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  • One registry key for many products not deleted on uninstall

    - by NC1
    My company has many products, we want to create a registry key Software\$(var.Manufacturer)that will have all of our products if our customers have installed more than one (which is likely) I then want to have a secondary key for each of our products which get removed on uninstall but the main one does not. I have tried to achieve this like below but my main key gets deleted so all of my other products also get deleted from the registry. I know this is trivial but I cannot find an answer. <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR"> <Component Id="Registry" Guid="*" MultiInstance="yes" Permanent="yes"> <RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="Software\$(var.Manufacturer)" ForceCreateOnInstall="yes"> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="Default" Value="true" KeyPath="yes"/> </RegistryKey> </Component> </DirectoryRef> <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR"> <Component Id="RegistryEntries" Guid="*" MultiInstance="yes" > <RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="Software\$(var.Manufacturer)\[PRODUCTNAME]" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall"> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="Installed" Value="true" KeyPath="yes"/> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="ProductName" Value="[PRODUCTNAME]"/> </RegistryKey> </Component> </DirectoryRef> EDIT: I have got my registry keys to stay using the following code. However they only all delete wen all products are deleted, not one by one as they need to. <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR"> <Component Id="Registry" Guid="FF75CA48-27DE-430E-B78F-A1DC9468D699" Permanent="yes" Shared="yes" Win64="$(var.Win64)"> <RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="Software\$(var.Manufacturer)" ForceCreateOnInstall="yes"> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="Default" Value="true" KeyPath="yes"/> </RegistryKey> </Component> </DirectoryRef> <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR"> <Component Id="RegistryEntries" Guid="D94FA576-970F-4503-B6C6-BA6FBEF8A60A" Win64="$(var.Win64)" > <RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="Software\$(var.Manufacturer)\[PRODUCTNAME]" ForceDeleteOnUninstall="yes"> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="Installed" Value="true" KeyPath="yes"/> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="ProductName" Value="[PRODUCTNAME]"/> </RegistryKey> </Component> </DirectoryRef>

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  • CoreGraphics taking a while to show on a large view - can i get it to repeat pixels?

    - by Andrew
    This is my coregraphics code: void drawTopPaperBackground(CGContextRef context, CGRect rect) { CGRect paper3 = CGRectMake(10, 14, 300, rect.size.height - 14); CGRect paper2 = CGRectMake(13, 12, 294, rect.size.height - 12); CGRect paper1 = CGRectMake(16, 10, 288, rect.size.height - 10); //Shadow CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0,0), 10, [[UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.5]CGColor]); CGPathRef path = createRoundedRectForRect(paper3, 0); CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]); CGContextAddPath(context, path); CGContextFillPath(context); //Layers of paper //CGContextSaveGState(context); drawPaper(context, paper3); drawPaper(context, paper2); drawPaper(context, paper1); //CGContextRestoreGState(context); } void drawPaper(CGContextRef context, CGRect rect) { //Shadow CGContextSaveGState(context); CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0,0), 1, [[UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.5]CGColor]); CGPathRef path = createRoundedRectForRect(rect, 0); CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]); CGContextAddPath(context, path); CGContextFillPath(context); //CGContextRestoreGState(context); //Gradient //CGContextSaveGState(context); CGColorRef startColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.92 alpha:1.0].CGColor; CGColorRef endColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.94 alpha:1.0].CGColor; CGRect firstHalf = CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y, rect.size.width / 2, rect.size.height); CGRect secondHalf = CGRectMake(rect.origin.x + (rect.size.width / 2), rect.origin.y, rect.size.width / 2, rect.size.height); drawVerticalGradient(context, firstHalf, startColor, endColor); drawVerticalGradient(context, secondHalf, endColor, startColor); //CGContextRestoreGState(context); //CGContextSaveGState(context); CGRect redRect = rectForRectWithInset(rect, -1); CGMutablePathRef redPath = createRoundedRectForRect(redRect, 0); //CGContextSaveGState(context); CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]); CGContextAddPath(context, path); CGContextClip(context); CGContextAddPath(context, redPath); CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0, 0), 15.0, [[UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.1] CGColor]); CGContextStrokePath(context); CGContextRestoreGState(context); } The view is a UIScrollView, which contains a textview. Every time the user types something and goes onto a new line, I call [self setNeedsDisplay]; and it redraws the code. But when the view starts to get long - around 1000 height, it has very noticeable lag. How can i make this code more efficient? Can i take a line of pixels and make it just repeat that, or stretch it, all the way down?

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  • HTTP Handlers in Win2008/IIS7

    - by Keith Barrows
    We are migrating our web sites from Win2003/IIS6 to Win2008/IIS7. Our .NET code is in a WAP form with compiled binaries. I do dev work on a Win7/IIS7 box so had to learn early how to set up HTTP Handlers in this newer environment. What I have that has worked fine on my box is: <system.webServer> <handlers> <remove name="WebServiceHandlerFactory-Integrated" /> <remove name="ScriptHandlerFactory" /> <remove name="ScriptHandlerFactoryAppServices" /> <remove name="ScriptResource" /> <add name="RivWorks" path="*.riv" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness32" /> <add name="RivWorks2" path="*.riv2" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness32" /> <add name="ScriptHandlerFactory" verb="*" path="*.asmx" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> <add name="ScriptHandlerFactoryAppServices" verb="*" path="*_AppService.axd" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> <add name="ScriptResource" verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> </handlers> All I am getting on the new web site when I try to call into the *.riv handler is: 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. OK. You see interesting things when writing out these questions. Our server is setup in integrated mode and runs on a x64 system. So, I changed the precondition clause to: preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness64" Now I get this instead: 500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. Any ideas of what I should be doing, where I should be looking? TIA

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  • Correcting a plist with dictionaries

    - by ingenspor
    Plist is copyed to documents directory if it doesn't exist. If it already exists, I want to use the "Name" key from NSDictionary in bundleArray to find the matching NSDictionary in documentsArray. When the match is found, I want to check for changes in the strings and replace them if there is a change. If a match is not found it means this dictionary must be added to documents plist. This is my code: - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions { [self managePlist]; return YES; } - (void)managePlist { NSError *error; NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Objects.plist"]; NSString *bundle = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Objects" ofType:@"plist"]; NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath: path]) { [fileManager copyItemAtPath:bundle toPath:path error:&error]; } else { NSArray *bundleArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:bundle]; NSMutableArray *documentArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path]; BOOL updateDictionary = NO; for(int i=0;i<bundleArray.count;i++) { NSDictionary *bundleDict=[bundleArray objectAtIndex:i]; BOOL matchInDocuments = NO; for(int ii=0;ii<documentArray.count;ii++) { NSMutableDictionary *documentDict = [documentArray objectAtIndex:ii]; NSString *bundleObjectName = [bundleDict valueForKey:@"Name"]; NSString *documentsObjectName = [documentDict valueForKey:@"Name"]; NSRange range = [documentsObjectName rangeOfString:bundleObjectName options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch]; if (range.location != NSNotFound) { matchInDocuments = YES; } if (matchInDocuments) { if ([bundleDict objectForKey:@"District"] != [documentDict objectForKey:@"District"]) { [documentDict setObject:[bundleDict objectForKey:@"District"] forKey:@"District"]; updateDictionary=YES; } } else { [documentArray addObject:bundleDict]; updateDictionary=YES; } } } if(updateDictionary){ [documentArray writeToFile:path atomically:YES]; } } } If I run my app now I get this message: '-[__NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: mutating method sent to immutable object' How can I fix this? When this is fixed, do you think my code will work? If not, I would be happy for some suggestions on how to do this. I have struggled for a while and really need to publish the update with the corrections! Thanks a lot for your help.

