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  • MS in Computer Science after BE in electronics

    - by Abhinav
    I am doing my 3rd year Bachelors in Electronics and Electrical Communication but from the first year I have been interested in Computer Science. But at that time it was just my hobby. But in second year when I joined robotics my love for computer science rose. I with my team came in top three in 2 National Competition (Technical fests of different IITs) where we used Image Processing, Hardware interfacing etc. But then I realised that Computer Science is not just about coding. I took many lectures from online free schools like Udacity, Coursera in subjects related to Artificial Intelligence, Building a Search Engine, Design and Analysis of Algorithm, Programming a Robotic Car, Programming Languages, Machine Learning, Software Engineering as a Service, WebApps Engineering, Compilers, Applied Crypotography etc. I also did some courses in Core and Advanced Java in my second year from training institute. I will also be taking course in Statistics, Databases, Discrete Mathematics from 25th June. Now I realized how vast is the field of Computer Science and how efficient you become on deciding algorithms and classifying problems into different subfields which have been thoroughly researched so you don't always do brute force thing or naive programming. Now this field has become kind of passion for me. Adding to the fact I am also doing my 6 months internship in software field in Texas Instruments where I am working on Automation and Algorithms. I also have some 5-6 good college level projects in Softwares and Robotics. I also like Electronics but only some fields like Operating System(this subject was there in Electronics also), Micro Processor, Digital, Computer Architecture, DSPs etc. I really want to pursue MS in some field of Computer Science. I am giving GRE in October/November. Till now I have good CG of around 9.4/10 and my 1 year in college is still left. Do I have any chance that some good University in US will consider me for MS in field related to computer science or Robotics. Also Can you suggest somethings that I can do during this 1 year to increase my chances for MS or should I apply for EECS(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and then I can shift more towards Computer Science as my major option. My main aim is to do Phd after Ms in CS if I am able to do that somehow. I know that I have to put much extra effort to understand things in MS than CS undergraduates but I will do that with my full dedication, also when I communicate with my college CS students or during my internship period I didn't feel that I am missing very much stuff that they know and was very comfortable during my internship with software employees.

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  • Software Tuned to Humanity

    - by Phil Factor
    I learned a great deal from a cynical old programmer who once told me that the ideal length of time for a compiler to do its work was the same time it took to roll a cigarette. For development work, this is oh so true. After intently looking at the editing window for an hour or so, it was a relief to look up, stretch, focus the eyes on something else, and roll the possibly-metaphorical cigarette. This was software tuned to humanity. Likewise, a user’s perception of the “ideal” time that an application will take to move from frame to frame, to retrieve information, or to process their input has remained remarkably static for about thirty years, at around 200 ms. Anything else appears, and always has, to be either fast or slow. This could explain why commercial applications, unlike games, simulations and communications, aren’t noticeably faster now than they were when I started programming in the Seventies. Sure, they do a great deal more, but the SLAs that I negotiated in the 1980s for application performance are very similar to what they are nowadays. To prove to myself that this wasn’t just some rose-tinted misperception on my part, I cranked up a Z80-based Jonos CP/M machine (1985) in the roof-space. Within 20 seconds from cold, it had loaded Wordstar and I was ready to write. OK, I got it wrong: some things were faster 30 years ago. Sure, I’d now have had all sorts of animations, wizzy graphics, and other comforting features, but it seems a pity that we have used all that extra CPU and memory to increase the scope of what we develop, and the graphical prettiness, but not to speed the processes needed to complete a business procedure. Never mind the weight, the response time’s great! To achieve 200 ms response times on a Z80, or similar, performance considerations influenced everything one did as a developer. If it meant writing an entire application in assembly code, applying every smart algorithm, and shortcut imaginable to get the application to perform to spec, then so be it. As a result, I’m a dyed-in-the-wool performance freak and find it difficult to change my habits. Conversely, many developers now seem to feel quite differently. While all will acknowledge that performance is important, it’s no longer the virtue is once was, and other factors such as user-experience now take precedence. Am I wrong? If not, then perhaps we need a new school of development technique to rival Agile, dedicated once again to producing applications that smoke the rear wheels rather than pootle elegantly to the shops; that forgo skeuomorphism, cute animation, or architectural elegance in favor of the smell of hot rubber. I struggle to name an application I use that is truly notable for its blistering performance, and would dearly love one to do my everyday work – just as long as it doesn’t go faster than my brain.

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  • Which operating systems book should I go for?

