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  • Strange Happenings

    - by MOSSLover
    There are weeks we go about our life thinking nothing is going to change nothing will happen.  Then there are other weeks a billion things happen at once.  Friday started off very weird for me.  I flew into Atlanta and I met some cool people for another SharePoint event.  I had some good conversations.  Saturday then hit me and my virtual machine bombed in my presentation after the auto updater ran.  I was writing code on the board and describing everything in notepad.  I would say as presentations go it was the best and the worst presentation all wrapped into one.  The next day I was in Baltimore and I hung out with my aunt which was relatively uneventful and great.  Then Monday hit and half my presentations failed or succeeded and my screen freezes so I start describing the code.  I was on top of my game until Monday night.  On top of the world.  I'm exhausted I get into Raleigh and one of the craziest stories of my life happens.  So my boss has been renting cars through Priceline this week I got a different company than the other weeks. The company gives me a Ford Focus and I plug in the coordinates on my IPhone where I want go.  I head out and then I get to the destination hotel (or I thought I did). I go inside it's the wrong hotel the other one is a few miles away.  I walk outside hop into the car and it sounds like a gunshot.  Nothing is starting...Am I doing something wrong?  No I'm not the car is completely dead in the water.  I call the rental car facility and they tell me to call roadside they are closing for the night.  Roadside says they can't give me a new car but they can get me a jump then I have to take it up with the facility.  They send me a tow truck to give me a jump the guy can't jump the car.  He tells me this vehicle was towed about an hour ago.  He shows me a copy of a slip from when he towed it.  We also notice the rental car company left one of there price scanning guns in the vehicle.  I call up roadside and now they are interested in getting me a car because I need to be onsite tomorrow.  They get the manager of the facility on the phone he apologizes profusely and he says he'll be there in 10 minutes.  About 30 minutes pass and him plus another dude show up with a Ford Escape leather interior.  At this point I hand him the gun tell him someone left it in the vehicle and that I'm not so happy with them.  I ask them to comp my rental they can't due to Priceline, however if I call him again this week he can get me a voucher.  It's about 2 am and I'm ready to get to the hotel I don't make it in the next morning until 10 am.  I would say this was a crazy week all forms of technology are trying to tell me something.  What I have no idea, but we'll see the outcome soon.  I feel so weird tons of change is about to happen.  I don't know if it's good or bad.  I think this week is some form of omen.

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  • Xsigo and Oracle's Storage

    - by Philippe Deverchère
    Xsigo, a virtual network infrastructure provider, has recently been acquired by Oracle. Following this acquisition, one might ask ourselves why it is important to Oracle and how Oracle's storage is going to benefit on the long term from this virtualized infrastructure layer. Well, the first thing to understand is that Virtual Networking addresses both network and storage connectivity. Oracle Virtual Networking, as the Xsigo technology is now called, connects any server to any network and storage, so this is not just about connecting servers to the Internet or Intranet. It is also for a large part connecting servers to NAS and SAN storage. Connecting servers to storage has become increasingly complex in the past few years because of the strong emergence of virtualization at the Operating System level. 50% of enterprise workloads are now virtualized, up from 18% in 2009, resulting in a strong consolidation of various applications in a high density server footprint. At the same time, server I/O capability increased 8x in the last 8 years. All this has pushed IT administrators to multiply the number of I/O connections in the back-end of their physical servers, resulting in a messy and very hard to manage networking infrastructure. Here is a typical view of a rack back-end when no virtual networking is used. We consider that today: - 75% of users have ten or more Ethernet ports per server - 85% of users have two or more SAN ports per server - 58% have had to add connectivity to a server specifically for VMs - 65% consider cable reduction a priority The average is 12 or more ports per server, resulting in an extremely complex infrastructure to manage. What Oracle wants to achieve with its Oracle Virtual Networking offering is pretty simple. The objective is to eliminate the complexity through a dramatic reduction of cabling between servers and storage/networks. It is also to provide a software based management system so that any server can be connected to any network or any storage, on demand, and without physical intervention on the infrastructure. At the end of the day, the picture on the left shows what one wants to get for the back-end of customer's racks: just a couple of connections on each physical server to provide a simple, agile and fast network infrastructure for both storage and networking access. This is exactly what the Oracle Virtual Networking solution does. It transforms a complex, error-prone, difficult to manage and expensive networking infrastructure into a simple, high performance and agile solution for the data center. Practically speaking, and for the sake of simplicity, imagine that each server just hosts a minimal number of physical InfiniBand HCAs (Host Channel Adapter) with two links (for redundancy) onto the Oracle Fabric Interconnect director. Using the Oracle Fabric Manager software, you'll then be able to create virtual NICs and HBAs (called vNIC and vHBA) that will be seen by the servers as standard NICs and HBAs and associate them to networks and storage systems which are physically connected to the back-end of the director through standard Fibre Channel and Ethernet GbE/10GbE ports. In addition to this incredibly simple "at-a-click" connectivity capability, the Oracle Virtual Networking solution offers powerful features such as network isolation, Quality of Service, advanced performance monitoring and non-disruptive reconfiguration, migration and scalability of networking infrastructure. So let's go back now to our initial question: why is Oracle Virtual Networking especially important to Oracle's storage solutions? After all, one could connect any storage in the back-end of the Oracle Fabric Interconnect directors, right? The answer is pretty simple: since Oracle owns both the virtualized networking infrastructure and the storage (ZFS-SA, Pillar Axiom and tape), it is possible to imagine several ways in the future to add value when it comes to connect storage to a virtualized storage network: enhanced storage capabilities, converged management between storage and network, improved diagnostic capabilities and optimized integration resulting in higher performance and unique features/functions. Of course, all this is not going to be done overnight, and future will tell us is which evolutions come first. But there is little doubt that the integration of Xsigo within Oracle is going to create opportunities for Oracle's storage!

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  • Free RAM disappears - Memory leak?

    - by Izzy
    On a fresh started system, free reports about 1.5G used RAM (8G RAM alltogether, Ubuntu 12.04 with lightdm and plasma desktop, one konsole window started). Having the apps running I use, it still consumes not more than 2G. However, having the system running for a couple of days, more and more of my free RAM disappears -- without showing up in the list of used apps: while smem --pie=name reports less than 20% used (and 80% being available), everything else says differently. free -m for example reports on about day 7: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7459 7013 446 0 178 997 -/+ buffers/cache: 5836 1623 Swap: 9536 296 9240 (so you can see, it's not the buffers or the cache). Today this finally ended with the system crashing completely: the windows manager being gone, apps "hanging in the air" (frameless) -- and a popup notifying me about "too many open files". Syslog reports: kernel: [856738.020829] VFS: file-max limit 752838 reached So I closed those applications I was able to close, and killed X using Ctrl-Alt-backspace. X tried to come up again after that with failsafeX, but was unable to do so as it could no longer detect its configuration. So I switched to a console using Ctrl-Alt-F2, captured all information I could think of (vmstat, free, smem, proc/meminfo, lsof, ps aux), and finally rebooted. X again came up with failsafeX; this time I told it to "recover from my backed-up configuration", then switched to a console and successfully used startx to bring up the graphical environment. I have no real clue to what is causing this issue -- though it must have to do either with X itself, or with some user processes running on X -- as after killing X, free -m output looked like this: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7459 2677 4781 0 62 419 -/+ buffers/cache: 2195 5263 Swap: 9536 59 9477 (~3.5GB being freed) -- to compare with the output after a fresh start: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7459 1483 5975 0 63 730 -/+ buffers/cache: 689 6769 Swap: 9536 0 9536 Two more helpful outputs are provided by memstat -u. Shortly before the crash: User Count Swap USS PSS RSS mail 1 0 200 207 616 whoopsie 1 764 740 817 2300 colord 1 3200 836 894 2156 root 62 70404 352996 382260 569920 izzy 80 177508 1465416 1519266 1851840 After having X killed: User Count Swap USS PSS RSS mail 1 0 184 188 356 izzy 1 1400 708 739 1080 whoopsie 1 848 668 826 1772 colord 1 3204 804 888 1728 root 62 54876 131708 149950 267860 And after a restart, back in X: User Count Swap USS PSS RSS mail 1 0 212 217 628 whoopsie 1 0 1536 1880 5096 colord 1 0 3740 4217 7936 root 54 0 148668 180911 345132 izzy 47 0 370928 437562 915056 Edit: Just added two graphs from my monitoring system. Interesting to see: everytime when there's a "jump" in memory consumption, CPU peaks as well. Just found this right now -- and it reminds me of another indicator pointing to X itself: Often when returning to my machine and unlocking the screen, I found something doing heavvy work on my CPU. Checking with top, it always turned out to be /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none. So after this long explanation, finally my questions: What could be the possible causes? How can I better identify involved processes/applications? What steps could be taken to avoid this behaviour -- short from rebooting the machine all X days? I was running 8.04 (Hardy) for about 5 years on my old machine, never having experienced the like (always more than 100 days uptime, before rebooting for e.g. kernel updates). This now is a complete new machine with a fresh install of 8.04. In case it matters, some specs: AMD A4-3400 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, using the open-source ati/radeon driver (so no fglrx installed), 8GB RAM, WDC WD1002FAEX-0 hdd (1TB), Asus F1A75-V Evo mainboard. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with KDE4/Plasma. Apps usually open more or less permanently include Evolution, Firefox, konsole (with Midnight Commander running inside, about 4 tabs), and LibreOffice -- plus occasionally Calibre, Gimp and Moneyplex (banking software I'm already using for almost 20 years now, in a version which did fine on Hardy).

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  • #OOW 2012: Big Data and The Social Revolution

    - by Eric Bezille
    As what was saying Cognizant CSO Malcolm Frank about the "Futur of Work", and how the Business should prepare in the face of the new generation  not only of devices and "internet of things" but also due to their users ("The Millennials"), moving from "consumers" to "prosumers" :  we are at a turning point today which is bringing us to the next IT Architecture Wave. So this is no more just about putting Big Data, Social Networks and Customer Experience (CxM) on top of old existing processes, it is about embracing the next curve, by identifying what processes need to be improve, but also and more importantly what processes are obsolete and need to be get ride of, and new processes put in place. It is about managing both the hierarchical and structured Enterprise and its social connections and influencers inside and outside of the Enterprise. And this does apply everywhere, up to the Utilities and Smart Grids, where it is no more just about delivering (faster) the same old 300 reports that have grown over time with those new technologies but to understand what need to be looked at, in real-time, down to an hand full relevant reports with the KPI relevant to the business. It is about how IT can anticipate the next wave, and is able to answers Business questions, and give those capabilities in real-time right at the hand of the decision makers... This is the turning curve, where IT is really moving from the past decade "Cost Center" to "Value for the Business", as Corporate Stakeholders will be able to touch the value directly at the tip of their fingers. It is all about making Data Driven Strategic decisions, encompassed and enriched by ALL the Data, and connected to customers/prosumers influencers. This brings to stakeholders the ability to make informed decisions on question like : “What would be the best Olympic Gold winner to represent my automotive brand ?”... in a few clicks and in real-time, based on social media analysis (twitter, Facebook, Google+...) and connections link to my Enterprise data. A true example demonstrated by Larry Ellison in real-time during his yesterday’s key notes, where “Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together” is not only about extreme performances but also solutions that Business can touch thanks to well integrated Customer eXperience Management and Social Networking : bringing the capabilities to IT to move to the IT Architecture Next wave. An example, illustrated also todays in 2 others sessions, that I had the opportunity to attend. The first session bringing the “Internet of Things” in Oil&Gaz into actionable decisions thanks to Complex Event Processing capturing sensors data with the ready to run IT infrastructure leveraging Exalogic for the CEP side, Exadata for the enrich datasets and Exalytics to provide the informed decision interface up to end-user. The second session showing Real Time Decision engine in action for ACCOR hotels, with Eric Wyttynck, VP eCommerce, and his Technical Director Pascal Massenet. I have to close my post here, as I have to go to run our practical hands-on lab, cooked with Olivier Canonge, Christophe Pauliat and Simon Coter, illustrating in practice the Oracle Infrastructure Private Cloud recently announced last Sunday by Larry, and developed through many examples this morning by John Folwer. John also announced today Solaris 11.1 with a range of network innovation and virtualization at the OS level, as well as many optimizations for applications, like for Oracle RAC, with the introduction of the lock manager inside Solaris Kernel. Last but not least, he introduced Xsigo Datacenter Fabric for highly simplified networks and storage virtualization for your Cloud Infrastructure. Hoping you will get ready to jump on the next wave, we are here to help...

