited amount of data.?

  - by Milanix

  This is not really a coding question since, I am not adding any code in here. Since, adding my code snippets itself would make this question really long. Instead, I am pretty interested in knowing a better ways for data retrieval on application that needs to handle limited amount of data which isn't updated regularly. Let's take this example: I am writing an application which gets a schedule as an XML from server. I have written a logic in order to parse XML version and update database only if the version is newer than the local version. Although the update is checked automatically/manually on daily basis based on user preference, the actual version update happens only once per few months or so. Since, this is done by some other authority which doesn't provide API but, rather inform publicly on their changes. The actual XML contains a "(n number of groups)(days in a week) (n number of schedule)" . The group is usually 6 and the number of schedule is usually 2. So basically there would usually be only around 100 strings. Now although I have used SQLite at the moment. I want to know how to make update on database. Should I show progress dialog that the application is updating and exit the app when it's done? Since, my updates are infrequent i don't think this will really harm user experience but, is there any better ways to do it? Because I don't want update to be made when user is searching which is done using database. This will cause an database already open exception. Atleast I have faced this problem before. Is it better to rather parse XML every time when user wants to view certain things or to use SQLite? Since, I make lots of use of adapter in my app to create lists, will that degrade the performance? It would really be a great help if anyone can give me better overview about it. Or may be counter argument against each. Many thanks!

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• Spotlight on an office - Nairobi, Kenya

  - by Maria Sandu

  Hi everyone, my name is Joash Mitei. I am a graduate Intern at Oracle Systems Kenya and I will briefly take you through our offices and the working environment here in Nairobi, Kenya. I’ve been with Oracle since February 2012 and I’m responsible for Applications Pre-sales focusing on Oracle EPM and E-Business Suite. My background is Finance and Accounting therefore joining Oracle was almost a totally a different ball game but the transition has been smooth. The Oracle offices here are located on the second floor of Mebank Towers. We moved to the 2nd floor just three months ago from the 5th floor mainly because of the growing workforce. We are covering the whole Eastern Africa region hence diversity in culture is evident. This is a plus since you get to interact with people of very different backgrounds, cultures and ways of thinking. The building itself is on the outskirts of the CBD hence free from the hustle and bustle of the town. The office is split into different sections; there is a main working area which has an open desk design that fosters interaction between colleagues, there are 4 conference rooms for meetings and presentations, there are 3 quiet rooms for a little privacy when needed and there is a dining area for meals and ‘hanging out’. The working environment is world-class, to say the least. The employees are very professional, quite smart and needless to say, very busy. There are 4 interns covering sales and pre-sales in both Tech and Apps. As an intern you get support from your supervisor but you are required to show initiative yourself and thus the need to be very pro-active and inquisitive. The local management is well structured and communicative to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in the office. Apart from the daily work, we usually have events to boost staff morale such as ‘TGIF hang -out’, football matches against each other or versus other companies, and team building retreats. All these are monumental in fostering the RED POTENTIAL. We also do numerous CSR activities in the local communities . Well, that’s the Kenyan office for you. Glad to be your tour guide. Have a superb day!

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• Usage of Pirated software at a company

  - by hakesh

  Hi, I am redirected from stack over flow since the topic is ethics rather than about programming. Thank you for letting me know that. and please give me advices. So, I started to work at a company as an engineer a couple of months ago. It's a small company and what they basically do is answering service on phones. Now they are switching from normal phones to IP phones so that computers take more important place in the work. However, all the computers used by workers are equipped with pirated software ,even their operating systems are. Moreover, they don't even buy one license to make copies for other computers. In other words, they do not spend any money for the software in office. I am not saying copying a licensed one is legit, but the situation is too much. There is one guy who did installing those pirated soft. He does not feel any sense of guilt and even justified when I asked about it. and he is not even a specialist. He just searched on the internet to install pirated software. Our boss does not have any knowledge of computers, so he took cheaper way. How do you guys think about this? Since I am still new to the company, I am not doing maintenance or managing on those cracked computers. But I have to use those software daily. And later on I will be doing support, help desk kind of staff. I really don't want to take responsibility for operating pirated software. and from an aspect of developer and engineer, pirated software are not able to get legal support and it may work unexpectedly. So, I am thinking about changing job. Am I thinking too much? should I wait until I have more credit from the boss and try to change his policy? So far, the boss does not take any words from me. Any opinions are welcome. Thank you

