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• Im getting fatal errors... can anyone help me edit my program!

  - by user350217

  The errors i am getting are: Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "double __cdecl getDollarAmt(void)" (? getDollarAmt@@YANXZ) referenced in function _main hid.obj Error 2 fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals this is my program: #include<iostream> #include<cmath> #include<string> using namespace std; double getDollarAmt(); void displayCurrencies(); char getCurrencySelection (float amtExchanged); bool isSelectionValid(char selection); double calcExchangeAmt (float amtExchanged, char selection); void displayResults(double newAmount, float amtExchanged, char selection, char yesNo); const double russianRubles = 31.168; const double northKoreanWon = .385; const double chineseYuan = 6.832; const double canadianDollar = 1.1137; const double cubanPeso = 1.0; const double ethiopianBirr = 9.09; const double egyptianPound = 5.6275; const double tunisianDinar = 1.3585; const double thaiBaht = 34.4; /****** I changed the variables to global variables so you don't have to worry about accidentally setting them to 0 or assigning over a value that you need ********/ float amtEchanged = 0.0; char selection; char yesNo; double newAmount; int main() { float amtExchanged = 0.0; selection = 'a'; yesNo = 'y'; newAmount = 0.0; getDollarAmt (); displayCurrencies(); getCurrencySelection (amtExchanged); isSelectionValid(selection);/**** you only need to use the selection variable ****/ calcExchangeAmt (amtExchanged, selection); displayResults(newAmount, amtExchanged, selection, yesNo); return 0; } double getDollarAmt (float amtExchanged) // promt user for eachange amount and return it to main { float amtExchanged0;//created temporary variable to set amtExchanged to cout<< "Please enter the total dollar amount to exchange: "; cin>> amtExchanged0; amtExchanged = amtExchanged0;//setting amtExchanged to the right value return amtExchanged; } void displayCurrencies() // display list of currencies { cout<<"A Russian Ruble"<<endl <<"B North Korean Won"<<endl <<"C Chinese Yuan"<<endl <<"D Cuban Peso"<<endl <<"E Ethiopian Birr"<<endl <<"F Thai Baht"<<endl <<"G Canadian Dollars"<<endl <<"H Tunisian Dinar"<<endl <<"I Egyptian Pound"<<endl; } char getCurrencySelection (float amtExchanged) // make a selection and return to main { char selection0;//again, created a temporary variable for selection cout<<"Please enter your selection: "; cin>>selection0; selection = selection0;//setting the temporary variable to the actual variable you use /***** we are now going to see if isSelectionValid returns false. if it returns false, that means that their selection was not character A-H. if it is false we keep calling getCurrencySelection *****/ if(isSelectionValid(selection)==false) { cout<<"Sorry, the selection you chose is invalid."<<endl; getCurrencySelection(amtExchanged); } return selection; } bool isSelectionValid(char selection) // this fuction is supposed to be called from getCurrencySelection, the selction // must be sent to isSelectionValid to determine if its valid // if selection is valid send it bac to getCurrencySelection // if it is false then it is returned to getCurrencySelection and prompted to // make another selection until the selection is valid, then it is returned to main. { /**** i'm not sure if this is what you mean, all i am doing is making sure that their selection is A-H *****/ if(selection=='A' || selection=='B' || selection=='C' || selection=='D' || selection=='E' || selection=='F' || selection=='G' || selection=='H' || selection=='I') return true; else return false; } double calcExchangeAmt (float amtExchanged,char selection) // function calculates the amount of money to be exchanged { switch (toupper(selection)) { case 'A': newAmount =(russianRubles) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'B': newAmount = (northKoreanWon) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'C': newAmount = (chineseYuan) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'D': newAmount = (canadianDollar) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'E': newAmount = (cubanPeso) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'F': newAmount = (ethiopianBirr) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'G': newAmount = (egyptianPound) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'H': newAmount = (tunisianDinar) * (amtExchanged); break; case 'I': newAmount = (thaiBaht) * (amtExchanged); break; } return newAmount; } void displayResults(double newAmount, float amtExchanged, char selection, char yesNo) // displays results and asked to repeat. IF they want to repeat it clears the screen and starts over. { switch(toupper(selection)) { case 'A': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Russian Rubles."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'B': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" North Korean Won."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'C': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Chinese Yuan."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'D': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Cuban Pesos."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'E': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Ethiopian Birr."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'F': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Thai Baht."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'G': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Canadian Dollars."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'H': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Tunisian Dinar."<<endl<<endl; break; case 'I': cout<<"$"<<amtExchanged<<" is "<<newAmount<<" Egyptian Pound."<<endl<<endl; break; } cout<<"Do you wish to continue? (Y for Yes / N for No)"; cin>>yesNo; if(yesNo=='y' || yesNo=='Y') { getDollarAmt(); } else { system("cls"); } }

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• Received memory warning. Level=2, Program received signal: “0”.

  - by sabby

  Hi friends I am getting images from webservice and loading these images in table view.But when i continue to scroll the program receives memory warning level1,level2 and then app exits with status 0.That happens only in device not in simulator. Here is my code which i am putting please help me out. - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; UIButton *infoButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, -4, 62, 30)]; [infoButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed: @"back.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [infoButton addTarget:self action:@selector(backButtonClicked) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; UIBarButtonItem *customBarButtomItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:infoButton]; self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = customBarButtomItem; [customBarButtomItem release]; [infoButton release]; UIButton *homeButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 62, 30)]; [homeButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed: @"home.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [homeButton.titleLabel setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:11]]; //[homeButton setTitle:@"UPLOAD" forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [homeButton addTarget:self action:@selector(homeButtonClicked) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; UIBarButtonItem *rightBarButtom = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:homeButton]; self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightBarButtom; [rightBarButtom release]; [homeButton release]; sellerTableView=[[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 416) style:UITableViewStylePlain]; sellerTableView.delegate=self; sellerTableView.dataSource=self; sellerTableView.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; sellerTableView.scrollEnabled=YES; //table.separatorColor=[UIColor grayColor]; //table.separatorColor=[UIColor whiteColor]; //[[table layer]setRoundingMode:NSNumberFormatterRoundDown]; [[sellerTableView layer]setBorderColor:[[UIColor darkGrayColor]CGColor]]; [[sellerTableView layer]setBorderWidth:2]; //[[productTable layer]setCornerRadius:10.3F]; [self.view addSubview:sellerTableView]; appDel = (SnapItAppAppDelegate*)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; } -(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated { spinner = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray]; spinner.center = self.view.center; [self.view addSubview:spinner]; [spinner startAnimating]; [[SnapItParsing sharedInstance]assignSender:self]; [[SnapItParsing sharedInstance]startParsingForShowProducts:appDel.userIdString]; [sellerTableView reloadData]; } -(void)showProducts:(NSMutableArray*)proArray { if (spinner) { [spinner stopAnimating]; [spinner removeFromSuperview]; [spinner release]; spinner = nil; } if ([[[proArray objectAtIndex:1]objectForKey:@"Success"]isEqualToString:@"True"]) { //[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]; //self.view.alpha=.12; if (productInfoArray) { [productInfoArray release]; } productInfoArray=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init]; for (int i=2; i<[proArray count]; i++) { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; [productInfoArray addObject:[proArray objectAtIndex:i]]; NSLog(@"data fetch array is====> /n%@",productInfoArray); [pool release]; } } } #pragma mark (tableview methods) - (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{ return 100; } - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section { //return [resultarray count]; return [productInfoArray count]; } -(void)loadImagesInBackground:(NSNumber *)index{ NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; NSMutableDictionary *frame = [[productInfoArray objectAtIndex:[index intValue]] retain]; //NSLog(@"frame value ==>%@",[[frame objectForKey:@"Image"]length]); NSString *frameImagePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://apple.com/snapit/products/%@",[frame objectForKey:@"Image"]]; NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:frameImagePath]]; NSLog(@"FRAME IMAGE%d",[[frame valueForKey:@"Image" ]length]); if([[frame valueForKey:@"Image"] length] == 0){ NSString *imagePath = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@/%@",[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath],@"no_image.png"]; UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:imagePath]; [frame setObject:image forKey:@"friendImage"]; [imagePath release]; //[image release]; } else { //NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:frameImagePath]]; NSLog(@"image data length ==>%d",[imageData length]); if([imageData length] == 0){ NSString *imagePath = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@/%@",[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath],@"no_image.png"]; UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:imagePath]; [frame setObject:image forKey:@"friendImage"]; [imagePath release]; //[image release]; } else { //UIImage *image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:imageData]; UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData]; [frame setObject:image forKey:@"friendImage"]; //[image release]; } } [frame release]; frame = nil; [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(reloadTable:) withObject:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:[index intValue] inSection:0]] waitUntilDone:NO]; [pool release]; } -(void)reloadTable:(NSArray *)array{ NSLog(@"array ==>%@",array); [sellerTableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:array withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationNone]; } - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { static NSString *celltype=@"cell"; UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:celltype]; for (UIView *view in cell.contentView.subviews) { [view removeFromSuperview]; } if (cell == nil) { cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"cell"] autorelease]; cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator; cell.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; //cell.textLabel.text=[[resultarray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] valueForKey:@"Service"]; /*UIImage *indicatorImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"indicator.png"]; cell.accessoryView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:indicatorImage] autorelease];*/ /*NSThread *thread=[[NSThread alloc]initWithTarget:self selector:@selector() object:nil]; [thread setStackSize:44]; [thread start];*/ cell.backgroundView=[[[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cell.png"]]autorelease]; // [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"back.png"]] autorelease]; cell.selectionStyle=UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; } UIImageView *imageView= [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(19, 15, 75, 68)]; imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleToFill; // @synchronized(self) //{ NSMutableDictionary *dict = [productInfoArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; if([dict objectForKey:@"friendImage"] == nil){ imageView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; if ([dict objectForKey:@"isThreadLaunched"] == nil) { [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(loadImagesInBackground:) toTarget:self withObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:indexPath.row]]; [dict setObject:@"Yes" forKey:@"isThreadLaunched"]; } }else { imageView.image =[dict objectForKey:@"friendImage"]; } //NSString *imagePath = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@/%@",[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath],@"no_image.png"]; //imageView.layer.cornerRadius = 20.0;//vk //imageView.image=[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:imagePath]; //imageView.layer.masksToBounds = YES; //imageView.layer.borderColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor].CGColor; //imageView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;//vk //imageView.layer.cornerRadius=7.2f; [cell.contentView addSubview:imageView]; //[imagePath release]; [imageView release]; imageView = nil; //} UILabel *productCodeLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(105, 7, 60,20 )]; productCodeLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; productCodeLabel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; productCodeLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",@"Code"]; [cell.contentView addSubview:productCodeLabel]; [productCodeLabel release]; UILabel *CodeValueLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(170, 7, 140,20 )]; CodeValueLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; CodeValueLabel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; CodeValueLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[[productInfoArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]valueForKey:@"ID"]]; [cell.contentView addSubview:CodeValueLabel]; [CodeValueLabel release]; UILabel *productNameLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(105, 35, 60,20 )]; productNameLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; productNameLabel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; productNameLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",@"Name"]; [cell.contentView addSubview:productNameLabel]; [productNameLabel release]; UILabel *NameValueLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(170, 35, 140,20 )]; NameValueLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; NameValueLabel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; NameValueLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[[productInfoArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]valueForKey:@"Title"]]; [cell.contentView addSubview:NameValueLabel]; [NameValueLabel release]; UILabel *dateLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(105, 68, 60,20 )]; dateLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; dateLabel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; dateLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",@"Date"]; [cell.contentView addSubview:dateLabel]; [dateLabel release]; UILabel *dateValueLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(170, 68, 140,20 )]; dateValueLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; dateValueLabel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor]; dateValueLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[[productInfoArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]valueForKey:@"PostedDate"]]; dateValueLabel.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:14]; dateValueLabel.numberOfLines=3; dateValueLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth=YES; [dateValueLabel setLineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeCharacterWrap]; [cell.contentView addSubview:dateValueLabel]; [dateValueLabel release]; } Please-2 help me out ,where i am doing mistake.....