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  • Unlocking High Performance with Policy Administration Replacement

    - by helen.pitts(at)oracle.com
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  • Automated Error Reporting = More Robust Software

    - by Laila
    I would like to tell you how to revolutionize your software development process </marketing hyperbole> On a more serious note, we (Red Gate's .NET Development team) recently rolled a new tool into our development process which has made our lives dramatically easier AND improved the quality of our software, and I (& one of our developers, Alex Davies) just wanted to take a quick moment to share the love. I work with a development team that takes pride in what they ship, so we take software testing rather seriously. For every development project we run, we allocate at least one software tester for every two developers, and we never ship software without first shipping early access releases and betas to get user feedback. And therein lies the challenge -encouraging users to provide consistent, useful feedback is a headache, but without that feedback, improving the software is. tricky. Until fairly recently, we used the standard (if long-winded) approach of receiving bug reports of variable quality via email or through our support forums. If that didn't give us enough information to reproduce the problem - which was most of the time - we had to enter into a time-consuming to-and-fro conversation with the end-user, to get scrape together the data we needed to work out where the problem lay. As I'm sure you're aware, this is painfully slow. To the delight of the team, we recently got to work with SmartAssembly, which lets us embed automated exception and error reporting into our software with very little pain, and we decided to do a little dogfooding. As a result, we've have made a really handy (if perhaps slightly obvious) discovery: As soon as we release a beta, or indeed any release of software, we now get tonnes of customer feedback through automated error reports. Making this process easier for our users has dramatically increased the amount (and quality) of feedback we get. From their point of view, they get an experience similar to Microsoft's error reporting, and process is essentially idiot-proof. From our side of things, we can now react much faster to the information we get, fixing the bugs and shipping a new-and-improved release, which our users rather appreciate. Smiles and hugs all round. Even more so because, as we're use SmartAssembly's Automated Error Reporting, we get to avoid having to spend weeks building an exception reporting mechanism. It takes just a few minutes to add reporting to a project, and we get a bunch of useful information back, like a stack trace and the values of all the local variables, which we can use to fix bugs. Happily, "Automated Error Reporting = More Robust Software" can actually be read two ways: we've found that we not only ship higher quality software, but we also release within a shorter time. We can ship stable software that our users are happy to upgrade to, and we then bask in the glory of lots of positive customer feedback. Once we'd starting working with SmartAssembly, we were curious to know how widespread error reporting was as a practice. Our product manager ran a survey in autumn last year, and found that 40% of software developers never really considered deploying error reporting. Considering how we've now got plenty of experience on the subject, one of our dev guys, Alex Davies, thought we should share what we've learnt, and he's kindly offered to host a webinar on delivering robust software with Automated Error Reporting. Drawing on our own in-house development experiences, he'll cover how to add error reporting to your program, how to actually use the error reports to fix bugs (don't snigger, not everyone's as bright as you), how to customize the error report dialog that your users see, and how to automatically get log files from your users' machine. The webinar will take place on Jan 25th (that's next week). It's free to attend, but you'll still need to register to hear Alex's dulcet tones.

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  • Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge: Fishbowl Solutions

    - by Kellsey Ruppel
    Originally posted by Jake Kuramoto on The Apps Lab blog. Today, I give you the final entry in the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge, held last week during OpenWorld. This one comes from Friend of the ‘Lab and Fishbowl Solutions (@fishbowle20) hacker, John Sim (@jrsim_uix), whom you might remember from his XBox Kinect demo at COLLABORATE 12 (presentation slides and abstract) hacks and other exploits with WebCenter. We put this challenge together specifically for developers like John, who like to experiment with new tools and push the envelope of what’s possible and build cool things, and as you can see from his entry John did just that, mashing together Google Maps and Oracle Social Network into a mobile app built with PhoneGap that uses the device’s camera and GPS to keep teams on the move in touch. He calls it a Mobile GeoTagging Solution, but I think Avengers Assemble! would have equally descriptive, given that was obviously his inspiration. Here’s his description of the mobile app: My proposed solution was to design and simplify GeoLocation mapping, and automate updates for users and teams on the move; who don’t have access to a laptop or want to take their ipads out – but allow them to make quick updates to OSN and upload photos taken from their mobile device – there and then. As part of this; the plan was to include a rules engine that could be configured by the user to allow the device to automatically update and post messages when they arrived at a set location(s). Inspiration for this came from on{x} – automate your life. Unfortunately, John didn’t make it to the conference to show off his hard work in person, but luckily, he had a colleague from Fishbowl and a video to showcase his work.    Here are some shots of John’s mobile app for your viewing pleasure: John’s thinking is sound. Geolocation is usually relegated to consumer use cases, thanks to services like foursquare, but distributed teams working on projects out in the world definitely need a way to stay in contact. Consider a construction job. Different contractors all converge on a single location, and time is money. Rather than calling or texting each other and risking a distracted driving accident, an app like John’s allows everyone on the job to see exactly where the other contractors are. Using his GPS rules, they could easily be notified about how close each is to the site, definitely useful when you have a flooring contractor sitting idle, waiting for an electrician to finish the wiring. The best part is that the project manager or general contractor could stay updated on all the action (or inaction) using Oracle Social Network, either sitting at a desk using the browser app or desktop client or on the go, using one of the native mobile apps built for Oracle Social Network. I can see this being used by insurance adjusters too, and really any team that, erm, assembles at a given spot. Of course, it’s also useful for meeting at the pub after the day’s work is done. Beyond people, this solution could also be implemented for physical objects that are in route to a destination. Say you’re a customer waiting on rail shipment or a package delivery. You could track your valuable’s whereabouts easily as they report their progress via checkins. If they deviated from the GPS rules, you’d be notified. You might even be able to get a picture into Oracle Social Network with some light hacking. Thanks to John and his colleagues at Fishbowl for participating in our challenge. We hope everyone had a good experience. Make sure to check out John’s blog post on his work and the experience using Oracle Social Network. Although this is the final, official entry we had, tomorrow, I’ll show you the work of someone who finished code, but wasn’t able to make the judging event. Stay tuned.

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  • What is the SharePoint Action Framework and Why do I need it ?

    - by SAF
    For those out there that are a little curious as to whether SAF is any use to your organisation, please read this FAQ.  What is SAF ? SAF is free to use. SAF is the "SharePoint Action Framework", it was built by myself and Hugo (plus a few others along the way). SAF is written entirely in C# code available from : http://saf.codeplex.com.   SAF is a way to automate SharePoint configuration changes. An Action is a command/class/task/script written in C# that performs a unit of execution against SharePoint such as "CreateWeb"  or "AddLookupColumn". A SAF Macro is collection of one or more Actions. SAF Macro can be run from Msbuild, a Feature, StsAdm or common plain old .Net code. Parameters can be passed to a Macro at run-time from a variety of sources such as "Environment Variable", "*.config", "Msbuild Properties", Feature Properties, command line args, .net code. SAF emits lots of trace statements at run-time, these can be viewed using "DebugView". One Action can pass parameters to another Action. Parameters can be set using Expression Syntax such as "DateTime.Now".  You should consider SAF is you suffer from one of the following symptoms... "Our developers write lots of code to deploy changes at release time - it's always rushed" "I don't want my developers shelling out to Powershell or Stsadm from a Feature". "We have loads of Console applications now, I have lost track of where they are, or what they do" "We seem to be writing similar scripts against SharePoint in lots of ways, testing is hard". "My scripts often have lots of errors - they are done at the last minute". "When something goes wrong - I have no idea what went wrong or how to solve it". "Our Features get stuck and bomb out half way through - there no way to roll them back". "We have tons of Features now - I can't keep track". "We deploy Features to run one-off tasks" "We have a library of reusable scripts, but, we can only run it in one way, sometimes we want to run it from MSbuild and a Feature". "I want to automate the deployment of changes to our development environment". "I would like to run a housekeeping task on a scheduled basis"   So I like the sound of SAF - what's the problems ?  Realistically, there are few things that need to be considered: Someone on your team will need to spend a day or 2 understanding SAF and deciding exactly how you want to use it. I would suggest a Tech Lead, SysAdm or SP Architect will need to download it, try out the examples, look through the unit tests. Ask us questions. Although, SAF can be downloaded and set to go in a few minutes, you will still need to address issues such as - "Do you want to execute your Macros in MsBuild or from a Feature ?" You will need to decide who is going to do your deployments - is it each developer to themself, or do you require a dedicated Build Manager ? As most environments (Dev, QA, Live etc) require different settings (e.g. Urls, Database names, accounts etc), you will more than likely want to define these and set a properties file up for each environment. (These can then be injected into Saf at run-time). There may be no Action to solve your particular problem. If this is the case, suggest it to us - we can try and write it, or write it yourself. It's very easy to write a new Action - we have an approach to easily unit test it, document it and author it. For example, I wrote one to deploy  a WSP in 2 hours the other day. Alternatively, Saf can also call Stsadm commands and Powershell scripts.   Anyway, I do hope this helps! If you still need help, or a quick start, we can also offer consultancy around SAF. If you want to know more give us a call or drop an email to [email protected]

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  • Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Industry Best Practices + Flexibility

