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• Pure sine wave inverter

  - by Nick

  Not exactly programming (sorry) but I think it's pretty close and can be of interest to other programmers. I'm trying to setup a battery power station so that I can work from anywhere. I go surfing a lot and my idea is to be able to work from wherever I can park my car (given there's coverage). So, I'm getting a deep cycle battery, a 240V charger (I'm in Australia), and an inverter. At the back of my laptop it says 19V and 4.62A. From the people I've spoken to that means it consumes about 90W at most. So my inverter needs to be able to output about 100W. Most of them seem to be 200W and up so this shouldn't be a problem. I want to be able run my laptop for 10 hours (plus the 2 hours I get from the laptop battery) straight. According to the people I've spoken to and from what I gather online I need a battery that has the amp hours for my "amp draw". I have no idea how to calculate this but I've been guesstimating. Most deep cycle batteries seem to be classified using amp hours (Ah)... 35Ah, 50Ah, 75Ah, 100Ah, and so on. However the amp hours on those batteries is for a 240V and I seem to be using 19V. According to an expert I spoke to you'd need a 100Ah battery to power a 5A appliance at 240V for 10 hours (you only get about 50% useful power). That to me is 5A * 240V = 100Ah battery. So, naive as I might be I take 240V and divide that by my 19V and reach the conclusion that I can get away with a battery that's about 12 times smaller than that 100Ah. The expert told me I needed a 50Ah battery so that's probably what I'll be getting, but it would be interesting to know what I theoretically would need to power my laptop for 10 hours. As for charging the battery the expert I spoke to said I needed a 3-5A charger to be able to charge that 50Ah battery from flat to full in about 10 hours (I will just leave it plugged in over night). Now to my question. The expert said it's not a matter of "if" more like a guaranteed "when" my computer will stuff up if I don't use a "pure sine wave inverter". From what I gather the power that comes out of that battery is not as clean as the power we get in the socket at home. Apparently it's "square" and the one in the socket is nice and smooth. I've already got an inverter, but it's not "pure". Do I really need to buy the $200-300 pure sine wave inverter or can I get away with something else? Perhaps the laptop adapter that sits in the middle of my laptop power cable already fixes that wave to be nice and smooth? Thanks!

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• Trust metrics and related algorithms

  - by Nick Gerakines

  I'm trying to learn more about trust metrics (including related algorithms) and how user voting, ranking and rating systems can be wired to stiffle abuse. I've read abstract articles and papers describing trust metrics but haven't seen any actual implementations. My goal is to create a system that allows users to vote on other users and the content of other users and with those votes and related meta-data, determine if those votes can be applied to a users level or popularity. Have you used or seen some sort of trust system within a social graph? How did it work and what were its areas of strength and weaknesses?

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• how to detect if openGL/card supports non power of 2?

  - by Nick

  What is the best way to detect if a graphics card and compiled openGL binary supports textures which are not a power of 2 at run time?

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• Why does Mercurial only have one level of rollback?

  - by Nick Pierpoint

  I understand the restrictions of rollback and the care required in its use (for example, http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#rollback), but I just wondered why there is only 1 level of rollback. My guess it's a design decision and that the hassle of storing multiple previous transactional states to handle multiple levels of rollback is more trouble than its worth.

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• Combining Java hashcodes into a "master" hashcode

  - by Nick Wiggill

  I have a vector class with hashCode() implemented. It wasn't written by me, but uses 2 prime numbers by which to multiply the 2 vector components before XORing them. Here it is: /*class Vector2f*/ ... public int hashCode() { return 997 * ((int)x) ^ 991 * ((int)y); //large primes! } ...As this is from an established Java library, I know that it works just fine. Then I have a Boundary class, which holds 2 vectors, "start" and "end" (representing the endpoints of a line). The values of these 2 vectors are what characterize the boundary. /*class Boundary*/ ... public int hashCode() { return 1013 * (start.hashCode()) ^ 1009 * (end.hashCode()); } Here I have attempted to create a good hashCode() for the unique 2-tuple of vectors (start & end) constituting this boundary. My question: Is this hashCode() implementation going to work? (Note that I have used 2 different prime numbers in the latter hashCode() implementation; I don't know if this is necessary but better to be safe than sorry when trying to avoid common factors, I guess -- since I presume this is why primes are popular for hashing functions.)

