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  • Friday Spotlight: A Webcast You Do Not Want To Miss!

    - by Chris Kawalek
    Happy Friday! Today's Spotlight is about what promises to be an information packed webcast next week. We're really excited about it and hope that you are, too! Oracle Managed Cloud Services uses Oracle VM to serve up thousands of Oracle applications to thousands of end users every day. To do this, they utilize nearly 20,000 instances of Oracle VM. It's an amazing story of high availability in an unrelenting customer environment, and it's all powered by Oracle. You can leverage this team's experience in your own deployments to gain valuable insight and best practices. If you'd like to understand how well Oracle VM can scale for your organization, you do not want to miss this webcast. It is coming up this Tuesday at 10AM Pacific Time. Click the banner below to register and we hope to see you there! Oracle VM: Design Considerations for Enterprise-Scale Deployment  Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT

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  • Ubuntu 13.10 AMD/ATI proprietary driver slow boot time, black screen after logging in and lengthy login/logout delays

    - by NahsiN
    Ubuntu 13.10 is causing me major headaches with my AMD/ATI HD 5770 GPU. Below is a list of problems I am currently encountering. 1) The boot time is extended by at least 25s after installing catalyst 13.4. Using open source radeon drivers, my boot time till the login screen is ~10s. With catalyst 13.4 installed, the boot time increases to ~35s. This was not the case in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04. I have done the driver installation manually (instructions from wiki.cchtml.com) and using software center and there is no difference. I have not tried the catalyst 13.8 beta driver. 2) After manual installation of catalyst 13.4, I get stuck at a black screen after logging in. I have to purge fglrx to resolve the problem. I tried sudo amdconfig --initial -f but it didn't help. 3) The delay between logging in and unity being displayed is ~10-15s for BOTH open source and proprietary drivers. During the delay, it's just a black screen. Whenever I logout, there is again a ~10-15s delay with the login screen appearing stuck before lightdm allows me to enter my password again. This is ridiculous! Yes, I could stick with open source radeon drivers but I would like to install Steam and play my Valve collection on the machine. Is anybody else encountering similar issues?

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  • Ubuntu 11.10 loads from live usb fine, but boots to black screen from harddrive. Why?

    - by Estel
    A few days ago I had a hard drive failure, which was running Windows XP (32-bit) just fine. The second hard drive in my computer held a few unimportant files, so I formatted it in the Ubuntu setup and installed 11.10 without a hitch. I had been using it for about a week, but decided to install Windows 7 (64-bit) in order to utilize Networking with my home server (running Windows Server 2000). My system is 64-bit based, and thus I had no problems installing other than a basic RAM error that required me to remove my RAM down to a single stick. I played with the settings in Windows 7 for around an hour before I shut down. After reinstalling the RAM, Windows 7 would not boot. In this, I then assumed that something about my system was rejecting Win7 and I reinstalled Ubuntu. However, now Ubuntu (11.10) boots into black screen, and I've already attempted activating the grub menu with the shift key, and following steps listed here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen but nothing seems to work. I've reinstalled twice now, with the same result each time. Now, the very odd part about this whole scenario is that the USB I installed from has no problems booting as a live USB. This puzzles me greatly, because the hard drive boots straight to black screen and the live USB loads normally. At this point, my only theory is that the boot sector of the hard disk was somehow corrupted with Win7, and that Ubuntu was unable to completely write through. I used Darik's Boot n Nuke to wipe the drive, but was met with an error, this also puzzles me because the hard disk has no promblems reading or writing. Any suggestions/comments are appreciated. If you have a theory, I will be more than happy to oblige. Additional information: Intel Core2 Duo e6400 2.13GHz nVidia GeForce 7-series (7900 GS) 4 GB DDR2 333MHz (2x 2GB) Dell XPS 410 BIOS Revision 2.5.3

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  • Permission issues causes Unity Segmentation fault