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• Laptop freezes and seems to crash, but continues working after waiting for a few minutes [closed]

  - by Corwin

  I've had this old notebook laying around and because i was missing a second machine (My wife usually steals the first ;) ) I considered installing Linux. As a php developer I work with Linux servers (usually fedora) on a daily basis and because its an older machine that I want to use for development, linux seemed the best option. Speedwise I expected a good experience, better than Windows 7 on the same machine. The results where terrible. I tried ubuntu 12.04. The shell never got past showing the background. The system doesn't freeze since the mouse still works and I can use ctrl+alt+f2 etc to enter terminal mode. I expected hardware problems en even exchanged the harddisk en Ram memory. No luck though, so I started over and tried 11.10 Same results so I tried 10.04.4 which did install properly. Not sure if unity was the problem, but it seems likely. But then I tried simply things like surfing on the net, the system frooze and I thought it crashed so after a few minutes I pulled the plug and rebooted. But it happened again and I waited. After a few minutes the system came back to life like nothing happened. Long story short. Besides the fact that the entire interface is very sluggish, any and all graphical functions freezes the system. The more elaborate the animation would be, the longer it freezes. I switch chromium from window to fullscreenmode and had to wait 15 minutes to continue. I don't see the animation that's probably supposed to be in between. It just freezes and then after unfreezing its fullscreen. I don't think its a bug. I suspect the problem is with my graphics card. Like I said, its and old system. So old that I can't even find the original Ati drivers anywere. (I'll post the details of my system at the end of my post) I'm at a loss as to what to do next. I tried other Distro's. So far only dreamlinux works normally. Linux Mint won't start as a live CD. I think I simply need a driver update but I can't find them anywhere. Does anyone have the same experience ? Maybe even someone who has or had the same notebook running Ubuntu at some point ? Anyway, here are the specs: http://www.nec-driver.com/nec-driver/NEC-Versa-P550---FP550-Driver_421.html

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• How to read oom-killer syslog messages?

