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  • RemoteWebDriver InternetExplorer navigate().to() timeout?

    - by the qwerty
    i was running a test remotely on internet explorer, and when using navigate().to() selenium returns me this: "12:13:58.770 INFO - WebDriver remote server: Exception: The driver reported that the command timed out. There may be several reasons for this. Check that the destinationsite is in IE's 'Trusted Sites' (accessed from Tools-Internet Options in the 'Security' tab) If it is a trusted site, then the request may have taken more thana minute to finish." i've done what's said. but when looking at the browsers the page is loaded, but still this message continues. i've already tried as simon told me: "(16:32:54) simonstewart: ponto: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Q:_The_does_not_work_well_on_Vista._How_do_I_get_it_to_work_as_e " but did not solve. could it be google analytics that on the background is getting data or something like that? ps: i ran the test on firefox and it works well. i've tried on Windows 7 and Windows XP, and Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8.

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  • Android: Scrollable (bitmap) screen

    - by somin
    I am currently implementing a view in Android that involves using a larger than the screen size bitmap as a background and then having drawables drawn ontop of this. This is so as to simulate a "map" that can be scrolled horizontally aswell as vertically. Which is done by using a canvas and then drawing to this the full "map" bitmap, then putting the other images on top as an overlay and then drawing only the viewable bit of this to screen. Overriding the touch events to redraw the screen on a scroll/fling. I'm sure this probably has a huge ammount of overhead (by creating a canvas of the full image whilst using(drawing) only a fifth of it) and could be done in a different way as to the explained, but I was just wondering what people would do in this situation, and perhaps examples? If you need more info just let me know, Thanks, Simon

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  • Desktop Fun: Abstract Icon Packs

    - by Asian Angel
    Do you prefer a more unique, artistic, or alternative look for your desktop setup? Then you will definitely want to have a look through our Abstract Icon Packs collection. Just set your imagination loose and enjoy the wonderful desktops that these icon packs can inspire for you. Note: To customize the icon setup on your Windows 7 & Vista systems see our article here. Using Windows XP? We have you covered here. Sneak Preview For this week’s preview desktop we created an Alien Desert Planet theme using the Abstract Symbol Icons pack shown below. Note: The original, unmodified version of this wallpaper can be found here. Here is a closer look at the icons we used for our new theme… The Icon Packs Match-stick-play Icons *.ico format only Download Abstract Symbol Icons *.ico format only Download Allomantic Metals *.ico format only Download Mutated Snowflake Icon Set *.ico format only Download Shades of Geometry *.ico format only Download Starry Objects Icons *.ico format only Download New Sin – Abstract Human Icons *.ico, .png, and .psd format Note: While most of the icons in this pack look similar at first glance, there are differences when viewed at a larger size. Download Mysterious Icons *.ico format only Download Alien Icons *.ico format only Download Beads Icons *.ico format only Download Magic Flowers Icons *.ico format only Download Circle Shapes Icons *.ico format only Download geometric doc icons *.png format only Download alumina *.png format only Download Citiscape dockicons *.png format only Download Wanting more great icon sets to look through? Be certain to visit our Desktop Fun section for more icon goodness! Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Is Your Desktop Printer More Expensive Than Printing Services? 20 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know HTG Explains: Which Linux File System Should You Choose? HTG Explains: Why Does Photo Paper Improve Print Quality? Add Falling Snow to Webpages with the Snowfall Extension for Opera [Browser Fun] Automatically Keep Up With the Latest Releases from Mozilla Labs in Firefox 4.0 A Look Back at 2010 Through Infographics Monitor the Weather with the Weather Forecast Extension for Opera Orbiting at the Edge of the Atmosphere Wallpaper Simon’s Cat Explores the Christmas Tree! [Video]

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  • Unable to transfer data to or from mounted hard drive

