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• luntbuild + maven + findbugs = OutOfMemoryException

  - by Johannes

  Hi, I've been trying to get Luntbuild to generate and publish a project site for our project including a Findbugs report. All other reports (Cobertura, Surefire, JavaDoc, Dashboard) work fine, but Findbugs bails out with an OutOfMemoryException. Excluding findbugs from report generation fixes the build --- although obviously without a Findbugs report. The funny thing is that I first encountered this problem locally and solved it by setting MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m. This does not seem to be enough in Luntbuild, however: setting that exact same option as an environment variable of my builder doesn't make a difference. I've found a couple of posts on the 'net stating you should also add -XX:MaxPermSize=512m to MAVEN_OPTS and/or pass -Dmaven.findbugs.jvmargs=-Xmx512m to mvn.bat. None of these (or their combination) seem to help though so any hints would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Johannes Relevant information: Luntbuild is 1.5.6, Maven is 2.1.0, findbugs-maven-plugin is 2.0.1. This is the Findbugs section of the relevant pom.xml: <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0.1</version> </plugin> This is the head of my build log: User "luntbuild" started the build Perform checkout operation for VCS setting: Vcs name: Subversion Repository url base: http://some.repository.com/repo/ Repository layout: multiple Directory for trunk: trunk Directory for branches: branches Directory for tags: tags Username: xxxx Password:xxxx Web interface: ViewVC URL to web interface: http://some.repository.com/repo/ Quiet period: modules: Source path: somepath, Branch: , Label: , Destination path: somewhere Source path: somepath, Branch: somewhere1.0.x, Label: , Destination path: somewhere-1.0.x Source path: somepath, Branch: somewhere1.1.x, Label: , Destination path: somewhere-1.1.x Update url: http://some.repository.com/repo//trunk Duration of the checkout operation: 0 minutes Perform build with builder setting: Builder name: default Builder type: Maven2 builder Command to run Maven2: "C:\maven\apache-maven-2.1.0\bin\mvn.bat" -e -f somewhere\pom.xml -P site -Dmaven.test.skip=false -DbuildDate="Tue Nov 24 11:13:24 CET 2009" -DbuildVersion="site-core138" -Dsvn.username=xxxx -Dsvn.password=xxxx -DstagingSiteURL=file:///C:/luntbuild/core-reports -Dmaven.findbugs.jvmargs=-Xmx512m Directory to run Maven2 in: Goals to build: site:stage site:stage-deploy Build properties: buildVersion="site-core138" artifactsDir="C:\\Program Files\\Luntbuild\\publish\\somewhere\\site-core\\site-core138\\artifacts" buildDate="Tue Nov 24 11:13:24 CET 2009" junitHtmlReportDir="" Environment variables: MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m" Build success condition: result==0 and builderLogContainsLine("INFO","BUILD SUCCESSFUL") Execute command: Executing 'C:\maven\apache-maven-2.1.0\bin\mvn.bat' with arguments: '-e' '-f' 'somewhere\pom.xml' '-P' 'site' '-Dmaven.test.skip=false' '-DbuildDate=Tue Nov 24 11:13:24 CET 2009' '-DbuildVersion=site-core138' '-Dsvn.username=xxxxxx' '-Dsvn.password=xxxxxx' '-DstagingSiteURL=file:///C:/luntbuild/reports' '-Dmaven.findbugs.jvmargs=-Xmx512m' '-DbuildVersion=site-core138' '-DartifactsDir=C:\\Program Files\\Luntbuild\\publish\\somewhere\\site-core\\site-core138\\artifacts' '-DbuildDate=Tue Nov 24 11:13:24 CET 2009' '-X' 'site:stage' 'site:stage-deploy' Tail of my build log: Analyzed: C:\luntbuild\somewhere-work\somewhere\...\SomeClass.class ... Analyzed: C:\luntbuild\somewhere-work\somewhere\...\target\classes Aux: C:\luntbuild\somewhere-work\somewhere\...\target\classes Aux: c:\maven\local-repo\...\somejar-1.1.1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar Aux: c:\maven\local-repo\commons-lang\commons-lang\2.3\commons-lang-2.3.jar .... Aux: c:\maven\local-repo\org\openoffice\ridl\3.1.0\ridl-3.1.0.jar Aux: c:\maven\local-repo\org\openoffice\unoil\3.1.0\unoil-3.1.0.jar [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Java heap space [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DEBUG] Trace java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.HashMap.(HashMap.java:209) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.type.TypeAnalysis$CachedExceptionSet.(TypeAnalysis.java:114) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.type.TypeAnalysis.getCachedExceptionSet(TypeAnalysis.java:688) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.type.TypeAnalysis.computeThrownExceptionTypes(TypeAnalysis.java:439) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.type.TypeAnalysis.transfer(TypeAnalysis.java:411) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.type.TypeAnalysis.transfer(TypeAnalysis.java:89) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.Dataflow.execute(Dataflow.java:356) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.engine.bcel.TypeDataflowFactory.analyze(TypeDataflowFactory.java:82) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.engine.bcel.TypeDataflowFactory.analyze(TypeDataflowFactory.java:44) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.impl.AnalysisCache.analyzeMethod(AnalysisCache.java:331) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.impl.AnalysisCache.getMethodAnalysis(AnalysisCache.java:281) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.engine.bcel.CFGFactory.analyze(CFGFactory.java:173) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.engine.bcel.CFGFactory.analyze(CFGFactory.java:64) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.impl.AnalysisCache.analyzeMethod(AnalysisCache.java:331) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.classfile.impl.AnalysisCache.getMethodAnalysis(AnalysisCache.java:281) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.ClassContext.getMethodAnalysis(ClassContext.java:937) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.ClassContext.getMethodAnalysisNoDataflowAnalysisException(ClassContext.java:921) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ba.ClassContext.getCFG(ClassContext.java:326) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.detect.BuildUnconditionalParamDerefDatabase.analyzeMethod(BuildUnconditionalParamDerefDatabase.java:103) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.detect.BuildUnconditionalParamDerefDatabase.considerMethod(BuildUnconditionalParamDerefDatabase.java:93) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.detect.BuildUnconditionalParamDerefDatabase.visitClassContext(BuildUnconditionalParamDerefDatabase.java:79) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DetectorToDetector2Adapter.visitClass(DetectorToDetector2Adapter.java:68) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.FindBugs2.analyzeApplication(FindBugs2.java:971) at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.FindBugs2.execute(FindBugs2.java:222) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:86) at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:230) at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:912) at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:756) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 17 minutes 16 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Tue Nov 24 11:31:23 CET 2009 [INFO] Final Memory: 70M/127M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maven2 builder failed: build success condition not met! Note that apparently maven only uses 70MB... but that probably doesn't mean anything since the Findbugs plugin forks its own process.