  - by Grant

  I have a Ubuntu 12.04 server which sometimes dies completely - no SSH, no ping, nothing until it is physically rebooted. After the reboot, I see in syslog that the oom-killer killed, well, pretty much everything. There's a lot of detailed memory usage information in them. How do I read these logs to see what caused the OOM issue? The server has far more memory than it needs, so it shouldn't be running out of memory. Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529511] oom_kill_process: 9 callbacks suppressed Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529514] irqbalance invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529516] irqbalance cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529518] Pid: 948, comm: irqbalance Not tainted 3.2.0-55-generic-pae #85-Ubuntu Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529519] Call Trace: Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529525] [] dump_header.isra.6+0x85/0xc0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529528] [] oom_kill_process+0x5c/0x80 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529530] [] out_of_memory+0xc5/0x1c0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529532] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0x740 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529535] [] __get_free_pages+0x1c/0x30 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529537] [] get_zeroed_page+0x12/0x20 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529541] [] fill_read_buffer.isra.8+0xaa/0xd0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529543] [] sysfs_read_file+0x7d/0x90 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529546] [] vfs_read+0x8c/0x160 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529548] [] ? fill_read_buffer.isra.8+0xd0/0xd0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529550] [] sys_read+0x3d/0x70 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529554] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529555] Mem-Info: Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529556] DMA per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529557] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529558] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529560] CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529561] CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529562] CPU 4: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529563] CPU 5: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529564] CPU 6: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529565] CPU 7: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529566] Normal per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529567] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 179 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529568] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 182 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529569] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 132 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529570] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 175 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529571] CPU 4: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 91 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529572] CPU 5: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 173 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529573] CPU 6: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 159 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529574] CPU 7: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 164 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529575] HighMem per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529576] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 165 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529577] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 183 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529578] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 185 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529579] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 138 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529580] CPU 4: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 155 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529581] CPU 5: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 104 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529582] CPU 6: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 133 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529583] CPU 7: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 170 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529586] active_anon:5523 inactive_anon:354 isolated_anon:0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529586] active_file:2815 inactive_file:6849119 isolated_file:0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529587] unevictable:0 dirty:449 writeback:10 unstable:0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529587] free:1304125 slab_reclaimable:104672 slab_unreclaimable:3419 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529588] mapped:2661 shmem:138 pagetables:313 bounce:0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529591] DMA free:4252kB min:780kB low:972kB high:1168kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15756kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:11564kB slab_unreclaimable:4kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:1 all_unreclaimable? yes Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529594] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 869 32460 32460 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529599] Normal free:44052kB min:44216kB low:55268kB high:66324kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:616kB inactive_file:568kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:890008kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:4kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:407124kB slab_unreclaimable:13672kB kernel_stack:992kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:2083 all_unreclaimable? yes Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529602] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 252733 252733 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529606] HighMem free:5168196kB min:512kB low:402312kB high:804112kB active_anon:22092kB inactive_anon:1416kB active_file:10640kB inactive_file:27395920kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:32349872kB mlocked:0kB dirty:1796kB writeback:40kB mapped:10640kB shmem:552kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:1252kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529609] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529611] DMA: 6*4kB 6*8kB 6*16kB 5*32kB 5*64kB 4*128kB 2*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4232kB Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529616] Normal: 297*4kB 180*8kB 119*16kB 73*32kB 67*64kB 47*128kB 35*256kB 13*512kB 5*1024kB 1*2048kB 1*4096kB = 44052kB Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529622] HighMem: 1*4kB 6*8kB 27*16kB 11*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 4*1024kB 1*2048kB 1260*4096kB = 5168196kB Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529627] 6852076 total pagecache pages Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529628] 0 pages in swap cache Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529629] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529630] Free swap = 3998716kB Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.529631] Total swap = 3998716kB Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571914] 8437743 pages RAM Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571916] 8209409 pages HighMem Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571917] 159556 pages reserved Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571917] 6862034 pages shared Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571918] 123540 pages non-shared Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571919] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571927] [ 421] 0 421 709 152 3 0 0 upstart-udev-br Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571929] [ 429] 0 429 773 326 5 -17 -1000 udevd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571931] [ 567] 0 567 772 224 4 -17 -1000 udevd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571932] [ 568] 0 568 772 231 7 -17 -1000 udevd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571934] [ 764] 0 764 712 103 1 0 0 