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  • Why did you start with Linux ? And why did you continue using it ?

    - by Stefano Borini
    I'd like to know the reasons that moved you towards Linux. Personally, I started because we had to use a Digital for the Fortran 77 exercises during my first year at the university. Linux was installed on many university computers, and I got interested in it. I always liked to code (on the C64) in basic and assembler, but I knew nothing about other languages. I soon discovered a chat engine called NUTS, and the idea of becoming proficient in C appealed me, so I started hacking the code. To do so, I needed a Unix at home, so I bought a Slackware 3.4 and installed it on my Pentium 166. I then continued using it for many years, reason being that I had pleasure in learning new things and the openness of information about the internals. It was a great learning platform. I then moved to osx because I enjoy the power of Unix with the beauty and efficiency of its interface. I am interested in your answer because I believe that the panorama has changed somehow. Although I still guess to find many "hackers" interested in Linux for the sake of knowledge, I also believe that there are other reasons (work, friends, bought a netbook).

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  • glassfish timeout

    - by Stefano
    Environment: Windows 2008 Server Edition Netbeans 6.7.1 Glassfish 2.1 Apache 2.2.15 for win32 Original problem (almost fixed): The HTTP/1.1 GET method to send data fails if I wait for more than 30 seconds. What I did: I added to the http.conf file of Apache these lines: # # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out. # Timeout 9000 # # KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than # one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate. # KeepAlive On I went to the Glassfish panel (localhost:4848) and in Configuration HTTP services and I put: Timeout request: 9000 seconds (it was 30) Standby time: -1 (it was 30 seconds) Problem: I am not able to put for glassfish a timeout bigger than 2 minutes to send a GET method. I found this article about glassfish settings, but i'm not able to find WHERE I should put those parameters, and if they could work. Can anybody help try to set this timeout to a higher limit? Maybe it's even a different setting? New tried solution: I went to the glassfish panel control, and to Configuration Subprocesses "Thread-pool-name" and changed the idle timeout from 120 seconds to 1200 seconds. Then I restarted the glassfish service (both from the administrative tools and from asadmin), but still it waits 120 seconds to go idle. I even tried restarting the whole server, still no results. Maybe some setting in postgres? Or the connection of netbeans to postgres through glassfish?

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  • "Raid 0 SAS" versus "2nd generation SSD"

    - by Stefano
    Hi everybody, i was planning to buy a SAS system made of two 15k RPM disks in Raid 0 configuration to give a boost to my s.o. and my apps... but after i saw that article on Coding Horror, i've started to thinking if a new 2nd generation SSD could do the same job, or even better... Does anybody have any information to help me decide?

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  • I found two usb sticks on the ground. Now what ?

    - by Stefano Borini
    As from subject. I want to see what's inside. I am seriously interested in finding the owner if possible and returning them, but I am worried it could be an attempt at social engineering. I own a macbook intel with OSX 10.6. It is a very important install. What would you do in my situation if you want to see the content without risks ? Any proposal welcome. Edit: I decided not to plug them in, and I brought them to the hotel reception. They will forward it to the police.

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  • Windows Command queue?

    - by Stefano
    i'm thinking if does exist some kind of software that can put in a queue a bunch of windows commands... for example i can say to first copy some file somewhere, then rename those, then delete the old files, then edit one of them etc.... without waiting the effective execution of any of those passages.... this could be useful when copying big files that take a lot and i don't want to sit in front of the computer keeping the eyes on the progress bar... does exist anything like this?

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  • axis2 web service behave differently when tested with web service client or with local test class