    - by pecker
    Hi, I'm in a confusion. For our course (1 year ago) I used Stallings. I read it. It was fine. But I don't own any operating system's book. I want to buy a book on operating systems. I'm confused!! which one to pick? Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) ~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Author) Operating System Concepts ~ Abraham Silberschatz , Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (6th Edition) ~ William Stallings I've plans of getting into development of realworld operating systems : Linux, Unix & Windows Driver Development. I know that for each of these there are specific books available. But I feel one should have a basic book on the shelf. So, which one to go for?

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  • how to match a regulas expresion like (%i1) in python pexpect

    - by mike
    I want to use maxima from python using pexpect, whenever maxima starts it will print a bunch of stuff of this form: $ maxima Maxima 5.27.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp SBCL 1.0.57-1.fc17 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) i would like to start up pexpect like so: import pexpect cmd = 'maxima' child = pexpect.spawn(cmd) child.expect (' match all that stuff up to and including (%i1)') child.sendline ('integrate(sin(x),x)') chil.expect( match (%o1 ) ) print child.before how do i match the starting banner up to the prompt (%i1)? and so on, also maxima increments the (%i1)'s by one as the session goes along, so the next expect would be: child.expect ('match (%i2)') child.sendline ('integrate(sin(x),x)') chil.expect( match (%o2 ) ) print child.before how do i match the (incrementing) integers?

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  • Dynamic typed language example using ANTLR

    - by wvd
    Hey all, I'm looking for some ANTLR examples, I tried googling a bit but I found certain things which didn't fit my requirments. I found the Mantra project, but it's statically typed and is 'too' big for me at this moment, then I found 'pie' as interpreter, which is dynamically typed, which what I want, but it uses a syntax-directed interpreter. I'm looking for a pretty small language which is dynamically typed and uses AST's if possible. It doesn't need to be advanced, if it would have classes I would already be very happy. Thanks, William van Doorn

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  • Writing a search engine

    - by wvd
    Hello all, The title might be a bit misleading, but I couldn't figure out a better title. I'm writing a simple search engine which will search on several sites for the specific domain. To be concrete: I'm writing a search engine for hardstyle livesets/aftermovies/tracks. To do I will search on the sites who provide livesets, tracks, and such. The problem here is speed, I need to pass the search query to 5-7 sites, get the results and then use my own algorithm to display the results in a sorted order. I could just "multithread" it, but it's easier said then done so I have a few questions. What would be the best solution to this problem? Should I just multithread/process this application, so I'm going to get a bit of speed-up? Are there any other solutions or I am doing something really wrong? Thanks, William van Doorn

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  • Streaming audio (YouTube)

    - by wvd
    Hello all, I'm writing a CLI for a music-media-platform. One of the features is going to be that you can directly play YouTube videos from the CLI. I don't really have an idea to do it but this one sounded the most reasonable: I'm going to use of those sites where you can download music from YouTube, e.g. http://keepvid.com/ - then I directly stream & play this -- but I have one problem. Is there any Python library capable of doing this and if so, do you have any concrete examples? I've been looking but found nothing, even not with gstreamer. Thanks, William van Doorn

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  • ASP.NET: Unable to validate data.

    - by SoloBold
    What is the cause of this exception in ASP.NET? Obviously it is a viewstate exception, but I can't reproduce the error on the page that is throwing the exception (a simple two TextBox form with a button and navigation links). FWIW, I'm not running a web farm. Exception Error Message: Unable to validate data. Error Source: System.Web Error Target Site: Byte[] GetDecodedData(Byte[], Byte[], Int32, Int32, Int32 ByRef) Post Data VIEWSTATE: /wEPDwULLTE4NTUyODcyMTFkZF96FHxDUAHIY3NOAMRJYZ+CKsnB EVENTVALIDATION: /wEWBAK+8ZzHAgKOhZRcApDF79ECAoLch4YMeQ2ayv/Gi76znHooiRyBFrWtwyg= Exception Stack Trace at System.Web.UI.ViewStateException.ThrowError(Exception inner, String persistedState, String errorPageMessage, Boolean macValidationError) at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String inputString) at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.System.Web.UI.IStateFormatter.Deserialize(String serializedState) at System.Web.UI.Util.DeserializeWithAssert(IStateFormatter formatter, String serializedState) at System.Web.UI.HiddenFieldPageStatePersister.Load() at System.Web.UI.Page.LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium() at System.Web.UI.Page.LoadAllState() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestWithNoAssert(HttpContext context) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at ASP.default_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) ~ William Riley-Land

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  • ANTLR - Embedding Java code, evaluate before or after?