    - by Dj Gilcrease
    I upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 and I can boot to the unity-greeter and login just fine, but after login I just get a black screen with a cursor. I have tried following http://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver and the manual install of the downloaded AMD drivers. All have the same affect. Also I have read Black screen after login with cursor I get a black screen after logging in ubuntu 13.04 black screen after login Ubuntu 13.10 - Black screen after login session Ubuntu 13.04 - Black screen with unresponsive cursor Upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 Problem - Boots into Blank Black Screen All of which were no further help then the two support articles about ATI drivers So I switched back to the default drivers and went a little further into debugging, when I do ctrl+alt+F1 and login and try unity --debug > unity_start.log then ctrl+alt+F8 the screen stays black with a cursor and when I switch back ctrl+alt+F1 the contents of the log output are http://pastebin.com/rdQG4Hb0 However when I try sudo unity --debug > unity_start_root.log then ctrl+alt+F8, unity starts and the output of the log is http://pastebin.com/Yv4RD2j7 The fact that it starts as root tells be it is either a permissions issue of some required file or there is some setting that is specific to my user that is causing the SIGSEGV. So to narrow this down I activated the guest account and tried to login and got the same black screens with only a mouse cursor, so this tells me that it is not a configuration issue, but a permissions issue, so how do I narrow down which file has the wrong permissions? Also is there anything further that may help debug this issue? Ok after a few more hours of googling I found that if I add myself to the video group I can login and see the desktop, but there are lots of other permission related issues, so I am thinking something went wonky with PolicyKit during the upgrade, is there a way to reset PolicyKit settings for a user?

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  • Dell xps l502 optimus ... stuck at black screen after installing bumblebee

    - by Abdul Azzawi
    I am facing a problem after installing bumblebee when I try to start ubuntu normally the device get stuck on a black screen Can any one help me with the right configuration for the graphic card ... All i need is to run with full desktop effects currently even compizconfig effects arent working Also what should I have in the blacklist or is it correct the way bumblebee does it Running ubuntu Natty 11.04 32 bit Thanks

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  • How to remove the black bar at the top of my screen?

    - by Casper Li
    The display area is not fit to my monitor(1440x900) and there is a black bar at the top of my screen. The bottom of the display area can't be displayed. How can I deal with this problem? Moreover, I don't know how to install my display card's driver(MSI R4770 Cyclone). Do I need to install it? Here are some related pictures : My monitor My monitor Displays xrandr Thank you for your attention

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  • Why does terminal prompt text becomes black when connecting to Ubuntu with Nomachine NX client?

    - by David B
    I'm using Nomachine NX client for Windows to remotely connect to my Ubuntu. Every now and then I experience a strange phenomena: the text in the prompt of all open terminal windows becomes black, so it can't be viewed over the black background. Typed commands are also black, but the results are in normal colors. So I can run stuff, but can't see what I'm typing... After I close all open terminal windows and start a new terminal window, everything goes back to normal. This is rerally annoying and happens quite often. Any idea why?

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  • Actionscript 3: How to remove all black pixels from BitmapData ?

    - by Adnan Doric
    Hello, Let say I have a BitmapData with different pixels representing an object, and some black pixels around it that I want to remove. I would like to obtain a new BitmapData, with width and height of the object represented by non-black pixels. For example, let say I have a BitmapData 400x400px, but the object represented by non-black pixels occupies the rect: x=100, y=100, width=200, height=200. I want to get new BitmapData representing that rect, all black pixels should be removed. Any idea on how to do this please ?

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  • How can I request an image and return it as black and white in rails?

    - by NotDan
    I'd like to have an image and a combo box with 2 options: color, and black and white. When the combo box selection changes, I'd like to return the image as black and white and have this done dynamically on the server (so I don't have to store the black and white image on the server). I was thinking I could point the img tag at a url like "/images/blackandwhite/120" where 120 is the image id of the color picture, and have it dynamically turn the image to black and white and return the image data to the browser. Is this possible? How would I do this?

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  • How to make my robot move in a rectangular path along the black tape?