upstart-socket- Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571936] [ 772] 103 772 815 164 5 0 0 dbus-daemon Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571938] [ 785] 0 785 1671 600 1 -17 -1000 sshd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571940] [ 809] 101 809 7766 380 1 0 0 rsyslogd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571942] [ 869] 0 869 1158 213 3 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571943] [ 873] 0 873 1158 214 6 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571945] [ 911] 0 911 1158 215 3 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571947] [ 912] 0 912 1158 214 2 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571949] [ 914] 0 914 1158 213 1 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571950] [ 916] 0 916 618 86 1 0 0 atd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571952] [ 917] 0 917 655 226 3 0 0 cron Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571954] [ 948] 0 948 902 159 3 0 0 irqbalance Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571956] [ 993] 0 993 1145 363 3 0 0 master Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571957] [ 1002] 104 1002 1162 333 1 0 0 qmgr Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571959] [ 1016] 0 1016 730 149 2 0 0 mdadm Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571961] [ 1057] 0 1057 6066 2160 3 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571963] [ 1086] 0 1086 1158 213 3 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571965] [ 1088] 33 1088 6191 1517 0 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571967] [ 1089] 33 1089 6191 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571969] [ 1090] 33 1090 6175 1451 3 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571971] [ 1091] 33 1091 6191 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571972] [ 1092] 33 1092 6191 1451 0 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571974] [ 1109] 33 1109 6191 1517 0 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571976] [ 1151] 33 1151 6191 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571978] [ 1201] 104 1201 1803 652 1 0 0 tlsmgr Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571980] [ 2475] 0 2475 2435 812 0 0 0 sshd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571982] [ 2494] 0 2494 1745 839 1 0 0 bash Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571984] [ 2573] 0 2573 3394 1689 0 0 0 sshd Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571986] [ 2589] 0 2589 5014 457 3 0 0 rsync Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571988] [ 2590] 0 2590 7970 522 1 0 0 rsync Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571990] [ 2652] 104 2652 1150 326 5 0 0 pickup Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.571992] Out of memory: Kill process 421 (upstart-udev-br) score 1 or sacrifice child Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.572407] Killed process 421 (upstart-udev-br) total-vm:2836kB, anon-rss:156kB, file-rss:452kB Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.573107] init: upstart-udev-bridge main process (421) killed by KILL signal Oct 25 07:28:04 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87946.573126] init: upstart-udev-bridge main process ended, respawning Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461570] irqbalance invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461573] irqbalance cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461576] Pid: 948, comm: irqbalance Not tainted 3.2.0-55-generic-pae #85-Ubuntu Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461578] Call Trace: Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461585] [] dump_header.isra.6+0x85/0xc0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461588] [] oom_kill_process+0x5c/0x80 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461591] [] out_of_memory+0xc5/0x1c0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461595] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0x740 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461599] [] __get_free_pages+0x1c/0x30 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461602] [] get_zeroed_page+0x12/0x20 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461606] [] fill_read_buffer.isra.8+0xaa/0xd0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461609] [] sysfs_read_file+0x7d/0x90 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461613] [] vfs_read+0x8c/0x160 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461616] [] ? fill_read_buffer.isra.8+0xd0/0xd0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461619] [] sys_read+0x3d/0x70 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461624] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461626] Mem-Info: Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461628] DMA per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461629] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461631] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461633] CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461634] CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461636] CPU 4: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461638] CPU 5: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461639] CPU 6: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461641] CPU 7: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461642] Normal per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461644] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 61 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461646] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 49 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461647] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 8 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461649] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461651] CPU 4: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461652] CPU 5: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461654] CPU 6: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461656] CPU 7: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 30 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461657] HighMem per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461658] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 4 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461660] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 204 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461662] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461663] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461665] CPU 4: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461667] CPU 5: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 31 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461668] CPU 6: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461670] CPU 7: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461674] active_anon:5441 inactive_anon:412 isolated_anon:0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461674] active_file:2668 inactive_file:6922842 isolated_file:0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461675] unevictable:0 dirty:836 writeback:0 unstable:0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461676] free:1231664 slab_reclaimable:105781 slab_unreclaimable:3399 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461677] mapped:2649 shmem:138 pagetables:313 bounce:0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461682] DMA free:4248kB min:780kB low:972kB high:1168kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:4kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15756kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:11560kB slab_unreclaimable:4kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:5687 all_unreclaimable? yes Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461686] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 869 32460 32460 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461693] Normal free:44184kB min:44216kB low:55268kB high:66324kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:20kB inactive_file:1096kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:890008kB mlocked:0kB dirty:4kB writeback:0kB mapped:4kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:411564kB slab_unreclaimable:13592kB kernel_stack:992kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:1816 all_unreclaimable? yes Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461697] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 252733 252733 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461703] HighMem