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• Running applictions via ruby and multi-core support? (OSX)

  - by Nick Faraday

  Hi All, I'm looking for some tutorials/resources/tips that will show me how to run applications via a ruby script. I have several small tools that we use in our day to day operations that I want to manage their tasks in one ruby script. Basically what I'm trying to do is: run app via ruby script. (wait for result) get result code (success, or error msg) if ok, start the app on its next task. Also each of the tasks are independent so I'd like to take advantage of the 8 cores on my MacPro and run 8 instances at a time. Any resources you could point me towards would be greatly appreciated!

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• Unable to build any C++ projects on VS 2010?

  - by Nick Brooks

  When I try to "Build" a project it says: The operation could not be completed. Unspecified error When I try to debug the debugger says: The debugger cannot continue the process I really don't understand what is wrong with that? The project is fine and it compiles perfectly on VS 2008.

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• Javascript: variable scope & the evils of globals

  - by Nick

  I'm trying to be good, I really am, but I can't see how to do it :) Any advice on how to not use a global here would be greatly appreciated. Let's call the global G. Function A Builds G by AJAX Function B Uses G Function C Calls B Called by numerous event handlers attached to DOM elements (type 1) Function D Calls B Called by numerous event handlers attached to DOM elements (type 2) I can't see how I can get around using a global here. The DOM elements (types 1 & 2) are created in other functions (E&F) which are unconnected with A. I don't want to add G to each event handler (because it's large and there's lots of these event handlers), and doing so would require the same kind of solution as I'm seeking here (i.e., getting G to E&F). The global G, BTW, is an array that is necessary to build other elements as they, in turn, are built by AJAX. I'm not convinced that a singleton is real solution, either. Thanks.

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• What's the "proper" way to retrieve a reference to a ribbon object?

  - by Nick

  For a VSTO workbook project, is there a best practice for retrieving a reference to the Ribbon object from the ThisWorkbook class? Here's what I'm doing: In my Ribbon class, I created a public method called InvalidateControl(string controlID). I need to call that method from the ThisWorkbook class based on when a certain workbook level event fires. But the only way I can see to "get" a reference to that Ribbon object is to do this... // This is all in the ThisWorkbook class Ribbon ribbon; protected override IRibbonExtensibility CreateRibbonExtensibilityObject() { this.ribbon = new Ribbon(); return this.ribbon; } ...which seems a little smelly. I mean, I have to override CreateRibbonExtensibilityObject() regardless; all I'm doing beyond that is maintaining a local reference to the ribbon so I can call methods against it. But it doesn't feel right. Is there another, better way to get that reference in the ThisWorkbook class? Or is this pretty acceptable? Thanks!

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• What does 'engine' refer to in Drupal Theming?

  - by Nick Lowman

  I've been reading about Drupal theming and preprocess functions and noticed they listed engineName_engine_preprocess & engineName_engine_preprocess_hook in the order of preprocess functions but I'm not entirely sure what the engine layer is? I understand about the core, includes, modules and themes. Many thanks

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• Redirecting in a PHP page to another PHP page.

  - by Nick

  I have a register.php, login.php, and main.php. How do i redirect user after after registration submit to login page and then login page submit to main page.

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• Building Active Record Conditions in an array - private method 'scan' called error

  - by Nick

  Hi, I'm attempting to build a set of conditions dynamically using an array as suggested in the first answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1658990/one-or-more-params-in-model-find-conditions-with-ruby-on-rails. However I seem to be doing something incorrectly and I'm not sure if what I'm trying is fundamentally unsound or if I'm simply botching my syntax. I'm simplifying down to a single condition here to try to illustrate the issue as I've tried to built a simple Proof of concept along these lines before layering on the 5 different condition styles I'm contending with. This works: excluded.push 12 excluded.push 30 @allsites = Site.all(:conditions => ["id not in (?)", excluded]) This results in a private method 'scan' called error: excluded.push 12 excluded.push 30 conditionsSet << ["id not in (?)", excluded] @allsites = Site.all(:conditions => conditionsSet) Thanks for any advice. I wasn't sure if the proper thing was to put this as a followup item to the related question/answers I noted at the top. Since I've got a problem not an answer. If there is a better way to post this related to the existing post please let me know.

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• Procedure Maximum stored procedure, function, trigger, or view nesting level exceeded (limit 32).