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  • Optimal template for change content via XMLHTTPRequest with JQuery,PHP,SQL [closed]

    - by B.F.
    This is my method to handle XMLHTTPRequests. Avoids mysql request, foreign access, nerves user, double requests. jquery var allow=true; var is_loaded=""; $(document).ready(function(){ .... $(".xx").on("click",functio(){ if(allow){ allow=false; if(is_loaded!="that"){ $.post("job.php", {job:"that",word:"aaa",number:"123"},function(data){ $(".aaa").html(data); is_loaded="that"; }); } setTimeout(function(){allow=true},500); } .... }); job.php <?PHP ob_start('ob_gzhandler'); if(!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) or strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) != 'xmlhttprequest')exit("bad boy!"); if($_POST['job']=="that"){ include "includes/that.inc; } elseif($_POST['job']== .... ob_end_flush(); ?> that.inc if(!preg_match("/\w/",$_POST['word'])exit("bad boy!"); if(!is_numeric($_POST['number'])exit("bad boy!"); //exclude more. $path="temp/that_".$row['word']."txt"; if(file_exists($path) and filemtime("includes/that.inc")<$filemtime($path)){ readfile($path); } else{ include "includes/openSql.inc"; $call=sql_query("SELECT * FROM that WHERE name='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['word'])."'"); if(!$call)exit("ups"); $out=""; while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($call)){ $out.=$_POST['word']." loves the color ".$row['color'].".<br/>"; } echo $out; $fn=fopen($path,"wb"); fputs($fn,$out); fclose($fn); } if something change at the database, you just have to delete involved files. Hope it was English.

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  • Red Gate Coder interviews: Robin Hellen

    - by Michael Williamson
    Robin Hellen is a test engineer here at Red Gate, and is also the latest coder I’ve interviewed. We chatted about debugging code, the roles of software engineers and testers, and why Vala is currently his favourite programming language. How did you get started with programming?It started when I was about six. My dad’s a professional programmer, and he gave me and my sister one of his old computers and taught us a bit about programming. It was an old Amiga 500 with a variant of BASIC. I don’t think I ever successfully completed anything! It was just faffing around. I didn’t really get anywhere with it.But then presumably you did get somewhere with it at some point.At some point. The PC emerged as the dominant platform, and I learnt a bit of Visual Basic. I didn’t really do much, just a couple of quick hacky things. A bit of demo animation. Took me a long time to get anywhere with programming, really.When did you feel like you did start to get somewhere?I think it was when I started doing things for someone else, which was my sister’s final year of university project. She called up my dad two days before she was due to submit, saying “We need something to display a graph!”. Dad says, “I’m too busy, go talk to your brother”. So I hacked up this ugly piece of code, sent it off and they won a prize for that project. Apparently, the graph, the bit that I wrote, was the reason they won a prize! That was when I first felt that I’d actually done something that was worthwhile. That was my first real bit of code, and the ugliest code I’ve ever written. It’s basically an array of pre-drawn line elements that I shifted round the screen to draw a very spikey graph.When did you decide that programming might actually be something that you wanted to do as a career?It’s not really a decision I took, I always wanted to do something with computers. And I had to take a gap year for uni, so I was looking for twelve month internships. I applied to Red Gate, and they gave me a job as a tester. And that’s where I really started having to write code well. To a better standard that I had been up to that point.How did you find coming to Red Gate and working with other coders?I thought it was really nice. I learnt so much just from other people around. I think one of the things that’s really great is that people are just willing to help you learn. Instead of “Don’t you know that, you’re so stupid”, it’s “You can just do it this way”.If you could go back to the very start of that internship, is there something that you would tell yourself?Write shorter code. I have a tendency to write massive, many-thousand line files that I break out of right at the end. And then half-way through a project I’m doing something, I think “Where did I write that bit that does that thing?”, and it’s almost impossible to find. I wrote some horrendous code when I started. Just that principle, just keep things short. Even if looks a bit crazy to be jumping around all over the place all of the time, it’s actually a lot more understandable.And how do you hold yourself to that?Generally, if a function’s going off my screen, it’s probably too long. That’s what I tell myself, and within the team here we have code reviews, so the guys I’m with at the moment are pretty good at pulling me up on, “Doesn’t that look like it’s getting a bit long?”. It’s more just the subjective standard of readability than anything.So you’re an advocate of code review?Yes, definitely. Both to spot errors that you might have made, and to improve your knowledge. The person you’re reviewing will say “Oh, you could have done it that way”. That’s how we learn, by talking to others, and also just sharing knowledge of how your project works around the team, or even outside the team. Definitely a very firm advocate of code reviews.Do you think there’s more we could do with them?I don’t know. We’re struggling with how to add them as part of the process without it becoming too cumbersome. We’ve experimented with a few different ways, and we’ve not found anything that just works.To get more into the nitty gritty: how do you like to debug code?The first thing is to do it in my head. I’ll actually think what piece of code is likely to have caused that error, and take a quick look at it, just to see if there’s anything glaringly obvious there. The next thing I’ll probably do is throw in print statements, or throw some exceptions from various points, just to check: is it going through the code path I expect it to? A last resort is to actually debug code using a debugger.Why is the debugger the last resort?Probably because of the environments I learnt programming in. VB and early BASIC didn’t have much of a debugger, the only way to find out what your program was doing was to add print statements. Also, because a lot of the stuff I tend to work with is non-interactive, if it’s something that takes a long time to run, I can throw in the print statements, set a run off, go and do something else, and look at it again later, rather than trying to remember what happened at that point when I was debugging through it. So it also gives me the record of what happens. I hate just sitting there pressing F5, F5, continually. If you’re having to find out what your code is doing at each line, you’ve probably got a very wrong mental model of what your code’s doing, and you can find that out just as easily by inspecting a couple of values through the print statements.If I were on some codebase that you were also working on, what should I do to make it as easy as possible to understand?I’d say short and well-named methods. The one thing I like to do when I’m looking at code is to find out where a value comes from, and the more layers of indirection there are, particularly DI [dependency injection] frameworks, the harder it is to find out where something’s come from. I really hate that. I want to know if the value come from the user here or is a constant here, and if I can’t find that out, that makes code very hard to understand for me.As a tester, where do you think the split should lie between software engineers and testers?I think the split is less on areas of the code you write and more what you’re designing and creating. The developers put a structure on the code, while my major role is to say which tests we should have, whether we should test that, or it’s not worth testing that because it’s a tiny function in code that nobody’s ever actually going to see. So it’s not a split in the code, it’s a split in what you’re thinking about. Saying what code we should write, but alternatively what code we should take out.In your experience, do the software engineers tend to do much testing themselves?They tend to control the lowest layer of tests. And, depending on how the balance of people is in the team, they might write some of the higher levels of test. Or that might go to the testers. I’m the only tester on my team with three other developers, so they’ll be writing quite a lot of the actual test code, with input from me as to whether we should test that functionality, whereas on other teams, where it’s been more equal numbers, the testers have written pretty much all of the high level tests, just because that’s the best use of resource.If you could shuffle resources around however you liked, do you think that the developers should be writing those high-level tests?I think they should be writing them occasionally. It helps when they have an understanding of how testing code works and possibly what assumptions we’ve made in tests, and they can say “actually, it doesn’t work like that under the hood so you’ve missed this whole area”. It’s one of those agile things that everyone on the team should be at least comfortable doing the various jobs. So if the developers can write test code then I think that’s a very good thing.So you think testers should be able to write production code?Yes, although given most testers skills at coding, I wouldn’t advise it too much! I have written a few things, and I did make a few changes that have actually gone into our production code base. They’re not necessarily running every time but they are there. I think having that mix of skill sets is really useful. In some ways we’re using our own product to test itself, so being able to make those changes where it’s not working saves me a round-trip through the developers. It can be really annoying if the developers have no time to make a change, and I can’t touch the code.If the software engineers are consistently writing tests at all levels, what role do you think the role of a tester is?I think on a team like that, those distinctions aren’t quite so useful. There’ll be two cases. There’s either the case where the developers think they’ve written good tests, but you still need someone with a test engineer mind-set to go through the tests and validate that it’s a useful set, or the correct set for that code. Or they won’t actually be pure developers, they’ll have that mix of test ability in there.I think having slightly more distinct roles is useful. When it starts to blur, then you lose that view of the tests as a whole. The tester job is not to create tests, it’s to validate the quality of the product, and you don’t do that just by writing tests. There’s more things you’ve got to keep in your mind. And I think when you blur the roles, you start to lose that end of the tester.So because you’re working on those features, you lose that holistic view of the whole system?Yeah, and anyone who’s worked on the feature shouldn’t be testing it. You always need to have it tested it by someone who didn’t write it. Otherwise you’re a bit too close and you assume “yes, people will only use it that way”, but the tester will come along and go “how do people use this? How would our most idiotic user use this?”