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• Can a DevExpress XtraGrid be filled using a a Dynamic SELECT statement string

  - by Gerhard Weiss

  Can a DevExpress XtraGrid be filled using a a Dynamic SELECT statement string? i.e. SELECT * FROM Employee or SELECT * FROM Dependents To fill our XtraGrids currently, we use a ORM that creates entities. To do this it takes a lot of steps and time. What is driving me to ask this question is we do a lot of client aquistions where we get hundreds of files. I do not want to create entities for all of these then have to create an XtraGrid for each entity. Ideally if I can just feed it a SELECT statement and the XtraGrid could render it then I could use the XtraGrid very nice data minipulation features (Filter, Group By, etc). If you have any other ideas or suggestions please to not hesitate to post them.

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• Easiest ways to generate graphs from Python?

  - by Noah Weiss

  I'm using Python to process CSV files filled with data that I want to run calculations on, and then graph. I'm looking for a library to use that I can send processed CSV information to, or a dict of some sort, and then choose different graphing styles with. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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• Haskell Linear Algebra Matrix Library for Arbitrary Element Types

  - by Johannes Weiß

  I'm looking for a Haskell linear algebra library that has the following features: Matrix multiplication Matrix addition Matrix transposition Rank calculation Matrix inversion is a plus and has the following properties: arbitrary element (scalar) types (in particular element types that are not Storable instances). My elements are an instance of Num, additionally the multiplicative inverse can be calculated. The elements mathematically form a finite field (??2256). That should be enough to implement the features mentioned above. arbitrary matrix sizes (I'll probably need something like 100x100, but the matrix sizes will depend on the user's input so it should not be limited by anything else but the memory or the computational power available) as fast as possible, but I'm aware that a library for arbitrary elements will probably not perform like a C/Fortran library that does the work (interfaced via FFI) because of the indirection of arbitrary (non Int, Double or similar) types. At least one pointer gets dereferenced when an element is touched (written in Haskell, this is not a real requirement for me, but since my elements are no Storable instances the library has to be written in Haskell) I already tried very hard and evaluated everything that looked promising (most of the libraries on Hackage directly state that they wont work for me). In particular I wrote test code using: hmatrix, assumes Storable elements Vec, but the documentation states: Low Dimension : Although the dimensionality is limited only by what GHC will handle, the library is meant for 2,3 and 4 dimensions. For general linear algebra, check out the excellent hmatrix library and blas bindings I looked into the code and the documentation of many more libraries but nothing seems to suit my needs :-(. Update Since there seems to be nothing, I started a project on GitHub which aims to develop such a library. The current state is very minimalistic, not optimized for speed at all and only the most basic functions have tests and therefore should work. But should you be interested in using or helping out developing it: Contact me (you'll find my mail address on my web site) or send pull requests.