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• Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture (EA)

  - by TedMcLaughlan

  Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture A taxonomy of subject areas, from which to develop a prioritized marketing and communications plan to evangelize EA activities within and among US Federal Government organizations and constituents. Any and all feedback is appreciated, particularly in developing and extending this discussion as a tool for use – more information and details are also available. "Selling" the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in the Federal Government (particularly in non-DoD agencies) is difficult, notwithstanding the general availability and use of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) for some time now, and the relatively mature use of the reference models in the OMB Capital Planning and Investment (CPIC) cycles. EA in the Federal Government also tends to be a very esoteric and hard to decipher conversation – early apologies to those who agree to continue reading this somewhat lengthy article. Alignment to the FEAF and OMB compliance mandates is long underway across the Federal Departments and Agencies (and visible via tools like PortfolioStat and ITDashboard.gov – but there is still a gap between the top-down compliance directives and enablement programs, and the bottom-up awareness and effective use of EA for either IT investment management or actual mission effectiveness. "EA isn't getting deep enough penetration into programs, components, sub-agencies, etc.", verified a panelist at the most recent EA Government Conference in DC. Newer guidance from OMB may be especially difficult to handle, where bottom-up input can't be accurately aligned, analyzed and reported via standardized EA discipline at the Agency level – for example in addressing the new (for FY13) Exhibit 53D "Agency IT Reductions and Reinvestments" and the information required for "Cloud Computing Alternatives Evaluation" (supporting the new Exhibit 53C, "Agency Cloud Computing Portfolio"). Therefore, EA must be "sold" directly to the communities that matter, from a coordinated, proactive messaging perspective that takes BOTH the Program-level value drivers AND the broader Agency mission and IT maturity context into consideration. Selling EA means persuading others to take additional time and possibly assign additional resources, for a mix of direct and indirect benefits – many of which aren't likely to be realized in the short-term. This means there's probably little current, allocated budget to work with; ergo the challenge of trying to sell an "unfunded mandate". Also, the concept of "Enterprise" in large Departments like Homeland Security tends to cross all kinds of organizational boundaries – as Richard Spires recently indicated by commenting that "...organizational boundaries still trump functional similarities. Most people understand what we're trying to do internally, and at a high level they get it. The problem, of course, is when you get down to them and their system and the fact that you're going to be touching them...there's always that fear factor," Spires said. It is quite clear to the Federal IT Investment community that for EA to meet its objective, understandable, relevant value must be measured and reported using a repeatable method – as described by GAO's recent report "Enterprise Architecture Value Needs To Be Measured and Reported". What's not clear is the method or guidance to sell this value. In fact, the current GAO "Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 2.0)", a.k.a. the "EAMMF", does not include words like "sell", "persuade", "market", etc., except in reference ("within Core Element 19: Organization business owner and CXO representatives are actively engaged in architecture development") to a brief section in the CIO Council's 2001 "Practical Guide to Federal Enterprise Architecture", entitled "3.3.1. Develop an EA Marketing Strategy and Communications Plan." Furthermore, Core Element 19 of the EAMMF is advised to be applied in "Stage 3: Developing Initial EA Versions". This kind of EA sales campaign truly should start much earlier in the maturity progress, i.e. in Stages 0 or 1. So, what are the understandable, relevant benefits (or value) to sell, that can find an agreeable, participatory audience, and can pave the way towards success of a longer-term, funded set of EA mechanisms that can be methodically measured and reported? Pragmatic benefits from a useful EA that can help overcome the fear of change? And how should they be sold? Following is a brief taxonomy (it's a taxonomy, to help organize SME support) of benefit-related subjects that might make the most sense, in creating the messages and organizing an initial "engagement plan" for evangelizing EA "from within". An EA "Sales Taxonomy" of sorts. We're not boiling the ocean here; the subjects that are included are ones that currently appear to be urgently relevant to the current Federal IT Investment landscape. Note that successful dialogue in these topics is directly usable as input or guidance for actually developing early-stage, "Fit-for-Purpose" (a DoDAF term) Enterprise Architecture artifacts, as prescribed by common methods found in most EA methodologies, including FEAF, TOGAF, DoDAF and our own Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework (OEAF). The taxonomy below is organized by (1) Target Community, (2) Benefit or Value, and (3) EA Program Facet - as in: "Let's talk to (1: Community Member) about how and why (3: EA Facet) the EA program can help with (2: Benefit/Value)". Once the initial discussion targets and subjects are approved (that can be measured and reported), a "marketing and communications plan" can be created. A working example follows the Taxonomy. Enterprise Architecture Sales Taxonomy Draft, Summary Version 1. Community 1.1. Budgeted Programs or Portfolios Communities of Purpose (CoPR) 1.1.1. Program/System Owners (Senior Execs) Creating or Executing Acquisition Plans 1.1.2. Program/System Owners Facing Strategic Change 1.1.2.1. Mandated 1.1.2.2. Expected/Anticipated 1.1.3. Program Managers - Creating Employee Performance Plans 1.1.4. CO/COTRs – Creating Contractor Performance Plans, or evaluating Value Engineering Change Proposals (VECP) 1.2. Governance & Communications Communities of Practice (CoP) 1.2.1. Policy Owners 1.2.1.1. OCFO 1.2.1.1.1. Budget/Procurement Office 1.2.1.1.2. Strategic Planning 1.2.1.2. OCIO 1.2.1.2.1. IT Management 1.2.1.2.2. IT Operations 1.2.1.2.3. Information Assurance (Cyber Security) 1.2.1.2.4. IT Innovation 1.2.1.3. Information-Sharing/ Process Collaboration (i.e. policies and procedures regarding Partners, Agreements) 1.2.2. Governing IT Council/SME Peers (i.e. an "Architects Council") 1.2.2.1. Enterprise Architects (assumes others exist; also assumes EA participants aren't buried solely within the CIO shop) 1.2.2.2. Domain, Enclave, Segment Architects – i.e. the right affinity group for a "shared services" EA structure (per the EAMMF), which may be classified as Federated, Segmented, Service-Oriented, or Extended 1.2.2.3. External Oversight/Constraints 1.2.2.3.1. GAO/OIG & Legal 1.2.2.3.2. Industry Standards 1.2.2.3.3. Official public notification, response 1.2.3. Mission Constituents Participant & Analyst Community of Interest (CoI) 1.2.3.1. Mission Operators/Users 1.2.3.2. Public Constituents 1.2.3.3. Industry Advisory Groups, Stakeholders 1.2.3.4. Media 2. Benefit/Value (Note the actual benefits may not be discretely attributable to EA alone; EA is a very collaborative, cross-cutting discipline.) 2.1. Program Costs – EA enables sound decisions regarding... 2.1.1. Cost Avoidance – a TCO theme 2.1.2. Sequencing – alignment of capability delivery 2.1.3. Budget Instability – a Federal reality 2.2. Investment Capital – EA illuminates new investment resources via... 2.2.1. Value Engineering – contractor-driven cost savings on existing budgets, direct or collateral 2.2.2. Reuse – reuse of investments between programs can result in savings, chargeback models; avoiding duplication 2.2.3. License Refactoring – IT license & support models may not reflect actual or intended usage 2.3. Contextual Knowledge – EA enables informed decisions by revealing... 2.3.1. Common Operating Picture (COP) – i.e. cross-program impacts and synergy, relative to context 2.3.2. Expertise & Skill – who truly should be involved in architectural decisions, both business and IT 2.3.3. Influence – the impact of politics and relationships can be examined 2.3.4. Disruptive Technologies – new technologies may reduce costs or mitigate risk in unanticipated ways 2.3.5. What-If Scenarios – can become much more refined, current, verifiable; basis for Target Architectures 2.4. Mission Performance – EA enables beneficial decision results regarding... 2.4.1. IT Performance and Optimization – towards 100% effective, available resource utilization 2.4.2. IT Stability – towards 100%, real-time uptime 2.4.3. Agility – responding to rapid changes in mission 2.4.4. Outcomes –measures of mission success, KPIs – vs. only "Outputs" 2.4.5. Constraints – appropriate response to constraints 2.4.6. Personnel Performance – better line-of-sight through performance plans to mission outcome 2.5. Mission Risk Mitigation – EA mitigates decision risks in terms of... 2.5.1. Compliance – all the right boxes are checked 2.5.2. Dependencies –cross-agency, segment, government 2.5.3. Transparency – risks, impact and resource utilization are illuminated quickly, comprehensively 2.5.4. Threats and Vulnerabilities – current, realistic awareness and profiles 2.5.5. Consequences – realization of risk can be mapped as a series of consequences, from earlier decisions or new decisions required for current issues 2.5.5.1. Unanticipated – illuminating signals of future or non-symmetric risk; helping to "future-proof" 2.5.5.2. Anticipated – discovering the level of impact that matters 3. EA Program Facet (What parts of the EA can and should be communicated, using business or mission terms?) 3.1. Architecture Models – the visual tools to be created and used 3.1.1. Operating Architecture – the Business Operating Model/Architecture elements of the EA truly drive all other elements, plus expose communication channels 3.1.2. Use Of – how can the EA models be used, and how are they populated, from a reasonable, pragmatic yet compliant perspective? What are the core/minimal models required? What's the relationship of these models, with existing system models? 3.1.3. Scope – what level of granularity within the models, and what level of abstraction across the models, is likely to be most effective and useful? 3.2. Traceability – the maturity, status, completeness of the tools 3.2.1. Status – what in fact is the degree of maturity across the integrated EA model and other relevant governance models, and who may already be benefiting from it? 3.2.2. Visibility – how does the EA visibly and effectively prove IT investment performance goals are being reached, with positive mission outcome? 3.3. Governance – what's the interaction, participation method; how are the tools used? 3.3.1. Contributions – how is the EA program informed, accept submissions, collect data? Who are the experts? 3.3.2. Review – how is the EA validated, against what criteria?  Taxonomy Usage Example:   1. To speak with: a. ...a particular set of System Owners Facing Strategic Change, via mandate (like the "Cloud First" mandate); about... b. ...how the EA program's visible and easily accessible Infrastructure Reference Model (i.e. "IRM" or "TRM"), if updated more completely with current system data, can... c. ...help shed light on ways to mitigate risks and avoid future costs associated with NOT leveraging potentially-available shared services across the enterprise... 2. ....the following Marketing & Communications (Sales) Plan can be constructed: a. Create an easy-to-read "Consequence Model" that illustrates how adoption of a cloud capability (like elastic operational storage) can enable rapid and durable compliance with the mandate – using EA traceability. Traceability might be from the IRM to the ARM (that identifies reusable services invoking the elastic storage), and then to the PRM with performance measures (such as % utilization of purchased storage allocation) included in the OMB Exhibits; and b. Schedule a meeting with the Program Owners, timed during their Acquisition Strategy meetings in response to the mandate, to use the "Consequence Model" for advising them to organize a rapid and relevant RFI solicitation for this cloud capability (regarding alternatives for sourcing elastic operational storage); and c. Schedule a series of short "Discovery" meetings with the system architecture leads (as agreed by the Program Owners), to further populate/validate the "As-Is" models and frame the "To Be" models (via scenarios), to better inform the RFI, obtain the best feedback from the vendor community, and provide potential value for and avoid impact to all other programs and systems. --end example -- Note that communications with the intended audience should take a page out of the standard "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO) playbook, using keywords and phrases relating to "value" and "outcome" vs. "compliance" and "output". Searches in email boxes, internal and external search engines for phrases like "cost avoidance strategies", "mission performance metrics" and "innovation funding" should yield messages and content from the EA team. This targeted, informed, practical sales approach should result in additional buy-in and participation, additional EA information contribution and model validation, development of more SMEs and quick "proof points" (with real-life testing) to bolster the case for EA. The proof point here is a successful, timely procurement that satisfies not only the external mandate and external oversight review, but also meets internal EA compliance/conformance goals and therefore is more transparently useful across the community. In short, if sold effectively, the EA will perform and be recognized. EA won’t therefore be used only for compliance, but also (according to a validated, stated purpose) to directly influence decisions and outcomes. The opinions, views and analysis expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

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• Overlay bitmap on live video