    - by user210335
    So usually i'm good at sorting out issues. But this one has me at a loss! This issues has occured since upgrading my ubuntu so this was workingg prior. I use mounted hard drives to manage my downloads which are then copied over accordingly by a python based app. I found it was having issues with permissions to create anything on these mounted hard drives. I'm able to play and access he content of these drives so they're not faulty. My mount script looks like the following rw,user,exec,auto I really am stuck. Could anyone shed any light on how to fix this and allow me to access it. I've checked the properties and all groups should have read and write access so i'm very confused! thanks, edit here's the output of my mount options /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) none on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw) /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/tv type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/B88A30E88A30A4B2 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=simon) /dev/sdd1 on /media/simon/New Volume3 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) the main mount in question is /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/tv type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) heres my dmesg output. I tried cchanging permissions in a terminal and I got an io error. [52803.343417] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.343420] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.343422] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 9e 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.343805] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.343808] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.343810] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.343812] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.343813] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 67 00 00 08 00 [52803.344389] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344392] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344394] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344396] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344397] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e7 6f 00 00 08 00 [52803.344584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344587] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344589] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344591] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344592] Read(10): 28 00 07 3a cf b7 00 00 08 00 [52803.344776] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344779] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344781] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344783] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344784] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e7 97 00 00 08 00 [52803.344973] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344976] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344978] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344980] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344981] Read(10): 28 00 08 dd 57 ef 00 00 08 00 [52803.346745] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.346748] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.346750] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.346752] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.346754] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a c1 0f 00 00 08 00 [52803.349939] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.349942] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.349944] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.349946] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.349948] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.350147] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.350150] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.350152] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.350154] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.350155] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 97 00 00 08 00 [52803.351302] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.351305] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.351307] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.351309] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.351311] Read(10): 28 00 00 a4 1d cf 00 00 08 00 [52803.351894] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.351897] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.351899] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.351901] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.351902] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 67 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.353163] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.353166] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.353168] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.353170] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.353172] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 ef 00 00 08 00 [52803.353917] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.353920] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.353922] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.353924] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.353925] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.354484] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.354487] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.354489] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.354491] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.354492] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a d8 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.355005] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.355010] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.355013] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.355017] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.355019] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.355293] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.355298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.355301] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.355305] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.355308] Read(10): 28 00 00 a4 20 27 00 00 08 00 [52803.355575] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.355580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.355583] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.355587] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.355589] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d dc 67 00 00 08 00 [52803.356647] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.356650] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.356652] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.356654] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.356655] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a dd 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.357108] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.357111] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.357113] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.357115] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.357116] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 97 00 00 08 00 [52803.357298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.357300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.357302] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.357304] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.357306] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a 04 d7 00 00 08 00 [52803.360374] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.360377] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.360379] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.360382] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.360383] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 b7 00 00 08 00 [52803.360581] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.360584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.360586] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.360588] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.360589] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 c7 00 00 08 00 [52803.361352] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.361355] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.361357] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.361359] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.361360] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e1 af 00 00 08 00 [52803.362096] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362099] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362101] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362103] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362104] Read(10): 28 00 07 0a 64 e7 00 00 08 00 [52803.362555] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362558] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362560] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362562] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362563] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 d7 00 00 08 00 [52803.362747] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362750] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362752] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362754] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362755] Read(10): 28 00 01 4c 12 6f 00 00 08 00 [52803.362977] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362980] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362982] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362984] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362985] Read(10): 28 00 03 85 43 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.365197] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.365200] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.365202] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.365204] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.365206] Read(10): 28 00 07 15 46 4f 00 00 08 00 [52803.365524] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.365527] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.365528] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.365531] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.365532] Read(10): 28 00 07 11 78 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.369355] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.369360] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.369362] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.369365] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.369366] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e2 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.370806] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.370809] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.370811] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.370814] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.370815] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a c6 37 00 00 08 00 [52803.371630] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.371634] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.371636] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.371639] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.371640] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 66 57 00 00 08 00 [52803.371863] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.371867] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.371868] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.371871] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.371872] Read(10): 28 00 00 64 0b df 00 00 08 00 [52803.373467] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.373470] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.373472] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.373474] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.373476] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 83 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.373655] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.373658] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.373660] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.373662] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.373663] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 83 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.374063] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.374066] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.374068] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.374070] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.374071] Read(10): 28 00 08 db d5 5f 00 00 08 00 [52803.374602] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.374605] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.374607] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.374609] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.374611] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a bf a7 00 00 08 00 [52803.375259] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.375264] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.375267] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.375270] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.375272] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 66 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.375515] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.375520] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.375522] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.375526] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.375527] Read(10): 28 00 00 62 54 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.378506] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.378513] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.378516] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.378520] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.378522] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 66 bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.381048] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381054] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381057] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381061] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381063] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.381238] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381242] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381245] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381248] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381250] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.381382] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381386] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381388] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381392] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381394] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.381569] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381573] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381575] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381579] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381581] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.382295] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.382300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.382302] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.382306] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.382307] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.382552] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.382556] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.382558] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.382562] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.382564] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a af 00 00 08 00 [52803.382794] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.382798] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.382801] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.382804] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.382806] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a c7 00 00 08 00 [52803.383269] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.383274] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.383277] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.383280] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.383282] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a f7 00 00 08 00 [52803.383556] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.383560] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.383563] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.383566] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.383568] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b 2f 00 00 08 00 [52803.386185] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.386191] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.386194] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.386198] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.386200] Read(10): 28 00 01 4c 1b bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.386454] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.386458] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.386461] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.386465] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.386467] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b4 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.388320] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.388324] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.388326] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.388328] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.388329] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd de 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.388836] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.388838] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.388839] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.388841] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.388842] Read(10): 28 00 07 57 9f ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.389124] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.389126] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.389127] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.389129] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.389130] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.389244] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.389246] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.389248] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.389249] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.389250] Read(10): 28 00 07 e9 ee ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.390386] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.390389] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.390390] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.390392] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.390393] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a be 0f 00 00 08 00 [52803.390682] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.390685] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.390686] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.390688] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.390689] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b e7 00 00 08 00 [52803.390804] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.390806] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.390808] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.390809] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.390810] Read(10): 28 00 07 ed 17 bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.391449] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.391451] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.391452] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.391454] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.391455] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e5 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.391956] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.391958] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.391960] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.391961] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.391962] Read(10): 28 00 00 b5 86 a7 00 00 08 00 [52803.392293] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.392295] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.392296] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.392298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.392299] Read(10): 28 00 07 18 bf bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.392843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.392845] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.392846] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.392848] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.392849] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b3 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.392929] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.392931] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.392932] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.392934] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.392935] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b3 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.393057] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393059] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393060] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393062] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393063] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 83 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.393286] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393288] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393289] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393291] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393292] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.393720] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393722] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393723] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393725] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393725] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.393806] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393808] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393809] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393810] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393811] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.393892] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393894] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393895] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393896] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393897] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.393974] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393976] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393977] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393978] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393979] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.394298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.394300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.394302] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.394303] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.394304] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d a6 a7 00 00 08 00 [52803.395577] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395582] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395585] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.395721] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395724] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395725] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395726] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395727] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 67 00 00 08 00 [52803.395843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395845] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395846] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395847] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395848] Read(10): 28 00 02 a8 33 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.395960] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395962] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395963] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395965] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395965] Read(10): 28 00 00 b5 ae 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.396077] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396079] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396080] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396082] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396083] Read(10): 28 00 00 63 64 bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.396193] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396195] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396196] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396198] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396199] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e2 e7 00 00 08 00 [52803.396313] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396315] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396316] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396318] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396319] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b9 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.396435] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396437] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396438] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396439] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396441] Read(10): 28 00 02 ce 8e df 00 00 08 00 [52803.396555] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396557] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396558] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396560] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396561] Read(10): 28 00 0e 66 6d f7 00 00 08 00 [52803.396769] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396770] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396772] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396773] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396774] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e4 2f 00 00 08 00 [52803.396886] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396888] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396889] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396890] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396891] Read(10): 28 00 00 63 d4 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.397002] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.397004] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.397005] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.397007] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.397007] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e4 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.400074] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400078] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400079] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400081] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400082] Read(10): 28 00 07 16 c7 5f 00 00 08 00 [52803.400318] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400320] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400322] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400323] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400324] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 01 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.400408] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400410] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400412] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400413] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400414] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 01 0f 00 00 08 00 [52803.400564] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400566] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400568] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400569] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400570] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d d1 d7 00 00 08 00 [52803.400841] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400844] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400846] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400847] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e3 47 00 00 08 00 [52803.401151] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.401153] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.401155] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.401156] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.401157] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b9 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.401310] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.401312] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.401313] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.401315] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.401316] Read(10): 28 00 00 a4 1b 57 00 00 08 00 [52803.401877] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.401879] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.401880] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.401881] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.401882] Read(10): 28 00 0e 66 35 47 00 00 08 00 [52803.402032] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402033] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402034] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402036] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402037] Read(10): 28 00 06 30 69 ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.402148] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402150] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402151] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402153] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402154] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd d8 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.402263] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402265] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402266] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402267] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402268] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d ff 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.402376] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402378] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402379] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402381] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402382] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d ff 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.402490] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402492] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402493] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402495] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402496] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 2f 00 00 08 00 [52803.402602] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402604] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402605] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402607] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402608] Read(10): 28 00 00 b5 ac 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.402715] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402717] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402719] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402720] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402721] Read(10): 28 00 00 e1 18 ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.402829] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402831] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402833] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402834] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402835] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd ea cf 00 00 08 00 [52803.403999] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.404001] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.404003] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.404005] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.404006] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b8 f7 00 00 08 00 [52832.950225] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52832.950230] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52832.950233] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52832.950235] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52832.950237] Write(10): 2a 00 00 60 bf 7f 00 00 08 00 [52832.950247] blk_update_request: 1077 callbacks suppressed [52832.950250] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 6340479 [52832.950253] quiet_error: 1077 callbacks suppressed [52832.950256] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 792552 [52832.950258] lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1 [52832.950269] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52832.950272] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52832.950273] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52832.950276] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52832.950277] Write(10): 2a 00 01 a5 f1 4f 00 00 08 00 [52832.950285] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 27652431 [52832.950287] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 3456546 [52832.950289] lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1

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  • Have you really fixed that problem?

    - by DavidWimbush
    The day before yesterday I saw our main live server's CPU go up to constantly 100% with just the occasional short drop to a lower level. The exact opposite of what you'd want to see. We're log shipping every 15 minutes and part of that involves calling WinRAR to compress the log backups before copying them over. (We're on SQL2005 so there's no native compression and we have bandwidth issues with the connection to our remote site.) I realised the log shipping jobs were taking about 10 minutes and that most of that was spent shipping a 'live' reporting database that is completely rebuilt every 20 minutes. (I'm just trying to keep this stuff alive until I can improve it.) We can rebuild this database in minutes if we have to fail over so I disabled log shipping of that database. The log shipping went down to less than 2 minutes and I went off to the SQL Social evening in London feeling quite pleased with myself. It was a great evening - fun, educational and thought-provoking. Thanks to Simon Sabin & co for laying that on, and thanks too to the guests for making the effort when they must have been pretty worn out after doing DevWeek all day first. The next morning I came down to earth with a bump: CPU still at 100%. WTF? I looked in the activity monitor but it was confusing because some sessions have been running for a long time so it's not a good guide what's using the CPU now. I tried the standard reports showing queries by CPU (average and total) but they only show the top 10 so they just show my big overnight archiving and data cleaning stuff. But the Profiler showed it was four queries used by our new website usage tracking system. Four simple indexes later the CPU was back where it should be: about 20% with occasional short spikes. So the moral is: even when you're convinced you've found the cause and fixed the problem, you HAVE to go back and confirm that the problem has gone. And, yes, I have checked the CPU again today and it's still looking sweet.