    - by Sahat
    I am working on a robot, it's part of the summer robotics workshop in our college. We are using C-STAMP micro controllers by A-WIT. I was able to make it move, turn left, turn right, move backward. I have even managed to make it go along the black tape using a contrast sensor. I send the robot at 30-45 degrees toward the black tape on the table and it aligns itself and starts to move along the black tape. It jerks a little, probably due to my programming logic below, it's running a while loop and constantly checking if statements, so it ends up trying to turn left and right every few milliseconds, which explains the jerking part. But it's okay, it works, not as smooth as I want it to work but it works! Problem is that I can't make my robot go into a rectangular path of the black tape. As soon as it reaches the corner it just keeps going straight instead of making a left/right turn. Here's my attempt. The following code is just part of the code. My 2 sensors are located right underneath the robot, next to the front wheel, almost at the floor level. It has "index" value ranging from 0 to 8. I believe it's 8 when you have a lot of light coming into the sensor , and 0 when it's nearly pitch black. So when the robot moves into the black-tape-zone, the index value drops, and based on that I have an if-statement telling my robot to either turn left or right. To avoid confusion I didn't post the entire source code, but only the logical part responsible for the movement of my robot along the black tape. while(1) { // don't worry about these. // 10 and 9 represent Sensor's PIN location on the motherboard V = ANALOGIN(10, 1, 0, 0, 0); V2 = ANALOGIN(9, 1, 0, 0, 0); // i got this "formula" from the example in my Manual. // V stands for voltage of the sensor. // it gives me the index value of the sensor. 0 = darkest, 8 = lightest. index = ((-(V - 5) / 5) * 8 + 0.5); index2 = ((-(V2 - 5) / 5) * 8 + 0.5); // i've tweaked the position of the sensors so index > 7 is just right number. // the robot will move anywhere on the table just fine with index > 7. // as soon as it drops to or below 7 (i.e. finds black tape), the robot will // either turn left or right and then go forward. // lp & rp represent left-wheel pin and right-wheel pin, 1 means run forever. // if i change it from 1 to 100, it will go forward for 100ms. if (index > 7 && index2 > 7) goForward(lp, rp, 1); if (index <= 7) { turnLeft(lp, rp, 1); goForward(lp, rp, 1); // this is the tricky part. i've added this code last minute // trying to make my robot turn, but i didn't work. if (index > 4) { turnLeft(lp, rp, 1); goForward(lp, rp, 1); } } else if (index2 <= 7) { turnRight(lp, rp, 1); goForward(lp, rp, 1); // this is also the last minute addition. it's same code as above // but it's for the 2nd sensor. if (index2 > 4) { turnRight(lp, rp, 1); goForward(lp, rp, 1); } } I've spent the entire day trying to figure it out. I've pretty much exhausted all avenues. Asking for the solution on stackoverflow is my very last option now. Thanks in advance! If you have any questions about the code, let me know, but comments should be self-explanatory.

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  • Why when i rotate the image black borders appear? PHP GD

    - by EAGhost
    This code generates two images using GD and rotates one of them. When I rotate the image black borders begin to appear. Anyone have an idea of how to resolve this? imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 300, 400, $black); imagefilledrectangle($im, 1, 1, 298, 398, $grey); imagefilledrectangle($im, 49, 69, 251, 271, $black); imagefilledrectangle($im, 50, 70, 250, 270, $white); imagefttext($im, 13, 0, 90, 30, $black, $font_file, "Wind Direcction"); $source=imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100); imagefilledrectangle($source, 0, 0, 100, 100, $white); $values = array( 20, 30, // Point 1 (x, y) 50, 0, 80, 30, 65, 30, 65, 100, 35, 100, 35, 30 // Point 7 (x, y) ); imagefilledpolygon($source, $values, 7, $black1); $asd=imagerotate($source, $rotate, 0); imagecolortransparent($asd, $black); imageantialias($asd, true); $insert_x = imagesx($asd); $insert_y = imagesy($asd); if($rotate==0 || $rotate==90 || $rotate==180 || $rotate==270){ imagecopymerge ( $im , $asd , 100 , 130 , 0 , 0 , $insert_x , $insert_y , 100 ); } if($rotate==45 || $rotate==135 || $rotate==225 || $rotate==315){ imagecopymerge ( $im , $asd , 85 , 110 , 0 , 0 , $insert_x , $insert_y , 100 ); } imageantialias($im, true); header('Content-Type: image/png'); imagepng($im); imagedestroy($im); ?

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  • When attempting to install ubuntu 12.04 from CD, I am stuck on black streen with "loading bootlogo..."