  - by sijith

  Hi i want to Overlay bitmap on live video. Iam trying to do this with the directshow sample. I edited PlayCapMonker sample and added some functions to enable this. i did this with the procedure explained in below link http://www.ureader.com/msg/1471251.aspx Now i am gettting errors Error 2 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 3 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 5 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 6 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 8 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 9 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 21 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 22 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 26 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 27 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 36 error C2228: left of '.m_alpha' must have class/struct/union Error 38 error C2227: left of '-SetAlphaBitmap' must point to class/struct/union/generic type Error 7 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Pool' Error 4 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Format' c:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\include\Vmr9.h 368 PlayCapMoniker Error 1 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '' Error 20 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '' Error 25 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '*' Error 30 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 33 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 37 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 31 error C2065: 'g_hbm' : undeclared identifier Error 32 error C2065: 'g_hbm' : undeclared identifier Error 35 error C2065: 'config' : undeclared identifier Error 10 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 11 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 12 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 13 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 16 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 19 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 23 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 24 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 28 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 29 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 14 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 15 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 17 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 18 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 34 error C2039: 'pDDS' : is not a member of '_VMR9AlphaBitmap' SDK\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\PlayCapMoniker\PlayCapMoniker.cpp 263 PlayCapMoniker

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• Overlay bitmap on live video

  - by sijith

  Hi i want to Overlay bitmap on live video. Iam trying to do this with the directshow sample. I edited PlayCapMonker sample and added some functions to enable this. i did this with the procedure explained in below link http://www.ureader.com/msg/1471251.aspx Now i am gettting errors Error 2 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 3 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 5 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 6 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 8 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 9 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 21 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 22 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 26 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 27 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 36 error C2228: left of '.m_alpha' must have class/struct/union Error 38 error C2227: left of '-SetAlphaBitmap' must point to class/struct/union/generic type Error 7 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Pool' Error 4 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Format' c:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\include\Vmr9.h 368 PlayCapMoniker Error 1 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '' Error 20 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '' Error 25 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '*' Error 30 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 33 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 37 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 31 error C2065: 'g_hbm' : undeclared identifier Error 32 error C2065: 'g_hbm' : undeclared identifier Error 35 error C2065: 'config' : undeclared identifier Error 10 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 11 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 12 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 13 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 16 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 19 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 23 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 24 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 28 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 29 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 14 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 15 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 17 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 18 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 34 error C2039: 'pDDS' : is not a member of '_VMR9AlphaBitmap' SDK\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\PlayCapMoniker\PlayCapMoniker.cpp 263 PlayCapMoniker

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• JBOSS 7.1 started hanging after 6 months of deployment

  - by PVR

  My application is been live from 6 months. The application is host on jboss 7.1 server. From last few days I am finding numerous problem of hanging of jboss server. Though I restart the jboss server again, it does not invoke. I need to restart the server machine itself. Can anyone please let me know what could be the cause of these problems and the workable resolutions or any suggestion ? Kindly dont degrade the question as I am facing a lot problems due to this hanging issue. Also for the information, the application is based on Java, GWT, Hibernate 3. Please find the standalone.xml file in case if it helps. <extensions> <extension module="org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.configadmin"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.connector"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.deployment-scanner"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.ee"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.ejb3"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.jaxrs"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.jdr"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.jmx"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.jpa"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.logging"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.mail"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.naming"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.osgi"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.pojo"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.remoting"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.sar"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.security"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.threads"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.transactions"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.web"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.webservices"/> <extension module="org.jboss.as.weld"/> </extensions> <system-properties> <property name="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.COMPRESSION" value="on"/> <property name="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.COMPRESSION_MIME_TYPES" value="text/javascript,text/css,text/html,text/xml,text/json"/> </system-properties> <management> <security-realms> <security-realm name="ManagementRealm"> <authentication> <properties path="mgmt-users.properties" relative-to="jboss.server.config.dir"/> </authentication> </security-realm> <security-realm name="ApplicationRealm"> <authentication> <properties path="application-users.properties" relative-to="jboss.server.config.dir"/> </authentication> </security-realm> </security-realms> <management-interfaces> <native-interface security-realm="ManagementRealm"> <socket-binding native="management-native"/> </native-interface> <http-interface security-realm="ManagementRealm"> <socket-binding http="management-http"/> </http-interface> </management-interfaces> </management> <profile> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:logging:1.1"> <console-handler name="CONSOLE"> <level name="INFO"/> <formatter> <pattern-formatter pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n"/> </formatter> </console-handler> <periodic-rotating-file-handler name="FILE"> <formatter> <pattern-formatter pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n"/> </formatter> <file relative-to="jboss.server.log.dir" path="server.log"/> <suffix value=".yyyy-MM-dd"/> <append value="true"/> </periodic-rotating-file-handler> <logger category="com.arjuna"> <level name="WARN"/> </logger> <logger category="org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler"> <level name="WARN"/> </logger> <logger category="sun.rmi"> <level name="WARN"/> </logger> <logger category="jacorb"> <level name="WARN"/> </logger> <logger category="jacorb.config"> <level name="ERROR"/> </logger> <root-logger> <level name="INFO"/> <handlers> <handler name="CONSOLE"/> <handler name="FILE"/> </handlers> </root-logger> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:configadmin:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:datasources:1.0"> <datasources> <datasource jndi-name="java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS" pool-name="ExampleDS" enabled="true" use-java-context="true"> <connection-url>jdbc:h2:mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1</connection-url> <driver>h2</driver> <security> <user-name>sa</user-name> <password>sa</password> </security> </datasource> <drivers> <driver name="h2" module="com.h2database.h2"> <xa-datasource-class>org.h2.jdbcx.JdbcDataSource</xa-datasource-class> </driver> </drivers> </datasources> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:deployment-scanner:1.1"> <deployment-scanner path="deployments" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir" scan-interval="5000"/> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ejb3:1.2"> <session-bean> <stateless> <bean-instance-pool-ref pool-name="slsb-strict-max-pool"/> </stateless> <stateful default-access-timeout="5000" cache-ref="simple"/> <singleton default-access-timeout="5000"/> </session-bean> <pools> <bean-instance-pools> <strict-max-pool name="slsb-strict-max-pool" max-pool-size="20" instance-acquisition-timeout="5" instance-acquisition-timeout-unit="MINUTES"/> <strict-max-pool name="mdb-strict-max-pool" max-pool-size="20" instance-acquisition-timeout="5" instance-acquisition-timeout-unit="MINUTES"/> </bean-instance-pools> </pools> <caches> <cache name="simple" aliases="NoPassivationCache"/> <cache name="passivating" passivation-store-ref="file" aliases="SimpleStatefulCache"/> </caches> <passivation-stores> <file-passivation-store name="file"/> </passivation-stores> <async thread-pool-name="default"/> <timer-service thread-pool-name="default"> <data-store path="timer-service-data" relative-to="jboss.server.data.dir"/> </timer-service> <remote connector-ref="remoting-connector" thread-pool-name="default"/> <thread-pools> <thread-pool name="default"> <max-threads count="10"/> <keepalive-time time="100" unit="milliseconds"/> </thread-pool> </thread-pools> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:infinispan:1.2" default-cache-container="hibernate"> <cache-container name="hibernate" default-cache="local-query"> <local-cache name="entity"> <transaction mode="NON_XA"/> <eviction strategy="LRU" max-entries="10000"/> <expiration max-idle="100000"/> </local-cache> <local-cache name="local-query"> <transaction mode="NONE"/> <eviction strategy="LRU" max-entries="10000"/> <expiration max-idle="100000"/> </local-cache> <local-cache name="timestamps"> <transaction mode="NONE"/> <eviction strategy="NONE"/> </local-cache> </cache-container> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jaxrs:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jca:1.1"> <archive-validation enabled="true" fail-on-error="true" fail-on-warn="false"/> <bean-validation enabled="true"/> <default-workmanager> <short-running-threads> <core-threads count="50"/> <queue-length count="50"/> <max-threads count="50"/> <keepalive-time time="10" unit="seconds"/> </short-running-threads> <long-running-threads> <core-threads count="50"/> <queue-length count="50"/> <max-threads count="50"/> <keepalive-time time="100" unit="seconds"/> </long-running-threads> </default-workmanager> <cached-connection-manager/> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jdr:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jmx:1.1"> <show-model value="true"/> <remoting-connector/> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jpa:1.0"> <jpa default-datasource=""/> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:mail:1.0"> <mail-session jndi-name="java:jboss/mail/Default"> <smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp"/> </mail-session> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:naming:1.1"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:osgi:1.2" activation="lazy"> <properties> <property name="org.osgi.framework.startlevel.beginning"> 1 </property> </properties> <capabilities> <capability name="javax.servlet.api:v25"/> <capability name="javax.transaction.api"/> <capability name="org.apache.felix.log" startlevel="1"/> <capability name="org.jboss.osgi.logging" startlevel="1"/> <capability name="org.apache.felix.configadmin" startlevel="1"/> <capability name="org.jboss.as.osgi.configadmin" startlevel="1"/> </capabilities> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:pojo:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:remoting:1.1"> <connector name="remoting-connector" socket-binding="remoting" security-realm="ApplicationRealm"/> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:resource-adapters:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:sar:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:security:1.1"> <security-domains> <security-domain name="other" cache-type="default"> <authentication> <login-module code="Remoting" flag="optional"> <module-option name="password-stacking" value="useFirstPass"/> </login-module> <login-module code="RealmUsersRoles" flag="required"> <module-option name="usersProperties" value="${jboss.server.config.dir}/application-users.properties"/> <module-option name="rolesProperties" value="${jboss.server.config.dir}/application-roles.properties"/> <module-option name="realm" value="ApplicationRealm"/> <module-option name="password-stacking" value="useFirstPass"/> </login-module> </authentication> </security-domain> <security-domain name="jboss-web-policy" cache-type="default"> <authorization> <policy-module code="Delegating" flag="required"/> </authorization> </security-domain> <security-domain name="jboss-ejb-policy" cache-type="default"> <authorization> <policy-module code="Delegating" flag="required"/> </authorization> </security-domain> </security-domains> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:threads:1.1"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:transactions:1.1"> <core-environment> <process-id> <uuid/> </process-id> </core-environment> <recovery-environment socket-binding="txn-recovery-environment" status-socket-binding="txn-status-manager"/> <coordinator-environment default-timeout="300"/> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.1" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="false"> <connector name="http" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="http" socket-binding="http"/> <virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="false"> <alias name="localhost"/> <alias name="nextenders.com"/> </virtual-server> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:webservices:1.1"> <modify-wsdl-address>true</modify-wsdl-address> <wsdl-host>${jboss.bind.address:127.0.0.1}</wsdl-host> <endpoint-config name="Standard-Endpoint-Config"/> <endpoint-config name="Recording-Endpoint-Config"> <pre-handler-chain name="recording-handlers" protocol-bindings="##SOAP11_HTTP ##SOAP11_HTTP_MTOM ##SOAP12_HTTP ##SOAP12_HTTP_MTOM"> <handler name="RecordingHandler" class="org.jboss.ws.common.invocation.RecordingServerHandler"/> </pre-handler-chain> </endpoint-config> </subsystem> <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:weld:1.0"/> </profile> <interfaces> <interface name="management"> <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:127.0.0.1}"/> </interface> <interface name="public"> <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:127.0.0.1}"/> </interface> <interface name="unsecure"> <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.unsecure:127.0.0.1}"/> </interface> </interfaces> <socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets" default-interface="public" port-offset="${jboss.socket.binding.port-offset:0}"> <socket-binding name="management-native" interface="management" port="${jboss.management.native.port:9999}"/> <socket-binding name="management-http" interface="management" port="${jboss.management.http.port:9990}"/> <socket-binding name="management-https" interface="management" port="${jboss.management.https.port:9443}"/> <socket-binding name="ajp" port="8009"/> <socket-binding name="http" port="80"/> <socket-binding name="https" port="443"/> <socket-binding name="osgi-http" interface="management" port="8090"/> <socket-binding name="remoting" port="4447"/> <socket-binding name="txn-recovery-environment" port="4712"/> <socket-binding name="txn-status-manager" port="4713"/> <outbound-socket-binding name="mail-smtp"> <remote-destination host="localhost" port="25"/> </outbound-socket-binding> </socket-binding-group>

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• Django Encoding Issues with MySQL