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  • JavaFX 2.0 at Devoxx 2011

    - by Janice J. Heiss
    JavaFX Sessions Abound JavaFX had a big presence at Devoxx 2011 as witnessed by the number of sessions this year given by leading JavaFX movers and shakers.     “JavaFX 2.0 -- A Java Developer's Guide” by Java Champions Stephen Chin and Peter Pilgrim     “JavaFX 2.0 Hands On” by Jasper Potts and Richard Bair     “Animation Bringing your User Interfaces to Life” by Michael Heinrichs and John Yoong (JavaFX development team)     “Complete Guide to Writing Custom Bindings in JavaFX 2.0” by Michael Heinrichs (JavaFX development team)     “Java Rich Clients with JavaFX 2.0” by Jasper Potts and Richard Bair     “JavaFX Properties & Bindings for Experts” (and those who want to become experts) by Michael Heinrichs (JavaFX development team)     “JavaFX Under the Hood” by Richard Bair     “JavaFX Open Mic” with Jasper Potts and Richard Bair With the release of JavaFX 2.0 and Oracle’s move towards an open development model with an open bug database already created, it’s a great time for developers to take the JavaFX plunge. One Devoxx attendee, Mark Stephens, a developer at IDRsolutions blogged about a problem he was having setting up JavaFX on NetBeans to work on his Mac. He wrote: “I’ve tried desperate measures (I even read and reread the instructions) but it did not help. Luckily, I am at Devoxx at the moment and there seem to be a lot of JavaFX gurus here (and it is running on all their Macs). So I asked them… It turns out that sometimes the software does not automatically pickup the settings like it should do if you give it the JavaFX SDK path. The solution is actually really simple (isn’t it always once you know). Enter these values manually and it will work.” He simply entered certain values and his problem was solved. He thanked Java Champion Stephen Chin, “for a great talk at Devoxx and putting me out of my misery.” JavaFX in Java Magazine Over in the November/December 2011 issue of Java Magazine, Oracle’s Simon Ritter, well known for his creative Java inventions at JavaOne, has an article up titled “JavaFX and Swing Integration” in which he shows developers how to use the power of JavaFX to migrate Swing interfaces to JavaFX. The consensus among JavaFX experts is that JavaFX is the next step in the evolution of Java as a rich client platform. In the same issue Java Champion and JavaFX maven James Weaver has an article, “Using Transitions for Animation in JavaFX 2.0”. In addition, Oracle’s Vice President of Java Client Development, Nandini Ramani, provides the keys to unlock the mysteries of JavaFX 2.0 in her Java Magazine interview. Look for the JavaFX community to grow and flourish in coming years.

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  • FREE Windows Azure evening in London on April 15th including FREE access to Windows Azure

    - by Eric Nelson
    [Did I overdo the use of FREE in the title? :-)] April 12th to 16th is Microsoft Tech Days – 5 days of sessions on Visual Studio 2010 through to Windows 7 Phone Series. Many of these days are now full (Tip - Thursday still has room if rich client applications is your thing) but the good news is the development community in the UK has pulled together an awesome series of “fringe events” during April in London and elsewhere in the UK. There are sessions on Silverlight, SQL Server 2008 R2, Sharepoint 2010 and … the Windows Azure Platform. The UK AzureNET user group is planning to put on a great evening and AzureNET will be giving away hundreds of free subscriptions to the Windows Azure Platform during the evening. The subscription includes up to 20 Windows Azure Compute nodes and 3 SQL Azure databases for you to play with over the 2 weeks following the event. This is a great opportunity to really explore the Windows Azure Platform in detail – without a credit card! Register now! (and you might also want to join the UK Fans of Azure Community while I have your attention) FYI The Thursday day time event includes an introduction to Windows Azure session delivered by my colleague David – which would be an ideal session to attend if you are new to Azure and want to get the most out of the evening session. 7:00pm: See the difference: How Windows Azure helped build a new way of giving Simon Evans and James Broome (@broomej) They will cover the business context for Azure and then go into patterns used and lessons learnt from the project....as well as showing off the app of course! 8:00pm: UK AzureNET update 8:15pm: NoSQL databases or: How I learned to love the hash table Mark Rendle (@markrendle) In this session Mark will look at how Azure Table Service works and how to use it. We’ll look briefly at the high-level Data Services SDK, talk about its limitations, and then quickly move on to the REST API and how to use it to improve performance and reduce costs. We’ll make-up some pretend real-world problems and solve them in new and interesting ways. We’ll denormalise data (for fun and profit). We’ll talk about how certain social networking sites can deal with huge volumes of data so quickly, and why it sometimes goes wrong. Check out the complete list of fringe events which covers the UK fairly well:

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  • Going Metro

    - by Tony Davis
    When it was announced, I confess was somewhat surprised by the striking new "Metro" User Interface for Windows 8, based on Swiss typography, Bauhaus design, tiles, touches and gestures, and the new Windows Runtime (WinRT) API on which Metro apps were to be built. It all seemed to have come out of nowhere, like field mushrooms in the night and seemed quite out-of-character for a company like Microsoft, which has hung on determinedly for over twenty years to its quaint Windowing system. Many were initially puzzled by the lack of support for plug-ins in the "Metro" version of IE10, which ships with Win8, and the apparent demise of Silverlight, Microsoft's previous 'radical new framework'. Win8 signals the end of the road for Silverlight apps in the browser, but then its importance here has been waning for some time, anyway, now that HTML5 has usurped its most compelling use case, streaming video. As Shawn Wildermuth and others have noted, if you're doing enterprise, desktop development with Silverlight then nothing much changes immediately, though it seems clear that ultimately Silverlight will die off in favor of a single WPF/XAML framework that supports those technologies that were pioneered on the phones and tablets. There is a mystery here. Is Silverlight dead, or merely repurposed? The more you look at Metro, the more it seems to resemble Silverlight. A lot of the philosophies underpinning Silverlight applications, such as the fundamentally asynchronous nature of the design, have moved wholesale into Metro, along with most the Microsoft Silverlight dev team. As Simon Cooper points out, "Silverlight developers, already used to all the principles of sandboxing and separation, will have a much easier time writing Metro apps than desktop developers". Metro certainly has given the framework formerly known as Silverlight a new purpose. It has enabled Microsoft to bestow on Windows 8 a new "duality", as both a traditional desktop OS supporting 'legacy' Windows applications, and an OS that supports a new breed of application that can share functionality such as search, that understands, and can react to, the full range of gestures and screen-sizes, and has location-awareness. It's clear that Win8 is developed in the knowledge that the 'desktop computer' will soon be a very large, tilted, touch-screen monitor. Windows owes its new-found versatility to the lessons learned from Windows Phone, but it's developed for the big screen, and with full support for familiar .NET desktop apps as well as the new Metro apps. But the old mouse-driven Windows applications will soon look very passé, just as MSDOS character-mode applications did in the nineties. Cheers, Tony.