    - by Jessica K
    I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 to my desktop and burned to a CD using Infra Recorder and instructions on ubuntu website. Restarted PC to boot from CD receive black screen with "Loading bootlogo..." then nothing happens and I have to restart with windows. The CD seems to be correct. Folders include .disk, boot, casper, dists, install, isolinux, pics, pool, preseed, autorun file, md5sum text file, readme.diskdefines file, wubi app. System Information Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.120824-0336) System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA System Model: Satellite L305 BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz Memory: 3062MB RAM Page File: 1553MB used, 4772MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 7.00.6002.18107 32bit Unicode Drive: D: Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVRKD08L ATA Device Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 6.00.6002.18005 (English), 4/11/2009 00:39:17, 67072 bytes

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  • bxslider and sproutvideo on iPad: video is just a black box when returning to slide [on hold]

    - by hm.
    I use sproutvideo inside of bxslider. I teste it well on chrome and firefox. On the iPad I have the following issue: I have the video in the forst screen and it loads fine, the slider stops when the video is running and when i switch to another slide and come back the video is still running. On the iPad, the video starts also, but when I go to anoter slide and back, the video disappears and I only see a black box. Any ideas what can be wrong?

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  • Installing Ubuntu 64bit on Acer netbook causes black screen.

    - by big-marc
    Trying to install Ubuntu on an external usb 3 500 Gb hard-drive. I am using an Acer netbook. the specs are: amd c-60 1ghz with 4 Gb ram. I have a 64 bits windows 7 no2 installed. I downloaded the ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-amd64 ISO and used the universal usb installer to install the Ubuntu When I reboot on the external hard drive, I have the language selection, then the menu...I choose to install...and I get a black flickering screen. and nothing more. Any suggestion?

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  • How to get past black screen with mouse icon while installing on Gateway MX6920?

    - by tom kruse
    I have an old Gateway MX6920 laptop that got a virus on its hard drive so I put in a new one from another laptop. When i turn it on it tries to load Windows but fails so I'm going to try to put Ubuntu on it (because I heard it's a good OS). I downloaded the 32-bit desktop version of Ubuntu and burned it to a CD. I put the CD in the computer, went to the boot menu, and selected CD-ROM. The computer tries to boot but stops at a black screen with a mouse icon sitting in the middle of the display. I have no idea what's going on, so please help.

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  • Unable to enter ubuntu after reboot PC; showing black screen with lots of weire words

    - by Phoenix Wei
    I use Wubi to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 system. My PC is Acer Aspire S5-391 with a 64-bit operating system. After I finish installing Wubi on Windows I reboot my PC as told by the instruction. Then I got a black screen with the following words shown: [[BGave up waiting for root device. Common Problems: -Boot args (cat/proc/cmdline) -Check rootdelay=(did the system wait long enough?) -check root=(did the system wait for the right device?) -Missing modules(cat/proc/modules; ls/dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/928E20128E1FEE0B does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.18.5(ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu4)built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (intramfs) _ I don't know how to deal with this but force my PC to shut down. I can still successfully enter Windows. But everytime I try to enter unbuntu, it shows the above words.......

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  • Feed the Beast Ultimate black screen after login 13.04?

    - by Drew S
    I get a black screen after login feed the beast ultimate splash animation. I have tried the manual LWJGL upgrading, using different versions of java (6 and 7 openJDK). no matter what I get this 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] Exception in thread "Minecraft main thread" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(Minecraft.java:356) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at asq.a(SourceFile:56) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:746) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$Screen.<init>(XRandR.java:234) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$Screen.<init>(XRandR.java:196) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.populate(XRandR.java:87) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.access$100(XRandR.java:52) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$1.run(XRandR.java:110) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.getConfiguration(XRandR.java:108) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.init(LinuxDisplay.java:618) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:135) 2013-06-28 15:23:17 [INFO] [STDERR] ... 4 more

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  • 13.10 Saucy login issues; black screen, loop, and freeze

    - by user135598
    Once upgraded to I 13.10 I was not able to get past the login screen. I had the black screen. Also; I can not log on with low graphics mode from recovery either. It makes no difference if I try default graphics driver or not. Then after running sudo install -f from recovery root prompt I got a login loop. I have purged fglrx, fglrx-legacy, and nvidia-current. I updated my repository with xorg-edgers and reinstalled nvidia-current. Now it semi-freezes at the login screen when I try to log on as my normal user. I say 'semi' because I can still use my mouse to click on the upper right hand Ubuntu logo and Shut Down or Restart the PC. I still cannot log on with my user name, but I can through the Guest login. While logged in as Guest I added a new user account with administrative privileges. I CAN log into this account without problem and from here am able to see that my .dmrc file in my original account reads: [Desktop] Session=XBMC I have changed 'Session=XBMC' to 'Session=ubuntu' and rebooted, but to no avail. The file resets itself and makes a backup of my changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • WPF wrappanel item alignment problem when scrolling