. I might not test that because it might be completely irrelevant. But it’s coming in and trying to have a different set of assumptions.Are you a believer that it should all be automated if possible?Not entirely. So an automated test is always better than a manual test for the long-term, but there’s still nothing that beats a human sitting in front of the application and thinking “What could I do at this point?”. The automated test is very good but they follow that strict path, and they never check anything off the path. The human tester will look at things that they weren’t expecting, whereas the automated test can only ever go “Is that value correct?” in many respects, and it won’t notice that on the other side of the screen you’re showing something completely wrong. And that value might have been checked independently, but you always find a few odd interactions when you’re going through something manually, and you always need to go through something manually to start with anyway, otherwise you won’t know where the important bits to write your automation are.When you’re doing that manual testing, do you think it’s important to do that across the entire product, or just the bits that you’ve touched recently?I think it’s important to do it mostly on the bits you’ve touched, but you can’t ignore the rest of the product. Unless you’re dealing with a very, very self-contained bit, you’re almost always encounter other bits of the product along the way. Most testers I know, even if they are looking at just one path, they’ll keep open and move around a bit anyway, just because they want to find something that’s broken. If we find that your path is right, we’ll go out and hunt something else.How do you think this fits into the idea of continuously deploying, so long as the tests pass?With deploying a website it’s a bit different because you can always pull it back. If you’re deploying an application to customers, when you’ve released it, it’s out there, you can’t pull it back. Someone’s going to keep it, no matter how hard you try there will be a few installations that stay around. So I’d always have at least a human element on that path. With websites, you could probably automate straight out, or at least straight out to an internal environment or a single server in a cloud of fifty that will serve some people. But I don’t think you should release to everyone just on automated tests passing.You’ve already mentioned using BASIC and C# — are there any other languages that you’ve used?I’ve used a few. That’s something that has changed more recently, I’ve become familiar with more languages. Before I started at Red Gate I learnt a bit of C. Then last year, I taught myself Python which I actually really enjoyed using. I’ve also come across another language called Vala, which is sort of a C#-like language. It’s basically a pre-processor for C, but it has very nice syntax. I think that’s currently my favourite language.Any particular reason for trying Vala?I have a completely Linux environment at home, and I’ve been looking for a nice language, and C# just doesn’t cut it because I won’t touch Mono. So, I was looking for something like C# but that was useable in an open source environment, and Vala’s what I found. C#’s got a few features that Vala doesn’t, and Vala’s got a few features where I think “It would be awesome if C# had that”.What are some of the features that it’s missing?Extension methods. And I think that’s the only one that really bugs me. I like to use them when I’m writing C# because it makes some things really easy, especially with libraries that you can’t touch the internals of. It doesn’t have method overloading, which is sometimes annoying.Where it does win over C#?Everything is non-nullable by default, you never have to check that something’s unexpectedly null.Also, Vala has code contracts. This is starting to come in C# 4, but the way it works in Vala is that you specify requirements in short phrases as part of your function signature and they stick to the signature, so that when you inherit it, it has exactly the same code contract as the base one, or when you inherit from an interface, you have to match the signature exactly. Just using those makes you think a bit more about how you’re writing your method, it’s not an afterthought when you’ve got contracts from base classes given to you, you can’t change it. Which I think is a lot nicer than the way C# handles it. When are those actually checked?They’re checked both at compile and run-time. The compile-time checking isn’t very strong yet, it’s quite a new feature in the compiler, and because it compiles down to C, you can write C code and interface with your methods, so you can bypass that compile-time check anyway. So there’s an extra runtime check, and if you violate one of the contracts at runtime, it’s game over for your program, there’s no exception to catch, it’s just goodbye!One thing I dislike about C# is the exceptions. You write a bit of code and fifty exceptions could come from any point in your ten lines, and you can’t mentally model how those exceptions are going to come out, and you can’t even predict them based on the functions you’re calling, because if you’ve accidentally got a derived class there instead of a base class, that can throw a completely different set of exceptions. So I’ve got no way of mentally modelling those, whereas in Vala they’re checked like Java, so you know only these exceptions can come out. You know in advance the error conditions.I think Raymond Chen on Old New Thing says “the only thing you know when you throw an exception is that you’re in an invalid state somewhere in your program, so just kill it and be done with it!”You said you’ve also learnt bits of Python. How did you find that compared to Vala and C#?Very different because of the dynamic typing. I’ve been writing a website for my own use. I’m quite into photography, so I take photos off my camera, post-process them, dump them in a file, and I get a webpage with all my thumbnails. So sort of like Picassa, but written by myself because I wanted something to learn Python with. There are some things that are really nice, I just found it really difficult to cope with the fact that I’m not quite sure what this object type that I’m passed is, I might not ever be sure, so it can randomly blow up on me. But once I train myself to ignore that and just say “well, I’m fairly sure it’s going to be something that looks like this, so I’ll use it like this”, then it’s quite nice.Any particular features that you’ve appreciated?I don’t like any particular feature, it’s just very straightforward to work with. It’s very quick to write something in, particularly as you don’t have to worry that you’ve changed something that affects a different part of the program. If you have, then that part blows up, but I can get this part working right now.If you were doing a big project, would you be willing to do it in Python rather than C# or Vala?I think I might be willing to try something bigger or long term with Python. We’re currently doing an ASP.NET MVC project on C#, and I don’t like the amount of reflection. There’s a lot of magic that pulls values out, and it’s all done under the scenes. It’s almost managed to put a dynamic type system on top of C#, which in many ways destroys the language to me, whereas if you’re already in a dynamic language, having things done dynamically is much more natural. In many ways, you get the worst of both worlds. I think for web projects, I would go with Python again, whereas for anything desktop, command-line or GUI-based, I’d probably go for C# or Vala, depending on what environment I’m in.It’s the fact that you can gain from the strong typing in ways that you can’t so much on the web app. Or, in a web app, you have to use dynamic typing at some point, or you have to write a hell of a lot of boilerplate, and I’d rather use the dynamic typing than write the boilerplate.What do you think separates great programmers from everyone else?Probably design choices. Choosing to write it a piece of code one way or another. For any given program you ask me to write, I could probably do it five thousand ways. A programmer who is capable will see four or five of them, and choose one of the better ones. The excellent programmer will see the largest proportion and manage to pick the best one very quickly without having to think too much about it. I think that’s probably what separates, is the speed at which they can see what’s the best path to write the program in. More Red Gater Coder interviews