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• Python Pre-testing for exceptions when coverage fails

  - by Tal Weiss

  I recently came across a simple but nasty bug. I had a list and I wanted to find the smallest member in it. I used Python's built-in min(). Everything worked great until in some strange scenario the list was empty (due to strange user input I could not have anticipated). My application crashed with a ValueError (BTW - not documented in the official docs). I have very extensive unit tests and I regularly check coverage to avoid surprises like this. I also use Pylint (everything is integrated in PyDev) and I never ignore warnings, yet I failed to catch this bug before my users did. Is there anything I can change in my methodology to avoid these kind of runtime errors? (which would have been caught at compile time in Java / C#?). I'm looking for something more than wrapping my code with a big try-except. What else can I do? How many other build in Python functions are hiding nasty surprises like this???

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• VirtualTreeView add roots with Threads

  - by Benjamin Weiss

  I would like to add roots to a VirtualTreeView http://www.delphi-gems.com/index.php/controls/virtual-treeview with a thread like this: function AddRoot ( p : TForm1 ) : Integer; stdcall; begin p.VirtualStringTree1.AddChild(NIL); end; var Dummy : DWORD; i : Integer; begin for i := 0 to 2000 do begin CloseHandle(CreateThread(NIL,0, @ADDROOT, Self,0, Dummy)); end; end; The reason for this is that I want to add all connections from my INDY Server to the TreeView. Indy's onexecute/onconnect get's called as a thread. So if 3+ connections come in at the same time the app crashes due to the TreeView. Same is if a client gets disconnected and I want to delete the Node. I am using Delphi7 and Indy9 Any Idea how to fix that?

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• Mailing Address is forcing 2nd Record in CSV (DevExpress Controls)

  - by Gerhard Weiss

  My DevExpress CSV export has two lines per record. Rank Score,Prog.,Full Address 63.30 ,JIW ,1234 Whispering Pines Dr , ,Sometown MI 48316 62.80 ,JIW ,9876 Beagle Dr , ,Sometown Twp MI 48382 I would like to change it to one line because I want to do a Word Merge. (Unless Word can merge these two lines back together, which I do not thing it can do) Does the DevExpress XtraGrid ExportToText allow for this? A MemoEdit is being used by the XtraGrid and is initialized using the following code (Noticed the ControlChars.NewLine): Public ReadOnly Property FullAddress() As String Get Dim strAddress As System.Text.StringBuilder = New StringBuilder() If Not IsNullEntity Then strAddress.Append(Line1 + ControlChars.NewLine) If Not Line2 Is Nothing AndAlso Me.Line2.Length > 0 Then strAddress.Append(Line2 + ControlChars.NewLine) End If If Not Line3 Is Nothing AndAlso Me.Line3.Length > 0 Then strAddress.Append(Line3 + ControlChars.NewLine) End If strAddress.Append(String.Format("{0} {1} {2}", City, RegionCode, PostalCode)) If Me.Country <> "UNITED STATES" Then strAddress.Append(ControlChars.NewLine + Me.Country) End If End If Return strAddress.ToString End Get End Property Here is the export to CSV code: Dim saveFile As New SaveFileDialog With saveFile '.InitialDirectory = ClientManager.CurrentClient.Entity.StudentPictureDirectory .FileName = "ApplicantList.csv" .CheckPathExists = True .CheckFileExists = False .Filter = "All Files (*.*)|*.*" End With If saveFile.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Dim PrintingTextExportOptions As New DevExpress.XtraPrinting.TextExportOptions(",", Encoding.ASCII) PrintingTextExportOptions.QuoteStringsWithSeparators = True ApplicantRankListViewsGridControl.ExportToText(saveFile.FileName, PrintingTextExportOptions) End If

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• How do I correctly model data in SQL-based databases that have some columns in common, but also have

  - by Brandon Weiss

  For instance, let's say I have a User model. Users have things like logins, passwords, e-mail addresses, avatars, etc. But there are two types of Users that will be using this site, let's say Parents and Businesses. I need to store some different information for the Parents (e.g. childrens' names, domestic partner, salaries, etc.) than for the Businesses (e.g. industry, number of employees, etc.), but also some of it is the same, like logins and passwords. How do I correctly structure this in a SQL-based database? Thanks!