  - by Jordan Reiter

  Okay, so I have a MySQL database set up. Most of the tables are latin1 and Django handles them fine. But, some of them are UTF-8 and Django does not handle them. Here's a sample table (these tables are all from django-geonames): DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `geoname`; SET @saved_cs_client = @@character_set_client; SET character_set_client = utf8; CREATE TABLE `geoname` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL, `name` varchar(200) NOT NULL, `ascii_name` varchar(200) NOT NULL, `latitude` decimal(20,17) NOT NULL, `longitude` decimal(20,17) NOT NULL, `point` point default NULL, `fclass` varchar(1) NOT NULL, `fcode` varchar(7) NOT NULL, `country_id` varchar(2) NOT NULL, `cc2` varchar(60) NOT NULL, `admin1_id` int(11) default NULL, `admin2_id` int(11) default NULL, `admin3_id` int(11) default NULL, `admin4_id` int(11) default NULL, `population` int(11) NOT NULL, `elevation` int(11) NOT NULL, `gtopo30` int(11) NOT NULL, `timezone_id` int(11) default NULL, `moddate` date NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `country_id_refs_iso_alpha2_e2614807` (`country_id`), KEY `admin1_id_refs_id_a28cd057` (`admin1_id`), KEY `admin2_id_refs_id_4f9a0f7e` (`admin2_id`), KEY `admin3_id_refs_id_f8a5e181` (`admin3_id`), KEY `admin4_id_refs_id_9cc00ec8` (`admin4_id`), KEY `fcode_refs_code_977fe2ec` (`fcode`), KEY `timezone_id_refs_id_5b46c585` (`timezone_id`), KEY `geoname_52094d6e` (`name`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client; Now, if I try to get data from the table directly using MySQLdb and a cursor, I get the text with the proper encoding: >>> import MySQLdb >>> from django.conf import settings >>> >>> conn = MySQLdb.connect (host = "localhost", ... user = settings.DATABASES['default']['USER'], ... passwd = settings.DATABASES['default']['PASSWORD'], ... db = settings.DATABASES['default']['NAME']) >>> cursor = conn.cursor () >>> cursor.execute("select name from geoname where name like 'Uni%Hidalgo'"); 1L >>> g = cursor.fetchone() >>> g[0] 'Uni\xc3\xb3n Hidalgo' >>> print g[0] Unión Hidalgo However, if I try to use the Geoname model (which is actually a django.contrib.gis.db.models.Model), it fails: >>> from geonames.models import Geoname >>> g = Geoname.objects.get(name__istartswith='Uni',name__icontains='Hidalgo') >>> g.name u'Uni\xc3\xb3n Hidalgo' >>> print g.name Unión Hidalgo There's pretty clearly an encoding error here. In both cases the database is returning 'Uni\xc3\xb3n Hidalgo' but Django is (incorrectly?) translating the '\xc3\xb3n' to ó. What can I do to fix this?

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• ASP.NET 2.0 and 4.0 seem to treat the root url differently in Forms Authentication

  - by Kev

  If have the following web.config: <configuration> <system.web> <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name="MembershipCookie" loginUrl="Login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="525600" slidingExpiration="true" enableCrossAppRedirects="true" path="/" /> </authentication> <authorization> <deny users="?" /> </authorization> </system.web> <location path="Default.aspx"> <system.web> <authorization> <allow users="*"/> </authorization> </system.web> </location> </configuration> The application is an ASP.NET 2.0 application running on Windows 2008R2/IIS7.5. If the site's application pool is configured to run ASP.NET 2.0 and I browse to http://example.com then Default.aspx is rendered as you'd expect from the rules above. However if the application pool is set to run ASP.NET 4.0 I am redirected to the login page. If I explicitly specify http://example.com/default.aspx then all is good and default.aspx renders. I've tried rewriting / -> /default.aspx (using IIS UrlRewriter 2.0) but the result is still the same, I get kicked to the login page. I've also tried this with an ASP.NET 4.0 application with the same result (which is where the problem initially arose). The reason I tried this with a 2.0 application was to see if there was a change in behaviour, and it seems that / is handled differently in 4.0. So to summarise, using the configuration above the following is observed: ASP.NET Version Url Behaviour ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.0 http://example.com Renders Default.aspx 2.0 http://example.com/Default.aspx Renders Default.aspx 4.0 http://example.com Redirects to Login.aspx 4.0 http://example.com/Default.aspx Renders Default.aspx Is this a bug/breaking change or have I missed something glaringly obvious?

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• DefaultIfEmpty doesn't work

  - by Freshblood

  Why is array still null after queried by DefaultIfEmpty ? class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Program[] array = new Program[5]; Program[] query = array.DefaultIfEmpty(new Program()).ToArray(); foreach (var item in query) { Console.WriteLine(item.ToString()); } Console.ReadKey(); } }

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• MySQL multiple dependent subqueries, painfully slow

  - by matt80

  I have a working query that retrieves the data that I need, but unfortunately it is painfully slow (runs over 3 minutes). I have indexes in place, but I think the problem is the multiple dependent subqueries. I've been trying to rewrite the query using joins but I can't seem to get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The tables: Basically, I have 2 tables. The first (prices) holds the prices of items in a store. Each row is the price of an item that day, and new rows are added every day with an updated price. The second table (watches_US) holds the item information (name, description, etc). CREATE TABLE `prices` ( `prices_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `prices_locale` enum('CA','DE','FR','JP','UK','US') NOT NULL default 'US', `prices_watches_ID` char(10) NOT NULL, `prices_date` datetime NOT NULL, `prices_am` varchar(10) default NULL, `prices_new` varchar(10) default NULL, `prices_used` varchar(10) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`prices_id`), KEY `prices_am` (`prices_am`), KEY `prices_locale` (`prices_locale`), KEY `prices_watches_ID` (`prices_watches_ID`), KEY `prices_date` (`prices_date`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=61764 ; CREATE TABLE `watches_US` ( `watches_ID` char(10) NOT NULL, `watches_date_added` datetime NOT NULL, `watches_last_update` datetime default NULL, `watches_title` varchar(255) default NULL, `watches_small_image_height` int(11) default NULL, `watches_small_image_width` int(11) default NULL, `watches_description` text, PRIMARY KEY (`watches_ID`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; The query retrieves the last 10 prices changes over a period of 30 hours, ordered by the size of the price change. So I have subqueries to get the newest price, the oldest price within 30 hours, and then to calculate the price change. Here's the query: SELECT watches_US.*, prices.*, watches_US.watches_ID as current_ID, ( SELECT prices_am FROM prices WHERE prices_watches_ID = current_ID AND prices_locale = 'US' ORDER BY prices_date DESC LIMIT 1 ) as new_price, ( SELECT prices_date FROM prices WHERE prices_watches_ID = current_ID AND prices_locale = 'US' ORDER BY prices_date DESC LIMIT 1 ) as new_price_date, ( SELECT prices_am FROM prices WHERE ( prices_watches_ID = current_ID AND prices_locale = 'US') AND ( prices_date >= DATE_SUB(new_price_date,INTERVAL 30 HOUR) ) ORDER BY prices_date ASC LIMIT 1 ) as old_price, ( SELECT ROUND(((new_price - old_price)/old_price)*100,2) ) as percent_change, ( SELECT (new_price - old_price) ) as absolute_change FROM watches_US LEFT OUTER JOIN prices ON prices.prices_watches_ID = watches_US.watches_ID WHERE ( prices_locale = 'US' ) AND ( prices_am IS NOT NULL ) AND ( prices_am != '' ) HAVING ( old_price IS NOT NULL ) AND ( old_price != 0 ) AND ( old_price != '' ) AND ( absolute_change < 0 ) AND ( prices.prices_date = new_price_date ) ORDER BY absolute_change ASC LIMIT 10 How would I rewrite this to use joins instead, or otherwise optimize this so it doesn't take over 3 minutes to get a result? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you kindly.

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• how to send text to a process in a shell script?

  - by Martin

  So I have a Linux program that runs in a while(true) loop, which waits for user input, process it and print result to stdout. I want to write a shell script that open this program, feed it lines from a txt file, one line at a time and save the program output for each line to a file. So I want to know if there is any command for: - open a program - send text to a process - receive output from that program Many thanks.

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• how can I create macro definitions for the lines commented in the code.

  - by yaprak

  #include <stdio.h> //Here use a macro definition that assigns a value to SIZE (for example 5) int main() { int i; int array[SIZE]; int sum=0; for(i=0; i<SIZE; i++) { //Here use a macro definition named as CALCSUM to make the //following addition operation for the array printf("Enter a[%d] = ",i); scanf("%d", &array[i]); sum+=array[i]; //Here use a macro definition named as VERBOSE to print //what program does to the screen printf("The user entered %d\n", array[i]); // // //If the macro definition CALCSUM is not used, the program //should assign 0 to the i-th element of the array array[i]=0; //Here, again use VERBOSE to print what program does to the screen printf("a[%d] is assigned to zero\n", i); // // } //If CALCSUM is defined, print the summation of the array elements to the screen printf("Summation of the array is %d\n",sum); // //If CALCSUM is not defined, but VERBOSE mode is used, print the following printf("All the elements in the array are assigned to zero\n"); // printf("Program terminated\n"); return 0; } When CALCSUM is defined, the program will sum up the values of each element in the given array. If CALCSUM is not defined, each array element will be assigned to zero. Besides, when VERBOSE mode is defined, the program will make print statements pointed out active. [root@linux55]# gcc code.c [root@linux55]# ./a.out Program terminated [root@linux55]# gcc code.c -D CALCSUM [root@linux55]# ./a.out Enter a[0] = 3 Enter a[1] = 0 Enter a[2] = 2 Enter a[3] = 5 Enter a[4] = 9 Summation of the array is 19 Program terminated [root@linux55]# gcc code.c -D CALCSUM -D VERBOSE [root@linux55]# ./a.out Enter a[0] = 2 The user entered 2 Enter a[1] = 10 The user entered 10 Enter a[2] = 3 The user entered 3 Enter a[3] = 8 The user entered 8 Enter a[4] = 1 The user entered 1 Summation of the array is 24 Program terminated [root@linux55]# gcc code.c -D VERBOSE [root@linux55]# ./a.out a[0] is assigned to 0 a[1] is assigned to 0 a[2] is assigned to 0 a[3] is assigned to 0 a[4] is assigned to 0 All the elements in the array is assigned to zero Program terminated

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• Accessing controls of .aspx file in .aspx.cs without any declaration.!!??

  I am able to access the controls of ".aspx" file in ".aspx.cs" directly without any declaration in ".aspx.cs" or in designer.cs. How is this possible? This is happeing only if I open website as using File System. Create a new ASP.NET web site application with Visual Studio 2008. So following three files will be created automatically              "Default.aspx",              "Default.aspx.cs"              "Default.designer.cs" Now Delete "Default.designer.cs" perminently. Just create a button in Default.aspx file    <asp:Button runat="server" Text="Save Plan" ID="btnSave" />   Close the Solution and open the website as File System.               File -> Open Web Site -> File System -> Select Web Site Folder and Open the project.                   Now btnSave is automatically recognized in Default.aspx.cs without any declaration in Default.aspx.cs as bellow                            System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button btnSave; How btnSave is being recognized by .cs file without defining it anywhere as an object of System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button? Note: This happens only if you open Web Site from File System.           and No Declaration at all for btnSave. Please refer this article on this. span.fullpost {display:none;}

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• Accessing controls of .aspx file in .aspx.cs without any declaration.!!??

  I am able to access the controls of ".aspx" file in ".aspx.cs" directly without any declaration in ".aspx.cs" or in designer.cs. How is this possible? This is happeing only if I open website as using File System. Create a new ASP.NET web site application with Visual Studio 2008. So following three files will be created automatically              "Default.aspx",              "Default.aspx.cs"              "Default.designer.cs" Now Delete "Default.designer.cs" perminently. Just create a button in Default.aspx file    <asp:Button runat="server" Text="Save Plan" ID="btnSave" />   Close the Solution and open the website as File System.               File -> Open Web Site -> File System -> Select Web Site Folder and Open the project.                   Now btnSave is automatically recognized in Default.aspx.cs without any declaration in Default.aspx.cs as bellow                            System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button btnSave; How btnSave is being recognized by .cs file without defining it anywhere as an object of System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button? Note: This happens only if you open Web Site from File System.           and No Declaration at all for btnSave. Please refer this article on this. span.fullpost {display:none;}

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• My java program seems to be skipping over the try{}, executing the catch{} and then throwing a NullPointerException. What should I do?