    - by Stefano
    Hello I need to update a facade to some web service proxy classes to a third party web service, and expose them as a service. This for two reason : to maintain the same interface for all application that need to use the system : actually its migrating and there are a few differences in the third party ws (method names); and to expose a simplified interface. The third party has provided me with a manual and some pregenerated proxy classes to their service (the java file says generated with axis2 1,4) . I've used netbeans 6.8 and the axis2 plugin to create an axis2 service . This service contains the proxy classes and the facade class which instantiate the web service proxy and calls its method; the facade class is exposed as service. I've used axis2 1.4 (at beginnig and later 1.5 ) and tomcat 6.0. The first test i did was to call the facede methods from inside the project itself and it worked. Then i've created a new project with a jax-ws web service client to call my class deployed on axis2. At this point has happened two strange thing : In the axis2 services page has appeared the third party proxy class as if it were a new service (if i try to get the wsdl axis raises an error ). eg. the proxy interface is named WebServiceAPI (_stub is the concrete class) and , after the first call to my service , i find a new "WebServicesAPI1272968932531_1" service inside axis . The call obvoiusly fail i've began to sniff soap messages with wireshark and i've found they differs when using proxy classes direclty from my facade test class by the messages created after being deployed on axis. i've noticed they differs for the presence of the soap header in the failing message. any help would be greatly appreciated : maybe i messed up something, there might be some incompatibilities or version mistakes? below i've added the signature of the third party proxy, its impementation and the different soap messages: /* * WebServicesAPI.java * This file was auto-generated from WSDL * by the Apache Axis2 version: 1.4 Built on : Apr 26, 2008 (06:24:30 EDT) */ package com.ibm.eci.wsapi; public interface WebServicesAPI { public com.ibm.eci.wsapi.ArrayOfstring getWorkItemHistory( java.lang.String stateKey,java.lang.String logonID,com.ibm.eci.wsapi.RepoItemHandle workItemHandle) throws java.rmi.RemoteException,com.ibm.eci.wsapi.ExceptionException0; ...etc the concrete class is : /** * WebServicesAPIStub.java * * This file was auto-generated from WSDL * by the Apache Axis2 version: 1.4 Built on : Apr 26, 2008 (06:24:30 EDT) */ package com.ibm.eci.wsapi; /* * WebServicesAPIStub java implementation */ public class WebServicesAPIStub extends org.apache.axis2.client.Stub implements WebServicesAPI{ protected org.apache.axis2.description.AxisOperation[] _operations; ... public com.ibm.eci.wsapi.ArrayOfstring getWorkItemHistory( java.lang.String stateKey297,java.lang.String logonID298,com.ibm.eci.wsapi.RepoItemHandle workItemHandle299) throws java.rmi.RemoteException ,com.ibm.eci.wsapi.ExceptionException0{ org.apache.axis2.context.MessageContext _messageContext = null; try{ org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient _operationClient = _serviceClient.createClient(_operations[0].getName()); _operationClient.getOptions().setAction("\"\""); _operationClient.getOptions().setExceptionToBeThrownOnSOAPFault(true); addPropertyToOperationClient(_operationClient,org.apache.axis2.description.WSDL2Constants.ATTR_WHTTP_QUERY_PARAMETER_SEPARATOR,"&"); // create a message context _messageContext = new org.apache.axis2.context.MessageContext(); // create SOAP envelope with that payload org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPEnvelope env = null; com.ibm.eci.wsapi.GetWorkItemHistoryE dummyWrappedType = null; env = toEnvelope(getFactory(_operationClient.getOptions().getSoapVersionURI()), stateKey297, logonID298, workItemHandle299, dummyWrappedType, optimizeContent(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://wsapi.eci.ibm.com", "getWorkItemHistory"))); //adding SOAP soap_headers _serviceClient.addHeadersToEnvelope(env); // set the message context