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LVM vs RAID0 vs RAID "linear" - Combine 2 disks as one, data recovery?

- by leto

Hi there, given two 2TB USB external disks that have to be combined to one 4TB volume and formatted with one big Filesystem (XFS), I have a small question to ask. Does LVM provide better Data recovery, should one disk be unplugged/damaged by being able to recover the data of the still working disk or is everything lost? I would appreciate a solution where only the data of one disk is lost and I can recover the content of the other with the usual filesystem/lvm/raid tools. Is that possible with LVM or RAID "linear"? This is for storing unimportant files that can be retrieved from backup, but I want to save time :) Thank you in advance

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MS 2008 R2 Drops Remote Desktop Sessions in 10 seconds or less every time

- by mike42

I'm adding a new 64-bit server to our domain. Everything seems fine except when accessing the machine using remote desktop, after a few seconds the connection is lost. The error message is "This computer can't connect to the remote computer." "Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the owner of the remote computer or your network administrator." A similar result with Telnet on port 3389. I am able to connect but if I hit a key the connection to host lost. The event log shows the successful login. No errors. Any ideas?

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What are the reasons why outlook looses configurations?

- by jnroche

Can't seem to establish any logic why outlook suddenly looses its profile coniguration settings intermittently. I work for an IT Contact Centre but it hurts when someone asks me why they loose their outlook profiles suddenly, and some most of the time. I know there are lots of reasons but I'm not sure which ones are the best. Could it be that the PC in a hurge corporate organization will not be connected to the network properly so the profile gets corrupted for outlook? But they don't usually shut down the PC after office hours due to the fact that its a 24 hours operations. On top of that, when users are migrated to Windows 7 / Office 2010 and then logs on to this pc, then opens outlook, then logs off then goes back to a Windows XP PC and opens outlook 2003 the profile is again lost. Again why is this? Is there anyone out there whose facing same connection/outlook profile issues getting lost for no apparent reason?

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Nervous about the "real" world

- by Randy

I am currently majoring in Computer Science and minoring in mathematics (the minor is embedded in the major). The program has a strong C++ curriculum. We have done some UNIX and assembly language (not fun) and there is C and Java on the way in future classes that I must take. The program I am in did not use the STL, but rather a STL-ish design that was created from the ground up for the program. From what I have read on, the STL and what I have taken are very similar but what I used seemed more user friendly. Some of the programs that I had to write in C++ for assignments include: a password server that utilized hashing of the passwords for security purposes, a router simulator that used a hash table and maps, a maze solver that used depth first search, a tree traveler program that traversed a tree using levelorder, postorder, inorder, selection sort, insertion sort, bit sort, radix sort, merge sort, heap sort, quick sort, topological sort, stacks, queues, priority queues, and my least favorite, red-black trees. All of this was done in three semesters which was just enough time to code them up and turn them in. That being said, if I was told to use a stack to convert an equation to infix notation or something, I would be lost for a few hours. My main concern in writing this is when I graduate and land an interview, what are some of the questions posed to assess my skills? What are some of the most important areas of computer science that are prevalent in the field? I am currently trying to get some ideas of programs I can write in C++ that interest and challenge me to keep learning the language. A sodoku solver came to mind but am lost as to where to start. I apologize for the rant, but I'm just a wee bit nervous about the future. Any tips are appreciated.