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• NSPredicate cause update editing to return NSFetchedResultsChangeDelete not NSFetchedResultsChangeUp

  - by Matthew Weiss

  I have predicate inside of - (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController in a standard way starting from the CoreDataBook example. NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"state=%@ && date = %@ && date < %@", @"1",fromDate,toDate]; [fetchRequest setPredicate:predicate]; This works fine however when editing an item, it returns with NSFetchedResultsChangeDelete not Update. When the main view returns, it is missing the item. If I restart the simulator the delete was not saved and the correct editing result is shown the the predicate working correctly. case NSFetchedResultsChangeDelete: [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade]; break; I can confirm the behavior by commenting out the two predicate lines ONLY and then all works as it should correctly returning with the full set after editing and calling NSFetchedResultsChangeUpdate instead of NSFetchedResultsChangeDelete. I have read http://matteocaldari.it/2009/11/multiple-contexts-controllers-delegates-and-coredata-bug who reports similar behavior but I have not found a work around to my problem. I can

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• In Python, can I single line a for loop over iterator with an IF filter?

  - by Tal Weiss

  Silly question: I have a simple for loop followed by a simple if statement: for airport in airports: if airport.is_important: and I was wondering if I can write this as a single line somehow. So, yes, I can do this: for airport in (airport for airport in airports if airport.is_important): but it reads so silly and redundant ("for airport in airport for airport in airports..."). Is there a better way?

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• Can I turn off implicit Python unicode conversions to find my mixed-strings bugs?

  - by Tal Weiss

  When profiling our code I was surprised to find millions of calls to C:\Python26\lib\encodings\utf_8.py:15(decode) I started debugging and found that across our code base there are many small bugs, usually comparing a string to a unicode or adding a sting and a unicode. Python graciously decodes the strings and performs the following operations in unicode. How kind. But expensive! I am fluent in unicode, having read Joel Spolsky and Dive Into Python... I try to keep our code internals in unicode only. My question - can I turn off this pythonic nice-guy behavior? At least until I find all these bugs and fix them (usually by adding a u'u')? Some of them are extremely hard to find (a variable that is sometimes a string...). Python 2.6.5 (and I can't switch to 3.x).

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• Strange Grub behavior Series 9

  - by jothebo

  I have got a Samsung Series 9 900x3c with Ubuntu 12.04 on. After installing Ubuntu Grub would not load completely (only parts of the Menu were showing) every time so I launched the Boot repair indicating the use of an UEFI bios. Now Grub always loads completely but I do not seem to be able to launch Ubuntu directly. Instead I have to select Advanced options for Ubuntu and the newest Kernel Version and then the boot starts. Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance Johannes

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• Stop Cisco AnyConnect from locking down the NIC

  - by Johannes Rössel

  Cisco's VPN crapclients (including the AnyConnect one) have the nasty habit of clobbering all NICs on the system you're using them. The old client had a checkbox in the connection options that allowed you to use other network interfaces while being connected while the AnyConnect client doesn't have any options at all, seemingly. But they both lock down the network interface they are using to connect to the VPN. Since I am forced to use AnyConnect to actually have an internet connection and I like to control a second computer at home via RDP (over the same network interface so far) this doesn't quite work out. With the old client IPv6 still worked just fine, though AnyConnect seems to dislike that as well now. Is there any way to still use the same network interface for LAN access? I actually don't really care about any possible security implications (which might be why Cisco does this) as it's my freaking internet connection and not a secure way of working from home. The trade-off is quite different :-)

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• Spurious alleged file corruption on Windows 7