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  • The best Bar on the globe is ... in Seoul/Korea

    - by Mike Dietrich
    As you know already sometimes I write about things which really don't have to do anything with a database upgrade. So if you are looking for tips and tricks and articles about that topic please stop reading now Actually I'm not a lets-go-to-a-bar person. I enjoy good food and a fine dessert wine afterwards. But last week in Seoul/Korea Ryan, our local host, did ask us after a wonderful dinner at a Korean Barbecue place if we'd like to visit a bar. I was really tired as I flew into Seoul overnight from Sunday to Monday arriving Monday early morning, getting shower, breakfast - and then a full day of very good and productive customer meetings. But one thing Ryan mentioned catched my immediate attention: The owner of the bar collects records and has a huge tube amp stereo system - and you can ask him to play your favorite songs. The bar is called "Peter, Paul and Mary" - honestly not my favorite style of music. And I even coulnd't find a webpage or an address - only that little piece of information on Facebook. But after stepping down the stairs to the cellar my eyes almost poped out of my head. This is the audio system: Enourmus huge corner horn loudspeakers from Western Electric. Pretty old I'd suppose but delivering an incredible present dynamics into the room. And plenty of tube equipment from Jadis, NSA Labs and Shindo Laboratories Western Electric 300B Limited amps from Tokyo. And the owner (I was so amazed I had simply forgotten to ask for his name) collects records since 40 years. And we had many wishes that night. Actually when we did enter Peter, Paul and Mary he played an old Helloween song. That must have been destiny. A German entering a bar in Korea and the owner is playing an old song by one of Germany's best heavy metal bands ever. And it went on with the Doors, Rainbow's Stargazer, Scorpions, later Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers, a bit of Santana, Carly Simon, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie ...Ronnie James Dio's Holy Diver, Gary Moore, Peter Gabriel's San Jacinto ... and many many more great songs ... Of course we were the last guests leaving the place at 2am in the morning - and I've never ever had a better night in a bar before ... I could have stayed days listening to so many records  ... Thanks Ryan, that was a phantastic night! -Mike

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  • Oracle Leader in Transportation Management

    - by John Murphy
    Oracle Named a Leader in the Transportation Management Systems Market by Leading Analyst Firm Redwood Shores, Calif. – October 15, 2012 News Facts Gartner, Inc. has placed Oracle Transportation Management in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2012 report, “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS).” (1) Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute on that vision. According to the report, “Multiple subcomponents make up a comprehensive TMS across planning (for example, load consolidation, routing, mode selection and carrier selection) and execution (for example, tendering loads to carriers, shipment track and trace, and freight audit and payment).” Built on modern, flexible, Internet based architecture, Oracle Transportation Management is a global transportation and logistics operations system that allows companies to minimize cost, optimize service levels, support sustainability initiatives, and create flexible business process automation within their transportation and logistics networks. With a share of 26% of worldwide software revenue for 2011, Oracle is also number one in TMS vendor share according to Gartner’s report, “Market Trends: A Golden Opportunity in the Transportation Management System Market, 2012 – 2016.” (2) Supporting Quote “Shippers and logistics service providers face increasingly complex challenges as they try to reduce costs, secure capacity and improve overall freight efficiency,” said Derek Gittoes, vice president, logistics product strategy, Oracle. “We believe our high standing in both Gartner reports is a reflection of Oracle’s commitment to addressing these challenges by delivering the industry’s broadest and deepest transportation management platform. With a flexible and modern platform, we are able to support customers with both basic transportation needs, as well as those with highly complex logistics requirements.” Supporting Resources Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems Market Trends: A Golden Opportunity in the Transportation Management System Market, 2012 – 2016 Oracle Transportation Management (1) Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems,” by C. Dwight Klappich, August 23, 2012 (2) Gartner, Inc., “Market Trends: A Golden Opportunity in the Transportation Management System Market, 2012 – 2016,” by Chad Eschinger and C. Dwight Klappich, September 24, 2012. About Oracle Applications Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go towww.oracle.com/applications About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. ###   Karen [email protected] Simon JonesBlanc & [email protected]

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  • To Serve Man?

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

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  • WebLogic Partner Community Newsletter June 2013

    - by JuergenKress
    Dear WebLogic Partner Community member, This month newsletter contains tons of Java material with the availability of Java EE7! Including many articles in the May/June Java Magazine and the Duke Award nomination! Thanks for all your efforts to become certified and Specialized. For all the experts who achieved the WebLogic Server 12c Certified Implementation Specialist  or ADF 11g Certified Implementation Specialist you can download a logo for your blog or business card at the Competence Center. For all the companies who achieved a WebLogic and ADF Specialization you can request a nice plaque for your office. Summer time is training time – make sure you attend our Fusion Middleware Summer Camps or one of our upcoming Exalogic Implementation Workshop by PTS in Spain, Turkey and Middle East. For those who can not make it we offers plenty of online courses like the New ADF Academy. Or the webcast The value of Engineered Systems for SAP. At our WebLogic Community Workspace (WebLogic Community membership required) you can find Engineered Systems Strategy presentation. Thanks to the community for all the WebLogic best practice papers and tools like Automated provision of Oracle Weblogic Server Platform & Frank’s Coherence videos on YouTube & Create and deploy applications on the Oracle Java Cloud & WebLogic Application redeployment using shared libraries - without downtime & Oracle Traffic Director. The first tests deployments for WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance are on the way, thanks to all who are their experience: Sizing & Configuration and Traffic Director. Virtualised Oracle Database Appliance Proof of Concept - #1 Planning from Simon Haslam. Would be great if you can also share your experience via twitter @wlscommunity! In the ADF section of the newsletter you find Tuning Application Module Pools and Connection Pools & List View - Cool Looking ADF PS6 Component for Collections & Insider Essential & User Interface & Skinning & Oracle Forms to ADF Modernization reference. Great summer time! Jürgen Kress Oracle WebLogic Partner Adoption EMEA To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/WebLogicnewsJune2013 (OPN Account required) To become a member of the WebLogic Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: WebLogic Community newsletter,newsletter,WebLogic,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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  • Don't Miss At Devoxx!!!

    - by Yolande Poirier
    Come by IoT Hack Fest which starts with the session: kickstart your Raspberry Pi and/or Leap Motion project, part II on Tuesday from 9:30am to 12:00pm to learn how to start a project with the Raspberry Pi and Leap Motion. In the afternoon, you can still join a project and create your own project with the help of experts on Raspberry Pi, Leap Motion and other boards.  At the Oracle booth, Java experts will be available  to answer your  questions and demo the new features of the Java Platform, including Java Embedded, JavaFX, Java SE and Java EE. This year, the chess game that was first demoed at JavaOne keynotes last September will be showcased at Devoxx.  Duke is coming to Devoxx this year. You can get your picture taken with Duke on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Nov. 12-14) from 12:00 to 18:00 Beer bash will be Tuesday from 17:30-19:30 and Wednesday/Thursday from 18:00 to 20:00 at the booth. Oracle is raffling off five Raspberry Pi's and a number of books every day. Make sure to stop by and get your badge scanned to enter the raffle. Raffles are Tuesday at 19:15 and Wednesday/Thursday at 19:45 at the Oracle booth.  The main conference sessions from Oracle Java experts are:  Wednesday 13 November Beyond Beauty: JavaFX, Parallax, Touch, Raspberry Pi, Gyroscopes, and Much More Angela Caicedo, Senior Member, Technical Staff, Oracle Room 7, 12:00–13:00 Lambda: A Peek Under the Hood, Brian Goetz, Software Architect, Oracle Room 8, 12:00–13:00 In Full Flow: Java 8 Lambdas in the Stream, Paul Sandoz, Software Developer, Oracle Room 8, 14:00–15:00 The Modular Java Platform and Project Jigsaw, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle, Room 8, 15:10–16:10 The Curious Case of JavaScript on the JVM, Attila Szegedi, Principal Member, Technical Staff, Oracle, Room 5, 16:40–17:40 Is It a Car? Is It a Computer? No, It’s a Raspberry Pi JavaFX Informatics System. Simon Ritter, Principal Technology Evangelist, Oracle Room 7, 16:40–17:40 Thursday 14 November Java EE 7: What’s New in the Java EE Platform Linda DeMichiel, Consulting Member, Technical Staff, Oracle, Room 8, 10:50–11:50 Java Microbenchmark Harness: The Lesser of the Two Evils, Aleksey Shipilev, Principal Member, Technical Staff, Oracle. Room 6, 14:00–15:00 Practical Restful Persistence, Shaun Smith, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Room 8, 17:50–18:50 Friday 15 November Avatar.js, Server-Side JavaScript on the Java Platform, Jean-Francois Denise, Software Developer, Oracle Room 8, 11:50–12:50