  - by Matt Bolopue

  I am writing a program that calculates the number of words, syllables, and sentences in any given text file. I don't need help finding those numbers, however my program (which currently should only find the number of words in the text file) will not import the text file even when I type in the name of the file correctly. The text file is in the same folder as the source code. Instead it tells me every time that what I typed in has the wrong file extension (see my catch{}) and then proceeds to throw a null pointer. I am at a loss for what could be causing it. Any suggestions? import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class Reading_Lvl_Calc { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub int words = 0; String fileName; Scanner scan; Scanner keyread = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Please enter a file name (or QUIT to exit)"); fileName = keyread.nextLine(); File doc = new File(fileName); //while(scan.equals(null)){ try { scan = new Scanner(doc); } catch(Exception e) { if(fileName.substring(fileName.indexOf(".")) != ".txt") System.out.println("I'm sorry, the file \"" + fileName + "\" has an invalid file extension."); else System.out.println("I am sorry, the file \"" + fileName + " \" cannot be found.\n The file must be in the same directory as this program"); scan = null; } // } while(scan.hasNext()){ words++; scan.next(); } System.out.println(words); } }

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• Trouble connecting to vsftpd on ubuntu server

  - by littleK

  I have installed Ubuntu Server 10.10 and I am using it to host a domain that I have. I am trying to set up FTP for the server, but I am running into some problems. I have successfully installed vsFTPd and I have opened up ports 20, 21 on my firewall. In my vsFTPd configuration, I have enabled SSL. Every time I try to connect to my server via FTP, I receive a "Connection Refused" error. I have had a little more success with SSL disabled, however the connection process will time out after the LIST command (but it does accept my authentication). Here is my vsFTPd configuration, the SSL stuff is at the bottom: # Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf # # The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file # loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable. # Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults. # # READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options. # Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's # capabilities. # # # Run standalone? vsftpd can run either from an inetd or as a standalone # daemon started from an initscript. listen=YES # # Run standalone with IPv6? # Like the listen parameter, except vsftpd will listen on an IPv6 socket # instead of an IPv4 one. This parameter and the listen parameter are mutually # exclusive. #listen_ipv6=YES # # Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default) anonymous_enable=NO # # Uncomment this to allow local users to log in. local_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command. write_enable=YES # # Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022, # if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's) #local_umask=022 # # Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only # has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will # obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user. #anon_upload_enable=YES # # Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create # new directories. #anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES # # Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they # go into a certain directory. dirmessage_enable=YES # # If enabled, vsftpd will display directory listings with the time # in your local time zone. The default is to display GMT. The # times returned by the MDTM FTP command are also affected by this # option. use_localtime=YES # # Activate logging of uploads/downloads. xferlog_enable=YES # # Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data). connect_from_port_20=YES # # If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by # a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not # recommended! #chown_uploads=YES #chown_username=whoever # # You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown # below. #xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log # # If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format. # Note that the default log file location is /var/log/xferlog in this case. #xferlog_std_format=YES # # You may change the default value for timing out an idle session. #idle_session_timeout=600 # # You may change the default value for timing out a data connection. #data_connection_timeout=120 # # It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the # ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user. #nopriv_user=ftpsecure # # Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not # recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it, # however, may confuse older FTP clients. #async_abor_enable=YES # # By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore # the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII # mangling on files when in ASCII mode. # Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service # attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd # predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the # raw file. # ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol. #ascii_upload_enable=YES #ascii_download_enable=YES # # You may fully customise the login banner string: #ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service. # # You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently # useful for combatting certain DoS attacks. #deny_email_enable=YES # (default follows) #banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails # # You may restrict local users to their home directories. See the FAQ for # the possible risks in this before using chroot_local_user or # chroot_list_enable below. #chroot_local_user=YES # # You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home # directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of # users to NOT chroot(). #chroot_local_user=YES #chroot_list_enable=YES # (default follows) #chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list # # You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by # default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large # sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume # the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it. #ls_recurse_enable=YES # # Debian customization # # Some of vsftpd's settings don't fit the Debian filesystem layout by # default. These settings are more Debian-friendly. # # This option should be the name of a directory which is empty. Also, the # directory should not be writable by the ftp user. This directory is used # as a secure chroot() jail at times vsftpd does not require filesystem # access. secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty # # This string is the name of the PAM service vsftpd will use. pam_service_name=vsftpd # # This option specifies the location of the RSA certificate to use for SSL # encrypted connections. rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem # SSL ssl_enable=YES allow_anon_ssl=NO force_local_data_ssl=YES force_local_logins_ssl=YES ssl_tlsv1=YES ssl_sslv2=YES ssl_sslv3=YES Thanks!

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• Can't Get Virtual Users Setup in VSFTPD -Tried Everything

  - by N.T.

  Have Ubuntu 11.10 with vsftpd installed and working. Can not get virtual users setup at all? Vsftpd will allow main Ubuntu owner account to login, but nothing else? I've followed several tutorials on adding virtual users, but nothing works? I just need to add 2 virtual users and have them be able to upload files to vsftpd Ubuntu computer from other computers on my Lan network. Everywhere I've looked, people just point toward tutorials on adding virtual users, but that just is NOT working. I've been struggling with this for over a week now! PLEASE Help. Thanks. I'll even give a donation if someone can figure this out. here is the vsftpd.conf file I am using. I copied the original, and make a new one, every time I try a tutorial. So far, none have worked. Here is the vsftpd.conf file I'm using. (I hope this helps?) # Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf # # The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file # loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable. # Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults. # # READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options. # Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's # capabilities. # # # Run standalone? vsftpd can run either from an inetd or as a standalone # daemon started from an initscript. listen=YES # # Run standalone with IPv6? # Like the listen parameter, except vsftpd will listen on an IPv6 socket # instead of an IPv4 one. This parameter and the listen parameter are mutually # exclusive. #listen_ipv6=YES # # Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default) anonymous_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to allow local users to log in. local_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command. write_enable=YES # # Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022, # if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's) local_umask=022 # # Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only # has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will # obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user. #anon_upload_enable=YES # # Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create # new directories. anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES # # Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they # go into a certain directory. dirmessage_enable=YES # # If enabled, vsftpd will display directory listings with the time # in your local time zone. The default is to display GMT. The # times returned by the MDTM FTP command are also affected by this # option. use_localtime=YES # # Activate logging of uploads/downloads. xferlog_enable=YES # # Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data). connect_from_port_20=YES # # If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by # a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not # recommended! #chown_uploads=YES #chown_username=whoever # # You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown # below. #xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log # # If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format. # Note that the default log file location is /var/log/xferlog in this case. xferlog_std_format=YES # # You may change the default value for timing out an idle session. #idle_session_timeout=600 # # You may change the default value for timing out a data connection. #data_connection_timeout=120 # # It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the # ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user. #nopriv_user=ftpsecure # # Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not # recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it, # however, may confuse older FTP clients. #async_abor_enable=YES # # By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore # the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII # mangling on files when in ASCII mode. # Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service # attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd # predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the # raw file. # ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol. #ascii_upload_enable=YES #ascii_download_enable=YES # # You may fully customise the login banner string: ftpd_banner=Welcome to Sage FTP service. # # You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently # useful for combatting certain DoS attacks. #deny_email_enable=YES # (default follows) #banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails # # You may restrict local users to their home directories. See the FAQ for # the possible risks in this before using chroot_local_user or # chroot_list_enable below. chroot_local_user=YES # # You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home # directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of # users to NOT chroot(). #chroot_local_user=YES #chroot_list_enable=YES # (default follows) #chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list # # You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by # default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large # sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume # the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it. #ls_recurse_enable=YES # # Debian customization # # Some of vsftpd's settings don't fit the Debian filesystem layout by # default. These settings are more Debian-friendly. # # This option should be the name of a directory which is empty. Also, the # directory should not be writable by the ftp user. This directory is used # as a secure chroot() jail at times vsftpd does not require filesystem # access. secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty # # This string is the name of the PAM service vsftpd will use. pam_service_name=vsftpd local_root=/media/FilesDrive # # This option specifies the location of the RSA certificate to use for SSL # encrypted connections. rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

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• Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze upgrade problems

  - by Roland Soós

  Hi! Yesterday I made a dist-upgrade on my Debian Lenny server. I thought it will be easy as an usual upgrade, but it's not. I got a lot of problem after the update: # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-2.6-amd64 : Depends: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. Then I tried the suggestion: # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libio-compress-base-perl libatk1.0-0 libts-0.0-0 libmime-types-perl libc-client2007b libgtk2.0-common libxfixes3 libgsf-1-common hicolor-icon-theme libfile-remove-perl libxcomposite1 libltdl3-dev libneon27 libmd5-perl libwmf0.2-7 libilmbase6 libatk1.0-data djvulibre-desktop libdirectfb-1.0-0 fam libxinerama1 libcroco3 libopenexr6 libgsf-1-114 libmail-box-perl libdjvulibre21 openssl-blacklist librsvg2-2 libio-compress-zlib-perl libsysfs2 libbeecrypt6 libxdamage1 libobject-realize-later-perl libuser-identity-perl libgtk2.0-bin libxi6 libxcursor1 portmap libxrandr2 libgtk2.0-0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.32 The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not upgraded. 98 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/28.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 103 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "hu_HU.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: Nincs ilyen f?jl vagy k?nyvt?r Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 37915 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (from .../linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64_2.6.32-30_amd64.deb) ... locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: Nincs ilyen f?jl vagy k?nyvt?r dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64_2.6.32-30_amd64.deb (--unpack): failed in write on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec-realtek.ko': No space left on device configured to not write apport reports dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: Nincs ilyen f?jl vagy k?nyvt?r Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64_2.6.32-30_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "hu_HU.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: Nincs ilyen f?jl vagy k?nyvt?r /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is broken or not fully installed Then I stucked. Do you have any idea how could I solve this?

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• Trying to connect phpMyAdmin to remote mySQL server ( 2002: can't connect )

  - by Malcolm Jones

  Trying to get phpMyAdmin to talk to a remote mySQL server. The config is below and there is already a user set up in mySQL DB to be able to log in from the specified host that PMA sits on. Hosting is provided by Rackspace (Rightscale) and both cloud servers behind the same firewall. [config.inc.php] <?php $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ''; $i = 0; $i++; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'XX.XX.XX.XX'; // MySQL hostname or IP address $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = ''; // MySQL port - leave blank for default port $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ''; // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket') $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql'; // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli') $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = FALSE; // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0) $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = ''; // MySQL control user settings // (this user must have read-only $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = ''; // access to the "mysql/user" // and "mysql/db" tables). // The controluser is also // used for all relational // features (pmadb) $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)? $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'USERNAME'; // MySQL user $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'PASSWORD'; // MySQL password (only needed // with 'config' auth_type) $cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = ''; // If set to a db-name, only // this db is displayed in left frame // It may also be an array of db-names, where sorting order is relevant. $cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db'] = ''; // Database name to be hidden from listings $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ''; // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = ''; // Database used for Relation, Bookmark and PDF Features // (see scripts/create_tables.sql) // - leave blank for no support // DEFAULT: 'phpmyadmin' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = ''; // Bookmark table // - leave blank for no bookmark support // DEFAULT: 'pma_bookmark' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = ''; // table to describe the relation between links (see doc) // - leave blank for no relation-links support // DEFAULT: 'pma_relation' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = ''; // table to describe the display fields // - leave blank for no display fields support // DEFAULT: 'pma_table_info' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = ''; // table to describe the tables position for the PDF schema // - leave blank for no PDF schema support // DEFAULT: 'pma_table_coords' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = ''; // table to describe pages of relationpdf // - leave blank if you don't want to use this // DEFAULT: 'pma_pdf_pages' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = ''; // table to store column information // - leave blank for no column comments/mime types // DEFAULT: 'pma_column_info' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = ''; // table to store SQL history // - leave blank for no SQL query history // DEFAULT: 'pma_history' $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose_check'] = TRUE; // set to FALSE if you know that your pma_* tables // are up to date. This prevents compatibility // checks and thereby increases performance. $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot'] = TRUE; // whether to allow root login $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] // Host authentication order, leave blank to not use = ''; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] // Host authentication rules, leave blank for defaults = array(); Please let me know if you need anymore info. -- Malcolm

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• Configuring Fed Authentication Methods in OIF / IdP