  - by Johannes Rössel

  Recently my Laptop sometimes warns about corrupted files on the hard drive (Samsung SSD PB22-JS3 TM). This has only happened so far when updating (or checking out) an SVN repository with either TortoiseSVN or the command line Subversion client. The fun thing is that the corrupted file has always been a .svn directory (although the directory entry may contain files in that directory too, if they're small enough?—?which should be the case with SVN). However, when looking into the warned-about directory I notice nothing strange or unusual and don't get any more warnings about it and another try (SVN stops updating once that error occurs?—?TortoiseSVN even with an appropriate error message) of updating the working copy works (well, mostly; sometimes it does it again, albeit with a different directory). Since the laptop is only a few months old I doubt the SSD is failing already—five months of normal usage shouldn't be too surprising. Also it (so far) occurred only with SVN updates on a large repository. Maybe that's too many writes in a short time and some part between the software and the hardware doesn't quite catch up fast enough or so?—?I don't know enough about this to actually make an informed guess here. Anyone knows what's up here? ETA: Note to add: I've run chkdsk (it seems to schedule itself anyway when this happens) and it didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

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• Spurious alleged file corruption with an SSD

  - by Johannes Rössel

  Recently my Laptop sometimes warns about corrupted files on the hard drive (Samsung SSD PB22-JS3 TM). This has only happened so far when updating (or checking out) an SVN repository with either TortoiseSVN or the command line Subversion client. The fun thing is that the corrupted file has always been a .svn directory (although the directory entry may contain files in that directory too, if they're small enough?—?which should be the case with SVN). However, when looking into the warned-about directory I notice nothing strange or unusual and don't get any more warnings about it and another try (SVN stops updating once that error occurs?—?TortoiseSVN even with an appropriate error message) of updating the working copy works (well, mostly; sometimes it does it again, albeit with a different directory). Since the laptop is only a few months old I doubt the SSD is failing already—five months of normal usage shouldn't be too surprising. Also it (so far) occurred only with SVN updates on a large repository. Maybe that's too many writes in a short time and some part between the software and the hardware doesn't quite catch up fast enough or so?—?I don't know enough about this to actually make an informed guess here. Anyone knows what's up here? ETA: Note to add: I've run chkdsk (it seems to schedule itself anyway when this happens) and it didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

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• mdadm auto grow raid

  - by johannes

  I have a raid0/1 on lvm logical volumes. I resized the logical volumes. Now I want to resize the raid to use the complete logical volumes. This can be done with mdadm /dev/md? --grow -z newsize But somehow I can't figure out how to calculate the newsize argument. Is there a way to tell mdadm to grow to the biggest possible size? If not, how do I calculate the biggest possible size of the raid to use for the newsize argument?

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• VPN with client-to-client direct connectivity?

  - by Johannes Ernst

  When setting up a VPN, clients (say client1 and client2) usually authenticate to a server, and together the three constitute the VPN. When client1 wishes to send a packet to client2, this packet usually gets routed by way of server. Are there products / configuration blueprints for products where it is possible to send packets directly from client1 to client2 without going though server? (if the underlying network topology permits it, e.g. no firewalls in the way) If not, is there a way by which client1 can send a packet to client2 by way of server, without the server being able to snoop on the content of the packet? (E.g. because the packet is encrypted with the public key of client2) I just asked in the OpenVPN forum, and the answer I got was "not with OpenVPN". So my question is: are there other products with which this is possible? Open-source preferred ... One use case: client1 and client2, typically in separate offices, find themselves both at headquarters. Do they still need to talk to each other via the public internet? Links appreciated. Thank you.

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• Wikimedia Commons not working properly from IE 8

  - by Johannes Rössel

  It happens fairly often that a page on Wikimedia Commons doesn't load in IE. This happens to me on both machines I use, each one Windows 7 with IE 8. The page just loads endlessly (or connects—can't really tell) and timeouts after a while. Repeated attempts (trying to load the same page in 5 to 10 tabs) sometimes work, but sometimes it takes a lot more tries. As far as I can tell, no other program is affected—Firefox or PowerShell have no trouble loading the page. Also, when I use Fiddler it seems to load fine on the first try as well. Anyone has an idea what might be going on? I didn't change any settings that I am aware of (and most likely didn't do so in the same way on both machines). Preemptive note: I don't need advice in the form of »Use another browser instead.«.

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• Difference between *:80 and _default_:80 in Apache2

  - by Johannes Ernst

  I'm trying to understand the difference between the following two terms: *:80 _default_:80 in the Apache configuration file. The documentation here is unclear to me, and the only mailing list conversation that I could find here does not shed any (comprehensible, to me) light on the matter either. I have a bunch of name-based virtual hosts declared like this: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName example.com ... and I'd like to have an entry that fires when none of those match, i.e. when a request comes in without a virtual host name, or with a virtual host name that has not been declared. Should I use *:80 or default:80?

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• Is there a quick way of undoing a folder change in Far Manager?