with that soap envelope _messageContext.setEnvelope(env); // add the message contxt to the operation client _operationClient.addMessageContext(_messageContext); //execute the operation client _operationClient.execute(true); org.apache.axis2.context.MessageContext _returnMessageContext = _operationClient.getMessageContext( org.apache.axis2.wsdl.WSDLConstants.MESSAGE_LABEL_IN_VALUE); org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPEnvelope _returnEnv = _returnMessageContext.getEnvelope(); java.lang.Object object = fromOM( _returnEnv.getBody().getFirstElement() , com.ibm.eci.wsapi.GetWorkItemHistoryResponseE.class, getEnvelopeNamespaces(_returnEnv)); return getGetWorkItemHistoryResponse_return((com.ibm.eci.wsapi.GetWorkItemHistoryResponseE)object); ... the failing soap message (generated by jax-ws client to the axis deployed service) is : POST /vbr_wsapi/services/WebServicesAPI.Endpoint HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: "" User-Agent: Axis2 Host: n0611049:9083 Transfer-Encoding: chunked <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing"> <wsa:To>http://n0611049:9083/vbr_wsapi/services/WebServicesAPI.Endpoint</wsa:To> <wsa:MessageID>urn:uuid:A31AD99897F9045E981272964443982</wsa:MessageID><wsa:Action>""</wsa:Action> </soapenv:Header> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:initializeProps xmlns:ns1="http://wsapi.eci.ibm.com"> <props><val>client.locale=it_IT</val> </props> </ns1:initializeProps> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: en-US Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Close Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 09:16:15 GMT Server: WebSphere Application Server/7.0 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing"> <wsa:Action>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/fault</wsa:Action> <wsa:RelatesTo>urn:uuid:A31AD99897F9045E981272964443982</wsa:RelatesTo> <wsa:FaultDetail> <wsa:ProblemAction> <wsa:Action>""</wsa:Action> </wsa:ProblemAction> </wsa:FaultDetail> </soapenv:Header> <soapenv:Body> <soapenv:Fault xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing"> <faultcode>wsa:ActionNotSupported</faultcode> <faultstring>The [action] cannot be processed at the receiver.</faultstring> <detail /> </soapenv:Fault> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> the succesful call (generated by my local test class, not being deployed to axis yet) : POST /vbr_wsapi/services/WebServicesAPI.Endpoint HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: "" User-Agent: Axis2 Host: n0611049:9083 Transfer-Encoding: chunked <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:initializeProps xmlns:ns1="http://wsapi.eci.ibm.com"> <props> <val>client.locale=it_IT</val> </props> </ns1:initializeProps> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: en-US Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 09:40:03 GMT Server: WebSphere Application Server/7.0 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Body> <dlwmin:initializePropsResponse xmlns:dlwmin="http://wsapi.eci.ibm.com"> <return>e0e40cc51ceb0adf96c582bb6e047b3d0f</return> </dlwmin:initializePropsResponse> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> POST /vbr_wsapi/services/WebServicesAPI.Endpoint HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: "" User-Agent: Axis2 Host: n0611049:9083 Transfer-Encoding: chunked <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:logon xmlns:ns1="http://wsapi.eci.ibm.com"> <stateKey>e0e40cc51ceb0adf96c582bb6e047b3d0f</stateKey> <systemID>----</systemID> <authBundle> <password>-----</password> <sealed>false</sealed> <username>---</username> </authBundle> </ns1:logon> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: en-US Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 09:40:21 GMT Server: WebSphere Application Server/7.0 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Body> <dlwmin:logonResponse xmlns:dlwmin="http://wsapi.eci.ibm.com"> <return>e0e40cc51ceb0adf96c582bb6e047b3d10</return> </dlwmin:logonResponse> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> ... goes on with other calls