    - by Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies
    By Richard Garraputa, VP of Sales & Marketing, brij Richard joined brij in 1996 after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with degrees in Information Systems and Accounting. He directs brij’s overall strategies of both the business development and marketing departments. Companies looking for new ERP systems spend so much time comparing features and functions of software products but too often short change the value of their own processes.  Company managers I meet often claim that they are implementing a new ERP system so they can perform better and faster.  When asked how, the answer is often “by implementing best practices”.  But the term ‘best practices’ is frequently used to mean ‘doing things the way everyone else does them’ rather than a starting point or benchmark to build upon by adding your own value. Of course, implementing standardized processes across an enterprise is an important step in improving operational efficiencies.  But not all companies are alike.  Do you ever tell your customers “We are just like our competition and have no competitive differentiation”?  Probably not.  So why should the implementation of your business processes be just like your competitor’s?  Even within the same industry, companies differentiate themselves by leveraging their unique expertise and approach to business.  These unique aspects—the competitive differentiators that companies use to thrive in a crowded marketplace—can and should be supported by the implementation of business systems like ERP. Modern ERP systems like Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne have a broad and deep functional footprint designed to integrate a company’s core operations.  But how can a company take advantage of this footprint without blowing up their implementation budget?  Some ERP vendors claim to solve this challenge by stating that their systems come pre-configured with ‘best practices’.  Too often what they are really saying is that you will have to abandon your key operational differentiators to fit a vendor’s template for your business—or extend your implementation and postpone the realization of any benefits. Thankfully for midsize companies, there is an alternative to the undesirable options of extended implementation projects or abandoning their competitive differentiators.  Oracle Accelerate Solutions speed the time it takes to implement JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution based on your unique business characteristics, getting your new ERP system up and running faster without forcing your business to fit a cookie-cutter solution. We’ve been a JD Edwards implementation partner since 1986 and we now leverage Oracle Business Accelerators—cloud based rapid implementation tools built and maintained by Oracle. Oracle Business Accelerators deliver the benefits of embedded industry best practices without forcing every customer in to one set of processes like many template or “clone and go” approaches do. You retain the ability to reconfigure your applications—without customization—as your business changes. Wielded by Oracle partners with industry-specific domain expertise, Oracle Accelerate Solution implementations powered by Oracle Business Accelerators help automate the application configuration to fit your business better, faster. For example, on a recent project at a manufacturing company, the project manager told me that Oracle Business Accelerators helped get them to Conference Room Pilot 20% faster than with a traditional approach. Time savings equal cost savings. And if ‘better and faster’ is your goal for your business performance, shouldn’t it be the goal for your ERP implementation as well? Established in 1986, brij has been dedicated solely to helping its customers implement Oracle’s JD Edwards solutions and to maximize the value of those customers’ IT investments. They are a Gold level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork and an Oracle Accelerate Solution provider.

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  • Spotlight on an office - Denmark

    - by jessica.ebbelaar(at)oracle.com
    Hi, my name is Michael. I work as an Intern at the Danish office in Ballerup. My job is a part-time position beside my bachelor study in International Business at Copenhagen Business School. I joined Oracle end of February last year, and what a thrilling ride it has been! Last year, when I was offered the position, there was no doubt that I wanted to go for it. Back then, I only had little idea about Oracle as a company and what kind of exciting assignments lay ahead of me. My main role is internal communications, i.e. editor of a monthly employee’s news letter; Newszone. It is an interesting task, since it requires that I am updated on the different activities that take place within the Oracle Denmark office. I try to bring interesting articles, which are relevant and interesting news to my colleagues and it allows me to interact with many different persons at the office and to learn from their experience, which give me great inspiration and ideas for the magazine. Besides being the editor of Newszone, I also make sure that other communication flow freely at the Oracle Denmark office. I do this through our LCD screen channels. I update the internal channel with the latest information and important messages for employees, and on the external channel I circulate marketing videos featuring Oracle products and customer reference stories. In addition to this, I have the responsibility acting as a content manager of the Local Communication Denmark site on MyOracle (UCM). These are more or less my usual work assignments. On top of these I take care of various ad hoc assignments such as updating the GCM database, renew newspaper subscriptions etc. The Oracle Denmark office Being part of the local employees club I also assist with arranging social events outside working hours – e.g. evenings at the theater or cinema or by attending many of the sportsactivities;such as our running club, cycling club, food club and book club. These activities have indeed helped me grow my personal network within Oracle.  The office is packed with engaging, high-paced and motivated people who manage to take time off to spend a day attending Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, one of them being GVD (Global Volunteer Day) with approximately 40 employees attending. This proofs some of the social responsible aspects of Oracle. I was positively surprised on how the office (named O-Zone) is designed. The office is designed into three distinct zones, namely Call zone, Project and Dialogue zone and Quiet zone, having different working environments for different job roles. The other thing which I like is that you do not have your own desk, which means you get to sit next to different people every day, getting new ideas and inspiration as well as getting to know more people in the organization you work in. To sum up: If you are considering pursuing an intern or a career after graduation in Oracle, do it! You will not regret it. It has given me many relevant practical experiences beside my study, and I am sure many great experiences will await you too.   Want to know more about the current vacancies in Denmark? Check http://campus.oracle.com for all of our vacancies.

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  • Conference networking for the socially awkward

    - by Melanie Townsend
    Do you approach a room full of strangers with excitement at all the new people you’re going to chat to over coffee and a muffin as you swap tales of how you convinced your manager to give you the day “off”? Or, do you find rooms full of strangers intimidating and begin by scouting out a place you can stand quietly and not be in someone’s way until the next session begins? If you’re on the train to extrovert city, that’s great, well done, move along. If, on the other hand, a room full of strangers who all seem to inexplicably know each other already is more challenge than opportunity, then making those connections with other professionals can be more difficult. So, here’s some advice, some gleaned from other things I’ve read online when trying to overcome my own discomfort in large groups (hopefully minus the infuriating condescension), others are just things I’ve found helpful over the years. Start small Smaller groups are less intimidating, and, now that you’ve taken the plunge to show up, it’s harder to remain inconspicuous. I find it’s easier to speak to new people once the option NOT to has been taken away. You’re there now, smile through the awkward and you’ll be forever grateful when the three people you’ve met and gotten to know here are also at that gigantic conference later on (ideally, introducing you to other people). Smile, or at the very least, stop scowling You probably don’t even know you’re doing it. If your resting face doesn’t come across as manically happy, tinge that with some social anxiety and you become one great ball of unapproachable. Normally, I wouldn’t suggest this as a problem that needs fixing, I have personally honed this face to use while travelling alone all the time. However, if you are indeed hoping to meet some useful people and get the most out of this conference, you may need to remind yourself to smile. Prepare some ice breakers This is going to sound stupid, like “no one does this right?” stupid, but, just, trust me a minute. It’s okay to prepare. You don’t need to write word-for-word questions to ask people and practice them in a mirror – that would be strange. I’m suggesting to just have an arsenal of questions to ask people if you get stuck, what session has been your favorite, which ones are you most looking forward to, have you heard X presenter speak before, what did you think of them? Even just thinking about these things in advance can help, and, as a bonus, while the other person is answering it gives you a moment to tamp down that panic, I mean breathe, I mean get to know them. You’re not alone (in the least creepy way possible) See that person in the corner clutching their phone with a mild deer in the headlights look?  That is potentially your new conference buddy. Starting with something along the lines of: I don’t know about you, the sessions here are great but I find the crowds a little tough to deal with. Mind if I park here for a second? is a decent opener. Just walking around and looking at exhibitors (if applicable) is fine, but it’s a little too easy to wander about and not actually speak to anyone if that’s all you’re doing. If joining a group of people talking is too much to start with, one-on-one can be easier. Have goals Are there people in particular you wanted to speak to? Did you have a personal goal of speaking to at least “x” new people? Are you trying to get a contact in a specific company because you want to work with them on something? Does the business have vague goals as well that you may or may not be judged on later? Making specific goals you can accomplish lets you know whether you’ve actually succeeded in your “networking pursuits” or what you need to work on more for next time. Everyone’s got their own coping technique. Some people are able to remind themselves that “humans are fundamentally social creatures” and somehow that helps them, others drink which is not really something I recommend for professional conferences but to each their own, and some focus on the fact that networking can play a big role in their career path. Just do what works for you, and if there’re any tricks you’ve found helpful over the years, please share em.

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  • ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 10 - September 16-22, 2012

    - by Bob Rhubart
    The Top 10 most popular items shared on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for the week of September 16-22, 2012. The Real Architects of LA: OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles - Oct 25No gossip. No drama. No hair pulling. Just a full day of technical sessions and peer interaction focused on using Oracle technologies in today's cloud and SOA architectures. The event is free, but seating is limited, so register now. Thursday October 25, 2012. 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sofitel Los Angeles, 8555 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048. OIM-OAM-OAAM integration using TAP – Request Flow you must understand!! | Atul KumarAtul Kumar's post addresses "key points and request flow that you must understand" when integrating three Oracle Identity Management product Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Access Management, and Oracle Adaptive Access Manager. Cloud, automation drive new growth in SOA governance market | ZDNet "SOA governance tools and processes learned over the past decade are now underpinning cloud projects as they scale across enterprises," reports Joe McKendrick. But there remains a lack of understanding about SOA Governance. DevOps Basics: Track Down High CPU Thread with ps, top and the new JDK7 jcmd Tool | Frank Munz "The approach is very generic and works for WebLogic, Glassfish or any other Java application," say Frank Munz. "UNIX commands in the example are run on CentOS, so they will work without changes for Oracle Enterprise Linux or RedHat. Creating the thread dump at the end of the video is done with the jcmd tool from JDK7." Frank has captured the process in the posted video. Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Hands-on Lab: "Leading Your Everyday Application Integration Projects with Enterprise SOA" Yet another session to squeeze into your already-jammed Oracle OpenWorld schedule. This hands-on lab focuses on how "Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack, and Oracle SOA Suite work together to help you drive your enterprisewide integration projects." Loving VirtualBox 4.2… | The ORACLE-BASE Blog Is it wrong for a man to love a technology? Oracle ACE Director Tim Hall has several very good reasons for his feelings… ADF Create and CreateInsert Operations for ADF Table | Andrejus Baranovskis Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis answers the question, "What operation is best to use to insert a new row into an ADF table, Create or CreateInsert?" Fault Handling Slides and Q&A | Ronald van Luttikhuizen Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen shares the slides and a Q&A transcript from a presentation he and fellow ACE Director Guido Schmutz gave at the recent Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne preview event organized by AMIS Technology. Why IT is a profession in 'flux' | ZDNet I usuallly don't post two items from the same person in one day, but this post from ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick deals with some critical issues affecting those in IT. As McKendrick puts it: "IT professionals are under considerable pressure to deliver more value to the business, versus being good at coding and testing and deploying and integrating." Running RichFaces on WebLogic 12c | Markus Eisele "With all the JMS magic and the different provider checks in the showcase this has become some kind of a challenge to simply build and deploy it," says Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele. His detailed post will help you to meet that challenge. Thought for the Day "Less is more." — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) Source: BrainyQuote.com

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  • BI&EPM in Focus June 2012