  - by Johannes Rössel

  I love Far Manager. However, it has a feature to quickly go to the root directory of a drive with Ctrl+\. I do sometimes need and use this feature, but more frequently I use Ctrl+? to quickly insert the file name under the cursor into the command line. As it so happens, the ? key is located dangerously close to \ which is why I sometimes erroneously go the root directory (which then is doubly unfortunate since I originally wanted to work with a file in the directory I was in). Now I could probably just redefine Ctrl+\ to do nothing, although I still sometimes need that (can be replicated with a quick cd\, though). But Windows Explorer, in the wake of the WWW, provided us with a handy directory history and two separate ways of navigating backwards: backwards through the history and backwards through the hierarchy. Is there something quick and easy to get back to the folder I were in? This is less of an issue in C:\Users\Me (still nagging) but more so in deeper hierarchies.

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• Where does power consumption go in a computer?

  - by Johannes Rössel

  Today we had a weird discussion over lunch: What exactly causes power consumption in a computer, particularly in the CPU? Figures you usually see indicate that only a percentage (albeit a large one) of the power consumption ends up in heat. However, what exactly does happen with the rest? A CPU isn't (anymore) a device that mechanically moves parts, emits light or uses other ways of transforming energy. Conservation of energy dictates that all energy going in has to go out somewhere and for something like a CPU I seriously can't imagine that output being anything but heat. Us being computer science instead of electrical engineering students certainly didn't help in accurately answering the question.

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• How can I get Skype to not stay minimized in the task bar?

  - by Johannes Rössel

  Since two or three updates Skype insists taking up a taskbar slot for its main window (I set it to use the “Compact View”, but it applies to the default view as well). Since I don't need the main window most of the time since I have individual windows for the contacts I'm writing to this is ? a taskbar button wasted if no other Skype windows are open and ? still in the way when there are other windows open as it's a window I never need but still sometimes mis-click on when the thumbnails show up. Is there a way to send Skype to the Notification area again?

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• Is there a usable HTML web gallery template for Lightroom 2?

  - by Johannes Rössel

  The built-in HTML gallery unfortunately generates invalid HTML markup so its looks are likely more coincidence than proper design. That aside its JavaScript usage prevents using the middle mouse button to open an image in a new tab. A look at the few free HTML gallery templates out there shows me that there seems to be little interest in building an actual HTML gallery which doesn't use JavaScript. Most of them are using JS to build fancy animations or in-page popup boxes containing the image. This may be nice for some people but at least one person who looks at my images is on dial-up and quickly opening all images in individual tabs to let them load and then close the connection is very nice to have there. Anyone seen such a gallery template; i. e. simple, plain HTML without JS? My HTML/CSS skills aren't that good that I can develop such a thing on my own, unfortunately.

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• Linux server very slow after IP change and synflood attack

  - by Johannes Ruof

  our server experienced a synflood attack and we used the csf firewall synflood settings to block it. Our server administrators also changed the IP of the server to a new one and blackholed the old IP. The attack went over and I changed the synflood settings back. However the server is still very slow, with a very low CPU usage and very low traffic on the website. Does anybody have an idea what might be causing this? The server is a CENTOS 6.4 x86_64 Thanks in advance, J. Ruof

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• Underbraces in Word math zones and dealing with stretchy parentheses

  - by Johannes Rössel

  Parentheses in Word usually stretch with whatever they're containing. This might be un-noticeable for things like but for stuff like it's definitely nice, especially compared to the fact that naïve LaTeX users often produce uglinesses such as There is a problem, however, when using under-/overbraces in math and putting parentheses around the complete term it becomes ugly. For simple things like shown here this can be solved by not letting the parentheses stretch which looks almost right. However, for more complex things it's certainly not an option: Both variants look horrible. So is there a way of letting the parentheses only stretch around the actual term parts, not including the under-/overbraces? Those are frequently used for annotations of individual pieces, so simply not using them is a bad idea too. In LaTeX you can get away with guesswork and using explicit sizes for the parentheses instead of relying on \left and \right but I haven't found a comparable option in Word yet. Since the underbrace is (tree-wise) a sibling of the term in parentheses it probably simply has to stretch and there probably can't be an algorithm that determines when to stretch or when not, considering that \above and \below are used for annotations as well but also for other things where perentheses have to stretch. Also, since the parenthesized expression is opaque from the outside one has to put the underbrace inside. From a markup point of view, at least. One can probably draw the rest around but that falls apart when styles change and wouldn't be a good idea either.

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