    - by wvd
    Hello all, I'm writing a simple scripting language on top of Java/JVM, where you can also embed Java code using the {} brackets. The problem is, how do I parse this in the grammar? I have two options: 1] Allow everything to be in it, such as: [a-z|a-Z|0-9|_|$], and go on 2] Get an extra java grammar and use that grammar to parse that small code (is it actually possible and efficient?) Since option 2] is basically a double-check since when evaluating java code it's also being checked. Now my last question is -- is way that can dynamically execute java code also with objects which have been created at runtime? Thanks, William van Doorn

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  • Video editing language

    - by wvd
    Hi folks, My next project will be all about language tools, parsing and such. Because of that reason I've decided to write a simple language which can be used for video editing. So instead of those desktop applications (Sony vegas, Adobe Premiere, ..) it's basically a language where you define the effects and all and it will generate a video for you. Since I've got no experience in this kind of business I need some help. The goal of the project is to create a simple language which is able to do some basic things (such as text fading in, etc). I am looking for articles/projects/blogs/whatever related with this which could help me writing this language. (Note that I don't need articles about language parsing since I'm pretty familar with that, just the video editing part). Thanks, William v. Doorn

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  • Is Sphinx better than LaTex in writing manuals/books?

    - by Masi
    Only a few people recommended to use Sphinx at the beginning of the year. Sphinx has developed rather fast recently. I noted today that Sage has made a change from direct editing with LaTex to Sphinx. This is evident in William Stein's answer on 2nd April about Sage's tutorial The tutorial is not a latex document anymore. It's an entirely different Sphinx document that can output pdf. It suggests me that Sphinx may be at a level such that it is suitable for me. Is Sphinx better than LaTex in writing manuals/books?

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  • mysql LAST_INSERT_ID() used with multiple records INSERT statement

    - by bogdan
    Hello, If i insert multiple records with a loop that executes a single record insert, the last insert id returned is, as expected, the last one... but if i do a multiple records insert statement: INSERT INTO people (name,age) VALUES('William',25),('Bart',15),('Mary',12); let's say the three above are the first records inserted in the table...after the insert statement i expected last insert id to return 3, but it returned 1...the first insert id for the statement in question... So can someone please confirm if this is the normal behavior of LAST_INSERT_ID() in the context of multiple records INSERT statements...so i can base my code on it thanks :)

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  • Why is writing a compiler in a functional language so efficient and easier?

    - by wvd
    Hello all, I've been thinking of this question very long, but really couldn't find the answer on Google as well a similar question on Stackoverflow. If there is a duplicate, I'm sorry for that. A lot of people seem to say that writing compilers and other language tools in functional languages such as OCaml and Haskell is much more efficient and easier then writing them in imperative languages. Is this true? And if so -- why is so efficient and easy to write them in functional languages instead of in an imperative language, like C? Also -- isn't a language tool in a functional language slower then in some low-level language like C? Thanks in advance, William v. Doorn

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  • Why is writing a compiler in a functional language easier?

    - by wvd
    Hello all, I've been thinking of this question very long, but really couldn't find the answer on Google as well a similar question on Stackoverflow. If there is a duplicate, I'm sorry for that. A lot of people seem to say that writing compilers and other language tools in functional languages such as OCaml and Haskell is much more efficient and easier then writing them in imperative languages. Is this true? And if so -- why is it so efficient and easy to write them in functional languages instead of in an imperative language, like C? Also -- isn't a language tool in a functional language slower then in some low-level language like C? Thanks in advance, William v. Doorn

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  • specify parent window in Windows Resource Script file(*.rc)

    - by welemon
    Hi, I'm looking for a method to specify parent window in *.rc file. In *.rc file, it contains the layout and controls of a dialog. Any new control added into it, will automatically become a child window of Dialog itself. But I want to add a custom draw window into dialog, and some other controls which has that "custom draw window" as parent window, not dialog itself. I know I can use ::CreateWindow(...) API to dynamic create a window in code, and specify the custom draw window as parent HWND. But we already has child controls layout in *.rc file, I just want to reuse them, without create HWND again. Thanks, William L.

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  • PHP SimpleXML, how to set attributes ?

    - by Jahmaica
    Hi, if you've got something like, <hello id="1" name="myName1"> <anotherTag title="Hello"> </anotherTag> </hello> <hello id="2" name="myName2"> <anotherTag title="Hi"> </anotherTag> </hello> How to change the attributes of, for example, hello id 2, to name="William" ? Or the title hi to hello ? Thanks a lot for your atention, H'

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  • How to remove the hint in the terminal?