    - by Mike.Hallett(at)Oracle-BI&EPM
    General News Thomas Kurian Discusses Oracle Exalytics, SAP HANA (replay | preso | press)  Accenture & Oracle Study: The Challenges of Corporate Financial Reporting  (link) Flash Demo: Oracle Hyperion Planning on Exalytics in the Public Sector (link) Flash Demo: OBIEE & Exalytics in Retail (link) Customers Italian Partner Alfa Sistemi implemented at Autovie Venete S.p.A. Integrates Business Intelligence and Performance Management to Improve Efficiency and Speed for Managing Public Works Projects (English version)  / Autovie Venete implementa un sistema integrato di Business Intelligence e Performance Management per migliorare l’efficienza e la tempestività dell’attività di Controlling di Commessa (Italian version). FANCL Gains 360-Degree View of Customers across Multiple Sales Channels, Reduces Reports by 75% Korea Yakult Improves Profit & Loss Analysis with Oracle Hyperion Planning and OBIEE Hill International Streamlines Forecasting, Improves Visibility into Project Productivity and Profitability Children’s Rights in Society Better Supports Organizational Mission with Advanced, Integrated, and Streamlined Business Intelligence Tools Profit: International utility Enel monitors the performance of global subsidiaries with Oracle Hyperion Applications (link) Profit: Charting a New Course: Korean Air gains altitude by leveraging its greatest asset: information (link)   Events June 12: Breaking Away from the Excel Add-In: Welcome to Hyperion Smart View 11.1.2.2 (link) June 13: Upgrading OBIEE 10g to 11g: Best Practices and Lessons Learned (performance architects) (link) June 14, The Netherlands: Strategies for Business Excellence, New Release of Oracle Hyperion EPM Suite (link) June 21: Comprehensive and Accurate Forecasting for Healthcare (link) June 26: What Exactly is Exalytics? (KPI Partners) (link) Webcast Replay: Is Your Company Able to Navigate Through Market Volatility? (link)  Webcast Replay: Is Hope and Email The Core of Your Reconciliation Process? (link) Webcast Replay: Troubleshooting EPM Reporting & Analysis 11.1.2.x  (link) Webcast Replay: Is your Organization Flying Blind when it comes to Understanding Profitability?  (link) Enterprise Performance Management Final Oracle EPM  Information Panel (CIP) survey on cost, profitability and performance reporting/scorecards is now OPEN (link) New on EPM Blog: What's Going on With IFRS? (link) How does Crystal Ball integrate with EPM Solutions? New collateral and demos on Crystal Ball Solution Factory!  (link) New Youtube Video: Business Case Analysis with Oracle Crystal Ball (link) Crystal Ball 11.1.2.2 is released! Grouped Assumptions in Sensitivity Charts, Data Filtering When Fitting Distributions and Parameter Edits When Fitting Distributions to name a few. Get full details from the online New Features Guide (link) New DRM Oracle-by-Examples now available (link) Support Blog: Hyperion Ledgerlink Sample Record and Windows 7: Now you see it, now you don’t  (link) Use Enterprise Manager FMW Control to Troubleshoot Oracle EPM 11.1.2 Family of Products (link) Business  Intelligence Whitepaper: Real-Time Operational Reporting for E-Business Suite via GoldenGate Replication to an Operational Data Store.  How Oracle enabled real-time operational reporting for its $20B services contract business with Golden Gate & OBIEE (link) KPI Partners ebook: Understanding Oracle BI Components and Repository Modeling Basics (link) “Getting Started with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery” video tutorials now available (link) Oracle BI Publisher Conversion Center: Convert from Crystal, Actuate, or Oracle Reports to Oracle BI Publisher (link) Oracle Fusion Applications: Monthly Partner Updates Webcast Replays to help BI partners understand how OBI, Essbase, BI-Apps and Fusion work together: More on Fusion CRM: Fusion Marketing More on Fusion CRM: Fusion CRM Sales Start-Up Packs and Expert Services for Implementation Partners Introducing the Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub Implementing Fusion Applications using Oracle's Composers Oracle Fusion Applications Co-Existence

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  • Windows Azure Recipe: Social Web / Big Media

    - by Clint Edmonson
    With the rise of social media there’s been an explosion of special interest media web sites on the web. From athletics to board games to funny animal behaviors, you can bet there’s a group of people somewhere on the web talking about it. Social media sites allow us to interact, share experiences, and bond with like minded enthusiasts around the globe. And through the power of software, we can follow trends in these unique domains in real time. Drivers Reach Scalability Media hosting Global distribution Solution Here’s a sketch of how a social media application might be built out on Windows Azure: Ingredients Traffic Manager (optional) – can be used to provide hosting and load balancing across different instances and/or data centers. Perfect if the solution needs to be delivered to different cultures or regions around the world. Access Control – this service is essential to managing user identity. It’s backed by a full blown implementation of Active Directory and allows the definition and management of users, groups, and roles. A pre-built ASP.NET membership provider is included in the training kit to leverage this capability but it’s also flexible enough to be combined with external Identity providers including Windows LiveID, Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook. The provider model has extensibility points to hook into other identity providers as well. Web Role – hosts the core of the web application and presents a central social hub users. Database – used to store core operational, functional, and workflow data for the solution’s web services. Caching (optional) – as a web site traffic grows caching can be leveraged to keep frequently used read-only, user specific, and application resource data in a high-speed distributed in-memory for faster response times and ultimately higher scalability without spinning up more web and worker roles. It includes a token based security model that works alongside the Access Control service. Tables (optional) – for semi-structured data streams that don’t need relational integrity such as conversations, comments, or activity streams, tables provide a faster and more flexible way to store this kind of historical data. Blobs (optional) – users may be creating or uploading large volumes of heterogeneous data such as documents or rich media. Blob storage provides a scalable, resilient way to store terabytes of user data. The storage facilities can also integrate with the Access Control service to ensure users’ data is delivered securely. Content Delivery Network (CDN) (optional) – for sites that service users around the globe, the CDN is an extension to blob storage that, when enabled, will automatically cache frequently accessed blobs and static site content at edge data centers around the world. The data can be delivered statically or streamed in the case of rich media content. Training These links point to online Windows Azure training labs and resources where you can learn more about the individual ingredients described above. (Note: The entire Windows Azure Training Kit can also be downloaded for offline use.) Windows Azure (16 labs) Windows Azure is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services which can be used individually or together. It gives developers the choice to build web applications; applications running on connected devices, PCs, or servers; or hybrid solutions offering the best of both worlds. New or enhanced applications can be built using existing skills with the Visual Studio development environment and the .NET Framework. With its standards-based and interoperable approach, the services platform supports multiple internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, and plain XML SQL Azure (7 labs) Microsoft SQL Azure delivers on the Microsoft Data Platform vision of extending the SQL Server capabilities to the cloud as web-based services, enabling you to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Windows Azure Services (9 labs) As applications collaborate across organizational boundaries, ensuring secure transactions across disparate security domains is crucial but difficult to implement. Windows Azure Services provides hosted authentication and access control using powerful, secure, standards-based infrastructure. See my Windows Azure Resource Guide for more guidance on how to get started, including links web portals, training kits, samples, and blogs related to Windows Azure.

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  • Oracle is #1 in Life Sciences!

    - by Michael Snow
    Guest post today by: John Klinke, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle WebCenter Content 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} Based on the announcement last week at EMC World about Documentum for Life Sciences, it looks like EMC is starting to have regrets about pulling out of the life sciences space over the last few years. Certainly their content management customers and partners in life sciences have noticed their retreat. Many of them are now talking to us about WebCenter Content since they’ve seen the writing on the wall regarding Documentum’s decline, including falling revenue, shrinking investment, departure of key executives, and EMC’s auditing of existing customers. While EMC has been neglecting the life sciences industry over the last few years, Oracle has been increasing its investment and commitment by providing best-of-breed solutions to enable pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech and CRO companies to improve productivity and drive innovation. As a result, according to IDC Health Insights, Oracle is #1 in life sciences. From research and development through clinical development and manufacturing to sales and marketing, Oracle provides the solutions that life sciences companies depend on to accelerate R&D, expedite clinical trials, and speed time to market. Specifically for Oracle WebCenter, our life sciences business is booming thanks to our comprehensive offerings led by Oracle WebCenter Content, our 21 CFR Part 11 compliant enterprise content management platform. Unlike Documentum, WebCenter Content is all about keeping the cost of ownership low - through simplicity, flexibility, and out-of-the-box integrations. WebCenter Content is a single, comprehensive ECM platform that can handle all your content management needs, from controlled documents to digital asset management, records management and document imaging and capture. And it is much more flexible, letting you do configuration changes instead of customizations to meet your business needs. It also saves you money by being pre-integrated with the rest of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack and with leading enterprise applications like Siebel (including Siebel CTMS), Primavera, E-Business Suite, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft. So if you think EMC’s announcement last week was too little and too late, I’m happy to report that Oracle is here to help. Back in October, we announced our Move Off Documentum offer, which provides a 100% trade-in credit for your Documentum licenses when you purchase Oracle WebCenter, and the good news is, this offer is still available for a limited time. So stop maintaining Documentum and start innovating with Oracle WebCenter. For more details see www.oracle.com/moveoff/documentum.

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  • Cientos de Directores Financieros se congregaron en el evento “Innovación y Excelencia en la Función Financiera”

    - by Noelia Gomez
    v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} El pasado 24 de Octubre tuvo lugar el evento “Innovación y Excelencia en la Función Financiera” en la Fundación Rafael de Pino, Madrid (que ya anunciamos aquí). APD, en colaboración con Oracle, organizaron esta jornada con el objetivo de analizar el proceso de transformación del Director Financiero en las compañías (aquí puedes ver un estudio sobre ello). Enrique Sanchez de Leon, Director de APD, fue el encargado de abrir la jornada con una calurosa bienvenida a los invitados. Tras él, Fernando Rumbero, Iberia Applications Cluster Leader de Oracle , comenzó dando unas pinceladas sobre los cambios a los que los Directores Financieros deben estar preparados para convertirse en parte de la estrategia de la compañía. Después de que todos los ponentes fueran presentados y se acomodaran en su lugar del escenario de aquella gran sala, Oriol Farré, Presales Director de Oracle, tomó la palabra para profundizar sobre el nuevo rol estratégico del Director Financiero y cómo éste se está convirtiendo cada vez más en el catalizador del cambio dentro de las empresas (¿tú lo eres? aquí hablamos de cómo puedes evaluarlo) Por su parte, Maria Jesús Carrato, Profesora de Dirección Financiera Internacional en el IE y Directora Financiera del Grupo SM mostró su visión sobre cómo serán los Departamentos Financieros del futuro. Después llego el turno de Ramón Arguelaguet, Financial Controller & Reporting Senior Manager de Vodafone, que profundizo en la innovación y la transformación lideradas por los Directores Financieros dentro de las organizaciones. Por último, pero no menos importante, Juan Jesús Donoso, Director Económico de Cruz Roja Española, nos mostro el punto de vista de la gestión de una organización sin ánimo de lucro. Finalmente, en la mesa redonda, cada uno de los integrantes dio su punto de vista sobre el nuevo rol de Director Financiero y los nuevos retos a los que se enfrentan. El broche final de la jornada la puso el coctel para abrir paso a un espacio de networking que sin duda los cientos de Directores Financieros aprovecharon para intercambiar puntos de vista, conocer a nuevos compañeros y reencontrarse con muchos otros. Si estuviste en el evento… ¿qué te pareció? Tal vez no encontraste el momento de plantear alguna cuestión. Ahora puedes hacerlo en los comentarios y se lo trasladaremos a los ponentes. Contact 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}

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  • Visual Studio Extensions