  - by Nick

  The stored proc is failing at below location,Thanks, for all your help. --Insert MSOrg Information DECLARE @PersonnelNumber int, @MSOrg varchar(255) DECLARE csr CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR SELECT PersonnelNumber FROM Person OPEN csr FETCH NEXT FROM csr INTO @PersonnelNumber WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN EXEC GetMSOrg @PersonnelNumber, @MSOrg out INSERT INTO PersonSubject ( PersonnelNumber ,SubjectID ,SubjectValue ,Created ,Updated ) SELECT @PersonnelNumber ,SubjectID ,@MSOrg ,getDate() ,getDate() FROM Subject WHERE DisplayName = 'MS Org' FETCH NEXT FROM csr INTO @PersonnelNumber END CLOSE csr DEALLOCATE csr Below is the stored prc defination GetMSOrg and fails at third condition CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetMSOrg] ( @PersonnelNumber int ,@OrgTerm varchar(200) out ) AS DECLARE @MDRTermID int ,@ReportsToPersonnelNbr int --Check to see if we have reached the top of the chart SELECT @ReportsToPersonnelNbr = ReportsToPersonnelNbr FROM ReportsTo WHERE PersonnelNumber = @PersonnelNumber IF (@ReportsToPersonnelNbr IS NULL) --Reached the Top of the Org Ladder BEGIN SET @OrgTerm = 'Non-standard rollup' END ELSE IF (@PersonnelNumber IN (SELECT PersonnelNumber FROM OrgTermMap)) BEGIN SELECT @OrgTerm = s.Term FROM OrgTermMap tm JOIN Taxonomy..StaticHierarchy s ON tm.OrgTermID = s.TermID WHERE tm.PersonnelNumber = @PersonnelNumber END ELSE BEGIN SELECT @MDRTermID = tm.OrgTermID FROM ReportsTo r JOIN OrgTermMap tm ON r.ReportsToPersonnelNbr = tm.PersonnelNumber WHERE r.PersonnelNumber = @PersonnelNumber IF (@MDRTermID IS NULL) BEGIN EXEC GetMSOrg @ReportsToPersonnelNbr, @OrgTerm out END ELSE BEGIN SELECT @OrgTerm = Term FROM Taxonomy..StaticHierarchy WHERE VocabID = 118 AND TermID = @MDRTermID END END GO

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• Return XML data from a web service

  - by Nick LaMarca

  What is the best way to create a web service that returns a set of x,y coordinates? I am not sure on the object that is the best return type. When consuming the service I want to have it come back as xml preferibly something like this for example: <TheData> <Point> <x>0</x> <y>2</y> </Point> <Point> <x>5</x> <y>3</y> </Point> </TheData> If someone has a better structure to return please help I am new at all this.

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• Upload file onto Server from the IPhone using ASIHTTPRequest

  - by Nick

  I've been trying to upload a file (login.zip) using the ASIHTTPRequest libraries from the IPhone onto the inbuilt Apache Server in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. My code is: NSString *urlAddress = [[[NSString alloc] initWithString:self.uploadField.text]autorelease]; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress]; ASIFormDataRequest *request; NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *dataPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"login.zip"]; NSData *data = [[[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:dataPath] autorelease]; request = [[[ASIFormDataRequest alloc] initWithURL:url] autorelease]; [request setPostValue:@"login.zip" forKey:@"file"]; [request setData:data forKey:@"file"]; [request setUploadProgressDelegate:uploadProgress]; [request setShowAccurateProgress:YES]; [request setDelegate:self]; [request startAsynchronous]; The php code is : <?php $target = "upload/"; $target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ; $ok=1; if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target)) { echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded"; } else { echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file."; } ?> I don't quite understand why the file is not uploading. If anyone could help me. I've stuck on this for 5 days straight. Thanks in advance Nik

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• Standard library function in R for finding the mode?

  - by Nick

  In statistical language R, mean() and median() are standard functions which do what you'd expect. mode() tells you the internal storage mode of the R object, not the value that occurs the most in its argument. But surely there is a standard library function that implements mode for a vector (or list).

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• Which is faster in memory, ints or chars? And file-mapping or chunk reading?

  - by Nick

  Okay, so I've written a (rather unoptimized) program before to encode images to JPEGs, however, now I am working with MPEG-2 transport streams and the H.264 encoded video within them. Before I dive into programming all of this, I am curious what the fastest way to deal with the actual file is. Currently I am file-mapping the .mts file into memory to work on it, although I am not sure if it would be faster to (for example) read 100 MB of the file into memory in chunks and deal with it that way. These files require a lot of bit-shifting and such to read flags, so I am wondering that when I reference some of the memory if it is faster to read 4 bytes at once as an integer or 1 byte as a character. I thought I read somewhere that x86 processors are optimized to a 4-byte granularity, but I'm not sure if this is true... Thanks!