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Can't write to NTFS formatted drives

- by mloman

I'm not sure what has happened, but I've all of a sudden lost write access to any of my NTFS external drives. I installed a few games and apps from the software center, and now I can't make new folders or copy and paste files to anything that is NTFS. Everything is now read only, and I've tried so many things to fix it, but it seems hopeless. Just to check if it wasn't the drives themselves, I made a little ntfs formatted truecrypt volume, and a fat formatted volume. And yes, it seems that Ubuntu is blocking me from writing anything to NTFS. What happened here? Whats a way I can simply get write access to my NTFS drives, so I can just backup all my stuff. I'll probably reinstall Ubuntu. Please help. UPDATE (and thanks everyone for their quick replies) The problem has been solved. Prior to noticing that I had lost NTFS write permission, I had installed GParted from the software center, and there was an extension called ntfsprogs that came with it. During my search for a solution to the problem, I uninstalled GParted (as that was one of the apps I installed just before the problem). But that did not solve the problem. I came across an app called 'NTFS Configuration Tool'. When I installed this, it said that the ntfsprogs extension needed to be removed (so I guess uninstalling GPARTED, didn't remove the ntfsprog extension). I launched the NTFS Configuration Tool and now I have write access to NTFS drives. Unfortunately, I didn't check if I had write permission prior to launching the NTFS Configuration Tool, so I'm not sure whether the NTFS Configuration Tool, or the un-installation of ntfsprog gave me back NTFS write permission. Hopefully if another newbee encounters this problem, they'll come across this page and know what to do.

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How to explain my 5 burnt-out years off to a new employer?

- by user17332

Five years ago, I lost my ability to concentrate long-term, and therefore ability to code with professional efficiency. I know why it happened, I understood how it happened, and on top of being able to re-create my calm and thus relaxed focus, I overcame the original (rooted in childhood) reason why my mind tilted on the overall situation back then; My understanding isn't rooted in words that a psychologist told me, I actually grokked them first-hand. I'm pretty much confident to be able to churn out productivity, possibly even more so than pre-burnout. I also never lost my interest in code nor did I stray from trying to get my abilities back; I kept my knowledge up to date (I could always relatively painlessly learn things coding-related, just not apply them) and thus can say that I'm a better developer than before, even if my average LOC-count over those years is abysmally low. On the other hand, now I have a biography that includes more time on the dole than in a job. What would convince you, as an employer, to give my application a chance? I don't believe I should just keep the whole topic out of it.

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Multiple computers on Ubuntu One

- by L R Bellmore Jr

I have added files from 4 computers to Ubuntu One. One computer failed. What happens to the files that I uploaded. Are they still on Ubuntu One? How come when I upload a file from computer A, computer B with the same Ubuntu One account does not sync and load that file into computer B - That has created this question.. what happens to files from computers from which I uploaded documents when those computers are no longer active or failed, or no longer have Ubuntu One on that computer from which the files were uploaded... Have I lost the files? The followup question is how come files from Computer A uploaded to Ubuntu One don't sync to Computer B. That is a related question. I need to shut down a computer, reformat the hard drive and install Linux on the entire harddrive instead of a dual boot with Windows XP as I am going to use Virtual Machines instead.. what happens to the files from the Windows Dual Boot that were uploaded to Ubuntu One? Are they removed from Ubuntu One and then have I lost those files if I don't backup to another service first.

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Working with Legacy code #5: The blackhole.

- by andrewstopford

Someone creates a class or series of classes for something, the classes are big in size with large complicated methods. The effort is a sea of technical debt for the entire team but in the thick of the daily chaos it is lost. With out the coder talking to the team, with no team code policy and no code reviews (and action points) it remains. Pretty soon the team forget about that code. A few weeks\months\years goes by, some of the team may have left, some may remain but business asks for the team to add to that code. The team is now looking at a black hole, no one knows how it works, what it does, what it is for, it is a smelly hell hole and the deadline is fast approaching. The team now tries to change the code, with no approach at unit tests or refactoring in fear of breaking the black hole the team do just that and the business have just lost money. If you are faced with a black hole you need to look back over my series, even a black hole in what might seem like a clean unit tested application. Don't be fooled into thinking that legacy code does not apply to your code base. The next stage is don't let blackholes in your codebase. Effective code reviews, team communication and good overal team coding policies will really help. Even if you are faced with a deadline do not let them appear, stop, take stock, what can be done and who can help. If you allow them through they will grow and grow and grow and the technical debt will hit you like a tidal wave soon enough,.