    - by Scott Dorman
    Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman/archive/2013/10/18/visual-studio-extensions.aspxAs a product, Visual Studio has been around for a long time. In fact, it’s been 18 years since the first Visual Studio product was launched. In that time, there have been some major changes but perhaps the most important (or at least influential) changes for the course of the product have been in the last few years. While we can argue over what was and wasn’t an important change or what has and hasn’t changed, I want to talk about what I think is the single most important change Microsoft has made to Visual Studio. Specifically, I’m referring to the Visual Studio Gallery (first introduced in Visual Studio 2010) and the ability for third-parties to easily write extensions which can add new functionality to Visual Studio or even change existing functionality. I know Visual Studio had this ability before the Gallery existed, but it was expensive (both from a financial and development resource) perspective for a company or individual to write such an extension. The Visual Studio Gallery changed all of that. As of today, there are over 4000 items in the Gallery. Microsoft itself has over 100 items in the Gallery and more are added all of the time. Why is this such an important feature? Simply put, it allows third-parties (companies such as JetBrains, Telerik, Red Gate, Devart, and DevExpress, just to name a few) to provide enhanced developer productivity experiences directly within the product by providing new functionality or changing existing functionality. However, there is an even more important function that it serves. It also allows Microsoft to do the same. By providing extensions which add new functionality or change existing functionality, Microsoft is not only able to rapidly innovate on new features and changes but to also get those changes into the hands of developers world-wide for feedback. The end result is that these extensions become very robust and often end up becoming part of a later product release. An excellent example of this is the new CodeLens feature of Visual Studio 2013. This is, perhaps, the single most important developer productivity enhancement released in the last decade and already has huge potential. As you can see, out of the box CodeLens supports showing you information about references, unit tests and TFS history.   Fortunately, CodeLens is also accessible to Visual Studio extensions, and Microsoft DevLabs has already written such an extension to show code “health.” This extension shows different code metrics to help make sure your code is maintainable. At this point, you may have already asked yourself, “With over 4000 extensions, how do I find ones that are good?” That’s a really good question. Fortunately, the Visual Studio Gallery has a ratings system in place, which definitely helps but that’s still a lot of extensions to look through. To that end, here is my personal list of favorite extensions. This is something I started back when Visual Studio 2010 was first released, but so much has changed since then that I thought it would be good to provide an updated list for Visual Studio 2013. These are extensions that I have installed and use on a regular basis as a developer that I find indispensible. This list is in no particular order. NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio 2013 Microsoft CodeLens Code Health Indicator Visual Studio Spell Checker Indent Guides Web Essentials 2013 VSCommands for Visual Studio 2013 Productivity Power Tools (right now this is only for Visual Studio 2012, but it should be updated to support Visual Studio 2013.) Everyone has their own set of favorites, so mine is probably not going to match yours. If there is an extension that you really like, feel free to leave me a comment!

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  • How to Make the Gnome Panels in Ubuntu Totally Transparent

    - by The Geek
    We all love transparency, since it makes your desktop so beautiful and lovely—so today we’re going to show you how to apply transparency to the panels in your Ubuntu Gnome setup. It’s an easy process, and here’s how to do it. This article is the first part of a multi-part series on how to customize the Ubuntu desktop, written by How-To Geek reader and ubergeek, Omar Hafiz. Making the Gnome Panels Transparent Of course we all love transparency, It makes your desktop so beautiful and lovely. So you go for enabling transparency in your panels , you right click on your panel, choose properties, go to the Background tab and make your panel transparent. Easy right? But instead of getting a lovely transparent panel, you often get a cluttered, ugly panel like this: Fortunately it can be easily fixed, all we need to do is to edit the theme files. If your theme is one of those themes that came with Ubuntu like Ambiance then you’ll have to copy it from /usr/share/themes to your own .themes directory in your Home Folder. You can do so by typing the following command in the terminal cp /usr/share/themes/theme_name ~/.themes Note: don’t forget to substitute theme_name with the theme name you want to fix. But if your theme is one you downloaded then it is already in your .themes folder. Now open your file manager and navigate to your home folder then do to .themes folder. If you can’t see it then you probably have disabled the “View hidden files” option. Press Ctrl+H to enable it. Now in .themes you’ll find your previously copied theme folder there, enter it then go to gtk-2.0 folder. There you may find a file named “panel.rc”, which is a configuration file that tells your panel how it should look like. If you find it there then rename it to “panel.rc.bak”. If you don’t find don’t panic! There’s nothing wrong with your system, it’s just that your theme decided to put the panel configurations in the “gtkrc” file. Open this file with your favorite text editor and at the end of the file there is line that looks like this “include “apps/gnome-panel.rc””. Comment out this line by putting a hash mark # in front of it. Now it should look like this “# include “apps/gnome-panel.rc”” Save and exit the text editor. Now change your theme to any other one then switch back to the one you edited. Now your panel should look like this: Stay tuned for the second part in the series, where we’ll cover how to change the color and fonts on your panels. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How To Remove People and Objects From Photographs In Photoshop Ask How-To Geek: How Can I Monitor My Bandwidth Usage? Internet Explorer 9 RC Now Available: Here’s the Most Interesting New Stuff Here’s a Super Simple Trick to Defeating Fake Anti-Virus Malware How to Change the Default Application for Android Tasks Stop Believing TV’s Lies: The Real Truth About "Enhancing" Images The Legend of Zelda – 1980s High School Style [Video] Suspended Sentence is a Free Cross-Platform Point and Click Game Build a Batman-Style Hidden Bust Switch Make Your Clock Creates a Custom Clock for your Android Homescreen Download the Anime Angels Theme for Windows 7 CyanogenMod Updates; Rolls out Android 2.3 to the Less Fortunate

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  • Oracle Employees Support New World Record for IYF Children's Hour

    - by Maria Sandu
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 960 students ‘crouched’, ‘touched’ and ‘set’ under the watchful eye of International Rugby Referee Alain Roland, and supported by Oracle employees, to successfully set a new world record for the World’s Largest Scrum to raise funds and awareness for the Irish Youth Foundation. Last year Oracle Employees supported the Irish Youth Foundation by donating funds from their payroll through the Giving Tree Appeal. We were the largest corporate donor to the IYF by raising €3075. To acknowledge our generosity the IYF asked Oracle Leadership in Society team members to participate in their most recent campaign which was to break the Guinness Book of Records by forming the World’s Largest Rugby Scrum. This was a wonderful opportunity for Oracle’s Leadership in Society to promote the charity, support education and to make a mark in the Corporate Social Responsibility field. The students who formed the scrum also gave up their lunch money and raised a total of €3000. This year we hope Oracle Employees will once again support the IYF with the challenge to match that amount. On the 24th of October the sun shone down on the streaming lines of students entering the field. 480 students were decked out in bright red Oracle T-Shirts against the other 480 in blue and white jerseys - all ready to form a striking scrum. Ryan Tubridy the host of the event made the opening announcement and with the blow of a whistle the Scum began. 960 students locked tight together with the Leinster players also at each side. Leinster Manager Matt O’Connor was there along with presenters Ryan Tubridy and George Hook to assist with getting the boys in line and keeping the shape of the scrum. In accordance with Guinness Book of Records rules, the ball was fed into the scrum properly by Ireland and Leinster scrum-half, Eoin Reddan, and was then passed out the line to his Leinster team mates including Ian Madigan, Brendan Macken and Jordi Murphy, also proudly sporting the Oracle T-Shirt. The new World Record was made, everyone gave a big cheer and thankfully nobody got injured! Thank you to everyone in Oracle who donated last year through the Giving Tree Appeal. Your generosity has gone a long way to support local groups both. Last year’s donation was so substantial that the IYF were able to spread it across two youth groups: The first being Ballybough Youth Project in Dublin. The funding gave them the chance to give 24 young people from their project the chance to get away from the inner city and the problems and issues they face in their daily life by taking a trip to the Cavan Centre to spend a weekend away in a safe and comfortable environment; a very rare holiday in these young people’s lives. The Rahoon Family Centre. Used the money to help secure the long term sustainability of their project. They act as an educational/social/fun project that has been working with disadvantaged children for the past 16 years. Their aim is to change young people’s future with fun /social education and supporting them so they can maximize their creativity and potential. We hope you can help support this worthy cause again this year, so keep an eye out for the Children’s Hour and Giving Tree Appeal! About the Irish Youth Foundation The IYF provides opportunities for marginalised children and young people facing difficult and extreme conditions to experience success in their lives. It passionately believes that achievement starts with opportunity. The IYF’s strategy is based on providing safe places where children can go after school; to grow, to learn and to play; and providing opportunities for teenagers from under-served communities to succeed and excel in their lives. The IYF supports innovative grassroots projects operated by dedicated professionals who understand young people and care about them. This allows the IYF to focus on supporting young people at risk of dropping out of school and, in particular, on the critical transition from primary to secondary school; and empowering teenagers from disadvantaged neighborhoods to become engaged in their local communities. Find out more here www.iyf.ie

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  • Ajax Autocomplete Extender

    - by Jason Ulloa
    El objetivo de este post es preparar un ejemplo sobre un tema que es planteado muy frecuentemente en los Foros de MSDN, como realizar un Autocomplete contra una base de datos. Qué requerimos? Antes de poder realizar un Autocomplete debemos tener en cuenta los elementos principales que requerimos para poder hacerlo funcionar, descritos de la siguiente manera: 1. Textbox: Nuestro grandioso amigo Textbox, que será donde el usuario ingresará los datos a buscar. 2. Un Webservice: que contendrá el método que se conectara a la base de datos y devolverá una lista con la información encontrada. 3. Ajax Autocomplete Extender: este es por decirlo así, el elemento más importante. Nos servirá como medio de enlace entre el webservice que expone el método y el textbox recuperando y mostrando los datos en forma de lista desplegable. La implementación Si bien parecierá complicado, crear un autocomplete extender es bastante sencillo. Empezaremos creando un nuevo sitio asp.net, en este sitio agregaremos un textbox y dos controles muy importantes de Ajax el ToolkitScriptManager para controlar el rende rizado de los script de ajax y el AutocompleteExtender que, como mencione anteriormente, será el medio de enlace. Antes de mostrar como quedará el código de lo anterior, explicaré algunas propiedades del AutocompleteExtender para que se entienda de mejor manera: 1. El ServicePath: contiene la ruta relativa al webservice que utilizaremos. 2. MinimumPrefixLength: se refiere al número de caracteres que deben ser digitados antes de iniciar la búsqueda. 3. ServiceMethod: el nombre del metodo de nuestro webservice que se encargará de devolver los datos. 4. EnableCaching: para mantener en cache los datos consultados, obteniendo mayor velocidad. 5. TargetControlID: una de las propiedades más importantes, acá se coloca el nombre del textbox al cual se unirá el Autocomplete 6. CompletionInterval: tiempo que debe transcurrir antes de iniciar con el trabajo de los datos. Una vez, explicadas las propiedades básicas, veamos como queda implementada la primer parte de nuestro autocomplete: <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:ToolkitScriptManager ID="manager" runat="server" /> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:AutoCompleteExtender ID="AutoCompleteExtender1" runat="server" ServicePath="WebService.asmx" MinimumPrefixLength="1" ServiceMethod="PersonasInfo " EnableCaching="true" TargetControlID="TextBox1" UseContextKey="True" CompletionSetCount="10" CompletionInterval="0"> </asp:AutoCompleteExtender> </div> </form>   Ahora que nuestro código html está completo, es hora de trabajar directamente con nuestro webservice, este deberá contener un método que devuelva una lista o arreglo de datos, los cuales por supuesto, serán traídos desde la base de datos. Antes de implementar este método, debemos asegurarnos de que nuestra clase del webservice tiene habilitados los espacios para ser utilizada [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService()] [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] public class WebService : System.Web.Services.WebService {}   Ahora si, nuestro metodo principal [WebMethod()] [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptMethod()] public string[] PersonasInfo(string prefixText, int count) { string connstring = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalSqlServer"].ConnectionString;   using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connstring)) { SqlCommand comando = new SqlCommand("select nombre from personas where nombre LIKE '%' + @param + '%' ", conn); comando.Parameters.AddWithValue("@param", prefixText); SqlDataReader dr = default(SqlDataReader); comando.Connection.Open(); dr = comando.ExecuteReader(); List<string> items = new List<string>();   while (dr.Read()) { items.Add(dr["nombre"].ToString()); } comando.Connection.Close(); return items.ToArray(); } }   Del método anterior no explicaré en profundidad, pues es bastante sencillo. Una consulta a la base de datos utilizando un datareader y devolviendo los datos en una lista como arreglo. Lo más importante serían las 2 primeras líneas [WebMethod()] y el [ScriptMethod()] las cuales habilitan nuestro método para poder ser accedido y utilizado. Por último, el código de ejemplo en C# (VB Autcomplete):