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  • vJUG: Worldwide Virtual JUG Created

    - by Tori Wieldt
    London Java Community leader and technical evangelist Simon Maple has created a Meetup called vJUG, with aim toward connecting Java Developers in the virtual world. The aim for vJUG is: Get technical leaders from around the world to present to the vJUG members (without travel cost concerns!). Work with local JUGs to provide worldwide content to their members and help JUGs present to a worldwide audience. Provide content to devs without access to a local JUG. Be a hub that will stream content from other JUG sessions live.  The vJUG is not intended to replace local JUG efforts. "The vJUG can never be, and will never be, as vibrant and valuable to its members as a proper local JUG can. Why? Because the true value in JUG meetings are the face to face interactions and personal networking," said Maple. "However, many people do not have access to a really active JUG with great speakers and awesome content. Or, like me, the closest JUG is about 90 mins away." WebEx and Google Hangouts are great, Maple explained, he hopes vJUG will provide more coordination of online events.  Maple hopes that in the future, vJUG will provide An Events calendar with reminders and links to up coming meetings. A Newsletter with what's coming up and links to previous sessions. Coordination of links to IRC channels which are active during presentations (to create a feeling of virtual community). Comments and forums around sessions and presentations A place where physical JUGs could advertise their sessions (i.e. a NY JUG event) to a worldwide audience, when streamed, via an event that people can sign up to. A common Webex or Hangout. Maple encourages both people who need a JUG and existing JUG members to join vJUG. "I'm looking forward to talking with many of you one to get members, speakers, and JUG support!" Join vJUG now! (I sense a need for a logo...) 

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  • SQL Developer Blitz at ODTUG Kscope12

    - by thatjeffsmith
    Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) puts on an outstanding event, and I enjoy that the content comes FIRST. Yes, the after-event parties and entertainment are first class, but I look forward most to sitting in on some excellent sessions. For Kscope12 one would expect Oracle to have a large presence, and you would be absolutely correct! The APEX team will be there in full force, and we’ll have sessions on JDeveloper, ADF, and .NET. But what I want to talk about today is our awesome line-up of coverage for Oracle SQL Developer (Surprise!) DB and Developer’s Toolbox Symposium Kris Rice or @krisrice, Product Development Manager for SQL Developer, will speak at 10AM Sunday about SQL Developer Data Modeler. Our free data modeling solution allows one to reverse engineer a data dictionary to a model, modify it, and create a script of the changes. Collaboration is an important part of any development team; with built-in subversion support, the modeler makes collaboration easy, not just possible. After the morning break, I’ll be talking about SQL Developer’s PL/SQL support. From creating your code, to debugging, tuning, testing, and documenting PL/SQL – SQL Developer fits the bill. Since I have a full hour, I should have time to do a little riff on using source control to version and manage your revisions too! At 3:15 Jagan Athreya will talk about the new integration between SQL Developer and Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. Enabling developers to define changes in SQLDeveloper and allowing DBAs to promote these changes to Test and Production via Enterprise Manager will reduce errors, accelerate productivity, and help eliminate unplanned downtime. Get your SQL Developer groove on at ODTUG Kscope12! Presentations SQL Developer Tips and Tricks Monday June 25, Session 5, 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm I’ll take you through my favorite keyboard shortcuts, top 10 preferences every user should tweak, and spotlight features that the average user probably hasn’t discovered yet. My goal for this session is for everyone to take 1-2 tips they can implement immediately to save mucho time. I enjoy interacting with the audience so no two versions of this presentation are the same. Oracle SQL Developer and Data Modeler New Features When: Tuesday June 26, Session 6, 8:30 am – 9:30 am Ashley Chen, my PM-partner-in-crime, will be covering all the new features from our two latest updates. So if you’re new to SQL Developer, or you’ve been using an older version, stop by and see what new toys you have to play with. I also have a bet with Ashley that she will have more attendees than me, so be sure to show up so I can collect. Debugging PL/SQL With SQL Developer When: Wednesday June 27, Session 16, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Me again – sorry. This time I have an entire hour to JUST talk about PL/SQL and debugging! Should you use a watch with a break condition, or a breakpoint with a passcount? How does external debugging with a Perl script work? Can I just debug an anonymous PL/SQL block. So if debugging to you is just a DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE() call, stop by and see how our IDE can help you take things to the next level! Or is that level++? Hands-on-Training SQL Developer Soup to Nuts When: Tuesday, 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM If you learn by doing, this is the session for you. Bring your own laptop or use one of the lab machines. We’ll give you a VirtualBox OEL image running 11gR2 EE Database with all the fixin’s (that’s Southern speak for Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Tuning & Diagnostic Packs, etc), TimesTen, APEX and much more. All you have to do is login and run through our lab exercises. You can start with a model and work your way up to debugging and testing your own appliction, or you can pick and choose your lessons to suit your needs. We’ll have people on hand to help you out and answer your questions. Booth Hours We’ll be in the vendor area and have our very own ‘demo pod’ for SQL Developer. Between Kris, Ashley, and I we should be able to answer your questions or show you how to ‘do that thing’ in the tool. Or just stop by and say hello! We’ll be around the following hours’ish: Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Monday, June 25, 2012 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:15 AM – 2:00 PM No Excuses – If You Have Questions, This is Your Chance to Get Your Answers! We’re doing just about everything outside of a scavenger hunt to bring information and value to our users. Let us know what you like, what you don’t like, and we’ll do our best to do more of the former and less of the latter!

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  • HAProxy + NodeJS gets stuck on TCP Retransmission

    - by sled
    I have a HAProxy + NodeJS + Rails Setup, I use the NodeJS Server for file upload purposes. The problem I'm facing is that if I'm uploading through haproxy to nodejs and a "TCP (Fast) Retransmission" occurs because of a lost packet the TX rate on the client drops to zero for about 5-10 secs and gets flooded with TCP Retransmissions. This does not occur if I upload to NodeJS directly (TCP Retransmission happens too but it doesn't get stuck with dozens of retransmission attempts). My test setup is a simple HTML4 FORM (method POST) with a single file input field. The NodeJS Server only reads the incoming data and does nothing else. I've tested this on multiple machines, networks, browsers, always the same issue. Here's a TCP Traffic Dump from the client while uploading a file: ..... TCP 1506 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] >> everything is uploading fine until: TCP 1506 [TCP Fast Retransmission] [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] TCP 66 [TCP Dup ACK 7392#1] 63265 > http [ACK] Seq=4844161 Ack=1 Win=524280 Len=0 TSval=657047088 TSecr=79373730 TCP 1506 [TCP Retransmission] [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] >> the last message is repeated about 50 times for >>5-10 secs<< (TX drops to 0 on client, RX drops to 0 on server) TCP 1506 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] >> upload continues until the next TCP Fast Retransmission and the same thing happens again The haproxy.conf (haproxy v1.4.18 stable) is the following: global log 127.0.0.1 local1 debug maxconn 4096 # Total Max Connections. This is dependent on ulimit nbproc 2 defaults log global mode http option httplog option tcplog frontend http-in bind *:80 timeout client 6000 acl is_websocket path_beg /node/ use_backend node_backend if is_websocket default_backend app_backend # Rails Server (via nginx+passenger) backend app_backend option httpclose option forwardfor timeout server 30000 timeout connect 4000 server app1 127.0.0.1:3000 # node.js backend node_backend reqrep ^([^\ ]*)\ /node/(.*) \1\ /\2 option httpclose option forwardfor timeout queue 5000 timeout server 6000 timeout connect 5000 server node1 127.0.0.1:3200 weight 1 maxconn 4096 Thanks for reading! :) Simon