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  • Image rotation algorithm

    - by Stefano Driussi
    I'm looking for an algorithm that rotates an image by some degrees (input). public Image rotateImage(Image image, int degrees) (Image instances could be replaced with int[] containing each pixel RGB values, My problem is that i need to implement it for a JavaME MIDP 2.0 project so i must use code runnable on JVM prior to version 1.5 Can anyone help me out with this ? EDIT: I forgot to mention that i don't have SVG APIs available and that i need a method to rotate by arbitrary degree other than 90 - 180- 270 Also, no java.awt.* packages are available on MIDP 2.0

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  • Problem in linking an nasm code

    - by Stefano
    I'm using a computer with an Intel Core 2 CPU and 2GB of RAM. The SO is Ubuntu 9.04. When I try to compile this code: ;programma per la simulazione di un terminale su PC, ottenuto utilizzando l'8250 ;in condizione di loopback , cioè Tx=Rx section .code64 section .data TXDATA EQU 03F8H ;TRASMETTITORE RXDATA EQU 03F8H ;RICEVITORE BAUDLSB EQU 03F8H ;DIVISORE DI BAUD RATE IN LSB BAUDMSB EQU 03F9H ;DIVISORE DI BAUD RATE IN MSB INTENABLE EQU 03F9H ;REGISTRO DI ABILITAZIONE DELL'INTERRUZIONE INTIDENTIF EQU 03FAH ;REGISTRO DI IDENTIFICAZIONE DELL'INTERRUZIONE LINECTRL EQU 03FBH ;REGISTRO DI CONTROLLO DELLA LINEA MODEMCTRL EQU 03FCH ;REGISTRO DI CONTROLLO DEL MODEM LINESTATUS EQU 03FDH ;REGISTRO DI STATO DELLA LINEA MODEMSTATUS EQU 03FEH ;REGISTRO DI STATO DEL MODEM BAUDRATEDIV DW 0060H ;DIVISOR: LOW=60, HIGH=00 -BAUD =9600 COUNTERCHAR DB 0 ;CHARACTER COUNTER ;DW 256 DUP (?) section .text global _start _start: ;PROGRAMMAZIONE 8250 MOV DX,LINECTRL MOV AL,80H ;BIT 7=1 PER INDIRIZZARE IL BAUD RATE OUT DX,AL MOV DX,BAUDLSB MOV AX,BAUDRATEDIV ;DEFINISCO FATTORE DI DIVISIONE OUT DX,AL MOV DX,BAUDMSB MOV AL,AH OUT DX,AL ;MSB MOV DX,LINECTRL MOV AL,00000011B ;8 BIT DATO, 1 STOP, PARITA' NO OUT DX,AL MOV DX,MODEMCTRL MOV AL,00010011B ;BIT 4=0 PER NO LOOPBACK OUT DX,AL MOV DX,INTENABLE XOR AL,AL ;DISABILITO TUTTI GLI INTERRUPTS OUT DX,AL CICLO: MOV DX,LINESTATUS IN AL,DX ;LEGGO IL REGISTRO DI STATO DELLA LINEA TEST AL,00011110B ;VERIFICO GLI ERRORI (4 TIPI) JNE ERRORI TEST AL,01H ;VERIFICO Rx PRONTO JNE LEGGOCHAR TEST AL,20H ;VERIFICO Tx VUOTO JE CICLO ;SE SI ARRIVA A QUESTO PUNTO ALLORA L'8250 è PRONTO PER TRASMETTERE UN NUOVO CARATTERE MOV AH,1 INT 80H JE CICLO ;SE SI ARRIVA A QUESTO PUNTO SIGNIFICA CHE ESISTE UN CARATTERE DA TASTIERA MOV AH,0 INT 80H ;Al CONTIENE IL CARATTERE DELLA TASTIERA MOV DX,3F8H OUT DX,AL JMP CICLO LEGGOCHAR: MOV AL,[COUNTERCHAR] INC AL CMP AL,15 JE FINE MOV [COUNTERCHAR],AL MOV DX,TXDATA IN AL,DX ;AL CONTIENE IL CARATTERE RICEVUTO AND AL,7FH ;POICHè VI SONO 7 BIT DI DATO ;VISUALIZZAZIONE DEL CARATTERE MOV BX,0 MOV AH,14 INT 80H POP AX CMP AL,0DH ;CONTROLLO SE RETURN JNE CICLO ;CAMBIO RIGA DI VISUALIZZAZIONE MOV AL,0AH MOV BX,0 MOV AH,14 ;INT 10H INT 80H JMP CICLO ;GESTIONE ERRORI ERRORI: MOV DX,3F8H IN AL,DX MOV AL,'?' MOV BX,0 MOV AH,14 INT 80H JMP CICLO FINE: XOR AH,AH MOV AL,03 INT 80H When I compile this code "NASM -f bin UARTLOOP.asm", the compiler can create the UARTLOOP.o file without any error. When I try to link the .o file with "ld UARTLOOP.o" it tells: UARTLOOP.o: In function `_start': UARTLOOP.asm:(.text+0xd): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_16 against `.data' Have u got some ideas to solve this problem? Thx =)

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  • Problem to display a pdf from my JSF Portlet of Liferay