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  • 5 Ways to Celebrate the Release of Internet Explorer 9

    - by David Wesst
    The day has finally come: Microsoft has released a web browser that is awesome. On Monday night, Microsoft officially introduced the world to the latest edition to its product family: Internet Explorer 9. That makes March 14, 2011 (also known as PI day) the official birthday of Microsoft’s rebirth in the world of web browsing. Just like any big event, you take some time to celebrate. Here are a few things that you can do to celebrate the return of Internet Explorer. 1. Download It If you’re not a big partier, that’s fine. The one thing you can do (and definitely should) is download it and give it a shot. Sure, IE may have disappointed you in the past, but believe me when I say they really put the effort in this time. The absolute least you can do is give it a shot to see how it stands up against your favourite browser. 2. Get yourself an HTML5 Shirt One of the coolest, if not best parts of IE9 being released is that it officially introduces HTML5 as a fully supported platform from Microsoft. IE9 supports a lot of what is already defined in the HTML5 technical spec, which really demonstrates Microsoft’s support of the new standard. Since HTML5 is cool on the web, it means that it is cool to wear it too. Head over to html5shirt.com and get yourself, or your staff, or your whole family, an HTML5 shirt to show the real world that you are ready for the future of the web. 3. HTML5-ify Something Okay, so maybe a shirt isn’t enough for you. Maybe you need start using HTML5 for real. If you have a blog, or a website, or anything out there on the web, celebrate IE9 adding some HTML5 to your site. Whether that is updating old code, adding something new, or just changing your WordPress theme, definitely take a look at what HTML5 can do for you. 4. Help Kill Old IE and Upgrade your Organization See this? This is sad. Upgrading web browsers in an large enterprise or organization is not a trivial task. A lot of companies will use the excuse of not having the resources to upgrade legacy web applications they were built for a specific version of IE and it doesn’t render correctly in legacy browsers. Well, it’s time to stop the excuses. IE9 allows you to define what version of Internet Explorer you would like it to emulate. It takes minimal effort for the developer, and will get rid of the excuses. Show your IT manager or software development team this link and show them how easy it is to make old code render right in the latest and greatest from the IE team. 5. Submit an Entry for DevUnplugged So, you’ve made it to number five eh? Well then, you must be pretty hardcore to make it this far down the list. Fine, let’s take it to the next level and build an HTML5 game. That’s right. A game. Like a video game. HTML5 introduces some amazing new features that can let you build working video games using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Plus, Microsoft is celebrating the launch of IE9 with a contest where you can submit an HTML5 game (or audio application) and have a chance to win a whack of cash and other prizes. Head here for the full scoop and rules for the DevUnplugged. This post also appears at http://david.wes.st

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  • Working for free?

    - by Jonny
    I came across this article Work for Free that got me thinking. The goal of every employer is to gain more value from workers than the firm pays out in wages; otherwise, there is no growth, no advance, and no advantage for the employer. Conversely, the goal of every employee should be to contribute more to the firm than he or she receives in wages, and thereby provide a solid rationale for receiving raises and advancement in the firm. I don't need to tell you that the refusenik didn't last long in this job. In contrast, here is a story from last week. My phone rang. It was the employment division of a major university. The man on the phone was inquiring about the performance of a person who did some site work on Mises.org last year. I was able to tell him about a remarkable young man who swung into action during a crisis, and how he worked three 19-hour days, three days in a row, how he learned new software with diligence, how he kept his cool, how he navigated his way with grace and expertise amidst some 80 different third-party plug-ins and databases, how he saw his way around the inevitable problems, how he assumed responsibility for the results, and much more. What I didn't tell the interviewer was that this person did all this without asking for any payment. Did that fact influence my report on his performance? I'm not entirely sure, but the interviewer probably sensed in my voice my sense of awe toward what this person had done for the Mises Institute. The interviewer told me that he had written down 15 different questions to ask me but that I had answered them all already in the course of my monologue, and that he was thrilled to hear all these specifics. The person was offered the job. He had done a very wise thing; he had earned a devotee for life. The harder the economic times, the more employers need to know what they are getting when they hire someone. The job applications pour in by the buckets, all padded with degrees and made to look as impressive as possible. It's all just paper. What matters today is what a person can do for a firm. The resume becomes pro forma but not decisive under these conditions. But for a former boss or manager to rave about you to a potential employer? That's worth everything. What do you think? Has anyone here worked for free? If so, has it benefited you in any way? Why should(nt) you work for free (presuming you have the money from other means to keep you going)? Can you share your experience? Me, I am taking a year out of college and haven't gotten a degree yet so that's probably why most of my job applications are getting ignored. So im thinking about working for free for the experience?

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  • ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for October 14-20, 2012

    - by Bob Rhubart
    The Top 10 items shared on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page for the week of October 14-21, 2012. Panel: On the Impact of Software | InfoQ Les Hatton (Oakwood Computing Associates), Clive King (Oracle), Paul Good (Shell), Mike Andrews (Microsoft) and Michiel van Genuchten (moderator) discuss the impact of software engineering on our lives in this panel discussion recorded at the Computer Society Software Experts Summit 2012. ResCare Solves Content Lifecycle Challenges with Oracle WebCenter Learn how ResCare solves content lifecycle challenges with Oracle WebCenter. Speakers: Joe Lichtefeld, VP of Application Services & PMO, ResCare Wayne Boerger, Product Manager, TEAM Informatics Doug Thompson, EVP Global Development, TEAM Informatics Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET WebLogic Server 11gR1 Interactive Quick Reference "The WebLogic Server 11gR1 Administration interactive quick reference," explains Juergen Kress, "is a multimedia tool for various terms and concepts used in WebLogic Server architecture. This tool is available for administrators for online or offline use. This is built as a multimedia web page which provides descriptions of WebLogic Server Architectural components, and references to relevant documentation. This tool offers valuable reference information for any complex concept or product in an intuitive and useful manner." Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour 2012 : Venues and BI Presentations | Mark Rittman Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman shares information on the Oracle ACE Director Tour, as the community leaders make their way through the land of the midnight sun, with events in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki. Mobile Apps for EBS | Capgemini Oracle Blog Capgemini solution architect Satish Iyer breifly describes how Oracle ADF and Oracle SOA Suite can be used to fill the gap in mobile applications for Oracle EBS. Introducing the New Face of Fusion Applications | Misha Vaughan Oracle ACE Directors Debra Lilly and Floyd Teter have already blogged about the the new face of Oracle Fusion Applications. Now Applications User Experience Architect Misha Vaughan shares a brief overview of how the Oracle Applications User Experience (UX) team developed the new look. BPM 11g - Dynamic Task Assignment with Multi-level Organization Units | Mark Foster "I've seen several requirements to have a more granular level of task assignment in BPM 11g based on some value in the data passed to the process," says Fusion Middleware A-Team architect Mark Foster. "Parametric Roles is normally the first port of call to try to satisfy this requirement, but in this blog we will show how a lot of use-cases can be satisfied by the easier to implement and flexible Organization Unit." OTN Architect Day Los Angeles - Oct 25 Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Los Angeles happens in one week. Register now to make sure you don't miss out on a rich schedule of expert technical sessions and peer interaction covering the use of Oracle technologies in cloud computing, SOA, and more. Even better: it's all free. When: October 25, 2012, 8:30am - 5:00pm. Where: Sofitel Los Angeles, 8555 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048. Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2.2 released | Oracle's Virtualization Blog The Fat Bloke weighs in with a short post with information on where you can find information and the download for the latest VirtualBox release. Advanced Oracle SOA Suite #OOW 2012 SOA Presentations The Oracle SOA Product Management team has compiled a complete list of all twelve of their Oracle SOA Suite presentations from Oracle OpenWorld 2012, with links to the slide decks. Thought for the Day "Software: do you write it like a book, grow it like a plant, accrete it like a pearl, or construct it like a building?" — Jeff Atwood Source: softwarequotes.com

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  • Oracle EMEA News Digest - May 2014

    - by Steve Walker
    Systems Oracle introduced a technology preview of an OpenStack® distribution that allows Oracle Linux and Oracle VM users to work with the open source cloud software. This provides customers with additional choices and interoperability while taking advantage of the efficiency, performance, scalability, and security of Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. The distribution is delivered as part of the Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Premier Support offerings, at no additional cost. Oracle plans to work further with the OpenStack community to develop and enhance its enterprise-class capabilities to meet customer demands. Also in the Open Source arena, Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Fabric. MySQL Fabric provides an integrated system that makes it simpler to manage groups of MySQL databases. It delivers both high availability - via failure detection and failover - and scalability through automated data sharding. Oracle Database, Middleware and Technology The company made two announcements for Oracle Tuxedo, the #1 application server for C, C++, COBOL and Java deployments in private cloud or traditional data center environments. With enhanced management and monitoring features and tighter integration with Oracle technologies, the latest release of Oracle Tuxedo 12c enables organizations to dramatically increase application throughput, while reducing total cost of ownership and time to market for new application development and deployment. Oracle also introduced the latest release of its mainframe application rehosting platform, Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c, to help organizations speed up migration projects and accelerate the adoption of the new environment by current IT staff. It enables organizations to accelerate the rehosting of IBM mainframe applications and greatly enhance management and supportability of the rehosted applications while reducing costs and risk. Applications According to new Oracle studies, B2B and B2C commerce professionals find integrated, omni-channel customer experiences increasingly valuable to their organizations, and are continuing to invest in technologies and digital content strategies to facilitate them. The studies—one for B2B and one for B2C—surveyed e-commerce professionals in business and technology departments from around the world. Although the priorities, success metrics, and technology investments differed between the two groups, customer acquisition and retention emerged as common themes across B2B and B2C. Growing market share and enhancing customer experience are cited as top investment areas for all e-commerce professionals. In product news, Oracle announced the latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications (version 11.1.1.8.1, in case anyone asks). It includes prebuilt connectors between Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics and Oracle’s JD Edwards. Additionally, a new Oracle Human Resources Analytics module for developing and maintaining a skilled workforce has been introduced. In use at more than 4,000 companies worldwide, Oracle BI Applications support leading enterprise applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne offering high-performing analytics at a lower cost. Industries For the Communications Industry, Oracle has launched a new release of the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager. This gives CSPs a new way to design, deploy and manage complex networking services and embrace next-generation technology, It provides them with an immediate entry point for  network function virtualization (NFV) efforts, allowing them to realize immediate benefits associated with network virtualization – including increased service agility and improved network resource sharing. And for the Utilities Industry, Oracle is releasing solutions with new business features and enhanced technical architecture that help position utilities for success now and into the future. Oracle has provided new releases for its customer information system,  meter data management system, customer self-service solution and mobile workforce management solution.