    - by Jayho
    Someone help me out pls. I set a wrapPanel in a listbox itemPanelTemplate, Also, I already set the ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True". But why the listbox items are not scrolling up/down by ITEM one by one? The scroll style is still by PIXEL. Is anyone help me? <Grid> <ListBox x:Name="testListbox" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <ListBox.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <WrapPanel Width="200" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ListBox.ItemsPanel> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> <ListBoxItem Background="LimeGreen" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="3" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"> <Image Height="50" Width="80" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"/> </ListBoxItem> </ListBox> </Grid>

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  • Is there a way communicate or measure levels of abstraction?

    - by hydroparadise
    I'll be the first to say that this question is a bit... out there. But here are a couple questions I bear in mind : Is abstraction continuous or discrete? Is there a single unit of abstraction? But I'm not sure those questions are truly answerable or even really makes sence. My naive answer would be something along the lines of abitrarily discrete but not necescarily having a single unit measure. Here's what I mean... Take a Black Labrador; an abstraction that could be made is that a Black Lab is a type of animal. [Animal]<--[Black Lab] A Black Lab is also a type of Dog. [Dog]<--[Black Lab] One way to establish a degree of abstraction is by comparing the two the abstractions. We could say that [Animal] is more abstract than [Dog] in respect to a Black Lab. It just so happens [Animal] can also be used as an abstraction of [Dog] So, we might end up with something like [Animal]<--[Dog]<--[Black Lab] With the model above, one might be inclined to say that there's two hops of abstraction to get from [Black Lab] to [Animal]. But you can't exactly tell somebody they need one level abstraction and reasonalby expect they will come up with [Dog] given they aren't explicity given the options above. If I needed to tell someobody in a single email that they needed an abstract class with out knowing what that abstract class is, is there a way to communaticate a degree of abstraction such that they might end up on Dog instead of Animal? As a side note, what area of study might this type of analysis fall under?

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  • Do we need to adopt a black-box asset our project is inheriting from its predecessor?

    - by Tom Anderson
    Our client has an eCommerce site which was developed by an in-house team, and is now showing its age. I work for a firm brought in as external contractors to build a replacement. Part of the current site is a Flash viewer applet which displays media about the product - zoom-able images, 360-degree views, movies, and so on. We need to show the same media the current site does, so we are simply reusing the viewer. The viewer is embedded on a page in the usual way, and told what media to show by means of an XML file it loads from our server, which is pretty simple for us to generate. We've got this working; it was pretty straightforward. But what else do we need to do? The thing is, as far as we're concerned, the viewer is a binary blob which is served from the client's content-distribution network. We embed it, feed it some XML, and it does its job, but we have no power over its internals. It's completely opaque to us - a black box. We can use it to do what it does, but we can't change it, so if we ever need to do something different, we're stuffed. We're building this site for the client, and when we're done, we'll hand it over for them to maintain. We won't be doing the maintenance ourselves. There's a small team within the client who are working as part of our team, and who will be the ones doing the maintenance. That team only includes one person from the team that built the old site, and it's not someone who knows the image viewer. The people who do know the image viewer are not slated to join our team when our system replaces theirs - they'll be moved to other projects. The documentation on the viewer is extremely thin, and as far as i know doesn't cover the internals at all. My worry is that if someone doesn't take some positive action, all knowledge of the internal workings of the viewer - even down to where the source code for it is - will be lost. It's possible it already has been. Is this something to worry about? If so, whose job is it to worry about it? What should they do about it once they've got worried?

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  • Unable to boot into 11.10 in normal (get a black screen) OR recovery (get just a flashing cursor, no cli)