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  • ?RAC??????(Rolling)??/????????

    - by JaneZhang(???)
       ?RAC??????????,???????,???????????(Rolling),????,???????,??????????,???????????,????????,???????????????,?????????????????,???????   ?????????????????Rolling???,???????????Rolling?,?????????? ????,???Rolling???????:1. ?????2. ?????,????????????3. ????????????????????4. ??????,????????????????5. ?????????Readme????????????:1). ?oracle???????????????????.2). ??????:3). ??1????ORACLE_HOME?????????+ASM??(???);4). ?1?????:$cd $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/10082277$opatch apply5). ??opatch????????????,??????????:6). ??1????ORACLE_HOME?????????+ASM??(???);7). ??2????ORACLE_HOME?????????+ASM??(???);8). ?????????????,??????????;9). ??2????ORACLE_HOME?????????+ASM??(???);10).???????,????? ????10.2.0.4 RAC???(Rolling)????8575528???:1).?oracle???????????????????,??:$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch??.$ pwd/u01/app/oracle/OPatch$ lsdocs  emdpatch.pl  jlib  opatch  opatch.ini  opatch.pl  opatchprereqs  p8575528_10204_Linux-x86.zip2).??????:su - oracle$ unzip p8575528_10204_Linux-x86.zipArchive:  p8575528_10204_Linux-x86.zip  creating: 8575528/  creating: 8575528/files/  creating: 8575528/files/lib/  creating: 8575528/files/lib/libserver10.a/ inflating: 8575528/files/lib/libserver10.a/kks1.o inflating: 8575528/files/lib/libserver10.a/kksc.o inflating: 8575528/files/lib/libserver10.a/kksh.o inflating: 8575528/files/lib/libserver10.a/ksmp.o  creating: 8575528/etc/  creating: 8575528/etc/config/ inflating: 8575528/etc/config/inventory inflating: 8575528/etc/config/actions  creating: 8575528/etc/xml/ inflating: 8575528/etc/xml/GenericActions.xml inflating: 8575528/etc/xml/ShiphomeDirectoryStructure.xml inflating: 8575528/README.txt    $ ls8575528  docs  emdpatch.pl  jlib  opatch  opatch.ini  opatch.pl  opatchprereqs  p8575528_10204_Linux-x86.zip3).????????????RAC?????(rolling)?$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch query -all /u01/app/oracle/OPatch/8575528|grep rollingPatch is a rolling patch: true <=====??????4).??1??????ORACLE_HOME?????????(???ASM,????):$srvctl stop instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>$srvctl stop asm -n <nodename>??:$srvctl stop instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE1$srvctl stop asm -n nascds14$ crs_stat -tName           Type           Target    State     Host      ------------------------------------------------------------ora....E1.inst application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE            ora....SM1.asm application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE5). ?1?????:??:$su - oracle$cd /u01/app/oracle/OPatch/8575528$opatch applyInvoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.2Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.2Copyright (c) 2007, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracleCentral Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory  from           : /etc/oraInst.locOPatch version    : 10.2.0.4.2OUI version       : 10.2.0.4.0OUI location      : /u01/app/oracle/ouiLog file location : /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2012-06-13_01-27-38AM.logApplySession applying interim patch '8575528' to OH '/u01/app/oracle'Running prerequisite checks...OPatch detected the node list and the local node from the inventory.  OPatch will patch the local system thenpropagate the patch to the remote nodes.This node is part of an Oracle Real Application Cluster.Remote nodes: 'nascds15'Local node: 'nascds14'Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.(Oracle Home = '/u01/app/oracle')Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n]y <======??yUser Responded with: YBacking up files and inventory (not for auto-rollback) for the Oracle HomeBacking up files affected by the patch '8575528' for restore. This might take a while...Backing up files affected by the patch '8575528' for rollback. This might take a while...Patching component oracle.rdbms, 10.2.0.4.0...Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/kks1.o"Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/kksc.o"Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/kksh.o"Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/ksmp.o"Running make for target ioracleApplySession adding interim patch '8575528' to inventoryVerifying the update...Inventory check OK: Patch ID 8575528 is registered in Oracle Home inventory with proper meta-data.Files check OK: Files from Patch ID 8575528 are present in Oracle Home.The local system has been patched.  You can restart Oracle instances on it.Patching in rolling mode.The node 'nascds15' will be patched next.Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on 'nascds15'.(Oracle Home = '/u01/app/oracle')Is the node ready for patching? [y|n]6). ??opatch????????????????????????7). ??1???ASM ????????:$srvctl start asm -n <nodename>$srvctl start instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>??:$srvctl start asm -n nascds14$srvctl start instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE1$crs_stat -tora....E1.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    nascds14  ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    nascds148).??2???ASM????????:$srvctl stop instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>$srvctl stop asm -n <nodename>$srvctl stop instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE2$srvctl stop asm -n nascds15$crs_statora....E2.inst application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE            ora....SM2.asm application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE9). ?????????????,???????????Is the node ready for patching? [y|n] y <====??yUser Responded with: YUpdating nodes 'nascds15'  Apply-related files are:    FP = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_files.txt"    DP = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_dirs.txt"    MP = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/make_cmds.txt"    RC = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/remote_cmds.txt"Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_files.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_files.txt" withactual path.Propagating files to remote nodes...Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_dirs.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_dirs.txt" withactual path.Propagating directories to remote nodes...Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/make_cmds.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/make_cmds.txt" withactual path.Running command on remote node 'nascds15':cd /u01/app/oracle/rdbms/lib; /usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle || echoREMOTE_MAKE_FAILED::>&2The node 'nascds15' has been patched.  You can restart Oracle instances on it.There were relinks on remote nodes.  Remember to check the binary size and timestamp on the nodes 'nascds15' .The following make commands were invoked on remote nodes:'cd /u01/app/oracle/rdbms/lib; /usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle'OPatch succeeded.10). ??2???ASM????????:$srvctl start asm -n <nodename>$srvctl start instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>??:$srvctl start asm -n nascds15$srvctl start instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE211).??????????????????????????$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventory[oracle@nascds14 8575528]$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventoryInvoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.2Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.2Copyright (c) 2007, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracleCentral Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory  from           : /etc/oraInst.locOPatch version    : 10.2.0.4.2OUI version       : 10.2.0.4.0OUI location      : /u01/app/oracle/ouiLog file location : /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2012-06-13_01-44-11AM.logLsinventory Output file location : /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/opatch/lsinv/lsinventory2012-06-13_01-44-11AM.txt--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Installed Top-level Products (2):Oracle Database 10g                                                  10.2.0.1.0Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Patch Set 3                            10.2.0.4.0There are 2 products installed in this Oracle Home.Interim patches (1) :Patch  8575528      : applied on Wed Jun 13 01:28:24 CST 2012<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  Created on 17 Aug 2010, 07:56:36 hrs PST8PDT  Bugs fixed:    8575528Rac system comprising of multiple nodes Local node = nascds14 Remote node = nascds15--------------------------------------------------------------------------------OPatch succeeded.Rac system comprising of multiple nodes Local node = nascds14 Remote node = nascds15--------------------------------------------------------------------------------OPatch succeeded. ????10.2.0.4 RAC???(Rolling)????8575528???: 1).??1?????ORACLE_HOME?????????(???ASM,????):$srvctl stop instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>$srvctl stop asm -n <nodename>??:$srvctl stop instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE1$srvctl stop asm -n nascds14$crs_stat -tName           Type           Target    State     Host        ------------------------------------------------------------ora....E1.inst application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE              ora....SM1.asm application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE  2). ?1??????:??:$su - oracle$cd $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/8575528$opatch rollback -id 8575528Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.2Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.2Copyright (c) 2007, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracleCentral Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory  from           : /etc/oraInst.locOPatch version    : 10.2.0.4.2OUI version       : 10.2.0.4.0OUI location      : /u01/app/oracle/ouiLog file location : /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2012-06-13_18-22-10PM.logRollbackSession rolling back interim patch '8575528' from OH '/u01/app/oracle'Running prerequisite checks...OPatch detected the node list and the local node from the inventory.  OPatch will patch the local system thenpropagate the patch to the remote nodes.This node is part of an Oracle Real Application Cluster.Remote nodes: 'nascds15'Local node: 'nascds14'Please shut down Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on all the nodes.(Oracle Home = '/u01/app/oracle')Are all the nodes ready for patching? [y|n]y <=========??yUser Responded with: YBacking up files affected by the patch '8575528' for restore. This might take a while...Patching component oracle.rdbms, 10.2.0.4.0...Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/kks1.o"Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/kksc.o"Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/kksh.o"Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/lib/libserver10.a"  with "lib/libserver10.a/ksmp.o"Running make for target ioracleRollbackSession removing interim patch '8575528' from inventoryPatching in rolling mode.The node 'nascds15' will be patched next.Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on 'nascds15'.(Oracle Home = '/u01/app/oracle')Is the node ready for patching? [y|n]3). ??opatch????????????????????????????4). ??1??ASM ????????:$srvctl start asm -n <nodename>$srvctl start instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>??:$srvctl start asm -n nascds14$srvctl start instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE1$crs_stat -tora....E1.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    nascds14    ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    nascds145).??2???ASM????????:$srvctl stop instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>$srvctl stop asm -n <nodename>$srvctl stop instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE2$srvctl stop asm -n nascds15$crs_stat -tora....E2.inst application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE              ora....SM2.asm application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE  6). ??????????????,??????????The node 'nascds15' will be patched next.Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on 'nascds15'.(Oracle Home = '/u01/app/oracle')Is the node ready for patching? [y|n]y <=========??yUser Responded with: YUpdating nodes 'nascds15'  Rollback-related files are:    FR = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/remove_files.txt"    DR = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/remove_dirs.txt"    FP = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_files.txt"    MP = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/make_cmds.txt"    RC = "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/remote_cmds.txt"Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/remove_dirs.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/remove_dirs.txt" withactual path.Removing directories on remote nodes...Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_files.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_files.txt" withactual path.Propagating files to remote nodes...Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_dirs.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/copy_dirs.txt" withactual path.Propagating directories to remote nodes...Instantiating the file "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/make_cmds.txt.instantiated"by replacing $ORACLE_HOME in "/u01/app/oracle/.patch_storage/8575528_Aug_17_2010_07_56_36/rac/make_cmds.txt" withactual path.Running command on remote node 'nascds15':cd /u01/app/oracle/rdbms/lib; /usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle || echoREMOTE_MAKE_FAILED::>&2The node 'nascds15' has been patched.  You can restart Oracle instances on it.There were relinks on remote nodes.  Remember to check the binary size and timestamp on the nodes 'nascds15' .The following make commands were invoked on remote nodes:'cd /u01/app/oracle/rdbms/lib; /usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle'OPatch succeeded.7). ??2???ASM????????:$srvctl start asm -n <nodename>$srvctl start instance -d <dbname> -i <instance_name>??:$srvctl start asm -n nascds15$srvctl start instance -d ONEPIECE -i ONEPIECE28).??????????????????????????$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventoryInvoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.2Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.2Copyright (c) 2007, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracleCentral Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory  from           : /etc/oraInst.locOPatch version    : 10.2.0.4.2OUI version       : 10.2.0.4.0OUI location      : /u01/app/oracle/ouiLog file location : /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2012-06-13_19-40-41PM.logLsinventory Output file location : /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/opatch/lsinv/lsinventory2012-06-13_19-40-41PM.txt--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Installed Top-level Products (2):Oracle Database 10g                                                  10.2.0.1.0Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Patch Set 3                            10.2.0.4.0There are 2 products installed in this Oracle Home.There are no Interim patches installed in this Oracle Home.Rac system comprising of multiple nodes Local node = nascds14 Remote node = nascds15--------------------------------------------------------------------------------OPatch succeeded.