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Restoring GRUB2 on Software RAID 0 after Windows 7 wiped it using Ubuntu 10.10 LiveCD

- by unknownthreat

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. However, I need to install Windows 7 back, and I expect that it would alter GRUB and it did. Right now, my partition on my Software RAID 0 looks like this: nvidia_acajefec1 is Ubuntu 10.10 and nvidia_acajefec3 is Windows 7. I've been following some guides around and I am always stuck at GRUB not able to detect the usual RAID content. I've tried running: sudo grub > root (hd0,0) GRUB complains it couldn't find my hard disk. So I tried: find (hd0,0) And it complains that it couldn't find anything. So I tried: find /boot/grub/stage1 It said "file not found". Here's the text from the console: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found Fortunately, I got one person suggesting that what I've been trying to do is for GRUB Legacy, not GRUB2. So I went to the suggested website, ** (http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide) **try to look around, and try: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda This is just the step 2 of the instruction in the http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide and I cannot proceed because it cannot seek /dev/sda. However, ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmraid -r /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 So what now? Do you have an idea for how to make fdisk see my RAID array on live cd (Ubuntu 10.10)? Honestly, I am lost, very lost in trying to restore GRUB2 on this software RAID 0 system right now.

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Important additions to the Silverlight MaskedTextBox

RadMaskedTextBox is one of the major controls in the Telerik Silverlight suite. It enables you to filter the user input and makes the work with data much more easier for the end-user. That is why in the past quarter (Q1) we put a great effort and get all the scenarios and users reports that we had so far and made this control as stable as possible. Now post Q1 we added some small, but important new features to the control. Here they are: Option to get the changed value when the focus of the control is lost. Before this change each user stroke causes the ValueChanged and ValueChanging events to be raised. Now you have to option to get these events on lost focus. This also gives you the option to enable the Regular expression validation of the new value on ValueChanging event. So if you want a complex ...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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Restoring GRUB2 on Software RAID 0 after Windows 7 wiped it using LiveCD

- by unknownthreat

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. However, I need to install Windows 7 back, and I expect that it would alter GRUB and it did. Right now, my partition on my Software RAID 0 looks like this: nvidia_acajefec1 is Ubuntu 10.10 and nvidia_acajefec3 is Windows 7. I've been following some guides around and I am always stuck at GRUB not able to detect the usual RAID content. I've tried running: sudo grub > root (hd0,0) GRUB complains it couldn't find my hard disk. So I tried: find (hd0,0) And it complains that it couldn't find anything. So I tried: find /boot/grub/stage1 It said "file not found". Here's the text from the console: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found Fortunately, I got one person suggesting that what I've been trying to do is for GRUB Legacy, not GRUB2. So I went to the suggested website, ** (http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide) **try to look around, and try: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda This is just the step 2 of the instruction in the http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide and I cannot proceed because it cannot seek /dev/sda. However, ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmraid -r /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 So what now? Do you have an idea for how to make fdisk see my RAID array on live cd (Ubuntu 10.10)? Honestly, I am lost, very lost in trying to restore GRUB2 on this software RAID 0 system right now.

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Restoring GRUB2 on Software RAID 0 using LiveCD after Windows 7 wiped it

- by unknownthreat

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. However, I need to install Windows 7 back, and I expect that it would alter GRUB and it did. Right now, my partition on my Software RAID 0 looks like this: nvidia_acajefec1 is Ubuntu 10.10 and nvidia_acajefec3 is Windows 7. I've been following some guides around and I am always stuck at GRUB not able to detect the usual RAID content. I've tried running: sudo grub > root (hd0,0) GRUB complains it couldn't find my hard disk. So I tried: find (hd0,0) And it complains that it couldn't find anything. So I tried: find /boot/grub/stage1 It said "file not found". Here's the text from the console: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found Fortunately, I got one person suggesting that what I've been trying to do is for GRUB Legacy, not GRUB2. So I went to the suggested website, ** (http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide) **try to look around, and try: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda This is just the step 2 of the instruction in the http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide and I cannot proceed because it cannot seek /dev/sda. However, ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmraid -r /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 So what now? Do you have an idea for how to make fdisk see my RAID array on live cd (Ubuntu 10.10)? Honestly, I am lost, very lost in trying to restore GRUB2 on this software RAID 0 system right now.