free:4878224kB min:512kB low:402312kB high:804112kB active_anon:21764kB inactive_anon:1648kB active_file:10652kB inactive_file:27690268kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:32349872kB mlocked:0kB dirty:3340kB writeback:0kB mapped:10592kB shmem:552kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:1252kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461708] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461711] DMA: 8*4kB 7*8kB 6*16kB 5*32kB 5*64kB 4*128kB 2*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4248kB Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461719] Normal: 272*4kB 178*8kB 76*16kB 52*32kB 42*64kB 36*128kB 23*256kB 20*512kB 7*1024kB 2*2048kB 1*4096kB = 44176kB Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461727] HighMem: 1*4kB 45*8kB 31*16kB 24*32kB 5*64kB 3*128kB 1*256kB 2*512kB 4*1024kB 2*2048kB 1188*4096kB = 4877852kB Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461736] 6925679 total pagecache pages Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461737] 0 pages in swap cache Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461739] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461740] Free swap = 3998716kB Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.461741] Total swap = 3998716kB Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524951] 8437743 pages RAM Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524953] 8209409 pages HighMem Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524954] 159556 pages reserved Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524955] 6936141 pages shared Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524956] 124602 pages non-shared Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524957] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524966] [ 429] 0 429 773 326 5 -17 -1000 udevd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524968] [ 567] 0 567 772 224 4 -17 -1000 udevd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524971] [ 568] 0 568 772 231 7 -17 -1000 udevd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524973] [ 764] 0 764 712 103 3 0 0 upstart-socket- Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524976] [ 772] 103 772 815 164 2 0 0 dbus-daemon Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524979] [ 785] 0 785 1671 600 1 -17 -1000 sshd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524981] [ 809] 101 809 7766 380 1 0 0 rsyslogd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524983] [ 869] 0 869 1158 213 3 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524986] [ 873] 0 873 1158 214 6 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524988] [ 911] 0 911 1158 215 3 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524990] [ 912] 0 912 1158 214 2 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524992] [ 914] 0 914 1158 213 1 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524995] [ 916] 0 916 618 86 1 0 0 atd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524997] [ 917] 0 917 655 226 3 0 0 cron Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.524999] [ 948] 0 948 902 159 5 0 0 irqbalance Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525002] [ 993] 0 993 1145 363 3 0 0 master Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525004] [ 1002] 104 1002 1162 333 1 0 0 qmgr Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525007] [ 1016] 0 1016 730 149 2 0 0 mdadm Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525009] [ 1057] 0 1057 6066 2160 3 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525012] [ 1086] 0 1086 1158 213 3 0 0 getty Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525014] [ 1088] 33 1088 6191 1517 0 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525017] [ 1089] 33 1089 6191 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525019] [ 1090] 33 1090 6175 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525021] [ 1091] 33 1091 6191 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525024] [ 1092] 33 1092 6191 1451 0 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525026] [ 1109] 33 1109 6191 1517 0 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525029] [ 1151] 33 1151 6191 1451 1 0 0 /usr/sbin/apach Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525031] [ 1201] 104 1201 1803 652 1 0 0 tlsmgr Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525033] [ 2475] 0 2475 2435 812 0 0 0 sshd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525036] [ 2494] 0 2494 1745 839 1 0 0 bash Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525038] [ 2573] 0 2573 3394 1689 3 0 0 sshd Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525040] [ 2589] 0 2589 5014 457 3 0 0 rsync Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525043] [ 2590] 0 2590 7970 522 1 0 0 rsync Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525045] [ 2652] 104 2652 1150 326 5 0 0 pickup Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525048] [ 2847] 0 2847 709 89 0 0 0 upstart-udev-br Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525050] Out of memory: Kill process 764 (upstart-socket-) score 1 or sacrifice child Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.525484] Killed process 764 (upstart-socket-) total-vm:2848kB, anon-rss:204kB, file-rss:208kB Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.526161] init: upstart-socket-bridge main process (764) killed by KILL signal Oct 25 07:28:34 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87976.526180] init: upstart-socket-bridge main process ended, respawning Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439671] irqbalance invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439674] irqbalance cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439676] Pid: 948, comm: irqbalance Not tainted 3.2.0-55-generic-pae #85-Ubuntu Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439678] Call Trace: Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439684] [] dump_header.isra.6+0x85/0xc0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439686] [] oom_kill_process+0x5c/0x80 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439688] [] out_of_memory+0xc5/0x1c0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439691] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0x740 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439694] [] __get_free_pages+0x1c/0x30 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439696] [] get_zeroed_page+0x12/0x20 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439699] [] fill_read_buffer.isra.8+0xaa/0xd0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439702] [] sysfs_read_file+0x7d/0x90 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439704] [] vfs_read+0x8c/0x160 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439707] [] ? fill_read_buffer.isra.8+0xd0/0xd0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439709] [] sys_read+0x3d/0x70 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439712] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439714] Mem-Info: Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439714] DMA per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439716] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439717] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439718] CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439719] CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439720] CPU 4: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439721] CPU 5: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439722] CPU 6: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439723] CPU 7: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439724] Normal per-cpu: Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439725] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439726] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439727] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439728] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:28:44 nldedip4k031 kernel: [87986.439729] CPU 4: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Oct 25 07:33:48 nldedip4k031 kernel: imklog 5.8.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Oct 25 07:33:48 nldedip4k031 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.6" x-pid="2880" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start Oct 25 07:33:48 nldedip4k031 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103 Oct 25 07:33:48 nldedip4k031 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101 Oct 25 07:33:48 nldedip4k031 rsyslogd-2039: Could not open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]