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  • Measuring Usability with Common Industry Format (CIF) Usability Tests

    - by Applications User Experience
    Sean Rice, Manager, Applications User Experience A User-centered Research and Design Process The Oracle Fusion Applications user experience was five years in the making. The development of this suite included an extensive and comprehensive user experience design process: ethnographic research, low-fidelity workflow prototyping, high fidelity user interface (UI) prototyping, iterative formative usability testing, development feedback and iteration, and sales and customer evaluation throughout the design cycle. However, this process does not stop when our products are released. We conduct summative usability testing using the ISO 25062 Common Industry Format (CIF) for usability test reports as an organizational framework. CIF tests allow us to measure the overall usability of our released products.  These studies provide benchmarks that allow for comparisons of a specific product release against previous versions of our product and against other products in the marketplace. What Is a CIF Usability Test? CIF refers to the internationally standardized method for reporting usability test findings used by the software industry. The CIF is based on a formal, lab-based test that is used to benchmark the usability of a product in terms of human performance and subjective data. The CIF was developed and is endorsed by more than 375 software customer and vendor organizations led by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a US government entity. NIST sponsored the CIF through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards-making processes. Oracle played a key role in developing the CIF. The CIF report format and metrics are consistent with the ISO 9241-11 definition of usability: “The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.” Our goal in conducting CIF tests is to measure performance and satisfaction of a representative sample of users on a set of core tasks and to help predict how usable a product will be with the larger population of customers. Why Do We Perform CIF Testing? The overarching purpose of the CIF for usability test reports is to promote incorporation of usability as part of the procurement decision-making process for interactive products. CIF provides a common format for vendors to report the methods and results of usability tests to customer organizations, and enables customers to compare the usability of our software to that of other suppliers. CIF also enables us to compare our current software with previous versions of our software. CIF Testing for Fusion Applications Oracle Fusion Applications comprises more than 100 modules in seven different product families. These modules encompass more than 400 task flows and 400 user roles. Due to resource constraints, we cannot perform comprehensive CIF testing across the entire product suite. Therefore, we had to develop meaningful inclusion criteria and work with other stakeholders across the applications development organization to prioritize product areas for testing. Ultimately, we want to test the product areas for which customers might be most interested in seeing CIF data. We also want to build credibility with customers; we need to be able to make the case to current and prospective customers that the product areas tested are representative of the product suite as a whole. Our goal is to test the top use cases for each product. The primary activity in the scoping process was to work with the individual product teams to identify the key products and business process task flows in each product to test. We prioritized these products and flows through a series of negotiations among the user experience managers, product strategy, and product management directors for each of the primary product families within the Oracle Fusion Applications suite (Human Capital Management, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Financials, Projects, and Procurement). The end result of the scoping exercise was a list of 47 proposed CIF tests for the Fusion Applications product suite.  Figure 1. A participant completes tasks during a usability test in Oracle’s Usability Labs Fusion Supplier Portal CIF Test The first Fusion CIF test was completed on the Supplier Portal application in July of 2011.  Fusion Supplier Portal is part of an integrated suite of Procurement applications that helps supplier companies manage orders, schedules, shipments, invoices, negotiations and payments. The user roles targeted for the usability study were Supplier Account Receivables Specialists and Supplier Sales Representatives, including both experienced and inexperienced users across a wide demographic range.  The test specifically focused on the following functionality and features: Manage payments – view payments Manage invoices – view invoice status and create invoices Manage account information – create new contact, review bank account information Manage agreements – find and view agreement, upload agreement lines, confirm status of agreement lines upload Manage purchase orders (PO) – view history of PO, request change to PO, find orders Manage negotiations – respond to request for a quote, check the status of a negotiation response These product areas were selected to represent the most important subset of features and functionality of the flow, in terms of frequency and criticality of use by customers. A total of 20 users participated in the usability study. The results of the Supplier Portal evaluation were favorable and exceeded our expectations. Figure 2. Fusion Supplier Portal Next Studies We plan to conduct two Fusion CIF usability studies per product family over the next nine months. The next product to be tested will be Self-service Procurement. End users are currently being recruited to participate in this usability study, and the test sessions are scheduled to begin during the last week of November.

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  • prevalent, recurring hardrive failure intel macbook from 2006/2007

    - by SimonSalman
    Hi, Long story: My MacBook's hard drive failed one year ago, just a month after its warranty ended or: a year and a month after I bought it. After about ten phone calls to Apple's service, they agreed to extend the warranty for another year, so that I got it replaced free of charge. In the mean time, I got to know that many MacBook users that experience/report hard drive failures. Every reported crash was preceded by a slowdown of system performance, an increased occurrence of the spinning beach ball wait courser, and frequent crashes of applications that used to run very robust until then. It happened (as far as I know) with MacBooks from 2006/2007. All these MacBooks additionally suffer from a recurring wearing down of their "top case". Many heavy users had to replace their HDDs three time since 2006/2007 resulting in an head crash, making it impossible to recover data (diagnosis of recovery specialists) in most but not all cases HDD was Seagate (doesn't necessarily have to be the cause, if majority of the MacBook charge contained Seagate drives) And right now (one year after my first disk crash), these symptoms are cumulating on my system, again ... Short version: prevalent hard drive failure on MacBook charge from 2006/2007 (i.e. 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Due) I am looking for any (preferable open source) tool for checking the hard drive condition, especially to detect the known "MacBook problem". So, that I can replace the disk on time. If any Mac user found a solution to prevent the repeated failure of heir hard drive, I would be very glad to get to known it. I really enjoy my old MacBook, but I hate to get interrupted every year by an HDD crash. BTW, the issue is already in discussion for a long time, but there seems to be no solution, so far. Thanks, Simon

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  • 9000+ different subdomains 301 to main domain, .htacess apache

    - by Karim
    I bought a domain that had various subdomains such as Kim.domain.com/whatever john.domain.com/whatever1 Lizo.domain.com/whatever2 Simon.domain.com/whatever1 And this was in the thousands, and also had links to these pages I'd like to do a 301 redirect for all these urls into http://domain.com Any idea how this could be done? This is for a apache web server and needs to be done via .htaccess I have implemented the solution from reading the answer below. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. domain.com$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http:/ / www. domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] However I have a slight problem, I would like to redirect all subdomains + subfolders to http://www. domain.com/ With the exception of http: //domain. com/subfolder/, in which case I would like to redirect to http: // www.domain. com/subfolder/ [i.e. exception for no subdomain] I'm guessing I need to add an exception, what can I do to implement this. Note: example URLs above have had spaces added to them to prevent spam blocks for blocking the post.