    - by jiangchengwu
    As a normal user , when I run some command like ps\netstat, the terminal hint me: (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) I know could redirect STDERR to /dev/null can remove this hint. But I want to know is there any way to remove it , such as edit some configuration files ? [deploy@storage2 ~]$ ps -V (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) procps version 3.2.7 [deploy@storage2 ~]$ ps -V 2>/dev/null procps version 3.2.7 My OS info: [deploy@storage2 ~]$ uname -a Linux storage2 2.6.18-243.el5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 18:47:27 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [deploy@storage2 ~]$ lsb_release LSB Version: :core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch [deploy@storage2 ~]$ netstat -V (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) net-tools 1.60 netstat 1.42 (2001-04-15) Fred Baumgarten, Alan Cox, Bernd Eckenfels, Phil Blundell, Tuan Hoang and others +NEW_ADDRT +RTF_IRTT +RTF_REJECT +FW_MASQUERADE +I18N AF: (inet) +UNIX +INET +INET6 +IPX +AX25 +NETROM +X25 +ATALK +ECONET +ROSE HW: +ETHER +ARC +SLIP +PPP +TUNNEL +TR +AX25 +NETROM +X25 +FR +ROSE +ASH +SIT +FDDI +HIPPI +HDLC/LAPB There are more info from strace: [deploy@storage2 ~]$ strace ps -V execve("/bin/ps", ["ps", "-V"], [/* 27 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x929a000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=99752, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 99752, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fde000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \241\210\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=101404, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fdd000 mmap2(0x887000, 92104, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x887000 mmap2(0x89a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12) = 0x89a000 mmap2(0x89c000, 6088, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x89c000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0Pzt\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=16428, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x747000, 12408, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x747000 mmap2(0x749000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0x749000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\204p\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=208352, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x705000, 155760, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x705000 mmap2(0x72a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x24) = 0x72a000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\246q\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=45288, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x71a000, 201020, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fab000 mmap2(0xf7fb4000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x8) = 0xfffffffff7fb4000 mmap2(0xf7fb6000, 155964, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fb6000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \n\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=13420, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 12428, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fa7000 mmap2(0xf7fa9000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xfffffffff7fa9000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@(s\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=129716, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x72e000, 90596, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x72e000 mmap2(0x741000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13) = 0x741000 mmap2(0x743000, 4580, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x743000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340?]\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1611564, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fa6000 mmap2(0x5be000, 1328580, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x5be000 mmap2(0x6fd000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13f) = 0x6fd000 mmap2(0x700000, 9668, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x700000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fa5000 set_thread_area(0xffd61bb4) = 0 mprotect(0x6fd000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x741000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xf7fa9000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xf7fb4000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x72a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x749000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x89a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x5ba000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xf7fde000, 99752) = 0 set_tid_address(0xf7fa5708) = 20214 set_robust_list(0xf7fa5710, 0xc) = 0 futex(0xffd61f74, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x4007323d0, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x10000004007322e0, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=-4284481536, rlim_max=67108864*1024}) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="storage2", ...}) = 0 readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/bin/ps"..., 260) = 7 brk(0) = 0x929a000 brk(0x92bb000) = 0x92bb000 open("/bin/ps", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 _llseek(3, -12, [711660], SEEK_END) = 0 read(3, "\274U!\253\2\0\0\0\224\237\t\0", 12) = 12 mmap2(NULL, 634880, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0x13) = 0xfffffffff7f0a000 mmap2(NULL, 630784, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7e70000 close(3) = 0 futex(0x74a06c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 geteuid32() = 501 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1696, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7ff6000 read(3, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An ex"..., 4096) = 1696 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xf7ff6000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=99752, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 99752, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7fde000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\30\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=46680, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 41616, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7e65000 mmap2(0xf7e6e000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x8) = 0xfffffffff7e6e000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0xf7e6e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xf7fde000, 99752) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2166, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7ff6000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 2166 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xf7ff6000, 4096) = 0 mkdir("/tmp/pdk-deploy/", 0755) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) mkdir("/tmp/pdk-deploy/fcb734befe617ec3ae1edc38da810a5a", 0755) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) open("/tmp/pdk-deploy/fcb734befe617ec3ae1edc38da810a5a/libperl.