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• Task Scheduler not running .bat or .vbs successfully

  - by Django Reinhardt

  Hi there, got this weird problem, which will hopefully have an obvious solution for some enlightened soul: We have several daily tasks we run via a .vbs script on our server (through the Task Scheduler), and for months it has been fine, but recently we've hit a problem. The .vbs script stopped successfully executing... but oddly it worked fine when ran manually! The error given in these circumstances was always "Timeout". We thought we try a little creative thinking, and run the .vbs another way: Via a .bat file. Again we hit weird issues, but with a little more debugging information, this time around. The .bat file is nothing more than... CScript "C:\location\script.vbs" > Log.txt But the Task Scheduler fails with the following error: 0x1: An incorrect function was called or an unknown function was called. The log.txt file says: CScript Error: Initialization of the Windows Script Host failed. (Not enough storage is available to process this command. ) But get this: The .bat file executes perfectly (vbs script and all) if it's executed with a double click! There's only a problem when it's run by Task Scheduler. What the hell? We're running Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) and yes, the Task Sheduler's results are the same whether the user is logged in or not. Also, the user that can run the scripts successfully manually, is also the same user that runs the scripts in Task Scheduler. Thanks for any help for this weird problem!

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• Task Scheduler not able to execute .vbs scripts successfully

  - by Django Reinhardt

  Apologies if this has a really obvious answer! We have several daily tasks we run via a .vbs script on our server (through the Task Scheduler), and for months it has been fine, but recently we've hit a problem. The .vbs scripts stopped successfully executing (always timing out)... but could still be executed manually with no problems(!). Not knowing any good reason why the Task Scheduler should start having problems, we thought we'd try a little "creative thinking", and run the .vbs another way: Via a .bat file executed by the Task Scheduler. Again we hit weird issues, but with a little more debugging information, this time around. The .bat file run by Task Scheduler is nothing more than... CScript "C:\location\script.vbs" > Log.txt But after an attempt to run it, the Task Scheduler fails with the following error: 0x1: An incorrect function was called or an unknown function was called. The Log.txt (as output from the .bat file above) says: CScript Error: Initialization of the Windows Script Host failed. (Not enough storage is available to process this command. ) But get this: The .bat file executes perfectly (vbs script and all) if it's executed with a double click! There's only a problem when it's run by Task Scheduler. What the hell? We're running Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) and yes, the Task Sheduler's results are the same whether the user is logged in or not. Also, the user that can run the scripts successfully manually, is also the same user that runs the scripts in Task Scheduler. Thanks for any help for this weird problem!

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• SQL Server transaction log backups,