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  • samba access from win98

    - by SimonSalman
    Hello, the admin installed a new file server in our institute: OpenSuse 11.1 with Samba 3.2.7-11.3.2-2154-SUSE-CODE11. They copied the smb.conf from the old machine (hosting Samba 3.0.0) to the new one. Everything works as before, but one Windows 98 machine can see but not access the file server. It prompts for user authentication, but will not accept any user-password combination. There exists a lot of discussion about the problem on the net, but none provided a clear answer to the problem. EDIT: 1. I changed Win98 registry enable plain-text passwords, and alternatively changed server's smb.conf and /etc/smbpasswd to accept encrypted passwords 2. Further I provide a profile with a user-password combination on Win98 machine similar to one of the samba users-password combinations. 3. I changed smb.conf such that the samba server is the Local Master Browser all these changes are not necessary when using the older samba server. So, I conclude that a configuration problem on the server side is likely. If you need any further information, I will post them here. Best regards, Simon

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  • Get values from HTML in a multidimensional array and calculate values using PHP

    - by Frank Nwoko
    I have searched but could not get solution on this issue. I am working on an application which will generate unknown number of items and have users select the quantity from a drop down against each item. Eg. Item(s) | price | Select qty Rice 23 3 Beans 22 4 Eggs 52 5 ... ... ... unknown Please, how can I capture the above in an array and also calculate the total value for all selected items and corresponding fees? I have the following HTML code: <form id='form1' name='form1' method='post' action='item_calc.php'> <?php ..... while($t_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($get_items)) { echo "<p><label>$t_row['$item_name'] <input type='text' READONLY name='item_price[]' value='$t_row['$item_price']' /></label> <input type='text' READONLY name='item_fees[]' value='$t_row['$item_fee']' /> <select name="item_qty"> <option value="1"> <option value="2"> <option value="3"> <option value="4"> <option value="5"> </select> </p><p>"; } echo "<label><input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit' /></label></p> </form>"; Please, how can I get item_price[] + item_fees[] * item_qty for all selected items? This is what I have tried: for ($i = 0; $i < count($_POST['item_price']); $i++) { // Do something here with $_POST['checkbx'][$i] foreach ($_POST['item_fees'] as $tkey => $tvalue) { //echo "Key: $tkey; Value: $tvalue<br>"; } foreach ($_POST['item_price'] as $pkey => $pvalue) { //echo "Key: $pkey; Value: $pvalue<br>"; } $total = $tvalue + $pvalue; } echo $total;

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  • JavaOne Tutorial Report - JavaFX 2 – A Java Developer’s Guide

    - by Janice J. Heiss
    Oracle Java Technology Evangelist Stephen Chin and Independent Consultant Peter Pilgrim presented a tutorial session intended to help developers get a handle on JavaFX 2. Stephen Chin, a Java Champion, is co-author of the Pro JavaFX Platform 2, while Java Champion Peter Pilgrim is an independent consultant who works out of London.NightHacking with Stephen ChinBefore discussing the tutorial, a note about Chin’s “NightHacking Tour,” wherein from 10/29/12 to 11/11/12, he will be traveling across Europe via motorcycle stopping at JUGs and interviewing Java developers and offering live video streaming of the journey. As he says, “Along the way, I will visit user groups, interviewing interesting folks, and hack on open source projects. The last stop will be the Devoxx conference in Belgium.”It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it. His trip will take him from the UK through the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and finally to Devoxx in Belgium. He has interviews lined up with Ben Evans, Trisha Gee, Stephen Coulebourne, Martijn Verburg, Simon Ritter, Bert Ertman, Tony Epple, Adam Bien, Michael Hutterman, Sven Reimers, Andres Almiray, Gerrit Grunewald, Bertrand Boetzmann, Luc Duponcheel, Stephen Janssen, Cheryl Miller, and Andrew Phillips. If you expect to be in Chin’s vicinity at the end of October and in early November, by all means get in touch with him at his site and add your perspective. The more the merrier! Taking the JavaFX PlungeNow to the business at hand. The “JavaFX 2 – A Java Developer’s Guide” tutorial introduced Java developers to the JavaFX 2 platform from the perspective of seasoned Java developers. It demonstrated the breadth of the JavaFX APIs through examples that are built out in the course of the session in an effort to present the basic requirements in using JavaFX to build rich internet applications. Chin began with a quote from Oracle’s Christopher Oliver, the creator of F3, the original version of JavaFX, on the importance of GUIs:“At the end of the day, on the one hand we have computer systems, and on the other, people. Connecting them together, and allowing people to interact with computer systems in a compelling way, requires graphical user interfaces.”Chin explained that JavaFX is about producing an immersive application experience that involves cross-platform animation, video and charting. It can integrate Java, JavaScript and HTML in the same application. The new graphics stack takes advantage of hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D applications. In addition, we can integrate Swing applications using JFXPanel.He reminded attendees that they were building JavaFX apps using pure Java APIs that included builders for declarative construction; in addition, alternative languages can be used for simpler UI creation. In addition, developers can call upon alternative languages such as GroovyFX, ScalaFX and Visage, if they want simpler UI creation. He presented the fundamentals of JavaFX 2.0: properties, lists and binding and then explored primitive, object and FX list collection properties. Properties in JavaFX are observable, lazy and type safe. He then provided an example of property declaration in code.  Pilgrim and Chin explained the architectural structure of JavaFX 2 and its basic properties:JavaFX 2.0 properties – Primitive, Object, and FX List Collection properties. * Primitive Properties* Object Properties* FX List Collection Properties* Properties are:– Observable– Lazy– Type SafeChin and Pilgrim then took attendees through several participatory demos and got deep into the weeds of the code for the two-hour session. At the end, everyone knew a lot more about the inner workings of JavaFX 2.0.

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  • Is Microsoft&rsquo;s Cloud Bet Placed on the Ground?

    - by andrewbrust
    Today at the Unversity of Washington, Steve Ballmer gave a speech on Microsoft’s cloud strategy.  Significantly, Azure was only briefly mentioned and was not shown.  Instead, Ballmer spoke about what he called the five “dimensions” of the cloud, and used that as the basis for an almost philosophical discussion.  Ballmer opined on how the cloud should be distinguished from the Internet.as well as what the cloud will and should enable.  Ballmer worked hard to portray the cloud not as a challenger to Windows and PCs (as Google would certainly suggest it is) but  really as just the latest peripheral that adds value to PCs and devices. At one point during his speech, Ballmer said “We start with Windows at Microsoft.  It’s the most popular smart device on the planet.  And our design center for the future of Windows is to make it one of those smarter devices that the cloud really wants.”  I’m not sure I agree with Ballmer’s ambition here, but I must admit he’s taken the “software + services” concept and expanded on it in more consumer-friendly fashion. There were demos too.  For example, Blaise Aguera y Arcas reprised his Bing Maps demo from the TED conference held last month.  And Simon Atwell showed how Microsoft has teamed with Sky TV in the UK to turn Xbox into something that looks uncannily like Windows Media Center.  Specifically, an Xbox console app called Sky Player provides full access to Sky’s on-demand programming but also live TV access to an array of networks carried on its home TV service, complete with an on-screen programming guide.  Windows Phone 7 Series was shown quickly and Ballmer told us that while Windows Mobile/Phone 6.5 and earlier were designed for voice and legacy functionality, Windows Phone 7 Series is designed for the cloud. Over and over during Ballmer’s talk (and those of his guest demo presenters), the message was clear: Microsoft believes that client (“smart”) devices, and not mere HTML terminals, are the technologies to best deliver on the promise of the cloud.  The message was that PCs running Windows, game consoles and smart phones  whose native interfaces are Internet-connected offer the most effective way to utilize cloud capabilities.  Even the Bing Maps demo conveyed this message, because the advanced technology shown in the demo uses Silverlight (and thus the PCs computing power), and not AJAX (which relies only upon the browser’s native scripting and rendering capabilities) to produce the impressive interface shown to the audience. Microsoft’s new slogan, with respect to the cloud, is “we’re all in.”  Just as a Texas Hold ‘em player bets his entire stash of chips when he goes all in, so too is Microsoft “betting the company” on the cloud.  But it would seem that Microsoft’s bet isn’t on the cloud in a pure sense, and is instead on the power of the cloud to fuel new growth in PCs and other client devices, Microsoft’s traditional comfort zone.  Is that a bet or a hedge?  If the latter, is Microsoft truly all in?  I don’t really know.  I think many people would say this is a sucker’s bet.  But others would say it’s suckers who bet against Microsoft.  No matter what, the burden is on Microsoft to prove this contrarian view of the cloud is a sensible one.  To do that, they’ll need to deliver on cloud-connected device innovation.  And to do that, the whole company will need to feel that victory is crucial.  Time will tell.  And I expect to present progress reports in future posts.