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  • How do I manipulate Handler Mappings cleanly in IIS7 using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespac

    - by Kev
    I asked this over on Stack Overflow but maybe it's something an experienced IIS 7 administrator might know more about, so I'm asking here as well. When manipulating Handler Mappings using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace, is there a way to remove the <remove name="handler name"> tag added at the site level. For example, I have a site which inherits all the handler mappings from the global handler mappings configuration. In applicationHost.config the <location> tag initially looks like this: <location path="60030 - testsite-60030.com"> <system.webServer> <security> <authentication> <anonymousAuthentication userName="" /> </authentication> </security> </system.webServer> </location> To remove a handler I use code similar this: string siteName = "60030 - testsite-60030.com"; string handlerToRemove = "ASPClassic"; using(ServerManager sm = new ServerManager()) { Configuration siteConfig = serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration(); ConfigurationSection handlersSection = siteConfig.GetSection("system.webServer/handlers", siteName); ConfigurationElementCollection handlersCollection = handlersSection.GetCollection(); ConfigurationElement handlerElement = handlersCollection .Where(h => h["name"].Equals(handlerMapping.Name)).Single(); handlersCollection.Remove(handlerElement); } The equivalent APPCMD instruction would be: appcmd set config "60030 - autotest-60030.com" -section:system.webServer/handlers /-[name='ASPClassic'] /commit:apphost This results in the site's <location> tag looking like: <location path="60030 - testsite-60030.com"> <system.webServer> <security> <authentication> <anonymousAuthentication userName="" /> </authentication> </security> <handlers> <remove name="ASPClassic" /> </handlers> </system.webServer> </location> So far so good. However if I re-add the ASPClassic handler this results in: <location path="60030 - testsite-60030.com"> <system.webServer> <security> <authentication> <anonymousAuthentication userName="" /> </authentication> </security> <handlers> <!-- Why doesn't <remove> get removed instead of tacking on an <add> directive? --> <remove name="ASPClassic" /> <add name="ASPClassic" path="*.asp" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll" resourceType="File" /> </handlers> </system.webServer> </location> This happens when using both the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace and C# or using the following APPCMD command: appcmd set config "60030 - autotest-60030.com" -section:system.webServer/handlers /+[name='ASPClassic',path='*.asp',verb=;'GET,HEAD,POST',modules='IsapiModule',scriptProcessor='%windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll',resourceType='File'] /commit:apphost This can result in a lot of cruft over time for each website that's had a handler removed then re-added programmatically. Is there a way to just remove the <remove name="ASPClassic" /> tag using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace code or APPCMD?

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  • Network authentication + roaming home directory - which technology should I look into using?

    - by Brian
    I'm looking into software which provides a user with a single identity across multiple computers. That is, a user should have the same permissions on each computer, and the user should have access to all of his or her files (roaming home directory) on each computer. There seem to be many solutions for this general idea, but I'm trying to determine the best one for me. Here are some details along with requirements: The network of machines are Amazon EC2 instances running Ubuntu. We access the machines with SSH. Some machines on this LAN may have different uses, but I am only discussing machines for a certain use (running a multi-tenancy platform). The system will not necessarily have a constant amount of machines. We may have to permanently or temporarily alter the amount of machines running. This is the the reason why I'm looking into centralized authentication/storage. The implementation of this effect should be a secure one. We're unsure if users will have direct shell access, but their software will potentially be running (under restricted Linux user names, of course) on our systems, which is as good as direct shell access. Let's assume that their software could potentially be malicious for the sake of security. I have heard of several technologies/combinations to achieve my goal, but I'm unsure of the ramifications of each. An older ServerFault post recommended NFS & NIS, though the combination has security problems according to this old article by Symantec. The article suggests moving to NIS+, but, as it is old, this Wikipedia article has cited statements suggesting a trending away from NIS+ by Sun. The recommended replacement is another thing I have heard of... LDAP. It looks like LDAP can be used to save user information in a centralized location on a network. NFS would still need to be used to cover the 'roaming home folder' requirement, but I see references of them being used together. Since the Symantec article pointed out security problems in both NIS and NFS, is there software to replace NFS, or should I heed that article's suggestions for locking it down? I'm tending toward LDAP because another fundamental piece of our architecture, RabbitMQ, has a authentication/authorization plugin for LDAP. RabbitMQ will be accessible in a restricted manner to users on the system, so I would like to tie the security systems together if possible. Kerberos is another secure authentication protocol that I have heard of. I learned a bit about it some years ago in a cryptography class but don't remember much about it. I have seen suggestions online that it can be combined with LDAP in several ways. Is this necessary? What are the security risks of LDAP without Kerberos? I also remember Kerberos being used in another piece of software developed by Carnegie Mellon University... Andrew File System, or AFS. OpenAFS is available for use, though its setup seems a bit complicated. At my university, AFS provides both requirements... I can log in to any machine, and my "AFS folder" is always available (at least when I acquire an AFS token). Along with suggestions for which path I should look into, does anybody have any guides which were particularly helpful? As the bold text pointed out, LDAP looks to be the best choice, but I'm particularly interested in the implementation details (Keberos? NFS?) with respect to security.

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  • Is it possible to repair a Cisco 3500 XL (3548) switch with POST Error messages?