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 close(3) = 0 open("/tmp/pdk-deploy/fcb734befe617ec3ae1edc38da810a5a/libperl.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300!\2\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=1264090, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1140104, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7d4e000 mmap2(0xf7e5a000, 45056, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x10b) = 0xfffffffff7e5a000 close(3) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {0x1000000000000001, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_STACK|SA_RESTART|SA_INTERRUPT|SA_NODEFER|SA_RESETHAND|SA_SIGINFO|0x3d61cb8, (nil)}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL ABRT BUS SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STOP TSTP TTIN TTOU XCPU WINCH IO PWR SYS RTMIN RT_1 RT_2 RT_4 RT_5 RT_8 RT_9 RT_11 RT_12 RT_13 RT_16 RT_17 RT_18 RT_22 RT_24 RT_25 RT_26 RT_27 RT_28 RT_29 RT_30 RT_31], SA_RESTART|SA_RESETHAND|0x22302d0}, 8) = 0 getuid32() = 501 geteuid32() = 501 getgid32() = 502 getegid32() = 502 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56454896, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7b4e000 mmap2(NULL, 241664, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0x13ec) = 0xfffffffff7b13000 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0x1466) = 0xfffffffff7b12000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7af1000 time(NULL) = 1348210009 readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/bin/ps"..., 4095) = 7 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 _llseek(0, 0, 0xffd618d0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd618a8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) _llseek(1, 0, 0xffd618d0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd618a8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) _llseek(2, 0, 0xffd618d0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd61978) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTART|SA_RESETHAND|0x22302d0}, 8) = 0 brk(0x92dc000) = 0x92dc000 getppid() = 20212 stat64("/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib/sitecustomize.pl", 0xffd61560) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/.khostd/.hostconf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd61828) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=334, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 read(3, "bindport=9001\ntrustip=221.122.57"..., 4096) = 334 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 pipe([3, 4]) = 0 pipe([5, 6]) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0) = 20215 close(6) = 0 close(4) = 0 read(5, "", 4) = 0 close(5) = 0 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd61868) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) _llseek(3, 0, 0xffd61890, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 read(3, (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) "tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9001"..., 4096) = 109 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x1, [], SA_STACK|0x129b3d8}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_RESTART|SA_RESETHAND|0x22302d0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x1, [], SA_STACK|0x129b3d8}, {SIG_DFL, [TRAP BUS FPE USR1 CHLD CONT TTOU VTALRM IO RTMIN], SA_RESTART|SA_RESETHAND|0x22302d0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {0x1, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_RESTART|SA_RESETHAND|0x22302d0}, 8) = 0 waitpid(20215, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0) = 20215 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [TRAP BUS FPE USR1 CHLD CONT TTOU VTALRM IO RTMIN], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 chdir("/usr/lib/.khostd") = 0 pipe([3, 4]) = 0 pipe([5, 6]) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0) = 20218 close(6) = 0 close(4) = 0 read(5, "", 4) = 0 close(5) = 0 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd61868) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) _llseek(3, 0, 0xffd61890, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) read(3, "", 4096) = 0 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- close(3) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x1, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_STACK|SA_RESTART|SA_INTERRUPT|SA_NODEFER|SA_RESETHAND|0x3d61850, (nil)}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x1, [], SA_STACK|0x129b3d8}, {SIG_DFL, [HUP INT], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {0x1, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, 8) = 0 waitpid(20218, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0) = 20218 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [HUP INT], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 chdir("/home/deploy") = 0 stat64("/etc/cron.hourly/hichina", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=711660, ...}) = 0 pipe([3, 4]) = 0 pipe([5, 6]) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0) = 20230 close(6) = 0 close(4) = 0 read(5, "", 4) = 0 close(5) = 0 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xffd61868) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) _llseek(3, 0, 0xffd61890, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) read(3, "procps version 3.2.7\n", 4096) = 21 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- close(3) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x1, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_STACK|SA_RESTART|SA_INTERRUPT|SA_NODEFER|SA_RESETHAND|0x3d61850, (nil)}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x1, [], SA_STACK|0x129b3d8}, {SIG_DFL, [HUP INT], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {0x1, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, 8) = 0 waitpid(20230, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0) = 20230 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [HUP INT], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL, ~[HUP INT ILL TRAP KILL SEGV ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD TSTP TTOU RT_1 RT_2 RT_3 RT_6 RT_9 RT_11 RT_14 RT_15 RT_16 RT_17 RT_20 RT_22], SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_NOCLDWAIT}, NULL, 8) = 0 write(1, "procps version 3.2.7\n", 21procps version 3.2.7 ) = 21 munmap(0xf7af1000, 135168) = 0 munmap(0xf7e70000, 630784) = 0 munmap(0xf7f0a000, 634880) = 0 munmap(0xf7d4e000, 1140104) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? [ Process PID=20214 runs in 32 bit mode. ] Thank you very much.