    - by Stefano
    I use liferay 5.2 with jsf-portlet. From the page I want to press a button to generate one PDF. In managedbean i build pdf and I want to show it in response. In a ByteArrayOutputStream named outputStream i have my pdf built with JasperReport. I write: PortletResponse portletResponse = (PortletResponse)externalCtx.getResponse(); HttpServletResponse httpResponse = PortalUtil.getHttpServletResponse(portletResponse); ServletOutputStream out = httpResponse.getOutputStream(); String filename="Pdf" + System.currentTimeMillis()+".pdf"; httpResponse.reset(); httpResponse.setContentType("application/pdf"); httpResponse.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ filename + "\""); httpResponse.setContentLength(outputStream.size()); outputStream.writeTo(out); out.flush(); out.close(); I do not see anything output! In jboss log i read: IllegaStateException.... What is wrong? LOG 11:03:19,716 INFO [STDOUT] 11:03:19,716 ERROR [IncludeTag] Current URL /web/organo-di-governo/datawarehouse?p_p_id=1_WAR_Portlet_Datawarehouse_INSTANCE_D7s7&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_count=1&_1_WAR_Portlet_Datawarehouse_INSTANCE_D7s7_com.sun.faces.portlet.VIEW_ID=%2Fview.xhtml&_1_WAR_Portlet_Datawarehouse_INSTANCE_D7s7_com.sun.faces.portlet.NAME_SPACE=_1_WAR_Portlet_Datawarehouse_INSTANCE_D7s7_ generates exception: null 11:03:19,717 INFO [STDOUT] 11:03:19,717 ERROR [IncludeTag] java.lang.IllegalStateException at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripResponse.getWriter(StripResponse.java:85) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.initOut(JspWriterImpl.java:125) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flushBuffer(JspWriterImpl.java:118) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.write(JspWriterImpl.java:326) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.write(JspWriterImpl.java:342) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.print(JspWriterImpl.java:468) at com.liferay.taglib.util.ThemeUtil.includeVM(ThemeUtil.java:208) at com.liferay.taglib.util.ThemeUtil.include(ThemeUtil.java:68) at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doEndTag(IncludeTag.java:59) at org.apache.jsp.html.common.themes.portal_jsp._jspx_meth_liferay_002dtheme_005finclude_005f1(portal_jsp.java:816) at org.apache.jsp.html.common.themes.portal_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fotherwise_005f0(portal_jsp.java:788) at org.apache.jsp.html.common.themes.portal_jsp._jspService(portal_jsp.java:724) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:373) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:336) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) 11:03:19,718 ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception java.lang.IllegalStateException 11:03:19,719 ERROR [[Main Servlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet Main Servlet threw exception java.lang.IllegalStateException at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripResponse.getWriter(StripResponse.java:85) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.initOut(JspWriterImpl.java:125) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flushBuffer(JspWriterImpl.java:118) 11:03:19,722 INFO [STDOUT] 11:03:19,720 ERROR [OpenSSOFilter] org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:521) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:409) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:336) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265) 11:03:19,722 INFO [STDOUT] n.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripResponse.getWriter(StripResponse.java:85) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.initOut(JspWriterImpl.java:125) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flushBuffer(JspWriterImpl.java:118)

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  • Memory leak returning QIcon

    - by Stefano
    I started using Qt but I'm facing a big problem: I implemented my custom model that inhrerits from the QAbstractListModel class. What I want to do is to display a list with icon. All works and the image is shown with my code but it creates a memory leak. If I don't return the icon no memory leak is detected. class MyModel : public QAbstractListModel { public: ... private: QIcon myicon; } QVariant MyModel::data(const QModelIndex &index, int role) const { ... if (role == Qt::DecorationRole) { return this->myicon; } ... }

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  • Draw on screen border in Commodore 64

    - by Stefano Borini
    Ok. I hope it does not get closed because I have this curiosity since 25 years and I would love to understand the trick. In the commodore 64 the border was not addressable by the 6569 VIC. All you could do was to draw pixels in the central area, the one where the cursor moved. The border was always uniform, although you could change its color with poke 53280,color if i remember correctly. Nevertheless I clearly remember games intros where the border was featured with graphics, like it was fully addressable. I tried to understand how it worked but never got to the point. legends say it was a clever use of sprites, which could, under some circumstances, be drawn on the border, but I don't know if it's an urban legend. edit: just read this from one of the provided links Sprites were multiplexed across vertical raster lines (over 8 sprites, sometimes up to 120 sprites). Until the Group Crest released Krestage 3 in May 2007 there was the common perception that no more than 8 sprites could appear at one raster line, but assigning new Y coordinates made it reappear further down the screen. This is evil.... you beat the raster and reposition the sprite before it gets there...