    - by Alex
    I've got an old Cisco 3500 XL, and it seems to have hardware issues. I've loaded the latest IOS and cleared all config. Does anyone have any experience fixing the switch core? I'm a reasonably competent SMD solderer, can I replace/reflow some chips? I've checked the power supply voltages and it's all within tolerance, and no visible signs of any component damage. Some chips are hot to the touch. I understand that these were EOL as of 2007, but should have a lifetime warranty for the electronics. I don't have a Cisco support contract, so I can't file a ticket. What should I do? Console output: switch: dir flash: Directory of flash:/ 2 -rwx 1811584 <date> c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC17.bin 1799680 bytes available (1812992 bytes used) switch: boot Loading "flash:c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC17.bin"...################################################################################################################################################################################### File "flash:c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC17.bin" uncompressed and installed, entry point: 0x3000 executing... Restricted Rights Legend Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013. cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706 Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C3500XL Software (C3500XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5)WC17, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Tue 13-Feb-07 15:04 by antonino Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x00352924 Initializing C3500XL flash... flashfs[1]: 1 files, 1 directories flashfs[1]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories flashfs[1]: Total bytes: 3612672 flashfs[1]: Bytes used: 1812992 flashfs[1]: Bytes available: 1799680 flashfs[1]: flashfs fsck took 3 seconds. flashfs[1]: Initialization complete. ...done Initializing C3500XL flash. C3500XL POST: System Board Test: Passed C3500XL POST: Daughter Card Test: Passed C3500XL POST: CPU Buffer Test: Passed C3500XL POST: CPU Notify RAM Test: Passed C3500XL POST: CPU Interface Test: Passed C3500XL POST: Testing Switch Core: Passed Error with Switch Core BIST test Phase 0. Returns: Test Complete Low : 0x0FFFFFFF, Test Complete High : 0xFFFFFFFE Test Phase Low : 0x00000040, Test Phase High : 0x00000000 Test Phase Third : 0x00000000, Test Complete Third : 0x000001F8 C3500XL POST FAILURE: Testing Switch Core: Failed C3500XL POST FAILURE: Testing Buffer Table: Failed C3500XL POST FAILURE: Data Buffer Test: Failed C3500XL POST FAILURE: Configuring Switch Parameters: Failed C3500XL POST FAILURE: Switch Core BIST failed. C3500XL POST FAILURE: Cannot test Modules due to failure of Switch Core POST Del Mar Failure (0th Del Mar): req system failed to init C3500XL POST FAILURE: C3500XL POST FAILURE: ATM: required system failed to init C3500XL POST: Ethernet Controller Test: Passed C3500XL POST FAILURE: MII Test: Failed C3500XL POST FAILURE: Error waiting for Ethernet Controller and SW_PARAMS C3500XL POST FAILURE: Initialization/POST failed C3500XL POST FAILURE: AT: Failing because system POST failed Exception (8192)! Debug Exception (Could be NULL pointer dereference) CPU Register Context: Vector = 0x00002000 PC = 0x000F36F4 MSR = 0x00029200 CR = 0x22000024 LR = 0x000F6964 CTR = 0x001DE46C XER = 0x00000000 R0 = 0x00000000 R1 = 0x004E2580 R2 = 0x00000000 R3 = 0x00000000 R4 = 0x00000001 R5 = 0x00000000 R6 = 0x004E2718 R7 = 0x004E2718 R8 = 0x00000008 R9 = 0x00000000 R10 = 0x0000FFFF R11 = 0x00480000 R12 = 0x42000024 R13 = 0x00000000 R14 = 0x00000000 R15 = 0x00000000 R16 = 0x00000000 R17 = 0x00000000 R18 = 0x00000000 R19 = 0x00000000 R20 = 0x00000000 R21 = 0x00000000 R22 = 0x00000000 R23 = 0x00000000 R24 = 0x00000000 R25 = 0x00000020 R26 = 0x004E2718 R27 = 0x004E2718 R28 = 0x00000020 R29 = 0x00002513 R30 = 0x00000001 R31 = 0x00000000 Stack trace: PC = 0x000F36F4, SP = 0x004E2580 Frame 00: SP = 0x004E25A0 PC = 0x40000016 Frame 01: SP = 0x004E2618 PC = 0x000F6964 Frame 02: SP = 0x004E26A8 PC = 0x000F76DC Frame 03: SP = 0x004E26C8 PC = 0x000E8114 Frame 04: SP = 0x004E26F0 PC = 0x001F5BF8 Frame 05: SP = 0x004E2710 PC = 0x001F5CF4 Frame 06: SP = 0x004E2748 PC = 0x0023F4DC Frame 07: SP = 0x004E2750 PC = 0x0023E650 Frame 08: SP = 0x004E27C8 PC = 0x0023E89C Frame 09: SP = 0x004E27E0 PC = 0x0028AF34 Frame 10: SP = 0x004E27E8 PC = 0x001E38F8 Frame 11: SP = 0x004E2808 PC = 0x001E39A8 Frame 12: SP = 0x004E2820 PC = 0x0014E220 Frame 13: SP = 0x004E28C8 PC = 0x0014E39C Frame 14: SP = 0x00000000 PC = 0x001EB510

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  • Why is IIS Anonymous authentication being used with administrative UNC drive access?

    - by Mark Lindell
    My account is local administrator on my machine. If I try to browse to a non-existent drive letter on my own box using a UNC path name: \mymachine\x$ my account would get locked out. I would also get the following warning (Event ID 100, Type “Warning”) 5 times under the “System” group in Event Viewer on my box: The server was unable to logon the Windows NT account 'ourdomain\myaccount' due to the following error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. I would also get the following warning 3 times: The server was unable to logon the Windows NT account 'ourdomain\myaccount' due to the following error: The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to. On the domain controller, Event ID 680 of type “Failure Audit” would appear 4 times under the “Security” group in Event Viewer: Logon attempt by: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0 Logon account: myaccount Followed by Event ID 644: User Account Locked Out: Target Account Name: myaccount Target Account ID: OURDOMAIN\myaccount Caller Machine Name: MYMACHINE Caller User Name: STAN$ Caller Domain: OURDOMAIN Caller Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E7) Followed by another 4 errors having Event ID 680. Strangely, every time I tried to browse to the UNC path I would be prompted for a user name and password, the above errors would be written to the log, and my account would be locked out. When I hit “Cancel” in response to the user name/password prompt, the following message box would display: Windows cannot find \mymachine\x$. Check the spelling and try again, or try searching for the item by clicking the Start button and then clicking Search. I checked with others in the group using XP and they only got the above message box when browsing to a “bad” drive letter on their box. No one else was prompted for a user name/password and then locked out. So, every time I tried to browse to the “bad” drive letter, behind the scenes XP was trying to login 8 times using bad credentials (or, at least a bad password as the login was correct), causing my account to get locked out on the 4th try. Interestingly, If I tried browsing to a “good” drive such as “c$” it would work fine. As a test, I tried logging on to my box as a different login and browsing the “bad” UNC path. Strangely, my “ourdomain\myaccount” account was getting locked out – not the one I was logged in as! I was totally confused as to why the credentials for the other login were being passed. After much Googling, I found a link referring to some IIS settings I was vaguely familiar with from the past but could not see how they would affect this issue. It was related to the IIS directory security setting “Anonymous access and authentication control” located under: Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Services and Applications/Internet Information Services/Web Sites/Default Web Site/Properties/Directory Security/Anonymous access and authentication control/Edit/Password I found no indication while scouring the Internet that this property was related to my UNC problem. But, I did notice that this property was set to my domain user name and password. And, my password did age recently but I had not reset the password accordingly for this property. Sure enough, keying in the new password corrected the problem. I was no longer prompted for a user name/password when browsing the UNC path and the account lock-outs ceased. Now, a couple of questions: Why would an IIS setting affect the browsing of a UNC path on a local box? Why had I not encountered this problem before? My password has aged several times and I’ve never encountered this problem. And, I can’t remember the last time I updated the “Anonymous access” IIS password it’s been so long. I’ve run the script after a password reset before and never had my account locked-out due to the UNC problem (the script accesses UNC paths as a normal part of its processing). Windows Update did install “Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB972260)” on my box on 7/29/2009. I wonder if this is responsible.