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  • Unix apt-get doesnt download from nfs locaiton

    - by pravesh
    I have switched to unix from last 3 months and trying to understand install process and in particular apt-get. I am able to successfully install and download the packages when I configure my repository on http location in /etc/apt/sources.list file. e.g. deb http://web.myspqce.com/u/eng/rose/debian-mirror-squeeze-amd64/mirror/ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free This command will download(/var/cache/apt/archive) and install the package when i use apt-get install When I change the source location to file instead of http(nfs mount point), the package is getting installed but NOT getting downloaded in /var/cache/apt/archive. deb file:/deb_repository/debian-mirror-squeeze-amd64/mirror/ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free Please let me know if there is any configuration or settings that i have to make to let apt-get to both download and install package when i use (nfs)file:/ instead of http:/ in sources.list. To achieve this, I can use apt-get --downlaod-only and then use apt-get install for both download and install in two separate calls, but I want to know why package is not getting downloaded with apt-get install but only getting installed when used with file:/ in sources.list

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  • links for 2010-04-28

    - by Bob Rhubart
    Guido Schmutz: Oracle BPM11g available! Oracle ACE Director Guido Schmutz shares his impressions after attending a hands-on workshop conducted by Masons of SOA member Clemens Utschig-Utschig. (tags: oracle otn oracleace bpm soa soasuite) Elena Zannoni : 2010 Collaboration Summit Impressions Elena Zannoni has collected her thoughts on #C10 and shares them in this great blog post. (tags: oracle otn linux architecture collaborate2010) Hajo Normann: BPMN 2.0 in Oracle BPM Suite: The future of BPM starts now "The BPM Studio sets itself apart from pure play BPMN 2.0 tools by being seamlessly integrated inside a holistic SOA / BPM toolset: BPMN models are placed in SCA-Composites in SOA Suite 11g. This allows to abstract away the complexities of SOA integration aspects from business process aspects. For UIs in BPMN tasks, you have the richness of ADF 11g based Frontends." -- Oracle ACE Director and Masons of SOA member Hajo Normann (tags: oracle otn oracleace bpm soa sca) Brain Dirking: AIIM Best Practice Awards to Two Oracle Customers Brian Dirking's great write-up of the AIIM Awards Banquet, at which the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Charles Town Police Department were among the winners of the 2010 Carl E. Nelson Best Practices Awards. (tags: oracle otn aiim bpm ecm enterprise2.0) Mark Wilcox: Upcoming Directory Services Live Webcast - Improve Time-to-Market and Reduce Cost with Oracle Directory Services Live Webcast: Improve Time-to-Market and Reduce Cost with Oracle Directory Services Event Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010 Event Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time / 1:00 Eastern Standard Time (tags: oracle otn webcast security identitymanagement) Celine Beck: Introducing AutoVue Document Print Service Celine Beck offers a detailed overview of Oracle AutoVue. (tags: oracle otn enatarch visualization printing) Vikas Jain: What's new in OWSM 11gR1 PS2 (11.1.1.3.0) ? Vikas Jain shares links to resources relevant to the recently releases patch set for Oracle Web Services Manager 11gR1. (tags: oracle otn soa webservices oswm) @theovanarem: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 Patch Set 2 Theo Van Arem shares links to several resources relevant to the release of the latest patch set for Oracle SOA Suite 11g. (tags: oracle otn soa soasuite middleware) @vambenepe: Analyzing the VMforce announcement "The new thing is that force.com now supports an additional runtime, in addition to Apex. That new runtime uses the Java language, with the constraint that it is used via the Spring framework. Which is familiar territory to many developers. That’s it." -- William Vambenepe (tags: oracle otn cloud paas)

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  • links for 2010-04-22

    - by Bob Rhubart
    Barry N. Perkins: Unique Business Value vs. Unique IT "Some solutions may look good today, solving a budget challenge by reducing cost, or solving a specific tactical challenge, but result in highly complex environments, that may be difficult to manage and maintain and limit the future potential of your business. Put differently, some solutions might push today's challenge into the future, resulting in a more complex and expensive solution." -- Barry N. Perkins, VP Oracle Modernization & Oracle Integrated Solutions (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture modernization) Paul Homchick: The Information Driven Value Chain - Part 2 Paul Homchick continues his series with a look "at the way investments have been made in enterprise software in an effort to create and manage value, and how systems are moving from a controlled-process approach design towards gathering and using dynamically using information." (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture) @vambenepe: The battle of the Cloud Frameworks: Application Servers redux? "The battle of the Cloud Frameworks has started," says William Vambenepe, "and it will look a lot like the battle of the Application Servers which played out over the last decade and a half." (tags: oracle otn cloud frameworks appserver) @ORACLENERD: COLLABORATE: Day 4 Wrap Up Oraclenerd feesses up: "The day started out with the realization that I pulled off the best (COLLABORATE - self annointed) prank ever. Twitter was...all atwitter about the fact that Mark Rittman was Oracle's Person of the Year. Of course it wasn't true. If you look at the picture, you'll realize that he's wearing exactly the same clothes in the magazine cover as he is in real life." (tags: collaborate2010 oracleace) Oracle's Hal Stern at Cloud Expo: "We've Moved from 'What' to 'How'" | Cloud Computing Journal "Hal also spoke a bit about building 'a sustainable IT model.' By this, he said he didn't mean the various Green IT and similar efforts that 'are all about data center efficiency. I think the operational model is just as important. Many enterprises are managing a tremendous amount of complexity, and it's hard to make this sustainable.'" -- Cloud News Desk (tags: oracle cloud cloudexpo halstern) @ORACLENERD: COLLABORATE: The Beach Party "Then tiki statues somehow were incorporated into various dances" -- Oracle ACE Chet "oraclenerd" Justice (tags: 0racle otn oracleace collaborate2010 oaug ioug lasvegas) David Andrews: Collaborate Day Two "Collaborate 2010 has focused on helping attendees understand what is already available and how to make more effective use of it. This does not sound exciting but it is extremely valuable. Most customers use only a small fraction of the capability of the products they already own. Helping them understand all the additional things they could be doing without buying anything more is very valuable." -- David Andrews (tags: oracle oaug collaborate2010 ioug)