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  • Unclaimed user group prizes, Live meeting on Monday, Next weeks UG, SQLRelay and more prizes

    - by Testas
      Hi Everyone Firstly I want to let you know that I finally found the LINQ book prize winners and the list of people at the bottom of this email are owed a LINQ book. This will be given out at next week’s UG meeting Live meeting with Carolyn Chau, Program Manager at Microsoft on Monday! It is very rare that we get the opportunity to have a Live meeting with a Program Manager in Redmond. Carolyn Chau will be presenting PowerView next Monday at 8pm. Live meeting details can be found on http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/388/Live-Meeting-on-SQL-Server-2012-PowerView-with-Carolyn-Chau-Principal-Program-Manager-in-the-Reporting-Services-in-association-with-SQLPASS-SQLServerFAQ-and-SQLBits.aspx Next week’s UG!! We welcome Mark Broadbent to Manchester next week where he will be presenting his session on SQL Server 2012 on Windows Core. We also hand out the unclaimed prizes. Register at http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/369/Thursday-night-meeting-at-BSS-with-Chris-TestaONeill-and-Mark-Broadbent.aspx Chris Webb is in Manchester!!! Chris Webb will be speaking at the Manchester SQL Server UG on 4th July. He will also be running his Real World Cube Design and Performance Tuning with Analysis Services between the 3rd – 5th July. If you want to attend then you can sign up at the link below http://www.technitrain.com/coursedetail.php?c=13&trackingcode=FAQ SQLRelay and a Special Prize and Jamie Thomson comes to Manchester!!!! SQLRelay takes place in Manchester on the 22nd. We have a special guest, after years of asking Jamie Thomson is coming to Manchester. The SSIS Junkie will be gracing us with his presence with a talk on SSIS 2012. Also we have a prize. Know a friend or colleague who would benefit from SQLRelay? Get them to register at www.sqlserverfaq.com and then register for the event http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/373/ALL-DAY-TUESDAY-EVENT-12-hours-of-SQL-Server-2012-at-the-SQLRelay-meeting-at-the-COOP-Manchester.aspx Then send an email to [email protected] with the subject of SQLFriend with the name of your friend. If you are both at the SQLRelay event on the day and your names are pulled out of the hat you will win a PASS 2011 DVD and your friend will win the “Best of PASS DVD 2011” worth  $1000 courtesy of SQLPASS. The draw will take place between 4.30pm – 5pm on the day. SQLBits feedback!!!!! Attended SQLBits? We really need to know your opinion. Please fill out the survey for the days you attended If you attended any of the days at SQLBits please can you all fill out the following survey http://www.sqlbits.com/SQLBitsX If you attended the Thursday Training day then please fill out the following survey: http://www.sqlbits.com/SQLBitsXThursday If you attended the Friday Deep Dives day then please fill out the following survey: http://www.sqlbits.com/SQLBitsXFriday If you attended the Saturday Community day then please fill out the following survey: http://www.sqlbits.com/SQLBitsXSaturday Thanks   Chris and Martin   LINQ BOOK winners Andrew Birds Chris Kennedy Dave Carpenter David Forrester Ian Ringrose James Cullen James Simpson Kevan Riley Kirsty Hunter Martin Bell Martin Croft Michael Docherty Naga Anand Ram Mangipudi Neal Atkinson Nick Colebourn Pavel Nefyodov Ralph Baines Rick Hibbert saad saleh Simon Enion Stan Venn Steve Powell Stuart Quinn

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  • Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 -- #1056

    - by Dave Campbell
    In this Issue: Joost van Schaik, Manas Patnaik, Kevin Hoffman, Jesse Liberty, Deborah Kurata, Dhananjay Kumar, Dennis Delimarsky, Samuel Jack, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jfo. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How I let the trees grow" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior" Joost van Schaik Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has their top 5 from last week posted, plus the ECOContest is ready to be voted on: SilverlightShow for Feb 28 - March 06, 2011 Drew DeVault is a young man involved with the Microsoft Student Insiders. He gave a WP7 presentation at RMTT and has posted his material: Post-Session: Windows Phone 7 @ RMTT Rui Marinho has an app in the ECO Contest called Forest Findr. is based on the BIng Map Control for silverlight and Sql Spatial data, and helps you find Forests and get geolocated pictures and wikipedia information, and has a post up with a bunch of info on it here: Forest Findr. my entry on the SilverlightShow EcoContest From SilverlightCream.com: Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior Joost van Schaik has a behavior that makes *anything* draggable and 'flickable' in WP7 ... read the intro, scroll to the bottom to watch the demo, and then grab up the code... cool stuff, Joost! Data Aggregation Using Presentation Model in RIA and Silverlight 4 Manas Patnaik sent me a link to his blog, and it appears he's got lots of Silverlight goodness out there so you'll be hearing more about him. This first post is on the Presentation Model in RIA and Silverlight 4... good discussion, diagrams and code... good job, Manas! WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Advanced UI Kevin Hoffman has part 3 of an ambitious 12-part tutorial series up on WP7 development ... this go-around is concentrating on Advanced UI - Panorama/Pivot controls, DataBinding, ObservableCollections, and Converters... whew! Sterling DB on top of Isolated Storage – 2 Jesse Liberty has part 2 of his Sterling series up... this time setting up the database in App.xaml so it can be used for dealing with tombstoning. Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Tick Marks Deborah Kurata's next chart tutorial is all about showing you how to continue to dress up your charts.. this time by formatting the tick marks... if you don't know what that is... check out the first image in the post. Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service Dhananjay Kumar has a very nice tutorial up on using a stored proc with WCF Data Services... I happen to know someone working on just that at this time. If you have this in mind, here's a step-by-step guide to getting it done. Windows Phone 7 – Episode 5 – Pages Dennis Delimarsky has part 5 of his WP7 tutorial series up and is discussing Pages in this 17 minute video. Unpacking Simon Squared: My mini framework-independent animation library Samuel Jack has not only Open-Sourced the WP7 game he built and blogged about, but he's now explaining some of the structure of the game in posts such as this one about the animation library he wrote that his game is built on. How I let the trees grow Peter Kuhn shares with us the code he used for the tree animation in his ECO Contest entry. There's a lot to learn in this post about performance ... the fully-animated tree has about 20K elements... 5K branches and 20K leaves... check it out. WP7 ToastPrompt in depth WindowsPhoneGeek takes a deep dive into the ToastPrompt control in the Coding4fun Toolkit... everything you need to completely use the control including sample code. Beware the loaded event Jfo talks about another frustration point she had with WP7 development, and that is around the use of the loaded event... read these tips from someone that's been there. Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SilverlightNews | Twitter WynApse | WynApse.com | Tagged Posts | SilverlightCream Join me @ SilverlightCream | Phoenix Silverlight User Group Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

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