  - by Damien Carru

  In this article, I will provide examples on how to configure OIF/IdP to map OAM Authentication Schemes to Federation Authentication Methods, based on the concepts introduced in my previous entry. I will show examples for the three protocols supported by OIF: SAML 2.0 SSO SAML 1.1 SSO OpenID 2.0 Enjoy the reading! Configuration As I mentioned in my previous article, mapping Federation Authentication Methods to OAM Authentication Schemes is protocol dependent, since the methods are defined in the various protocols (SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1, OpenID 2.0). As such, the WLST commands to set those mappings will involve: Either the SP Partner Profile and affect all Partners referencing that profile, which do not override the Federation Authentication Method to OAM Authentication Scheme mappings Or the SP Partner entry, which will only affect the SP Partner It is important to note that if an SP Partner is configured to define one or more Federation Authentication Method to OAM Authentication Scheme mappings, then all the mappings defined in the SP Partner Profile will be ignored. WLST Commands The two OIF WLST commands that can be used to define mapping Federation Authentication Methods to OAM Authentication Schemes are: addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod() to define a mapping on an SP Partner Profile, taking as parameters: The name of the SP Partner Profile The Federation Authentication Method The OAM Authentication Scheme name addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() to define a mapping on an SP Partner , taking as parameters: The name of the SP Partner The Federation Authentication Method The OAM Authentication Scheme name Note: I will discuss in a subsequent article the other parameters of those commands. In the next sections, I will show examples on how to use those methods: For SAML 2.0, I will configure the SP Partner Profile, that will apply all the mappings to SP Partners referencing this profile, unless they override mapping definition For SAML 1.1, I will configure the SP Partner. For OpenID 2.0, I will configure the SP/RP Partner SAML 2.0 Test Setup In this setup, OIF is acting as an IdP and is integrated with a remote SAML 2.0 SP partner identified by AcmeSP. In this test, I will perform Federation SSO with OIF/IdP configured to: Use LDAPScheme as the Authentication Scheme Use BasicScheme as the Authentication Scheme Map BasicSessionScheme  to  the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:Password Federation Authentication Method Use OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme as the Authentication Scheme Map OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme to  the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport Federation Authentication Method LDAPScheme as Authentication Scheme Using the OOTB settings regarding user authentication in OAM, the user will be challenged via a FORM based login page based on the LDAPScheme. Also the default Federation Authentication Method mappings configuration maps only the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport to LDAPScheme (also marked as the default scheme used for authentication), FAAuthScheme, BasicScheme and BasicFAScheme. After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would issue an Assertion similar to: <samlp:Response ...>    <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion ...>        <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>        <saml:Subject>            <saml:NameID ...>[email protected]</saml:NameID>            <saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">                <saml:SubjectConfirmationData .../>            </saml:SubjectConfirmation>        </saml:Subject>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" SessionIndex="id-6i-Dm0yB-HekG6cejktwcKIFMzYE8Yrmqwfd0azz" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2014-03-21T21:53:55Z">            <saml:AuthnContext>                <saml:AuthnContextClassRef>                   urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport                </saml:AuthnContextClassRef>            </saml:AuthnContext>        </saml:AuthnStatement>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> BasicScheme as Authentication Scheme For this test, I will switch the default Authentication Scheme for the SP Partner Profile to BasicScheme instead of LDAPScheme. I will use the OIF WLST setSPPartnerProfileDefaultScheme() command and specify which scheme to be used as the default for the SP Partner Profile referenced by AcmeSP (which is saml20-sp-partner-profile in this case: getFedPartnerProfile("AcmeSP", "sp") ): Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the setSPPartnerProfileDefaultScheme() command:setSPPartnerProfileDefaultScheme("saml20-sp-partner-profile", "BasicScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() The user will now be challenged via HTTP Basic Authentication defined in the BasicScheme for AcmeSP. Also, as noted earlier, the default Federation Authentication Method mappings configuration maps only the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport to LDAPScheme (also marked as the default scheme used for authentication), FAAuthScheme, BasicScheme and BasicFAScheme. After authentication via HTTP Basic Authentication, OIF/IdP would issue an Assertion similar to: <samlp:Response ...>    <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion ...>        <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>        <saml:Subject>            <saml:NameID ...>[email protected]</saml:NameID>            <saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">                <saml:SubjectConfirmationData .../>            </saml:SubjectConfirmation>        </saml:Subject>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" SessionIndex="id-6i-Dm0yB-HekG6cejktwcKIFMzYE8Yrmqwfd0azz" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2014-03-21T21:53:55Z">            <saml:AuthnContext>                <saml:AuthnContextClassRef>                   urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport                </saml:AuthnContextClassRef>            </saml:AuthnContext>        </saml:AuthnStatement>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> Mapping BasicScheme To change the Federation Authentication Method mapping for the BasicScheme to urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:Password instead of urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport for the saml20-sp-partner-profile SAML 2.0 SP Partner Profile (the profile to which my AcmeSP Partner is bound to), I will execute the addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod() method: Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod() command:addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod("saml20-sp-partner-profile", "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:Password", "BasicScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() After authentication via HTTP Basic Authentication, OIF/IdP would now issue an Assertion similar to (see that the AuthnContextClassRef was changed from PasswordProtectedTransport to Password): <samlp:Response ...>    <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion ...>        <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>        <saml:Subject>            <saml:NameID ...>[email protected]</saml:NameID>            <saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">                <saml:SubjectConfirmationData .../>            </saml:SubjectConfirmation>        </saml:Subject>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" SessionIndex="id-6i-Dm0yB-HekG6cejktwcKIFMzYE8Yrmqwfd0azz" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2014-03-21T21:53:55Z">            <saml:AuthnContext>                <saml:AuthnContextClassRef>                   urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:Password                </saml:AuthnContextClassRef>            </saml:AuthnContext>        </saml:AuthnStatement>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme as Authentication Scheme For this test, I will switch the default Authentication Scheme for the SP Partner Profile to OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme instead of BasicScheme. I will use the OIF WLST setSPPartnerProfileDefaultScheme() command and specify which scheme to be used as the default for the SP Partner Profile referenced by AcmeSP (which is saml20-sp-partner-profile in this case: getFedPartnerProfile("AcmeSP", "sp") ): Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the setSPPartnerProfileDefaultScheme() command:setSPPartnerProfileDefaultScheme("saml20-sp-partner-profile", "OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() The user will now be challenged via FORM defined in the OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme for AcmeSP. Contrarily to LDAPScheme and BasicScheme, the OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme is not mapped by default to any Federation Authentication Methods. As such, OIF/IdP will not be able to find a Federation Authentication Method and will set the method in the SAML Assertion to the OAM Authentication Scheme name. After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would issue an Assertion similar to (see the AuthnContextClassRef set to OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme): <samlp:Response ...>    <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion ...>        <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>        <saml:Subject>            <saml:NameID ...>[email protected]</saml:NameID>            <saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">                <saml:SubjectConfirmationData .../>            </saml:SubjectConfirmation>        </saml:Subject>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" SessionIndex="id-6i-Dm0yB-HekG6cejktwcKIFMzYE8Yrmqwfd0azz" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2014-03-21T21:53:55Z">            <saml:AuthnContext>                <saml:AuthnContextClassRef> OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme                </saml:AuthnContextClassRef>            </saml:AuthnContext>        </saml:AuthnStatement>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> Mapping OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme To add the OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme  to the Federation Authentication Method urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport mapping, I will execute the addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod() method: Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod() command:addSPPartnerProfileAuthnMethod("saml20-sp-partner-profile", "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport", "OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would now issue an Assertion similar to (see that the method was changed from OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme to PasswordProtectedTransport): <samlp:Response ...>    <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion ...>        <saml:Issuer ...>https://idp.com/oam/fed</saml:Issuer>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>        <saml:Subject>            <saml:NameID ...>[email protected]</saml:NameID>            <saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">                <saml:SubjectConfirmationData .../>            </saml:SubjectConfirmation>        </saml:Subject>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" SessionIndex="id-6i-Dm0yB-HekG6cejktwcKIFMzYE8Yrmqwfd0azz" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2014-03-21T21:53:55Z">            <saml:AuthnContext>                <saml:AuthnContextClassRef>                   urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport                </saml:AuthnContextClassRef>            </saml:AuthnContext>        </saml:AuthnStatement>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> SAML 1.1 Test Setup In this setup, OIF is acting as an IdP and is integrated with a remote SAML 1.1 SP partner identified by AcmeSP. In this test, I will perform Federation SSO with OIF/IdP configured to: Use LDAPScheme as the Authentication Scheme Use OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme as the Authentication Scheme Map OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme to  the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport Federation Authentication Method Use LDAPScheme as the Authentication Scheme Map LDAPScheme to  the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport Federation Authentication Method LDAPScheme as Authentication Scheme Using the OOTB settings regarding user authentication in OAM, the user will be challenged via a FORM based login page based on the LDAPScheme. Also the default Federation Authentication Method mappings configuration maps only the urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password to LDAPScheme (also marked as the default scheme used for authentication), FAAuthScheme, BasicScheme and BasicFAScheme. After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would issue an Assertion similar to: <samlp:Response ...>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="samlp:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion Issuer="https://idp.com/oam/fed" ...>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp/ssov11</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthenticationInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" AuthenticationMethod="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password">            <saml:Subject>                <saml:NameIdentifier ...>[email protected]</saml:NameIdentifier>                <saml:SubjectConfirmation>                   <saml:ConfirmationMethod>                       urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:bearer                   </saml:ConfirmationMethod>                </saml:SubjectConfirmation>            </saml:Subject>        </saml:AuthnStatement>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme as Authentication Scheme For this test, I will switch the default Authentication Scheme for the SP Partner to OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme instead of LDAPScheme. I will use the OIF WLST setSPPartnerDefaultScheme() command and specify which scheme to be used as the default for the SP Partner: Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the setSPPartnerDefaultScheme() command:setSPPartnerDefaultScheme("AcmeSP", "OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() The user will be challenged via FORM defined in the OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme for AcmeSP. Contrarily to LDAPScheme, the OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme is not mapped by default to any Federation Authentication Methods (in the SP Partner Profile). As such, OIF/IdP will not be able to find a Federation Authentication Method and will set the method in the SAML Assertion to the OAM Authentication Scheme name. After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would issue an Assertion similar to (see the AuthenticationMethod set to OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme): <samlp:Response ...>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="samlp:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion Issuer="https://idp.com/oam/fed" ...>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp/ssov11</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthenticationInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" AuthenticationMethod="OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme">            <saml:Subject>                <saml:NameIdentifier ...>[email protected]</saml:NameIdentifier>                <saml:SubjectConfirmation>                   <saml:ConfirmationMethod>                       urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:bearer                   </saml:ConfirmationMethod>                </saml:SubjectConfirmation>            </saml:Subject>        </saml:AuthnStatement>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> Mapping OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme To map the OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme  to the Federation Authentication Method urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password for this SP Partner only, I will execute the addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() method: Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() command:addSPPartnerAuthnMethod("AcmeSP", "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password", "OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would now issue an Assertion similar to (see that the method was changed from OAMLDAPPluginAuthnScheme to password): <samlp:Response ...>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="samlp:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion Issuer="https://idp.com/oam/fed" ...>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp/ssov11</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthenticationInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" AuthenticationMethod="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password">            <saml:Subject>                <saml:NameIdentifier ...>[email protected]</saml:NameIdentifier>                <saml:SubjectConfirmation>                   <saml:ConfirmationMethod>                       urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:bearer                   </saml:ConfirmationMethod>                </saml:SubjectConfirmation>            </saml:Subject>        </saml:AuthnStatement>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> LDAPScheme as Authentication Scheme I will now show that by defining a Federation Authentication Mapping at the Partner level, this now ignores all mappings defined at the SP Partner Profile level. For this test, I will switch the default Authentication Scheme for this SP Partner back to LDAPScheme, and the Assertion issued by OIF/IdP will not be able to map this LDAPScheme to a Federation Authentication Method anymore, since A Federation Authentication Method mapping is defined at the SP Partner level and thus the mappings defined at the SP Partner Profile are ignored The LDAPScheme is not listed in the mapping at the Partner level I will use the OIF WLST setSPPartnerDefaultScheme() command and specify which scheme to be used as the default for this SP Partner: Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the setSPPartnerDefaultScheme() command:setSPPartnerDefaultScheme("AcmeSP", "LDAPScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would issue an Assertion similar to (see the AuthenticationMethod set to LDAPScheme): <samlp:Response ...>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="samlp:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion Issuer="https://idp.com/oam/fed" ...>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp/ssov11</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthenticationInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" AuthenticationMethod="LDAPScheme">            <saml:Subject>                <saml:NameIdentifier ...>[email protected]</saml:NameIdentifier>                <saml:SubjectConfirmation>                   <saml:ConfirmationMethod>                       urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:bearer                   </saml:ConfirmationMethod>                </saml:SubjectConfirmation>            </saml:Subject>        </saml:AuthnStatement>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> Mapping LDAPScheme at Partner Level To fix this issue, we will need to add the LDAPScheme  to the Federation Authentication Method urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password mapping for this SP Partner only. I will execute the addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() method: Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() command:addSPPartnerAuthnMethod("AcmeSP", "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password", "LDAPScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would now issue an Assertion similar to (see that the method was changed from LDAPScheme to password): <samlp:Response ...>    <samlp:Status>        <samlp:StatusCode Value="samlp:Success"/>    </samlp:Status>    <saml:Assertion Issuer="https://idp.com/oam/fed" ...>        <saml:Conditions ...>            <saml:AudienceRestriction>                <saml:Audience>https://acme.com/sp/ssov11</saml:Audience>            </saml:AudienceRestriction>        </saml:Conditions>        <saml:AuthnStatement AuthenticationInstant="2014-03-21T20:53:55Z" AuthenticationMethod="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password">            <saml:Subject>                <saml:NameIdentifier ...>[email protected]</saml:NameIdentifier>                <saml:SubjectConfirmation>                   <saml:ConfirmationMethod>                       urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:bearer                   </saml:ConfirmationMethod>                </saml:SubjectConfirmation>            </saml:Subject>        </saml:AuthnStatement>        <dsig:Signature>            ...        </dsig:Signature>    </saml:Assertion></samlp:Response> OpenID 2.0 In the OpenID 2.0 flows, the RP must request use of PAPE, in order for OIF/IdP/OP to include PAPE information. For OpenID 2.0, the configuration will involve mapping a list of OpenID 2.0 policies to a list of Authentication Schemes. The WLST command will take a list of policies, delimited by the ',' character, instead of SAML 2.0 or SAML 1.1 where a single Federation Authentication Method had to be specified. Test Setup In this setup, OIF is acting as an IdP/OP and is integrated with a remote OpenID 2.0 SP/RP partner identified by AcmeRP. In this test, I will perform Federation SSO with OIF/IdP configured to: Use LDAPScheme as the Authentication Scheme Map LDAPScheme to  the http://schemas.openid.net/pape/policies/2007/06/phishing-resistant and http://openid-policies/password-protected policies Federation Authentication Methods (the second one is a custom for this use case) LDAPScheme as Authentication Scheme Using the OOTB settings regarding user authentication in OAM, the user will be challenged via a FORM based login page based on the LDAPScheme. No Federation Authentication Method is defined OOTB for OpenID 2.0, so if the IdP/OP issue an SSO response with a PAPE Response element, it will specify the scheme name instead of Federation Authentication Methods After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would issue an SSO Response similar to: https://acme.com/openid?refid=id-9PKVXZmRxAeDYcgLqPm36ClzOMA-&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&openid.mode=id_res&openid.op_endpoint=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.com%2Fopenid&openid.claimed_id=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.com%2Fopenid%3Fid%3Did-38iCmmlAVEXPsFjnFVKArfn5RIiF75D5doorhEgqqPM%3D&openid.identity=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.com%2Fopenid%3Fid%3Did-38iCmmlAVEXPsFjnFVKArfn5RIiF75D5doorhEgqqPM%3D&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Facme.com%2Fopenid%3Frefid%3Did-9PKVXZmRxAeDYcgLqPm36ClzOMA-&openid.response_nonce=2014-03-24T19%3A20%3A06Zid-YPa2kTNNFftZkgBb460jxJGblk2g--iNwPpDI7M1&openid.assoc_handle=id-6a5S6zhAKaRwQNUnjTKROREdAGSjWodG1el4xyz3&openid.ns.ax=http%3A%2F%2Fopenid.net%2Fsrv%2Fax%2F1.0&openid.ax.mode=fetch_response&openid.ax.type.attr0=http%3A%2F%2Fsession%2Fcount&openid.ax.value.attr0=1&openid.ax.type.attr1=http%3A%2F%2Fopenid.net%2Fschema%2FnamePerson%2Ffriendly&openid.ax.value.attr1=My+name+is+Bobby+Smith&openid.ax.type.attr2=http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.openid.net%2Fax%2Fapi%2Fuser_id&openid.ax.value.attr2=bob&openid.ax.type.attr3=http%3A%2F%2Faxschema.org%2Fcontact%2Femail&openid.ax.value.attr3=bob%40oracle.com&openid.ax.type.attr4=http%3A%2F%2Fsession%2Fipaddress&openid.ax.value.attr4=10.145.120.253&openid.ns.pape=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fextensions%2Fpape%2F1.0&openid.pape.auth_time=2014-03-24T19%3A20%3A05Z&openid.pape.auth_policies=LDAPScheme&openid.signed=op_endpoint%2Cclaimed_id%2Cidentity%2Creturn_to%2Cresponse_nonce%2Cassoc_handle%2Cns.ax%2Cax.mode%2Cax.type.attr0%2Cax.value.attr0%2Cax.type.attr1%2Cax.value.attr1%2Cax.type.attr2%2Cax.value.attr2%2Cax.type.attr3%2Cax.value.attr3%2Cax.type.attr4%2Cax.value.attr4%2Cns.pape%2Cpape.auth_time%2Cpape.auth_policies&openid.sig=mYMgbGYSs22l8e%2FDom9NRPw15u8%3D Mapping LDAPScheme To map the LDAP Scheme to the http://schemas.openid.net/pape/policies/2007/06/phishing-resistant and http://openid-policies/password-protected policies Federation Authentication Methods, I will execute the addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() method (the policies will be comma separated): Enter the WLST environment by executing:$IAM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh Connect to the WLS Admin server:connect() Navigate to the Domain Runtime branch:domainRuntime() Execute the addSPPartnerAuthnMethod() command:addSPPartnerAuthnMethod("AcmeRP", "http://schemas.openid.net/pape/policies/2007/06/phishing-resistant,http://openid-policies/password-protected", "LDAPScheme") Exit the WLST environment:exit() After authentication via FORM, OIF/IdP would now issue an Assertion similar to (see that the method was changed from LDAPScheme to the two policies): https://acme.com/openid?refid=id-9PKVXZmRxAeDYcgLqPm36ClzOMA-&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&openid.mode=id_res&openid.op_endpoint=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.com%2Fopenid&openid.claimed_id=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.com%2Fopenid%3Fid%3Did-38iCmmlAVEXPsFjnFVKArfn5RIiF75D5doorhEgqqPM%3D&openid.identity=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.com%2Fopenid%3Fid%3Did-38iCmmlAVEXPsFjnFVKArfn5RIiF75D5doorhEgqqPM%3D&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Facme.com%2Fopenid%3Frefid%3Did-9PKVXZmRxAeDYcgLqPm36ClzOMA-&openid.response_nonce=2014-03-24T19%3A20%3A06Zid-YPa2kTNNFftZkgBb460jxJGblk2g--iNwPpDI7M1&openid.assoc_handle=id-6a5S6zhAKaRwQNUnjTKROREdAGSjWodG1el4xyz3&openid.ns.ax=http%3A%2F%2Fopenid.net%2Fsrv%2Fax%2F1.0&openid.ax.mode=fetch_response&openid.ax.type.attr0=http%3A%2F%2Fsession%2Fcount&openid.ax.value.attr0=1&openid.ax.type.attr1=http%3A%2F%2Fopenid.net%2Fschema%2FnamePerson%2Ffriendly&openid.ax.value.attr1=My+name+is+Bobby+Smith&openid.ax.type.attr2=http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.openid.net%2Fax%2Fapi%2Fuser_id&openid.ax.value.attr2=bob&openid.ax.type.attr3=http%3A%2F%2Faxschema.org%2Fcontact%2Femail&openid.ax.value.attr3=bob%40oracle.com&openid.ax.type.attr4=http%3A%2F%2Fsession%2Fipaddress&openid.ax.value.attr4=10.145.120.253&openid.ns.pape=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fextensions%2Fpape%2F1.0&openid.pape.auth_time=2014-03-24T19%3A20%3A05Z&openid.pape.auth_policies=http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.openid.net%2Fpape%2Fpolicies%2F2007%2F06%2Fphishing-resistant+http%3A%2F%2Fopenid-policies%2Fpassword-protected&openid.signed=op_endpoint%2Cclaimed_id%2Cidentity%2Creturn_to%2Cresponse_nonce%2Cassoc_handle%2Cns.ax%2Cax.mode%2Cax.type.attr0%2Cax.value.attr0%2Cax.type.attr1%2Cax.value.attr1%2Cax.type.attr2%2Cax.value.attr2%2Cax.type.attr3%2Cax.value.attr3%2Cax.type.attr4%2Cax.value.attr4%2Cns.pape%2Cpape.auth_time%2Cpape.auth_policies&openid.sig=mYMgbGYSs22l8e%2FDom9NRPw15u8%3D In the next article, I will cover how OIF/IdP can be configured so that an SP can request a specific Federation Authentication Method to challenge the user during Federation SSO.Cheers,Damien Carru