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  • PHP.ini does not load

    - by Jonathan Park
    Ok this is probably just me not knowing enough about php but here it goes. I'm on Ubuntu Hardy. I have a custom compiled version of PHP which I have compiled with these parameters. ./configure --enable-soap --with-zlib --with-mysql --with-apxs2=[correct path] --with-config-file-path=[correct path] --with-mysqli --with-curlwrappers --with-curl --with-mcrypt I have used the command pecl install pecl_http to install the http.so extension. It is in the correct module directory for my php.ini. My php.ini is loading and I can change things within the ini and effect php. I have included the extension=http.so line in my php.ini. That worked fine. Until I added these compilation options in order to add imap --with-openssl --with-kerberos --with-imap --with-imap-ssl Which failed because I needed the c-client library which I fixed by apt-get install libc-client-dev After which php compiles fine and I have working imap support, woo. HOWEVER, now all my calls to HttpRequest which is part of the pecl_http extention in http.so result in Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found errors. I figure the http.so module is no longer loading for one reason or another but I cannot find any errors showing the reason. You might say "Have you tried undoing the new imap setup?" To which I will answer. Yes I have. I directly undid all my config changes and uninstalled the c-client library and I still can't get it to work. I thought that's weird... I have made no changes that would have resulted in this issue. After looking at that I have also discovered that not only is the http extension no longer loading but all my extensions loaded via php.ini are no longer loading. Can someone at least give me some further debugging steps? So far I have tried enabling all errors including startup errors in my php.ini which works for other errors, but I'm not seeing any startup errors either on command line or via apache. And yet again the php.ini appears to be being parsed given that if I run php_info() I get settings that are in the php.ini. Edit it appears that only some of the php.ini settings are being listened to. Is there a way to test my php.ini? Edit Edit It appears I am mistaken again and the php.ini is not being loaded at all any longer. However, If I run php_info() I get that it's looking for my php.ini in the correct location. Edit Edit Edit My config is at the config file path location below but it says no config file loaded. WTF Permission issue? It is currently 644 so everyone should be able to read it if not write it. I tried making it 777 and that didn't work. Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php.ini Loaded Configuration File (none) Edit Edit Edit Edit By loading the ini on the command line using the -c command I am able to run my files and using -m shows that my modules load So nothing is wrong with the php.ini

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  • How to Eliminate Tape Backup and Off-site Storage Service?

    - by Daniel Lucas
    PLEASE READ UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM. THANKS! ;) Environment Info (all Windows): 2 sites 30 servers site #1 (3TB of backup data) 5 servers site #2 (1TB of backup data) MPLS backbone tunnel connecting site #1 and site #2 Current Backup Process: Online Backup (disk-to-disk) Site #1 has a server running Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 with four 1TB USB 2.0 disks. BE jobs for full backups run nightly on all servers in site #1 to these disks. Site #2 backs up to a central file server there using software they already had when we purchased them. A BE job pulls that data nightly to site #1 and stores them on said disks. Off-site Backup (tape) Connected to our backup server is a tape drive. BE backs up the external disks to tape once a week which gets picked up by our off-site storage company. Obviously we rotate two tape libraries, one is always here and one is always there. Requirements: Eliminate the need for tape and off-site storage service by doing disk-to-disk at each site and replicating site #1 to site #2 and vice versa. Software based solution as hardware options have been too pricey (ie, SonicWall, Arkeia). Agents for Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL. Some Ideas So Far: Storage DroboPro at each site with an initial 8TB of storage (these are expandable up to 16TB at present). I like these because they are rackmountable, allow disparate drives, and have iSCSI interfaces. They are relatively cheap too. Software Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 already has all the agents and licenses we need. I'd like to keep using it unless there is a better solution, similarly priced, that does everything BE does plus deduplication and replication. Server Because there is no more need for a SCSI adapter (for tape drive) we are going to virtualize our backup server as it is currently the only physical machine save for SQL boxes. Problems: When replicating between sites we want as little data as possible to go across the pipe. There is no deduplication or compression in what I have laid out here so far. The files being replicated are BE's virtual tape libraries from our disk-to-disk backup. Because of this each of those huge files will go across the wire every week because they change every day. And Finally, the Question: Is there any software out there that does deduplication, or at least compression, to handle just our site-to-site replication? Or, looking at our setup, is there any other solution that I am missing that might be cheaper, faster, better? Thanks. Sorry so long. UPDATE 2: I've set a bounty on this question to get it more attention. I'm looking for software that will handle replication of data between two sites using the least amount of data possible (either compression, deduplication, or some other method). Something similar to rsync would work but it needs to be native to Windows and not a port involving shenanigans to get up and running. Prefer a GUI based product and I don't mind shelling out a few bones if it works. Please, answers that meet the above criteria only. If you don't think one exists or if you think I'm being to restrictive keep it to yourself. If after seven days there is no answer at all, so be it. Thanks again everyone. UPDATE 2: I really appreciate everyone coming forward with suggestions. There is no way for me to try all of these before the bounty expires. For now I'm going to let this bounty run out and whoever has the most votes will get the 100 rep points. Thanks again!

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  • Hanging of host network connections when starting KVM guest on bridge

    - by Chris Phillips
    Hi, I've a KVM system upon which I'm running a network bridge directly between all VM's and a bond0 (eth0, eth1) on the host OS. As such, all machines are presented on the same subnet, available outside of the box. The bond is doing mode 1 active / passive, with an arp_ip_target set to the default gateway, which has caused some issues in itself, but I can't see the bond configs mattering here myself. I'm seeing odd things most times when I stop and start a guest on the platform, in that on the host I lose network connectivity (icmp, ssh) for about 30 seconds. I don't lose connectivity on the other already running VM's though... they can always ping the default GW, but the host can't. I say "about 30 seconds" but from some tests it actually seems to be 28 seconds usually (or at least, I lose 28 pings...) and I'm wondering if this somehow relates to the bridge config. I'm not running STP on the bridge at all, and the forwarding delay is set to 1 second, path cost on the bond0 lowered to 10 and port priority of bond0 also lowered to 1. As such I don't think that the bridge should ever be able to think that bond0 is not connected just fine (as continued guest connectivity implies) yet the IP of the host, which is on the bridge device (... could that matter?? ) becomes unreachable. I'm fairly sure it's about the bridged networking, but at the same time as this happens when a VM is started there are clearly loads of other things also happening so maybe I'm way off the mark. Lack of connectivity: # ping 10.20.11.254 PING 10.20.11.254 (10.20.11.254) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.20.11.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.921 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.11.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.541 ms type=1700 audit(1293462808.589:325): dev=vnet6 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=42949672 95 ses=4294967295 type=1700 audit(1293462808.604:326): dev=vnet7 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=42949672 95 ses=4294967295 type=1700 audit(1293462808.618:327): dev=vnet8 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=42949672 95 ses=4294967295 kvm: 14116: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0x186 data 0x130079 kvm: 14116: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xffdd694a kvm: 14116: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0x186 data 0x530079 64 bytes from 10.20.11.254: icmp_seq=30 ttl=255 time=0.514 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.11.254: icmp_seq=31 ttl=255 time=0.551 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.11.254: icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=0.437 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.11.254: icmp_seq=33 ttl=255 time=0.392 ms brctl output of relevant bridge: # brctl showstp brdev brdev bridge id 8000.b2e1378d1396 designated root 8000.b2e1378d1396 root port 0 path cost 0 max age 19.99 bridge max age 19.99 hello time 1.99 bridge hello time 1.99 forward delay 0.99 bridge forward delay 0.99 ageing time 299.95 hello timer 0.50 tcn timer 0.00 topology change timer 0.00 gc timer 0.04 flags vnet5 (3) port id 8003 state forwarding designated root 8000.b2e1378d1396 path cost 100 designated bridge 8000.b2e1378d1396 message age timer 0.00 designated port 8003 forward delay timer 0.00 designated cost 0 hold timer 0.00 flags vnet0 (2) port id 8002 state forwarding designated root 8000.b2e1378d1396 path cost 100 designated bridge 8000.b2e1378d1396 message age timer 0.00 designated port 8002 forward delay timer 0.00 designated cost 0 hold timer 0.00 flags bond0 (1) port id 0001 state forwarding designated root 8000.b2e1378d1396 path cost 10 designated bridge 8000.b2e1378d1396 message age timer 0.00 designated port 0001 forward delay timer 0.00 designated cost 0 hold timer 0.00 flags I do see the new port listed as learning, but in line with the forward delay, only for 1 or 2 seconds when polling the brctl output on a loop. All pointers, tips or stabs in the dark appreciated.

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  • ScriptAlias makes requests match too many Location blocks. What is going on?