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• 'EXC_BAD_ACCESS' When trying to access a variable?

  - by Nick Brooks

  I get an 'EXC_BAD_ACCESS' error when trying to access variable in a function other than the one it was set in: NSLog(@"Commening search (%@)",sessionID); // This causes it The variable is set in the 'awakeFromNib' function: //Retrieve Session-ID sessionID = [self getSessionID]; The variable itself is defined in the header: NSString *sessionID;

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• Calling a function from Objective-C and getting the return value?

  - by Nick Brooks

  I have this code NSString *tr = [self sendUrl:@"http://google.com/"]; But for some reason 'tr' will remain nil after it is executed. What am I doing wrong? P.S. sendUrl returns an NSString

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• Does the box API require case-sensitive booleans?

  - by Nick Chadwick

  I'm having some issues with the box.com developer API, and it seems that this is due to the API requiring lower-case booleans in request parameters. When I make a call to say, delete a folder, the URI my framework is generating looks like this: (DELETE) https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/1234?recursive=True This doesn't work, and the API throws an error. However, if I manually set the URI to this: (DELETE) https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/1234?recursive=true Everything seems to work just fine. I'd like to confirm that this is indeed the behavior, and if it is, I'd like to request box fix their API!

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• How to -accurately- measure size in pixels of text being drawn on a canvas by drawTextOnPath()

  - by Nick

  I'm using drawTextOnPath() to display some text on a Canvas and I need to know the dimensions of the text being drawn. I know this is not feasible for paths composed of multiple segments, curves, etc. but my path is a single segment which is perfectly horizontal. I am using Paint.getTextBounds() to get a Rect with the dimensions of the text I want to draw. I use this rect to draw a bounding box around the text when I draw it at an arbitrary location. Here's some simplified code that reflects what I am currently doing: // to keep this example simple, always at origin (0,0) public drawBoundedText(Canvas canvas, String text, Paint paint) { Rect textDims = new Rect(); paint.getTextBounds(text,0, text.length(), textDims); float hOffset = 0; float vOffset = paint.getFontMetrics().descent; // vertically centers text float startX = textDims.left; / 0 float startY = textDims.bottom; float endX = textDims.right; float endY = textDims.bottom; path.moveTo(startX, startY); path.lineTo(endX, endY); path.close(); // draw the text canvas.drawTextOnPath(text, path, 0, vOffset, paint); // draw bounding box canvas.drawRect(textDims, paint); } The results are -close- but not perfect. If I replace the second to last line with: canvas.drawText(text, startX, startY - vOffset, paint); Then it works perfectly. Usually there is a gap of 1-3 pixels on the right and bottom edges. The error seems to vary with font size as well. Any ideas? It's possible I'm doing everything right and the problem is with drawTextOnPath(); the text quality very visibly degrades when drawing along paths, even if the path is horizontal, likely because of the interpolation algorithm or whatever its using behind the scenes. I wouldnt be surprised to find out that the size jitter is also coming from there.

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• matplotlib - changing rect colours on the fly

  - by Nick

  I am playing with matplotlib - I have a bar chart, and I want to highlight the bar which user clicks. I have a callback that goes through a rect collection (the one I got from self.axis.bar(...)) and finds out which one was clicked (looking at the coordinates). At this point I want to call something to change the colour of the current bar. Is it possible? How do I do that?

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• How can I delete all unversioned/ignored files/folders in my working copy?

  - by Nick Meyer

  If I have a working copy of a Subversion repository, is there a way to delete all unversioned or ignored files in that working copy with a single command or tool? Essentially, I'm looking for the SVN analogue to git clean. Either a command line or GUI solution (for TortoiseSVN) would be acceptable.

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• Can I create functions without defining it in the header file?

  - by Nick Brooks

  Can I create a function inside a class without defining it in the header file of that class?

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• Parameter becoming zero somewhere

  - by Nick

  Hey guys, Something really weird is happening: when I call foo(100*1.0f), somewhere along the line that becomes 0. To verify I put a breakpoint on foo(), and it indeed is zero and it indeed gets called with 100*1.0f. The code is in Obj-C++. Here is the calling function in XCode's GDB frontend, as you can see, score*scoreMultiplier is 100. And here is the called function in XCode's GDB frontend, here _score is 0.

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