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  • How to build a java applet?

    - by Stefano Borini
    Most of the tutorials around explain how to create a java applet: create a .java file with a class, compile it with javac, put the .class somewhere, add a proper tag in the html. However, I'm not able to find anything about the best practices to build and release a complex applet, made of multiple classes and with additional libraries. How is the build/release process for this case ? What is it needed to go from my java project to the final .jar to put on the web ? I'm working with pure Eclipse, no plugins.

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  • how to extract elements from a list in python ?

    - by Stefano Borini
    I feel suddenly uneasy of not being able to perform this operation easily. It could be that I'm tired, or that there's really no way (google didn't help), but... if you have a list in python, and want to extract element at indices say 1, 2 and 5 into a new list, how do you do ? This is how I did it, but I'm not very satisfied >>> a [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] >>> [x[1] for x in enumerate(a) if x[0] in [1,2,5]] [11, 12, 15] any better way ? more in general, given a tuple with indices, how to use this tuple to extract the corresponding elements from a list, eventually with duplication (e.g. tuple (1,1,2,1,5) produces [11,11,12,11,15] )

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  • Code golf: the Mandelbrot set

    - by Stefano Borini
    Usual rules for the code golf. Here is an implementation in python as an example from PIL import Image im = Image.new("RGB", (300,300)) for i in xrange(300): print "i = ",i for j in xrange(300): x0 = float( 4.0*float(i-150)/300.0 -1.0) y0 = float( 4.0*float(j-150)/300.0 +0.0) x=0.0 y=0.0 iteration = 0 max_iteration = 1000 while (x*x + y*y <= 4.0 and iteration < max_iteration): xtemp = x*x - y*y + x0 y = 2.0*x*y+y0 x = xtemp iteration += 1 if iteration == max_iteration: value = 255 else: value = iteration*10 % 255 print value im.putpixel( (i,j), (value, value, value)) im.save("image.png", "PNG") The result should look like this Use of an image library is allowed. Alternatively, you can use ASCII art. This code does the same for i in xrange(40): line = [] for j in xrange(80): x0 = float( 4.0*float(i-20)/40.0 -1.0) y0 = float( 4.0*float(j-40)/80.0 +0.0) x=0.0 y=0.0 iteration = 0 max_iteration = 1000 while (x*x + y*y <= 4.0 and iteration < max_iteration): xtemp = x*x - y*y + x0 y = 2.0*x*y+y0 x = xtemp iteration += 1 if iteration == max_iteration: line.append(" ") else: line.append("*") print "".join(line) The result ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** **************************************** *************************************** **************************************** *************************************** **************************************** *************************************** **************************************** *************************************** **************************************** *************************************** **************************************** *************************************** **************************************** *************************************** *************************************** ************************************** ************************************* ************************************ ************************************ *********************************** *********************************** ********************************** ************************************ *********************************** ************************************* ************************************ *********************************** ********************************** ******************************** ******************************* **************************** *************************** ***************************** **************************** **************************** *************************** ************************ * * *********************** *********************** * * ********************** ******************** ******* ******* ******************* **************************** *************************** ****************************** ***************************** ***************************** * * * **************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************