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  • To Serve Man?

    - by Dave Convery
    Since the announcement of Windows 8 and its 'Metro' interface, the .NET community has wondered if the skills they've spent so long developing might be swept aside,in favour of HTML5 and JavaScript. Mercifully, that only seems to be true of SilverLight (as Simon Cooper points out), but it did leave me thinking how easy it is to impose a technology upon people without directly serving their needs. Case in point: QR codes. Once, probably, benign in purpose, they seem to have become a marketer's tool for determining when someone has engaged with an advert in the real world, with the same certainty as is possible online. Nobody really wants to use QR codes - it's far too much hassle. But advertisers want that data - they want to know that someone actually read their billboard / poster / cereal box, and so this flawed technology is suddenly everywhere, providing little to no value to the people who are actually meant to use it. What about 3D cinema? Profits from the film industry have been steadily increasing throughout the period that digital piracy and mass sharing has been possible, yet the industry cinema chains have forced 3D films upon a broadly uninterested audience, as a way of providing more purpose to going to a cinema, rather than watching it at home. Despite advances in digital projection, 3D cinema is scarcely more immersive to us than were William Castle's hoary old tricks of skeletons on wires and buzzing chairs were to our grandparents. iTunes - originally just a piece of software that catalogued and ripped music for you, but which is now multi-purpose bloatware; a massive, system-hogging behemoth. If it was being built for the people that used it, it would have been split into three or more separate pieces of software long ago. But as bloatware, it serves Apple primarily rather than us, stuffed with Music, Video, Various stores and phone / iPad management all bolted into one. Why? It's because, that way, you're more likely to bump into something you want to buy. You can't even buy a new laptop without finding that a significant chunk of your hard drive has been sold to 'select partners' - advertisers, suppliers of virus-busting software, and endless bloatware-flogging pop-ups that make using a new laptop without reformatting the hard drive like stepping back in time. The product you want is not the one you paid for. This is without even looking at services like Facebook and Klout, who provide a notional service with the intention of slurping up as much data about you as possible (in Klout's case, whether you create an account with them or not). What technologies do you find annoying or intrusive, and who benefits from keeping them around?

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  • Your interesting code tricks/ conventions? [closed]

    - by Paul
    What interesting conventions, rules, tricks do you use in your code? Preferably some that are not so popular so that the rest of us would find them as novelties. :) Here's some of mine... Input and output parameters This applies to C++ and other languages that have both references and pointers. This is the convention: input parameters are always passed by value or const reference; output parameters are always passed by pointer. This way I'm able to see at a glance, directly from the function call, what parameters might get modified by the function: Inspiration: Old C code int a = 6, b = 7, sum = 0; calculateSum(a, b, &sum); Ordering of headers My typical source file begins like this (see code below). The reason I put the matching header first is because, in case that header is not self-sufficient (I forgot to include some necessary library, or forgot to forward declare some type or function), a compiler error will occur. // Matching header #include "example.h" // Standard libraries #include <string> ... Setter functions Sometimes I find that I need to set multiple properties of an object all at once (like when I just constructed it and I need to initialize it). To reduce the amount of typing and, in some cases, improve readability, I decided to make my setters chainable: Inspiration: Builder pattern class Employee { public: Employee& name(const std::string& name); Employee& salary(double salary); private: std::string name_; double salary_; }; Employee bob; bob.name("William Smith").salary(500.00); Maybe in this particular case it could have been just as well done in the constructor. But for Real WorldTM applications, classes would have lots more fields that should be set to appropriate values and it becomes unmaintainable to do it in the constructor. So what about you? What personal tips and tricks would you like to share?

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  • How do I create a "here document" within a shell function?