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Scaling Sound Effects and Physics with Framerate

- by Thomas Bradsworth

(I'm using XNA and C#) Currently, my game (a shooter) runs flawlessly with 60 FPS (which I developed around). However, if the framerate is changed, there are two major problems: Gunshot sound effects are slower Jumping gets messed up Here's how I play gunshot sounds: update(gametime) { if(leftMouseButton.down) { enqueueBulletForSend(); playGunShot(); } } Now, obviously, the frequency of playGunShot depends on the framerate. I can easily fix the issue if the FPS is higher than 60 FPS by capping the shooting rate of the gun, but what if the FPS is less than 60? At first I thought to just loop and play more gunshots per frame, but I found that this can cause audio clipping or make the bullets fire in "clumps." Now for the second issue: Here's how jumping works in my game: if(jumpKey.Down && canJump) { velocity.Y += 0.224f; } // ... (other code) ... if(!onGround) velocity.Y += GRAVITY_ACCELERATION * elapsedSeconds; position += velocity; The issue here is that at < 60 FPS, the "intermediate" velocity is lost and therefore the character jumps lower. At 60 FPS, the game adds more "intermediate" velocities, and therefore the character jumps higher. For example, at 60 FPS, the following occurs: Velocity increased to 0.224 Not on ground, so velocity decreased by X Position increased by (0.224 - X) <-- this is the "intermediate" velocity At 30 FPS, the following occurs: Velocity increased to 0.224 Not on ground, so velocity decreased by 2X Position increased by (0.224 - 2X) <-- the "intermediate" velocity was lost All help is appreciated!

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Estimate angle to launch missile, maths question

- by Jonathan

I've been working on this for an hour or two now and my maths really isn't my strong suit which is definitely not a good thing for a game programmer but that shouldn't stop me enjoying a hobby surely? After a few failed attempts I was hoping someone else out there could help so here's the situation. I'm trying to implement a bit of faked intelligence when the A.I fires it's missiles at a target in a 2D game world. By predicting the likely position the target will be in given it's current velocity and the time it will take the missile to reach it's target. I created an image to demonstrate my thinking: http://i.imgur.com/SFmU3.png which also contains the logic I use for accelerating the missile after launch. The ship that fires the missile can fire within a total of 40 degree angle, 20 either side of itself, but this could likely become variable. My current attempt was to break the space between the two lines into segments which match the targets width. Then calculate the time it would take the missile to get to that location using the formula. So for each iteration of this we total up the values and that tells us the distance travelled, ad it would then just need compared to distance to the segment. startVelocity * ((startVelocity * acceleration)^(currentframe-1) So for example. If we start at a velocity of 1f/frame with an acceleration of 0.1f the formula, at frame 4, would be 1 * (1.1^3) = 1.331 But I quickly realized I was getting lost when trying to put this into practice. Does this seem like a correct starting point or am I going completely the wrong way about it? Any pointers would help me greatly. Maths really isn't my strong suit so I get easily lost in these matters and don't even really know a good phrase to search for with this. So I guess in summary my question is more about the correct way to approach this problem and any additional code samples on top of that would be great but I'm not averse to working out the complete code from helpful pointers.