  - by krimerd

  Hi there, I have a question regarding the transaction log backups in sql server 2008. I am currently taking full backups once a week (Sunday) and transaction log backups daily. I put full backup in folder1 on Sunday and then on Monday I also put the 1st transaction log backup in the same folder. On tuesday, before I take the 2nd transaction log backup I move the first transaction log backup from folder1 an put it into folder2 and then I take the 2nd transaction log backup and put it in the folder1. Same thing on Wed, Thurs and so on. Basicaly in folder1 I always have the latest full backup and the latest transaction log backup while the other transaction log backups are in folder2. My questions is, when sql server is about to take, lets say 4th (Thursday) transaction log backup, does it look for the previous transac log backups (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) so that this new backup will only include the transactions from the last backup or it has some other way of knowing whether there are other transac log backups. Basically, I am asking this because all my transaction log backups seem to be about the same size and I thought that their size will depend on the amount of transactions since the last transaction log backup. Example: If you have a, lets say, full backup and then you take a transac log backup and this transac log backup is lets say 200 MB and now you immediatelly take another transac log backup, this last transac log backup should be considerably smaller than the first one because no or almost no transaction occured between these two backups, right? At least, that's what I've been assuming. What happens in my case is that this second backup is pretty much the same size as the first one and I am wondering if the reason for that is because I moved the first transac log backup to a different folder so now sql server thinks that all I have is just a full backup and it then gets all the transactions that happened since the full backup and puts it in the 2nd transac log backup. Can anyone please explain if my assumptions are right? Thanks...

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• SCCM 2012 - some remote clients unable to download some applications, 401.2 error

  - by growse

  I've got a small SCCM 2012 deployment with about 35 clients attached. Most of these clients are in the same network as the single SCCM host, but three are about 1000 miles away. Oddly, these three clients have stopped being able to download some application packages over BITS. Publishing a new package works for all the other clients, but for these three it never seems to download. If I go to the software centre, it just hangs at "0% downloaded". On the client, the DataTransfer.log says (repeatedly): CDTSJob::HandleErrors: DTS Job '{2DCBBB4C-6D84-479A-9218-885B72C834B9}' BITS Job '{E78147DD-4A26-4942-B4FD-6EC3EB77EECD}' under user 'S-1-5-18' OldErrorCount 442 NewErrorCount 443 ErrorCode 0x80072EE2 DataTransferService 30/07/2012 09:27:41 2964 (0x0B94) CDTSJob::HandleErrors: DTS Job ID='{2DCBBB4C-6D84-479A-9218-885B72C834B9}' URL='http://sccm-host:80/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_3e7f6982-6346-4f27-ae00-ad5dcb391455.1' ProtType=1 DataTransferService 30/07/2012 09:27:41 2964 (0x0B94) Cas.log says (repeatedly): Location update from CTM for content Content_3e7f6982-6346-4f27-ae00-ad5dcb391455.1 and request {AD041FCB-03D2-4FE6-A6FA-38A6B80FB2A1} ContentAccess 30/07/2012 08:33:39 5048 (0x13B8) Download location found 0 - http://lonsbrndsccm02.mcs.int.thomsonreuters.com/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_3e7f6982-6346-4f27-ae00-ad5dcb391455.1 ContentAccess 30/07/2012 08:33:39 5048 (0x13B8) Download request only, ignoring location update ContentAccess 30/07/2012 08:33:39 5048 (0x13B8) On the server, I've enabled failed request log tracing. The raw IIS log says the following: 2012-07-30 08:28:42 10.13.111.35 GET /SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_3e7f6982-6346-4f27-ae00-ad5dcb391455.1/sccm /NSCP-0.4.0.172-x64.msi 80 - 10.2.27.19 Microsoft+BITS/7.5 401 2 5 293 Which is a 401.2 error, meaning access denied. The failed request log is large, but the punchline is that it chucks out a Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. message. All clients are members of the same domain and appear to be (otherwise) working great. I've re-installed the SCCM client, deleted and re-added the computer to SCCM. Some other packages seem to work fine, the daily anti-malware delta gets downloaded and patched without issue. Why are these packages failing?