    - by user1092284
    Okay, so I had a dual boot of Tango Studio (based on Ubuntu 10.04) and Windows XP. Yesterday I downloaded the .iso for Ubuntu 11.10 and attempted to install from a USB (my BIOS won't normally boot from USB but I had PLOP boot manager on a CD). I booted up Ubuntu from the USB and then from there formatted the partition with Tango on and installed Ubuntu 11.10. On booting up I came into Grub rescue mode. So I booted up from the USB again and used boot-repair to reinstall Grub. After this I would see the normal Grub menu, but on choosing Ubuntu I would come to a black screen. On choosing recovery mode it would begin starting normally with no obvious errors but instead of coming to a cli I would just get a blank screen with a flashing cursor on the top left, not accepting any input. I have since reformatted and reinstalled from a CD rather than USB and had the exact same problem. I used boot-repair again and the result is the same. Output of the most recent boot-repair is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/869805/ I have also tried editing the ubuntu grub entry and replacing quiet with text nomodeset as I saw in an answer to another question. This got me a bit further - I saw the purple ubuntu loading screen but still came to a blank screen after that. Anyway, in most of the other questions in which that is brought up the user is still able to boot into recovery, while I am not. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, let me know if there's any more info I need to provide! EDIT FOR MORE INFO: I read something saying it's quiet splash that should be replaced with nomodeset. Earlier I had left splash in the line. So i tried it this way and it froze after displaying the following text: fsck from util-linux 2.19.1 mountall: Plymouth command failed mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth /dev/sda5:clean, 139359/1741488 files, 745830/6961125 blocks From a bit of googling it doesn't look like plymouth is essential, but I've checked and I do have the most current versions of mountall and plymouth installed so I don't know why there's a problem EDIT FOR MORE INFO AGAIN: I used dkpg --reconfigure plymouth cause I saw it mentioned in another forum and it still says plymouth command failed on boot

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  • Instead of the specified Texture, black circles on a green background are getting rendered. Why?

    - by vinzBad
    I'm trying to render a Texture via OpenGL. But instead of the texture black circles on a green background are rendered. (They scale, depending what the rotation of the texture is) Example: The texture I'm trying to render is the following: This is the code I use to render the texture, it's located in my Sprite-class. public void Render() { Matrix4 matrix = Matrix4.CreateTranslation(-OriginX, -OriginY, 0) * Matrix4.CreateRotationZ(Rotation) * Matrix4.CreateTranslation(X, Y, 0); Vector2[] corners = { new Vector2(0,0), //top left new Vector2(Width ,0),//top right new Vector2(Width,Height),//bottom rigth new Vector2(0,Height)//bottom left }; //copy the corners to the uv coordinates Vector2[] uv = corners.ToArray<Vector2>(); //transform the coordinates for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) corners[i] = new Vector2(Vector3.Transform(new Vector3(corners[i]), matrix)); //GL.Color3(TintColor); GL.BindTexture(TextureTarget.Texture2D, _ID); GL.Begin(BeginMode.Quads); { for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { GL.TexCoord2(uv[i]); GL.Vertex3(corners[i].X, corners[i].Y, _layerDepth); } } GL.End(); if (EnableDebugDraw) { GL.Color3(Color.Violet); GL.PointSize(3); GL.Begin(BeginMode.Points); { for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) GL.Vertex2(corners[i]); } GL.End(); GL.Color3(Color.Green); GL.Begin(BeginMode.Points); GL.Vertex2(X, Y); GL.End(); } } This is how I setup OpenGL. public static void SetupGL() { GL.Enable(EnableCap.AlphaTest); GL.AlphaFunc(AlphaFunction.Greater, 0.1f); GL.Enable(EnableCap.Texture2D); GL.Hint(HintTarget.PerspectiveCorrectionHint, HintMode.Nicest); } With this function I load the texture: public static uint LoadTexture(string path) { uint id; GL.GenTextures(1, out id); GL.BindTexture(TextureTarget.Texture2D, id); Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(path); BitmapData data = bitmap.LockBits(new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height), ImageLockMode.ReadOnly, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb); GL.TexImage2D(TextureTarget.Texture2D, 0, PixelInternalFormat.Rgba, data.Width, data.Height, 0, OpenTK.Graphics.OpenGL.PixelFormat.Bgra, PixelType.UnsignedByte, data.Scan0); bitmap.UnlockBits(data); GL.TexParameter(TextureTarget.Texture2D, TextureParameterName.TextureMinFilter, (int)TextureMinFilter.Linear); GL.TexParameter(TextureTarget.Texture2D, TextureParameterName.TextureMagFilter, (int)TextureMagFilter.Linear); return id; } And here I call Sprite.Render() protected override void OnRenderFrame(FrameEventArgs e) { GL.ClearColor(Color.MidnightBlue); GL.Clear(ClearBufferMask.ColorBufferBit); _sprite.Render(); SwapBuffers(); base.OnRenderFrame(e); } As I stole this code from the Textures-Example from OpenTK, I don't understand why this doesn't work.

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