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Implementing a switch statement based on user input

- by Dave Voyles

I'm trying to delay the time it takes for the main menu screen to pop up after a user has won / lost a match. As it stands, the game immediately displays a message stating "you won / lost" and waits for 6 seconds before loading the menu screen. I would also like players to have the ability to press a key to advance to the menu screen immediately but thus far my switch statement doesn't seem to do the trick. I've included the switch statement, along with my (theoretical) inputs. What could I be doing wrong here? if (gamestate == GameStates.End) switch (input.IsMenuDown(ControllingPlayer)) { case true: ScreenManager.AddScreen(new MainMenuScreen(), null); // Draws the MainMenuScreen break; case false: if (screenLoadDelay > 0) { screenLoadDelay -= gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds; } ScreenManager.AddScreen(new MainMenuScreen(), null); // Draws the MainMenuScreen break; } /// <summary> /// Checks for a "menu down" input action. /// The controllingPlayer parameter specifies which player to read /// input for. If this is null, it will accept input from any player. /// </summary> public bool IsMenuDown(PlayerIndex? controllingPlayer) { PlayerIndex playerIndex; return IsNewKeyPress(Keys.Down, controllingPlayer, out playerIndex) || IsNewButtonPress(Buttons.DPadDown, controllingPlayer, out playerIndex) || IsNewButtonPress(Buttons.LeftThumbstickDown, controllingPlayer, out playerIndex); }

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USB flash module giving errors

- by vshenoy

Hi, I have a SATA USB flash module which was earlier running a 2.4 linux kernel (2.4.36.6) and on which now I am trying to install ubuntu server 10.04.1 LTS. I have two such USB flash modules and on one of them the installation process itself giving these errors: sd 4:0:0:0 [sda] Device not ready sd 4:0:0:0 [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE sd 4:0:0:0 [sda] Sense Key : Not Ready [current] sd 4:0:0:0 [sda] Add. Sense: Medium not present sd 4:0:0:0 [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 05 48 02 00 00 04 00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 46114 usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 172033 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 172034 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 on the other the installation is successful, but after a day or two of running the machine hangs because of kernel spewing these messages: Remounting filesystem read-only EXT2-fs error (device sda1): read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block [bitmap - block_group = 105, block_bitmap = 860161] EXT2-fs error (device sda1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=13083, block=24683 ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 83966 and the machine needs to be hard rebooted. On both the systems SCSI emulation with usb_storage driver is being used to detect the module. Here is the output of /proc/scsi/scsi on 2.4: # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: TS Model: UFM Rev: 1100 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 and on 2.6: # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi6 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: TS Model: UFM Rev: 1100 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 i.e. only 'ANSI SCSI revision:' is shown as different, although I am not sure if this can cause any problem. Really appreciate if someone can point as to how to debug this issue or any mailing list where I can further ask questions about this.

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ISA Proxy server

- by user59931

Have a proxy at work that runs Microsoft ISA. i used to be able to connect using 11.10 with firefox no problem at all. i could either put the settings in firefox or the settings in ubuntu network proxy settings. this would give me a connection no problem ( slow due to the work network being really lame) since i upgraded with 12.10 firefox just crashes if i have any proxy settings (manual added the proxy settings). if i connect to a diffrent network without the proxy settings it works fine and doesn't crash i tried chrome to see if that would work... simular problem. chrome doesn't crash but is so slow it just times out all the time and can take 10min for a page to load.... not really sure where to go with this? i have tried a clean install of 12.04 on 2 diffrent computers and also both tried just upgrading from 11.10. Only answer i can see at the moment is role back to 11.10 :( i have tried all sorts like turning of IPv6 to see if that would make any diffrence but no joy... really am lost now. whats weird is the repositys are also really really slow through 12.04. 50 megs took an hour to download (ISA server has Ubuntu rep servers enables without authenication). really am lost

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All files gone after running fsck. How can I recover my files?