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• Keeping up with Technology

  - by kennedysteve

  If you're like me, you have a hard time keeping up with all the technologies out there. The reality is there's too many new technologies (languages, methodologies,  tools, etc). One of the ways I try to keep up with everything is by using good ol' RSS feeds in conjunction with Google Reader. Google Reader is both an online aggregator of RSS feeds, and it also has a good companion app on Google Android. The nicest part of Google Reader for me is the "All Listings" view which gives me a reverse chronological view of ALL articles (mixed together) regardless of the actual RSS feed.  This way, I get to see the newest articles first. I can then choose to hide the articles I've viewed, etc. Here is a list of my RSS feeds. Admittedly, some of these are all over the spectrum. But you might find one or two interesting. .NET Rocks! RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/netRocksFullMp3Downloads Main Web Site = http://www.dotnetrocks.com Channel 9 RSS = http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS Main Web Site = http://channel9.msdn.com/ CodePlex  RSS = http://www.codeplex.com/site/feeds/rss Main Web Site = http://www.codeplex.com/site/feeds/rss Connected Show Developer Podcast! RSS = http://feeds.connectedshow.com/ConnectedShow Main Web Site = http://www.ConnectedShow.com/ dnrTV RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/DnrtvWmv?format=xml Main Web Site = http://dnrtv.com ebookshare RSS = http://www.ebookshare.net/feed/ Main Web Site = http://www.ebookshare.net Geekswithblogs.net RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs Main Web Site = http://geekswithblogs.net/mainfeed.aspx Gmail Blog RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGmailBlog?format=xml Main Web Site = http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ Google Mobile Blog RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGoogleMobileBlog Main Web Site = http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/ Herding Code RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/herdingcode Main Web Site = http://herdingcode.com LearnVisualStudio.NET Videos RSS = http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/videos.rss Main Web Site = http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ Microsoft Learning Upcoming = Microsoft Learning Upcoming Titles RSS = http://learning.microsoft.com/rss/en-US/upcomingtitles?brand=Learning Main Web Site = http://learning.microsoft.com:80/rss/en-US/upcomingtitles?brand=Learning MS On-demand Webcasts RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/communities/rss.aspx?&Title=On-Demand+Webcasts&RssTitle=Microsoft+Webcasts%3A+On-Demand+Webcasts&CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&WebNewsURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fevents%2FEventDetails.aspx&CMTYRawShape=list&Params=+%0D%0A%09~CMTYDataSvcParams%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'EventType'+Value%3D'OnDemandWebcast'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'ProviderID'+Value%3D'A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'StartDate'+Value%3D'06%2F30%2F2006'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'EndDate'+Value%3D'Now%2B0'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~%2FCMTYDataSvcParams%5E+&NumberOfItems=100 Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx MS Podcasts for Devs RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?podcast=rss&audience=Audience-e5381407-359f-4922-97d0-0237af790eee&pageId=x40 Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?audience=Audience-e5381407-359f-4922-97d0-0237af790eee&pageId=x40&WT.rss_ev=f MSDN Blogs RSS = http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mainfeed.aspx?Type=BlogsOnly Main Web Site = http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ MSDN Radio RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?topic=&audience=&view=&pageId=x73&seriesID=Series-b9139976-8d48-4249-9b89-ccd17891de1e.xml&podcast=rss&type=wma Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?seriesID=Series-b9139976-8d48-4249-9b89-ccd17891de1e.xml&pageId=x73&WT.rss_ev=f O'Reilly Deal of the Day RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday Main Web Site = http://oreilly.com O'Reilly New RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/newbooks Main Web Site = http://oreilly.com/ Safari Books Online RSS = http://my.safaribooksonline.com/rss Main Web Site = http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ ScottGu's Blog RSS = http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/rss.aspx Main Web Site = http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx SourceForge Community Blog RSS = http://sourceforge.net/blog/feed/ Main Web Site = http://sourceforge.net/blog Stack Overflow RSS = http://blog.stackoverflow.com/feed/ Main Web Site = http://blog.stackoverflow.com Stepcase Lifehack RSS = http://www.lifehack.org/feed/ Main Web Site = http://www.lifehack.org TechNet Radio RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?topic=&audience=&view=&pageId=x73&seriesID=Series-cc4e3db2-9212-43c5-a57b-d43fa31e6452.xml&podcast=rss&type=wma Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?seriesID=Series-cc4e3db2-9212-43c5-a57b-d43fa31e6452.xml&pageId=x73&WT.rss_ev=f Wrox All New Titles RSS = http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/feed/RSS_WROX_ALLNEW.xml Main Web Site = http://www.wrox.com