    - by BenU
    I'm working my way through William Shotts Jr.'s great The Linux Command Line on my Mac OSX 10.7.5 system. 90% of the linux that Shotts covers is close enough to Darwin that I can figure out or GTEM to figure out what's going on. I've made it to chapter 27 on "Writing Shell Scripts" and am getting hung up creating "here files" within a function. I get an syntax error: unexpected end of file error when I include the following function: report_uptime () { cat <<- _EOF_ <H2>System Uptime</H2> <PRE>$(uptime)</PRE> _EOF_ return } The error goes away if I use the following function placeholder: report_uptime () { return } Also, elsewhere in the script, outside of a function I use the cat << _EOF_ format to create a "here file" with no trouble: cat << _EOF_ <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>$TITLE</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>$TITLE</H1> <P>$TIME_STAMP</P> $(report_uptime) $(report_disk_space) $(report_home_space) </BODY> </HTML> _EOF_ If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong I would be grateful!

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  • 100% CPU use when new usb device plugged in - services.exe / Windows Server 2003

    - by Will3265
    On my server I am trying to install a new usb drive but all that happens is that the system starts using huge amounts of processor cycles with services.exe. On closer inspection with process explorer there is a thread called umpnpmgr.dll using most of the services.exe processor time. I left it for a half hour and still nothing happened. Rebooted and tried again, same result. Tried a different usb drive, then a flash drive but still same issue. Tried updating driver but it said the update function was already in action. I have used process explorer to kill the thread now so the server can still perform its intended functions. Any device that was previously installed before this began happening will still work but any device new to the system will not. My question(s) is/are: Is there a way to manually install the device into the registry so Windows thinks it is a previously installed device? Or can this problem be repaired through anything other than a reinstall? To do a reinstall would mean backing up large amounts of data which is hard with a usb drive and insufficient space on all other network machines. Any help would be greatly appreciated. William

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  • The Oracle Retail Week Awards - most exciting awards yet?

    - by sarah.taylor(at)oracle.com
    Last night's annual Oracle Retail Week Awards saw the UK's top retailers come together to celebrate the very best of our industry over the last year.  The Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane in London was the setting for an exciting ceremony which this year marked several significant milestones in British - and global - retail.  Check out our videos about the event at our Oracle Retail YouTube channel, and see if you were snapped by our photographer on our Oracle Retail Facebook page. There were some extremely hot contests for many of this year's awards - and all very deserving winners.  The entries have demonstrated beyond doubt that retailers have striven to push their standards up yet again in all areas over the past year.  The judging panel includes some of the most prestigious names in the retail industry - to impress the panel enough to win an award is a substantial achievement.  This year the panel included the likes of Andy Clarke - Chief Executive of ASDA Group; Mark Newton Jones - CEO of Shop Direct Group; Richard Pennycook - the finance director at Morrisons; Rob Templeman - Chief Executive of Debenhams; and Stephen Sunnucks - the president of Gap Europe.  These are retail veterans  who have each helped to shape the British High Street over the last decade.  It was great to chat with many of them in the Oracle VIP area last night.  For me, last night's highlight was honouring both Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Terry Leahy for their contributions to the retail industry.  Both have set the standards in retailing over the last twenty years and taken their respective businesses from strength to strength, demonstrating that there is always a need for innovation even in larger businesses, and that a business has to adapt quickly to new technology in order to stay competitive.  Sir Terry Leahy's retirement this year marks the end of an era of global expansion for the Tesco group and a milestone in the progression of British retail.  Sir Terry has helped steer Tesco through nearly 20 years of change, with 14 years as Chief Executive.  During this time he led the drive for international expansion and an aggressive campaign to increase market share.  He has led the way for High Street retailers in adapting to the rise of internet retailing and nurtured a very successful home delivery service.  More recently he has pioneered the notion of cross-channel retailing with the introduction of Tesco apps for the iPhone and Android mobile phones allowing customers to scan barcodes of items to add to a shopping list which they can then either refer to in store or order for delivery.  John Lewis Partnership was a very deserving winner of The Oracle Retailer of the Year award for their overall dedication to excellent retailing practices.  The business was also named the American Express Marketing/Advertising Campaign of the Year award for their memorable 'Never Knowingly Undersold' advert series, which included a very successful viral video and radio campaign with Fyfe Dangerfield's cover of Billy Joel's 'She's Always a Woman' used for the adverts.  Store Design of the Year was another exciting category with Topshop taking the accolade for its flagship Oxford Street store in London, which combines boutique concession-style stalls with high fashion displays and exclusive collections from leading designers.  The store even has its own hairdressers and food hall, making it a truly all-inclusive fashion retail experience and a global landmark for any self-respecting international fashion shopper. Over the next few weeks we'll be exploring some of the winning entries in more detail here on the blog, so keep an eye out for some unique insights into how the winning retailers have made such remarkable achievements. 

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