- by cinlung

I am a newbie in Linux. So this is my story I installed Ubuntu server 10.04lts. It worked great for many months, until today i decided to run fsck on the system partition and although it warned me, I kept pressing yes and now it will only boot into grub prompt. So i read some article and tried grub reinstall. But before performing grub reinstall, i decided to run fsck again from Ubuntu 10.04 lts for desktop live CD. The fsck painfully passes, now my drive is recognized as ext4 system and I am able to mount it again. However, all i can see is just boot directory and lost&found. I tried to perform grub reinstalling by doing grup-install stuff, now my grub is still not loading right, my files are missing, and the weird thing is that the amount I found used by boot and lost n found is only 5gb and the amount used in he hdd is 8 gb. So my files must be somewhere in the hdd. Is there any sinple way maybe a windows tool or something yo recover my files? I only need to retrieve my database backup and everything else can go. I am freaking out here. Please help.

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Good books or tutorials on building projects without an IDE?

- by CodexArcanum

While I'm certainly under no illusions that building software without an IDE is possible, I don't actually know much about doing it well. I've been using graphical tools like Visual Studio or Code::Blocks so long that I'm pretty well lost without them. And that really stinks when I want to change environments or languages. I couldn't really do anything in D until someone made a Visual Studio plugin, and now that I'm trying to do more development on Mac, I can't use D again because the XCode plugins don't work. I'm sick of being lost when I see a .make file and having no idea what I'm supposed to do with a folder full of source files. People can't be compiling them one by one using the console and then linking them one by one. You'd spend more time typing file names than code. So what are the automation and productivity tools of the non-IDE user? How do you manage a project when you're writing all the code in emacs or vim or nano or whatever? I would love it if there was a book or a guide online that spells some of this out.

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Computer Says No: Mobile Apps Connectivity Messages

- by ultan o'broin

Sharing some insight into connectivity messages for mobile applications. Based on some recent ethnography done my myself, and prompted by a real business case, I would recommend a message that: In plain language, briefly and directly tells the user what is wrong and why. Something like: Cannot connect because of a network problem. Affords the user a means to retry connecting (or attempts automatically). Mobile context of use means users use anticipate interruptibility and disruption of task, so they will try again as an effective course of action. Tells the user when connection is re-established, and off they go. Saves any work already done, implicitly. (Bonus points on the ADF critical task setting scale) The following images showing my experience reading ADF-EMG Google Groups notification my (Android ICS) Samsung Galaxy S2 during a loss of WiFi give you a good idea of a suitable kind of messaging user experience for mobile apps in this kind of scenario. Inline connection lost message with Retry button Connection re-established toaster message The UX possible is dependent on device and platform features, sure, so remember to integrate with the device capability (see point 10 of this great article on mobile design by Brent White and Lynn Hnilo-Rampoldi) but taking these considerations into account is far superior to a context-free dumbed down common error message repurposed from the desktop mentality about the connection to the server being lost, so just "Click OK" or "Contact your sysadmin.".

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Reliance on Outlook (been a looong time, I know)

- by AndyScott

Do you feel that your development group too reliant on Outlook? Have you reached a point that you have to search your email for pertinent information when asked? What are you using? I realized things had gotten out of hand a couple weeks ago over a weekend. I was at my in-laws house (in the country, no PC/laptop, no internet connection; and I get an email on my phone that I needed to reply to, but I couldn't send without deleting items from my inbox/sent items/etc. Now mind you, I have rules set up to move stuff into folders, and files more than a month old are automatically moved to the PST; but generally don't manually move items to a PST until I have had a chance to 'work' the item. Please don't bother mocking my process, it's just the way I work. That being said, it was a frustrating process of 'I need all this information, what can I afford to lose'. I work on an International project (think lots of customers), and conversations in 9 or 10 different directions about 10-20 different things are not abnormal for a given day. I have found myself looking data up in Outlook because that's where it is. I think that I have reached the point now, where I don't feel that Outlook is up to the task of organizing the data that it contains. When you have that many emails (200 or so a day), information seems to get lost at times, and I find that Outlook's search capabilities are lacking. Additionally, I find that any sort of organizational 'system' of sorting emails that can cover multiple topics is a lost cause. But at the same time, the old process of taking the information that I got from emails and moving it into another 'notes' type of program has proved to be too time consuming. Anyone out there have some better type of system? (Comments about the capacity of my brain, and it's ability to recall information not needed.)