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  • Writing a code example

    - by Stefano Borini
    I would like to have your feedback regarding code examples. One of the most frustrating experiences I sometimes have when learning a new technology is finding useless examples. I think an example as the most precious thing that comes with a new library, language, or technology. It must be a starting point, a wise and unadulterated explanation on how to achieve a given result. A perfect example must have the following characteristics: Self contained: it should be small enough to be compiled or executed as a single program, without dependencies or complex makefiles. An example is also a strong functional test if you correctly installed the new technology. The more issues could arise, the more likely is that something goes wrong, and the more difficult is to debug and solve the situation. Pertinent: it should demonstrate one, and only one, specific feature of your software/library, involving the minimal additional behavior from external libraries. Helpful: the code should bring you forward, step by step, using comments or self-documenting code. Extensible: the example code should be a small “framework” or blueprint for additional tinkering. A learner can start by adding features to this blueprint. Recyclable: it should be possible to extract parts of the example to use in your own code Easy: An example code is not the place to show your code-fu skillz. Keep it easy. helpful acronym: SPHERE. Prototypical examples of violations of those rules are the following: Violation of self-containedness: an example spanning multiple files without any real need for it. If your example is a python program, keep everything into a single module file. Don’t sub-modularize it. In Java, try to keep everything into a single class, unless you really must partition some entity into a meaningful object you need to pass around (and java mandates one class per file, if I remember correctly). Violation of Pertinency: When showing how many different shapes you can draw, adding radio buttons and complex controls with all the possible choices for point shapes is a bad idea. You de-focalize your example code, introducing code for event handling, controls initialization etc., and this is not part the feature you want to demonstrate, they are unnecessary noise in the understanding of the crucial mechanisms providing the feature. Violation of Helpfulness: code containing dubious naming, wrong comments, hacks, and functions longer than one page of code. Violation of Extensibility: badly factored code that have everything into a single function, with potentially swappable entities embedded within the code. Example: if an example reads data from a file and displays it, create a method getData() returning a useful entity, instead of opening the file raw and plotting the stuff. This way, if the user of the library needs to read data from a HTTP server instead, he just has to modify the getData() module and use the example almost as-is. Another violation of Extensibility comes if the example code is not under a fully liberal (e.g. MIT or BSD) license. Violation of Recyclability: when the code layout is so intermingled that is difficult to easily copy and paste parts of it and recycle them into another program. Again, licensing is also a factor. Violation of Easiness: Yes, you are a functional-programming nerd and want to show how cool you are by doing everything on a single line of map, filter and so on, but that could not be helpful to someone else, who is already under pressure to understand your library, and now has to understand your code as well. And in general, the final rule: if it takes more than 10 minutes to do the following: compile the code, run it, read the source, and understand it fully, it means that the example is not a good one. Please let me know your opinion, either positive or negative, or experience on this regard.

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  • Code bacteria: evolving mathematical behavior

    - by Stefano Borini
    It would not be my intention to put a link on my blog, but I don't have any other method to clarify what I really mean. The article is quite long, and it's in three parts (1,2,3), but if you are curious, it's worth the reading. A long time ago (5 years, at least) I programmed a python program which generated "mathematical bacteria". These bacteria are python objects with a simple opcode-based genetic code. You can feed them with a number and they return a number, according to the execution of their code. I generate their genetic codes at random, and apply an environmental selection to those objects producing a result similar to a predefined expected value. Then I let them duplicate, introduce mutations, and evolve them. The result is quite interesting, as their genetic code basically learns how to solve simple equations, even for values different for the training dataset. Now, this thing is just a toy. I had time to waste and I wanted to satisfy my curiosity. however, I assume that something, in terms of research, has been made... I am reinventing the wheel here, I hope. Are you aware of more serious attempts at creating in-silico bacteria like the one I programmed? Please note that this is not really "genetic algorithms". Genetic algorithms is when you use evolution/selection to improve a vector of parameters against a given scoring function. This is kind of different. I optimize the code, not the parameters, against a given scoring function.

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  • Zend framework on shared hosting

    - by Stefano
    I have a problem. I'm trying to deploy my zend framework app on a shared hosting. In local, with xampp was everything ok, but on shared hosting I received the following message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /application/public/index.php on line 40. The line 40 is: $application-bootstrap()-run();. Any idea?