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• Optional Parameters and Named Arguments in C# 4 (and a cool scenario w/ ASP.NET MVC 2)

  - by ScottGu

  [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the seventeenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers two new language feature being added to C# 4.0 – optional parameters and named arguments – as well as a cool way you can take advantage of optional parameters (both in VB and C#) with ASP.NET MVC 2. Optional Parameters in C# 4.0 C# 4.0 now supports using optional parameters with methods, constructors, and indexers (note: VB has supported optional parameters for awhile). Parameters are optional when a default value is specified as part of a declaration.  For example, the method below takes two parameters – a “category” string parameter, and a “pageIndex” integer parameter.  The “pageIndex” parameter has a default value of 0, and as such is an optional parameter: When calling the above method we can explicitly pass two parameters to it: Or we can omit passing the second optional parameter – in which case the default value of 0 will be passed:   Note that VS 2010’s Intellisense indicates when a parameter is optional, as well as what its default value is when statement completion is displayed: Named Arguments and Optional Parameters in C# 4.0 C# 4.0 also now supports the concept of “named arguments”.  This allows you to explicitly name an argument you are passing to a method – instead of just identifying it by argument position.  For example, I could write the code below to explicitly identify the second argument passed to the GetProductsByCategory method by name (making its usage a little more explicit): Named arguments come in very useful when a method supports multiple optional parameters, and you want to specify which arguments you are passing.  For example, below we have a method DoSomething that takes two optional parameters: We could use named arguments to call the above method in any of the below ways: Because both parameters are optional, in cases where only one (or zero) parameters is specified then the default value for any non-specified arguments is passed. ASP.NET MVC 2 and Optional Parameters One nice usage scenario where we can now take advantage of the optional parameter support of VB and C# is with ASP.NET MVC 2’s input binding support to Action methods on Controller classes. For example, consider a scenario where we want to map URLs like “Products/Browse/Beverages” or “Products/Browse/Deserts” to a controller action method.  We could do this by writing a URL routing rule that maps the URLs to a method like so: We could then optionally use a “page” querystring value to indicate whether or not the results displayed by the Browse method should be paged – and if so which page of the results should be displayed.  For example: /Products/Browse/Beverages?page=2. With ASP.NET MVC 1 you would typically handle this scenario by adding a “page” parameter to the action method and make it a nullable int (which means it will be null if the “page” querystring value is not present).  You could then write code like below to convert the nullable int to an int – and assign it a default value if it was not present in the querystring: With ASP.NET MVC 2 you can now take advantage of the optional parameter support in VB and C# to express this behavior more concisely and clearly.  Simply declare the action method parameter as an optional parameter with a default value: C# VB If the “page” value is present in the querystring (e.g. /Products/Browse/Beverages?page=22) then it will be passed to the action method as an integer.  If the “page” value is not in the querystring (e.g. /Products/Browse/Beverages) then the default value of 0 will be passed to the action method.  This makes the code a little more concise and readable. Summary There are a bunch of great new language features coming to both C# and VB with VS 2010.  The above two features (optional parameters and named parameters) are but two of them.  I’ll blog about more in the weeks and months ahead. If you are looking for a good book that summarizes all the language features in C# (including C# 4.0), as well provides a nice summary of the core .NET class libraries, you might also want to check out the newly released C# 4.0 in a Nutshell book from O’Reilly: It does a very nice job of packing a lot of content in an easy to search and find samples format. Hope this helps, Scott

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• Using the ASP.NET Membership API with SQL Server / SQL Azure: The new &ldquo;System.Web.Providers&rdquo; namespace

  - by Harish Ranganathan

  The Membership API came in .NET 2.0 and was a huge enhancement in building web applications with users, managing roles, permissions etc.,  The Membership API by default uses SQL Express and until Visual Studio 2008, it was available only through the ASP.NET Configuration manager screen (Website – ASP.NET Configuration) or (Project – ASP.NET Configuration) and for every application, one has to manually visit this place to start using the Security and other settings.  Upon doing that the default SQL Express database aspnet.mdf is created to store all the user profiles. Starting Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, the Default Website template includes the Membership API controls as a part of the page i.e. When you create a “File – New – ASP.NET Web Application” or an “ASP.NET MVC Application”, by default the Login/Register controls are enabled in the MasterPage and they are termed under “ApplicationServices” setting in the web.config file with connection string pointed to the SQL Express database. In fact, when you run the default website and click on “Logon” –> “Register”, and enter the details for registration and click “Register”, that is the time the aspnet.mdf file is created with the tables for Users, Roles, UsersInRoles, Profile etc., Now, this uses the default SQL Express database within the App_Data folder.  If you want to move your Membership information to some other database such as SQL Server, SQL CE or SQL Azure, you need to manually run the aspnet_regsql command and specify the destination database name. This would create all the Tables, Procedures and Views required to handle the Membership information.  Thereafter you can change the connection string for “ApplicationServices” to point to the database where you had run all the scripts. Now, enter “System.Web.Providers” Alpha. This is available as a part of the NuGet package library.  Scott Hanselman has a neat post describing the steps required to get it up and running as well as doing the basic changes  at http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingSystemWebProvidersASPNETUniversalProvidersForSessionMembershipRolesAndUserProfileOnSQLCompactAndSQLAzure.aspx Pretty much, it covers what the new System.Web.Providers do. One thing I wanted to clarify is that, the new “System.Web.Providers” add a lot of new settings which are also marked as the defaults, in the web.config.  Even now, they use SQL Express as the default database.  But, if you change the connection string for “DefaultConnection” under connectionStrings to point to your SQL Server or SQL Azure, Membership API would now be able to create all the tables, procedures and views at the destination specified (i.e. SQL Server or SQL Azure). In my case, I modified the DefaultConneciton to point to my SQL Azure database.  Next, I hit F5 to run the application.  The default view loads.  I clicked on “LogOn” and then “Register” since I knew there are no tables/users as of then.  One thing to note is that, I had put “NewDB” as the database name in the connection string that points to SQL Azure.  NewDB wasn’t existing and I would assume it would be created before the tables/views/procedures for Membership are created. Once I clicked on the “Register” to register my first username, it took a while and then registered as well as logged in me in.  Also, I went to the SQL Azure Management Portal and verified that there exists “NewDB” which has just been created I could also connect to the SQL Azure database “NewDB” from Management Studio and found that the tables now don’t have the aspnet_ prefix.  The tables were simply Users, Roles, UsersInRoles, Profiles etc., So, with a few clicks and configuration change, I could actually set up the user base for my application on SQL Azure and even make the SessionState, Roles, Profiles being stored in SQL Azure database. The new System.Web.Proivders also required MARS (MultipleActiveResultSets=true) setting since it uses Entity Framework for the DAL operations.  Also, the “Project – ASP.NET Configuration” screen can be used to further create/manage users/roles etc., although the data is stored on the remote database. With that, a long pending request from the community to have the ability to configure and use remote databases for Application users management without having to run the scripts from SQL Express is fulfilled. Cheers !!!

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• Xorg does not see my monitor EDID

  - by sean farley

  Below is the output from my Xorg.0. X.Org X Server 1.11.3 Release Date: 2011-12-16 [ 22.311] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 22.311] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.42-23-generic x86_64 Ubuntu [ 22.311] Current Operating System: Linux sean-P55-USB3 3.2.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 15 10:48:16 UTC 2012 x86_64 [ 22.311] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-34-generic root=UUID=0a34603e-aee9-44d1-8982-a5a5a38c3e4d ro quiet splash [ 22.311] Build Date: 29 August 2012 12:12:33AM [ 22.311] xorg-server 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support) [ 22.311] Current version of pixman: 0.24.4 [ 22.311] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. [ 22.311] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 22.311] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 17 13:20:45 2012 [ 22.311] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" [ 22.311] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" [ 22.311] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. [ 22.311] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults. [ 22.311] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0) [ 22.311] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" [ 22.311] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen Section". Using the first device section listed. [ 22.311] (**) | |-->Device "Default Device" [ 22.311] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section". Using a default monitor configuration. [ 22.311] (==) Automatically adding devices I have searched all over, and followed lots of dead ends and unanswered questions on this issue. I need to get this monitor recognised so I can use the native resolution of 1600x1200. The Nvidia driver in Windows has no problem with this. The monitor is an old Iiyama HM204DT A. Is there a way of configuring Xorg manually to get these working? I have tried xrandr but this will not work. Output:- sean@sean-P55-USB3:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1152 x 864, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 connected 1152x864+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.0 + 1360x768 60.0 59.8 1152x864 60.0* 800x600 72.2 60.3 56.2 680x384 119.9 119.6 640x480 59.9 512x384 120.0 400x300 144.4 320x240 120.1 DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Tried Nvidia Xorg.config: sean@sean-P55-USB3:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig [sudo] password for sean: Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Device section "Default Device" must have a Driver line. Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original' Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup' New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' How do I insert a driver line? This is a bit of a pain as I want to use my Vectorworks cad program in a WinXP Vbox at 1600x1200 but all virtual drives are restricted to the host screen resolution. Do i need to manually create EIDI info in Xorg? I am slightly confused about how Xorg and Nvidia relate Please help

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• It was worth the wait… Welcome Oracle GoldenGate 11g Release 2

  - by Irem Radzik

  v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} 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-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} 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-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} It certainly was worth the wait to meet Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2, because it is full of new features on multiple fronts. In fact, this release has the longest and strongest list of new features in Oracle GoldenGate’s history. The new release brings GoldenGate closer to the Oracle Database while expanding the support for global implementations and heterogeneous systems. It is more secure, more flexible, and faster. We announced the availability of Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2 via a press release. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out. As covered in this announcement, there are a variety of improvements in the product: Integrated Capture for Oracle Database: brings Oracle GoldenGate’s Capture process closer to the Oracle Database engine and enables support for Advanced Compression among other benefits. Enhanced Conflict Detection & Resolution, speeds and simplifies the conflict detection and resolution process for Active-Active deployments. Globalization, meaning Oracle GoldenGate can be deployed for databases that use multi-byte/Unicode character sets. Security and Performance Improvements, includes support Federal Information Protection Standard (FIPS). Increased Extensibility by kicking off actions based on an event record in the transaction log or in the Trail file. Integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c , in addition to the Oracle GoldenGate Monitor product. Expanded Heterogeneity, including capture from IBM DB2 for i on iSeries (AS/400) and delivery to Postgres We will explain these new features in more detail at our upcoming launch webcast: Harness the Power of the New Release of Oracle GoldenGate 11g- (Sept 12 8am/10am PT) In addition to learning more about these new features, the webcast will allow you to ask your questions to product management via live Q&A section. So, I hope you will not miss this opportunity to explore the new release of Oracle GoldenGate 11g and see how it can deliver enterprise-class real-time data integration solutions.. I look forward to a great webcast to unveil GoldenGate’s new capabilities.

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