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How to reset a List c# and XNA [on hold]

- by P3erfect

I need to do a "retry" option when the player finishes the game.For doing this I thought to reset the lists of Monsters and other objects that moved at the first playing or which have been "killed".for example I have a list like that: //the enemy1 class is already done // in Game1 I declare it List<enemy1> enem1 = new List<enemy1>(); //Initialize method List<enemy1> enem1 = new List<enemy1>(); //LoadContent foreach (enemy1 enemy in enem1) { enemy.Load(Content); } enem1.Add(new enemy1(Content.Load<Texture2D>("enemy"), new Vector2(5900, 12600))); //Update foreach (enemy1 enemy in enem1) { enemy.Update(gameTime); } //after being shoted the enemies disappear and i remove them //if the monsters are shoted the bool "visible" goes from false to true for (int i = enem1.Count - 1; i >= 0; --i) { if (enem1[i].visible == true) enem1.RemoveAt(i); } //Draw foreach (enemy1 enemy in enem1) { if(enemy.visble==false) { enemy.Draw(spriteBatch, gameTime); } } //So my problem is to restart the game. I did this in Update method if(lost==false) { //update all the things... } if(lost==true)//this is if I die { //here I have to put the code that restore the list //I tried: foreach (enemy1 enemy in enem1) { enemy.visible=false; } player.life=3;//initializing the player,points,time player.position=initialPosition; points=0; time=0; }//the player works.. } } they should be drawn again but if I removed them they won't be drawn anymore.If I don't remove them ,instead, the enemies are in different places (because they follow me). Any suggestions to restore or reinitialize the list??

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Help analyzing traceroute

- by Abdulla

Hello, my name is Abdulla and I'm from Kuwait. Sorry for my question as I know its not technically challenging. I'm facing some problems with my internet connection. My company has a DSL 2mb connection. My main problem is latency, in the morning its good but after that its gets really bad. My Internet provider says there's nothing wrong and that everything is working perfectly. I tried to explain to them the latency issue but they say that as long as I'm getting the download speed there isn't anything I can do about it. I only want to know if this is true and that the company can't do anything before I change my internet provider, as I feel that the guys at the contact center might getting back to me without asking tech support. Below are 2 traces I made, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon: This was taken around 17:00 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=387ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=388ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 375ms, Maximum = 388ms, Average = 381ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=376ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=382ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=378ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=374ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=353ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=346ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=335ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=344ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=328ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=332ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=325ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=338ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=341ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 26, Received = 26, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 325ms, Maximum = 382ms, Average = 348ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>travert google.com 'travert' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 168.187.0.226 4 7 ms 8 ms 9 ms 168.187.0.125 5 180 ms 187 ms 188 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 209 ms 222 ms 204 ms 195.219.167.57 7 541 ms 536 ms 540 ms 195.219.167.42 8 553 ms 552 ms 538 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 547 ms 543 ms 542 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 540 ms 523 ms 531 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 755 ms 761 ms 695 ms ae-45-45.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.101] 12 271 ms 263 ms 400 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 701 ms 730 ms 742 ms 195.50.118.210 14 659 ms 641 ms 660 ms 209.85.255.76 15 280 ms 283 ms 292 ms 209.85.251.190 16 308 ms 293 ms 296 ms 72.14.232.239 17 679 ms 700 ms 721 ms 64.233.174.18 18 268 ms 281 ms 269 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> This was taken at 10:00am Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 110ms, Maximum = 120ms, Average = 113ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 32, Received = 32, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 109ms, Maximum = 135ms, Average = 112ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 168.187.0.226 4 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 168.187.0.125 5 20 ms 20 ms 18 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 171 ms 205 ms 215 ms 195.219.167.57 7 191 ms 215 ms 226 ms 195.219.167.42 8 * 103 ms 94 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 94 ms 95 ms 97 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 101 ms 101 ms 101 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.113] 12 102 ms 102 ms 101 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 103 ms 102 ms 103 ms 195.50.118.210 14 137 ms 103 ms 100 ms 209.85.255.76 15 130 ms 124 ms 124 ms 209.85.251.190 16 114 ms 116 ms 116 ms 72.14.232.239 17 135 ms 113 ms 126 ms 64.233.174.18 18 126 ms 125 ms 127 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