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• Task Scheduler not able to execute .vbs successfully

  - by Django Reinhardt

  Hi there, got this weird problem, which will hopefully have an obvious solution for some enlightened soul: We have several daily tasks we run via a .vbs script on our server (through the Task Scheduler), and for months it has been fine, but recently we've hit a problem. The .vbs script stopped successfully executing... but oddly it worked fine when ran manually! The error given in these circumstances was always "Timeout". We thought we try a little creative thinking, and run the .vbs another way: Via a .bat file. Again we hit weird issues, but with a little more debugging information, this time around. The .bat file is nothing more than... CScript "C:\location\script.vbs" > Log.txt But the Task Scheduler fails with the following error: 0x1: An incorrect function was called or an unknown function was called. The log.txt file says: CScript Error: Initialization of the Windows Script Host failed. (Not enough storage is available to process this command. ) But get this: The .bat file executes perfectly (vbs script and all) if it's executed with a double click! There's only a problem when it's run by Task Scheduler. What the hell? We're running Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) and yes, the Task Sheduler's results are the same whether the user is logged in or not. Also, the user that can run the scripts successfully manually, is also the same user that runs the scripts in Task Scheduler. Thanks for any help for this weird problem!

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• Verification of files on backup media - after the backup

  - by Greg Sansom

  I have a system in place where I back up my work files daily to a portable hard drive. I actually have two portable hard drives - one is stored off-site and I swap them regularly. I also keep my family photos and other historical files backed up, but I only back the photos up occasionally (ie when I have new photos). The backup media is for backup only, and it is unlikely I will ever read the files from the backup media unless a disaster occurs and I lose the master. It worries me that my backed up files could become corrupt without me knowing it. It is also feasible that my master files could become corrupt, and eventually the corrupt files would be replicated to the backup media. I'm currently using Cobian Backup, but I'm open to alternatives. Is there a tool I can use to confirm that the backed up files are identical to the files that were first copied? I know it would be possible to generate a checksum and periodically validate the backup files against the original checksum, but I'm looking for a tool which will do this automatically.

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• Outlook 2007 / 2010 Calendar: hide meetings in specific category

  - by Jeroen

  Question Is there any easy way in Outlook 2007/2010 to show/hide meetings in a specific category? Preferably only for a specific view (the Month view, in this case). Note: I was almost done writing this question, adding just one more "What I've tried" option, when I found an acceptable (though imperfect) solution. Remembering this SE blog post I figured I might as well post it after all and answer it myself. And who knows, perhaps someone else has a more elegant solution. The reason for me personally is that I'd like to hide the "small, recurring meetings" like our daily stand-up meeting in the month view. I'd prefer an Outlook feature that is meant for this (there must be one for this, right?), but I'm open to workarounds or plugin suggestions as well. What I expected to find somewhere was a list of categories (with added option "No category") where you could select/deselect from which categories you'd see meetings. Something like this mock-up: What I've tried Edit "View Settings", and use a "Filter..." on categories. This has several disadvantages, the major one is that the filter only allows me to choose what I want to show, but not what I want to hide. Even if I tick all categories but one for the filter it would still hide any uncategorized meeting. Similar to 1, but then using Advanced filters. Still a bit clumsy as changing views can be up to three clicks, but this is the best solution so far (see the corresponding answer below). Creating a sub-calendar for these "small" meetings that I wish to hide. This felt a bit clumsy and like overkill, but did provide an easy "select/deselect" option to show/hide these meetings. Search for plug-ins that do this. Couldn't find one (yet).

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• "Cannot perform a differential backup for database "myDb", because a current database backup does no

  - by krimerd

  Hi there, I have what seems to be a pretty common problem when trying to take a differential backup. We have a SQL Server 2008 Standard (64bit) and we use Litespeed v 5.0.2.0 to take our backups. We take full backups once a week and a differential on a daily basis. The problem is, every time I try to take a diff backup I get the following error: "VDI open failed due to requested abort. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. Cannot perform a differential backup for database "myDb", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option." The problem is that I know 100% I have a full backup because I just double checked. Only once I was able to take a diff backup and that was when I took it immediately after I took a full backup. I have searched around and noticed that this is pretty common (although mostly with SQL 2005) and a solution that a lot of ppl suggest and that I haven't tried yet is to disable the SQL Server VSS Writer service. The problem with this is #1 I think I might need this service since I am using a third party backup software and #2 I am not sure exactly what the service does and don't want to disable it just like that. Has any of you ever experienced this problem and how did you go about fixing it? Thank you,

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