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  • java.security.AccessControlException : access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission http.agent read)

    - by Stefano Borini
    I have a non-signed java applet interacting with the same host. Every time I click on an element in my page, the applet (which is a third part applet I have no control on) should load data from a URL. I say should, because for some files, I get java.security.AccessControlException : access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission http.agent read) and some other files are correctly loaded. All files are correctly readable and downloadable from the web server, and they are very simple text files. I also found that, in some cases, files that previously returned the error are now loaded and continue to load, so it seems a cache is involved somehow. Does any of you have an idea of what's going on here ? The behavior seems to be absolutely random, and I have no way of performing debug on this thing. Note: I used this applet to perform many other "single shot" file access, and it never gave me any problem. The only apparent difference I have is that now I do it "on-demand" via a javascript event. What could be the cause, in the java of the applet or anywhere else ?

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  • vim opens my folds on paste. how to prevent that ?

    - by Stefano Borini
    There's something weird going on in my fortran folding. This is the example file module foo contains subroutine hello() end subroutine hello subroutine hello() end subroutine subroutine hello() end subroutine end module foo subroutine hello() end subroutine subroutine hello() end subroutine subroutine hello() end subroutine and this is the vimrc syntax on au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.f90 setfiletype fortran set foldmethod=syntax let fortran_fold=1 The annoying thing is the following. If I cut (dd) and paste (P) a folded subroutine outside the module/end module block, the freshly pasted fold stay closed. If I paste it inside the module/end module block, the newly pasted folded region appears instead unfolded. Can you reproduce the issue (vim 7.2 here) and do you know any workaround/fix ?

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  • Vibrations when exploding/repacking movie

    - by Stefano Borini
    Please bear with me, I know that what I'm doing can sound strange, but I can guarantee there's a very good reason for that. I took a movie with my camera, as avi. I imported the movie into iMovie and then exploded the single frames as PNG. Then I repacked these frames into mov using the following code movie, error = QTMovie.alloc().initToWritableFile_error_(out_path, None) mt = QTMakeTime(v, scale) attrib = {QTAddImageCodecType: "jpeg"} for path in png_paths: image = NSImage.alloc().initWithContentsOfFile_(path) movie.addImage_forDuration_withAttributes_(image, mt, attrib) movie.updateMovieFile() The resulting mov works, but it looks like the frames are "nervous" and shaky when compared to the original avi, which appears smoother. The size of the two files is approximately the same, and both the export and repacking occurred at 30 fps. The pics also appear to be aligned, so it's not due to accidental shift of the frames. My question is: by knowing the file formats and the process I performed, what is the probable cause of such result ? How can I fix it ?

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  • Problem on jboss lookup entitymanager

    - by Stefano
    I have my ear-project deployed in jboss 5.1GA. From webapp i don't have problem, the lookup of my ejb3 work fine! es: ShoppingCart sc= (ShoppingCart) (new InitialContext()).lookup("idelivery-ear-1.0/ShoppingCartBean/remote"); also the iniection of my EntityManager work fine! @PersistenceContext private EntityManager manager; From test enviroment (I use Eclipse) the lookup of the same ejb3 work fine! but the lookup of entitymanager or PersistenceContext don't work!!! my good test case: public void testClient() { Properties properties = new Properties(); properties.put("java.naming.factory.initial","org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"); properties.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs","org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces"); properties.put("java.naming.provider.url","localhost"); Context context; try{ context = new InitialContext(properties); ShoppingCart cart = (ShoppingCart) context.lookup("idelivery-ear-1.0/ShoppingCartBean/remote"); // WORK FINE } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } my bad test : EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("idelivery"); EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager(); //test1 EntityManager em6 = (EntityManager) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/persistence/idelivery"); //test2 PersistenceContext em3 = (PersistenceContext)(new InitialContext()).lookup("idelivery/remote"); //test3 my persistence.xml <persistence-unit name="idelivery" transaction-type="JTA"> <jta-data-source>java:ideliveryDS</jta-data-source> <properties> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" /><!--validate | update | create | create-drop--> <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect" /> <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" /> <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true" /> </properties> </persistence-unit> my datasource: <datasources> <local-tx-datasource> <jndi-name>ideliveryDS</jndi-name> ... </local-tx-datasource> </datasources> I need EntityManager and PersistenceContext to test my query before build ejb... Where is my mistake?

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