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Please bear with me, can someone analyze this trace route please

- by Abdulla

Hello, my name is Abdulla and I'm from Kuwait. Sorry for my question as I know its not technically challenging. I'm facing some problems with my internet connection while gaming, I have DSL 2mb connection. My main problem is latency, in the morning its good but after that its gets really bad. My internet provider says there's nothing wrong and that everything is working perfectly. I tried to explain to them the latency issue but they say that as long as I'm getting the download speed there isn't anything I can do about it. I only want to know if this is true and that the company can't do anything before I change my internet provider, as I feel that the guys at the contact center might getting back to me without asking tech support. Below are 2 traces I made, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon: This was taken around 17:00 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=387ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=388ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 375ms, Maximum = 388ms, Average = 381ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=376ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=382ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=378ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=374ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=353ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=346ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=335ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=344ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=328ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=332ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=325ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=338ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=341ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 26, Received = 26, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 325ms, Maximum = 382ms, Average = 348ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>travert google.com 'travert' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 168.187.0.226 4 7 ms 8 ms 9 ms 168.187.0.125 5 180 ms 187 ms 188 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 209 ms 222 ms 204 ms 195.219.167.57 7 541 ms 536 ms 540 ms 195.219.167.42 8 553 ms 552 ms 538 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 547 ms 543 ms 542 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 540 ms 523 ms 531 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 755 ms 761 ms 695 ms ae-45-45.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.101] 12 271 ms 263 ms 400 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 701 ms 730 ms 742 ms 195.50.118.210 14 659 ms 641 ms 660 ms 209.85.255.76 15 280 ms 283 ms 292 ms 209.85.251.190 16 308 ms 293 ms 296 ms 72.14.232.239 17 679 ms 700 ms 721 ms 64.233.174.18 18 268 ms 281 ms 269 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> This was taken at 10:00am Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 110ms, Maximum = 120ms, Average = 113ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 32, Received = 32, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 109ms, Maximum = 135ms, Average = 112ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 168.187.0.226 4 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 168.187.0.125 5 20 ms 20 ms 18 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 171 ms 205 ms 215 ms 195.219.167.57 7 191 ms 215 ms 226 ms 195.219.167.42 8 * 103 ms 94 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 94 ms 95 ms 97 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 101 ms 101 ms 101 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.113] 12 102 ms 102 ms 101 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 103 ms 102 ms 103 ms 195.50.118.210 14 137 ms 103 ms 100 ms 209.85.255.76 15 130 ms 124 ms 124 ms 209.85.251.190 16 114 ms 116 ms 116 ms 72.14.232.239 17 135 ms 113 ms 126 ms 64.233.174.18 18 126 ms 125 ms 127 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

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Reuse another ASP.NET session (set Session ID)

- by queen3

My problem is that when I open web application from Outlook in a separate IE window, the ASP.NET session is lost. This is (as described in several places) because in-memory cookie is lost. So it goes like this: User works with ASP.NET web application in Outlook, and this stores some info in ASP.NET session User clicks Print to open new IE window with print-ready data The new window has different ASP.NET session ID and can't access old data. I think, maybe, if I pass ASP.NET session ID to new IE window, I can somehow "attach" to that session? Tell ASP.NET that this is the one that I need to be current?

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