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  • Did I lose my RAID again?

    - by BarsMonster
    Hi! A little history: 2 years ago I was really excited to find out that mdadm is so powerful that it even can reshape arrays, so you can start with a smaller array and then grow it as you need. I've bought 3x1Tb drives and made a RAID-5. It was fine for a year. Then I bought 2x more, and tried to reshape to RAID-6 out of 5 drives, and due to some mess with superblock versions, lost all content. Had to rebuild it from scratch, but 2Tb of data were gone. Yesterday I bought 2 more drives, and this time I had everything: properly built array, UPS. I've disabled write intent map, added 2 new drives as spares and run a command to grow array to 7-disks. It started working, but speed was ridiculously slow, ~100kb/sec. After processing first 37Mb at such an amazing speed, one of old HDDs fails. I properly shutdown the PC and disconnected the failed drive. After bootup it appeared that it recreated the intent map as it was still in mdadm config, so I removed it from config and rebooted again. Now all I see is that all mdadm processes deadlock, and don't do anything. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1937 root 20 0 12992 608 444 D 0 0.1 0:00.00 mdadm 2283 root 20 0 12992 852 704 D 0 0.1 0:00.01 mdadm 2287 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.01 md0_reshape 2288 root 18 -2 12992 820 676 D 0 0.1 0:00.01 mdadm And all I see in mdstat is: $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid6 sdb1[1] sdg1[4] sdf1[7] sde1[6] sdd1[0] sdc1[5] 2929683456 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 1024k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/6] [UU_UUUU] [>....................] reshape = 0.0% (37888/976561152) finish=567604147.2min speed=0K/sec I've already tried mdadm 2.6.7, 3.1.4 and 3.2 - nothing helps. Did I lose my data again? Any suggestions on how can I make this work? OS is Ubuntu Server 10.04.2. PS. Needless to say, the data is inaccessible - I cannot mount /dev/md0 to save the most valuable data. You can see my disappointment - the very specific thing I was excited about failed twice taking 5Tb of my data with it. Update: It appears there is some nice info in kern.log: 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522055] raid5: reshape will continue 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522085] raid5: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522091] raid5: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 4 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522097] raid5: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 5 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522102] raid5: device sde1 operational as raid disk 6 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522107] raid5: device sdd1 operational as raid disk 0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.522111] raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 3 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.523942] raid5: allocated 7438kB for md0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524041] 1: w=1 pa=2 pr=5 m=2 a=2 r=7 op1=0 op2=0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524050] 4: w=2 pa=2 pr=5 m=2 a=2 r=7 op1=0 op2=0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524056] 5: w=3 pa=2 pr=5 m=2 a=2 r=7 op1=0 op2=0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524062] 6: w=4 pa=2 pr=5 m=2 a=2 r=7 op1=0 op2=0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524068] 0: w=5 pa=2 pr=5 m=2 a=2 r=7 op1=0 op2=0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524073] 3: w=6 pa=2 pr=5 m=2 a=2 r=7 op1=0 op2=0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524079] raid5: raid level 6 set md0 active with 6 out of 7 devices, algorithm 2 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524519] RAID5 conf printout: 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524523] --- rd:7 wd:6 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524528] disk 0, o:1, dev:sdd1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524532] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524537] disk 3, o:1, dev:sdc1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524541] disk 4, o:1, dev:sdg1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524545] disk 5, o:1, dev:sdf1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524550] disk 6, o:1, dev:sde1 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524553] ...ok start reshape thread 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524727] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2999995858944 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524735] md: reshape of RAID array md0 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524740] md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk. 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524745] md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reshape. 21:38:48 ...: [ 166.524756] md: using 128k window, over a total of 976561152 blocks. 21:39:05 ...: [ 166.525013] md0: 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520063] INFO: task mdadm:1937 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520068] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520073] mdadm D 00000000ffffffff 0 1937 1 0x00000000 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520083] ffff88002ef4f5d8 0000000000000082 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520092] ffff88002eb5b198 ffff88002ef4ffd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002eb5ade0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520100] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ef4ffd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002eb5b198 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520107] Call Trace: 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520133] [<ffffffffa0224892>] get_active_stripe+0x312/0x3f0 [raid456] 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520148] [<ffffffff81059ae0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520159] [<ffffffffa0228413>] make_request+0x243/0x4b0 [raid456] 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520169] [<ffffffffa0221a90>] ? release_stripe+0x50/0x70 [raid456] 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520179] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520188] [<ffffffff81414df0>] md_make_request+0xc0/0x130 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520194] [<ffffffff81414df0>] ? md_make_request+0xc0/0x130 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520205] [<ffffffff8129f8c1>] generic_make_request+0x1b1/0x4f0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520214] [<ffffffff810f6515>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520222] [<ffffffff8116c2ec>] ? alloc_buffer_head+0x1c/0x60 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520230] [<ffffffff8129fc80>] submit_bio+0x80/0x110 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520236] [<ffffffff8116c849>] submit_bh+0xf9/0x140 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520244] [<ffffffff8116f124>] block_read_full_page+0x274/0x3b0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520251] [<ffffffff81172c90>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x70 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520258] [<ffffffff8110d875>] ? __inc_zone_page_state+0x35/0x40 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520265] [<ffffffff810f46d8>] ? add_to_page_cache_locked+0xe8/0x160 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520272] [<ffffffff81173d78>] blkdev_readpage+0x18/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520279] [<ffffffff810f484b>] __read_cache_page+0x7b/0xe0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520285] [<ffffffff81173d60>] ? blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520290] [<ffffffff81173d60>] ? blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520297] [<ffffffff810f57dc>] do_read_cache_page+0x3c/0x120 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520304] [<ffffffff810f5909>] read_cache_page_async+0x19/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520310] [<ffffffff810f591e>] read_cache_page+0xe/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520317] [<ffffffff811a6cb0>] read_dev_sector+0x30/0xa0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520324] [<ffffffff811a7fcd>] amiga_partition+0x6d/0x460 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520331] [<ffffffff811a7938>] check_partition+0x138/0x190 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520338] [<ffffffff811a7a7a>] rescan_partitions+0xea/0x2f0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520344] [<ffffffff811744c7>] __blkdev_get+0x267/0x3d0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520350] [<ffffffff81174650>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0xc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520356] [<ffffffff81174640>] blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520362] [<ffffffff811746c1>] blkdev_open+0x71/0xc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520369] [<ffffffff811419f3>] __dentry_open+0x113/0x370 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520377] [<ffffffff81253f8f>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520385] [<ffffffff8114de3f>] ? inode_permission+0xaf/0xd0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520391] [<ffffffff81141d67>] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520398] [<ffffffff8115207a>] do_filp_open+0x2da/0xba0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520406] [<ffffffff811134a8>] ? unmap_vmas+0x178/0x310 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520414] [<ffffffff8115dbfa>] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520421] [<ffffffff81141769>] do_sys_open+0x69/0x170 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520428] [<ffffffff811418b0>] sys_open+0x20/0x30 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520437] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520446] INFO: task mdadm:2283 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520450] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520454] mdadm D 0000000000000000 0 2283 2212 0x00000000 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520462] ffff88002cca7d98 0000000000000086 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520470] ffff88002ededf78 ffff88002cca7fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ededbc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520478] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002cca7fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ededf78 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520485] Call Trace: 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520495] [<ffffffff81543a97>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf7/0x180 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520502] [<ffffffff8154397b>] mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520508] [<ffffffff8117404d>] __blkdev_put+0x3d/0x190 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520514] [<ffffffff811741b0>] blkdev_put+0x10/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520520] [<ffffffff811741f3>] blkdev_close+0x33/0x60 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520527] [<ffffffff81145375>] __fput+0xf5/0x210 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520534] [<ffffffff811454b5>] fput+0x25/0x30 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520540] [<ffffffff811415ad>] filp_close+0x5d/0x90 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520546] [<ffffffff81141697>] sys_close+0xb7/0x120 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520553] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520559] INFO: task md0_reshape:2287 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520563] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520567] md0_reshape D ffff88003aee96f0 0 2287 2 0x00000000 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520575] ffff88003cf05a70 0000000000000046 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520582] ffff88003aee9aa8 ffff88003cf05fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee96f0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520590] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003cf05fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee9aa8 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520597] Call Trace: 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520608] [<ffffffffa0224892>] get_active_stripe+0x312/0x3f0 [raid456] 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520616] [<ffffffff81059ae0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520626] [<ffffffffa0226f80>] reshape_request+0x4c0/0x9a0 [raid456] 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520634] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520644] [<ffffffffa022777a>] sync_request+0x31a/0x3a0 [raid456] 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520651] [<ffffffff81052713>] ? __wake_up+0x53/0x70 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520658] [<ffffffff814156b1>] md_do_sync+0x621/0xbb0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520668] [<ffffffff810387b9>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x9/0x10 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520675] [<ffffffff8141640c>] md_thread+0x5c/0x130 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520681] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520688] [<ffffffff814163b0>] ? md_thread+0x0/0x130 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520694] [<ffffffff81084416>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520701] [<ffffffff810131ea>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520707] [<ffffffff81084380>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520713] [<ffffffff810131e0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520718] INFO: task mdadm:2288 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520721] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520725] mdadm D 0000000000000000 0 2288 1 0x00000000 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520733] ffff88002cca9c18 0000000000000086 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520741] ffff88003aee83b8 ffff88002cca9fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee8000 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520748] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002cca9fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee83b8 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520755] Call Trace: 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520763] [<ffffffff81543a97>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf7/0x180 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520771] [<ffffffff812a6d50>] ? exact_match+0x0/0x10 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520777] [<ffffffff8154397b>] mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520783] [<ffffffff811742c8>] __blkdev_get+0x68/0x3d0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520790] [<ffffffff81174650>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0xc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520795] [<ffffffff81174640>] blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520801] [<ffffffff811746c1>] blkdev_open+0x71/0xc0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520808] [<ffffffff811419f3>] __dentry_open+0x113/0x370 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520815] [<ffffffff81253f8f>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520821] [<ffffffff8114de3f>] ? inode_permission+0xaf/0xd0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520828] [<ffffffff81141d67>] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520834] [<ffffffff8115207a>] do_filp_open+0x2da/0xba0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520841] [<ffffffff810ff0e1>] ? lru_cache_add_lru+0x21/0x40 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520848] [<ffffffff8111109c>] ? do_anonymous_page+0x11c/0x330 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520855] [<ffffffff81115d5f>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x31f/0x3c0 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520862] [<ffffffff8115dbfa>] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520868] [<ffffffff81141769>] do_sys_open+0x69/0x170 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520874] [<ffffffff811418b0>] sys_open+0x20/0x30 21:42:04 ...: [ 362.520882] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520065] INFO: task mdadm:1937 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520071] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520077] mdadm D 00000000ffffffff 0 1937 1 0x00000000 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520087] ffff88002ef4f5d8 0000000000000082 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520096] ffff88002eb5b198 ffff88002ef4ffd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002eb5ade0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520104] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ef4ffd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002eb5b198 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520112] Call Trace: 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520139] [<ffffffffa0224892>] get_active_stripe+0x312/0x3f0 [raid456] 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520154] [<ffffffff81059ae0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520165] [<ffffffffa0228413>] make_request+0x243/0x4b0 [raid456] 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520175] [<ffffffffa0221a90>] ? release_stripe+0x50/0x70 [raid456] 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520185] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520194] [<ffffffff81414df0>] md_make_request+0xc0/0x130 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520201] [<ffffffff81414df0>] ? md_make_request+0xc0/0x130 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520212] [<ffffffff8129f8c1>] generic_make_request+0x1b1/0x4f0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520221] [<ffffffff810f6515>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520229] [<ffffffff8116c2ec>] ? alloc_buffer_head+0x1c/0x60 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520237] [<ffffffff8129fc80>] submit_bio+0x80/0x110 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520244] [<ffffffff8116c849>] submit_bh+0xf9/0x140 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520252] [<ffffffff8116f124>] block_read_full_page+0x274/0x3b0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520258] [<ffffffff81172c90>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x70 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520266] [<ffffffff8110d875>] ? __inc_zone_page_state+0x35/0x40 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520273] [<ffffffff810f46d8>] ? add_to_page_cache_locked+0xe8/0x160 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520280] [<ffffffff81173d78>] blkdev_readpage+0x18/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520286] [<ffffffff810f484b>] __read_cache_page+0x7b/0xe0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520293] [<ffffffff81173d60>] ? blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520299] [<ffffffff81173d60>] ? blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520306] [<ffffffff810f57dc>] do_read_cache_page+0x3c/0x120 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520313] [<ffffffff810f5909>] read_cache_page_async+0x19/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520319] [<ffffffff810f591e>] read_cache_page+0xe/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520327] [<ffffffff811a6cb0>] read_dev_sector+0x30/0xa0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520334] [<ffffffff811a7fcd>] amiga_partition+0x6d/0x460 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520341] [<ffffffff811a7938>] check_partition+0x138/0x190 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520348] [<ffffffff811a7a7a>] rescan_partitions+0xea/0x2f0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520355] [<ffffffff811744c7>] __blkdev_get+0x267/0x3d0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520361] [<ffffffff81174650>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0xc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520367] [<ffffffff81174640>] blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520373] [<ffffffff811746c1>] blkdev_open+0x71/0xc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520380] [<ffffffff811419f3>] __dentry_open+0x113/0x370 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520388] [<ffffffff81253f8f>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520396] [<ffffffff8114de3f>] ? inode_permission+0xaf/0xd0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520403] [<ffffffff81141d67>] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520410] [<ffffffff8115207a>] do_filp_open+0x2da/0xba0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520417] [<ffffffff811134a8>] ? unmap_vmas+0x178/0x310 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520426] [<ffffffff8115dbfa>] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520432] [<ffffffff81141769>] do_sys_open+0x69/0x170 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520438] [<ffffffff811418b0>] sys_open+0x20/0x30 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520447] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520458] INFO: task mdadm:2283 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520462] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520467] mdadm D 0000000000000000 0 2283 2212 0x00000000 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520475] ffff88002cca7d98 0000000000000086 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520483] ffff88002ededf78 ffff88002cca7fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ededbc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520490] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002cca7fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ededf78 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520498] Call Trace: 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520508] [<ffffffff81543a97>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf7/0x180 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520515] [<ffffffff8154397b>] mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520521] [<ffffffff8117404d>] __blkdev_put+0x3d/0x190 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520527] [<ffffffff811741b0>] blkdev_put+0x10/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520533] [<ffffffff811741f3>] blkdev_close+0x33/0x60 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520541] [<ffffffff81145375>] __fput+0xf5/0x210 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520547] [<ffffffff811454b5>] fput+0x25/0x30 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520554] [<ffffffff811415ad>] filp_close+0x5d/0x90 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520560] [<ffffffff81141697>] sys_close+0xb7/0x120 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520568] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520574] INFO: task md0_reshape:2287 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520578] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520582] md0_reshape D ffff88003aee96f0 0 2287 2 0x00000000 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520590] ffff88003cf05a70 0000000000000046 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520597] ffff88003aee9aa8 ffff88003cf05fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee96f0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520605] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003cf05fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee9aa8 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520612] Call Trace: 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520623] [<ffffffffa0224892>] get_active_stripe+0x312/0x3f0 [raid456] 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520633] [<ffffffff81059ae0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520643] [<ffffffffa0226f80>] reshape_request+0x4c0/0x9a0 [raid456] 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520651] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520661] [<ffffffffa022777a>] sync_request+0x31a/0x3a0 [raid456] 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520668] [<ffffffff81052713>] ? __wake_up+0x53/0x70 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520675] [<ffffffff814156b1>] md_do_sync+0x621/0xbb0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520685] [<ffffffff810387b9>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x9/0x10 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520692] [<ffffffff8141640c>] md_thread+0x5c/0x130 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520699] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520705] [<ffffffff814163b0>] ? md_thread+0x0/0x130 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520711] [<ffffffff81084416>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520718] [<ffffffff810131ea>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520725] [<ffffffff81084380>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520730] [<ffffffff810131e0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520735] INFO: task mdadm:2288 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520739] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520743] mdadm D 0000000000000000 0 2288 1 0x00000000 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520751] ffff88002cca9c18 0000000000000086 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520759] ffff88003aee83b8 ffff88002cca9fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee8000 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520767] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002cca9fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88003aee83b8 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520774] Call Trace: 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520782] [<ffffffff81543a97>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf7/0x180 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520790] [<ffffffff812a6d50>] ? exact_match+0x0/0x10 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520797] [<ffffffff8154397b>] mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520804] [<ffffffff811742c8>] __blkdev_get+0x68/0x3d0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520810] [<ffffffff81174650>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0xc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520816] [<ffffffff81174640>] blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520822] [<ffffffff811746c1>] blkdev_open+0x71/0xc0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520829] [<ffffffff811419f3>] __dentry_open+0x113/0x370 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520837] [<ffffffff81253f8f>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520843] [<ffffffff8114de3f>] ? inode_permission+0xaf/0xd0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520850] [<ffffffff81141d67>] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520857] [<ffffffff8115207a>] do_filp_open+0x2da/0xba0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520864] [<ffffffff810ff0e1>] ? lru_cache_add_lru+0x21/0x40 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520871] [<ffffffff8111109c>] ? do_anonymous_page+0x11c/0x330 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520878] [<ffffffff81115d5f>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x31f/0x3c0 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520885] [<ffffffff8115dbfa>] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520891] [<ffffffff81141769>] do_sys_open+0x69/0x170 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520897] [<ffffffff811418b0>] sys_open+0x20/0x30 21:44:04 ...: [ 482.520905] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520053] INFO: task mdadm:1937 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520059] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520065] mdadm D 00000000ffffffff 0 1937 1 0x00000000 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520075] ffff88002ef4f5d8 0000000000000082 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520084] ffff88002eb5b198 ffff88002ef4ffd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002eb5ade0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520091] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ef4ffd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002eb5b198 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520099] Call Trace: 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520127] [<ffffffffa0224892>] get_active_stripe+0x312/0x3f0 [raid456] 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520142] [<ffffffff81059ae0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520153] [<ffffffffa0228413>] make_request+0x243/0x4b0 [raid456] 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520162] [<ffffffffa0221a90>] ? release_stripe+0x50/0x70 [raid456] 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520171] [<ffffffff81084790>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520180] [<ffffffff81414df0>] md_make_request+0xc0/0x130 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520187] [<ffffffff81414df0>] ? md_make_request+0xc0/0x130 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520197] [<ffffffff8129f8c1>] generic_make_request+0x1b1/0x4f0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520206] [<ffffffff810f6515>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520215] [<ffffffff8116c2ec>] ? alloc_buffer_head+0x1c/0x60 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520222] [<ffffffff8129fc80>] submit_bio+0x80/0x110 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520229] [<ffffffff8116c849>] submit_bh+0xf9/0x140 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520237] [<ffffffff8116f124>] block_read_full_page+0x274/0x3b0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520244] [<ffffffff81172c90>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x70 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520252] [<ffffffff8110d875>] ? __inc_zone_page_state+0x35/0x40 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520259] [<ffffffff810f46d8>] ? add_to_page_cache_locked+0xe8/0x160 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520266] [<ffffffff81173d78>] blkdev_readpage+0x18/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520273] [<ffffffff810f484b>] __read_cache_page+0x7b/0xe0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520279] [<ffffffff81173d60>] ? blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520285] [<ffffffff81173d60>] ? blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520292] [<ffffffff810f57dc>] do_read_cache_page+0x3c/0x120 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520300] [<ffffffff810f5909>] read_cache_page_async+0x19/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520306] [<ffffffff810f591e>] read_cache_page+0xe/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520314] [<ffffffff811a6cb0>] read_dev_sector+0x30/0xa0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520321] [<ffffffff811a7fcd>] amiga_partition+0x6d/0x460 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520328] [<ffffffff811a7938>] check_partition+0x138/0x190 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520335] [<ffffffff811a7a7a>] rescan_partitions+0xea/0x2f0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520342] [<ffffffff811744c7>] __blkdev_get+0x267/0x3d0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520348] [<ffffffff81174650>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0xc0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520354] [<ffffffff81174640>] blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520359] [<ffffffff811746c1>] blkdev_open+0x71/0xc0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520367] [<ffffffff811419f3>] __dentry_open+0x113/0x370 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520375] [<ffffffff81253f8f>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520383] [<ffffffff8114de3f>] ? inode_permission+0xaf/0xd0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520390] [<ffffffff81141d67>] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520397] [<ffffffff8115207a>] do_filp_open+0x2da/0xba0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520404] [<ffffffff811134a8>] ? unmap_vmas+0x178/0x310 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520413] [<ffffffff8115dbfa>] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520419] [<ffffffff81141769>] do_sys_open+0x69/0x170 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520425] [<ffffffff811418b0>] sys_open+0x20/0x30 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520434] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520443] INFO: task mdadm:2283 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520447] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520451] mdadm D 0000000000000000 0 2283 2212 0x00000000 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520460] ffff88002cca7d98 0000000000000086 0000000000015bc0 0000000000015bc0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520468] ffff88002ededf78 ffff88002cca7fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ededbc0 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520475] 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002cca7fd8 0000000000015bc0 ffff88002ededf78 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520483] Call Trace: 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520492] [<ffffffff81543a97>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf7/0x180 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520500] [<ffffffff8154397b>] mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520506] [<ffffffff8117404d>] __blkdev_put+0x3d/0x190 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520512] [<ffffffff811741b0>] blkdev_put+0x10/0x20 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520518] [<ffffffff811741f3>] blkdev_close+0x33/0x60 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520526] [<ffffffff81145375>] __fput+0xf5/0x210 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520533] [<ffffffff811454b5>] fput+0x25/0x30 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520539] [<ffffffff811415ad>] filp_close+0x5d/0x90 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520545] [<ffffffff81141697>] sys_close+0xb7/0x120 21:46:04 ...: [ 602.520552] [<ffffffff810121b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

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