    - by brain99
    We wish to restrict access on our development server to those users who have a valid SSL Client certificate. We are running Apache 2.2.16 on Debian 6. However, for some sections (mainly git-http, setup with gitolite on https://my.server/git/) we need an exception since many git clients don't support SSL client certificates. I have succeeded in requiring client cert authentication for the server, and in adding exceptions for some locations. However, it seems this does not work for git. The current setup is as follows: SSLCACertificateFile ssl-certs/client-ca-certs.crt <Location /> SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 2 </Location> # this works <Location /foo> SSLVerifyClient none </Location> # this does not <Location /git> SSLVerifyClient none </Location> I have also tried an alternative solution, with the same results: # require authentication everywhere except /git and /foo <LocationMatch "^/(?!git|foo)"> SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 2 </LocationMatch> In both these cases, a user without client certificate can perfectly access my.server/foo/, but not my.server/git/ (access is refused because no valid client certificate is given). If I disable SSL client certificate authentication completely, my.server/git/ works ok. The ScriptAlias problem Gitolite is setup using the ScriptAlias directive. I have found that the problem occurs with any similar ScriptAlias: # Gitolite ScriptAlias /git/ /path/to/gitolite-shell/ ScriptAlias /gitmob/ /path/to/gitolite-shell/ # My test ScriptAlias /test/ /path/to/test/script/ Note that /path/to/test/script is a file, not a directory, the same goes for /path/to/gitolite-shell/ My test script simply prints out the environment, super simple: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type:text/plain\n\n"; print "TEST\n"; @keys = sort(keys %ENV); foreach (@keys) { print "$_ => $ENV{$_}\n"; } It seems that if I go to https://my.server/test/someLocation, that any SSLVerifyClient directives are being applied which are in Location blocks that match /test/someLocation or just /someLocation. If I have the following config: <LocationMatch "^/f"> SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 2 </LocationMatch> Then, the following URL requires a client certificate: https://my.server/test/foo. However, the following URL does not: https://my.server/test/somethingElse/foo Note that this only seems to apply for SSL configuration. The following has no effect whatsoever on https://my.server/test/foo: <LocationMatch "^/f"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </LocationMatch> However, it does block access to https://my.server/foo. This presents a major problem for cases where I have some project running at https://my.server/project (which has to require SSL client certificate authorization), and there is a git repository for that project at https://my.server/git/project which cannot require a SSL client certificate. Since the /git/project URL also gets matched agains /project Location blocks, such a configuration seems impossible given my current findings. Question: Why is this happening, and how do I solve my problem? In the end, I want to require SSL Client certificate authorization for the whole server except for /git and /someLocation, with as minimal configuration as possible (so I don't have to modify the configuration each time something new is deployed or a new git repository is added). Note: I rewrote my question (instead of just adding more updates at the bottom) to take into account my new findings and hopefully make this more clear.

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  • What's the difference between find and findstr commands in Windows?

    - by Prashant Bhate
    In Windows, what are the differences between find and findstr commands? Both seems to search text in files: find c:\>find /? Searches for a text string in a file or files. FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]] /V Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string. /C Displays only the count of lines containing the string. /N Displays line numbers with the displayed lines. /I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string. /OFF[LINE] Do not skip files with offline attribute set. "string" Specifies the text string to find. [drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search. If a path is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command. findstr c:\>findstr /? Searches for strings in files. FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file] [/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes] [/OFF[LINE]] strings [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]] /B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line. /E Matches pattern if at the end of a line. /L Uses search strings literally. /R Uses search strings as regular expressions. /S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories. /I Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive. /X Prints lines that match exactly. /V Prints only lines that do not contain a match. /N Prints the line number before each line that matches. /M Prints only the filename if a file contains a match. /O Prints character offset before each matching line. /P Skip files with non-printable characters. /OFF[LINE] Do not skip files with offline attribute set. /A:attr Specifies color attribute with two hex digits. See "color /?" /F:file Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for console). /C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string. /G:file Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for console). /D:dir Search a semicolon delimited list of directories strings Text to be searched for. [drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search. Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is prefixed with /C. For example, 'FINDSTR "hello there" x.y' searches for "hello" or "there" in file x.y. 'FINDSTR /C:"hello there" x.y' searches for "hello there" in file x.y. Regular expression quick reference: . Wildcard: any character * Repeat: zero or more occurances of previous character or class ^ Line position: beginning of line $ Line position: end of line [class] Character class: any one character in set [^class] Inverse class: any one character not in set [x-y] Range: any characters within the specified range \x Escape: literal use of metacharacter x \<xyz Word position: beginning of word xyz\> Word position: end of word For full information on FINDSTR regular expressions refer to the online Command Reference.

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  • Where can these be posted besides the Python Cookbook?

    - by Noctis Skytower
    Whitespace Assembler #! /usr/bin/env python """Assembler.py Compiles a program from "Assembly" folder into "Program" folder. Can be executed directly by double-click or on the command line. Give name of *.WSA file without extension (example: stack_calc).""" ################################################################################ __author__ = 'Stephen "Zero" Chappell <[email protected]>' __date__ = '14 March 2010' __version__ = '$Revision: 3 $' ################################################################################ import string from Interpreter import INS, MNEMONIC ################################################################################ def parse(code): program = [] process_virtual(program, code) process_control(program) return tuple(program) def process_virtual(program, code): for line, text in enumerate(code.split('\n')): if not text or text[0] == '#': continue if text.startswith('part '): parse_part(program, line, text[5:]) elif text.startswith(' '): parse_code(program, line, text[5:]) else: syntax_error(line) def syntax_error(line): raise SyntaxError('Line ' + str(line + 1)) ################################################################################ def process_control(program): parts = get_parts(program) names = dict(pair for pair in zip(parts, generate_index())) correct_control(program, names) def get_parts(program): parts = [] for ins in program: if isinstance(ins, tuple): ins, arg = ins if ins == INS.PART: if arg in parts: raise NameError('Part definition was found twice: ' + arg) parts.append(arg) return parts def generate_index(): index = 1 while True: yield index index *= -1 if index > 0: index += 1 def correct_control(program, names): for index, ins in enumerate(program): if isinstance(ins, tuple): ins, arg = ins if ins in HAS_LABEL: if arg not in names: raise NameError('Part definition was never found: ' + arg) program[index] = (ins, names[arg]) ################################################################################ def parse_part(program, line, text): if not valid_label(text): syntax_error(line) program.append((INS.PART, text)) def valid_label(text): if not between_quotes(text): return False label = text[1:-1] if not valid_name(label): return False return True def between_quotes(text): if len(text) < 3: return False if text.count('"') != 2: return False if text[0] != '"' or text[-1] != '"': return False return True def valid_name(label): valid_characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_' valid_set = frozenset(valid_characters) label_set = frozenset(label) if len(label_set - valid_set) != 0: return False return True ################################################################################ from Interpreter import HAS_LABEL, Program NO_ARGS = Program.NO_ARGS HAS_ARG = Program.HAS_ARG TWO_WAY = tuple(set(NO_ARGS) & set(HAS_ARG)) ################################################################################ def parse_code(program, line, text): for ins, word in enumerate(MNEMONIC): if text.startswith(word): check_code(program, line, text[len(word):], ins) break else: syntax_error(line) def check_code(program, line, text, ins): if ins in TWO_WAY: if text: number = parse_number(line, text) program.append((ins, number)) else: program.append(ins) elif ins in HAS_LABEL: text = parse_label(line, text) program.append((ins, text)) elif ins in HAS_ARG: number = parse_number(line, text) program.append((ins, number)) elif ins in NO_ARGS: if text: syntax_error(line) program.append(ins) else: syntax_error(line) def parse_label(line, text): if not text or text[0] != ' ': syntax_error(line) text = text[1:] if not valid_label(text): syntax_error(line) return text ################################################################################ def parse_number(line, text): if not valid_number(text): syntax_error(line) return int(text) def valid_number(text): if len(text) < 2: return False if text[0] != ' ': return False text = text[1:] if '+' in text and '-' in text: return False if '+' in text: if text.count('+') != 1: return False if text[0] != '+': return False text = text[1:] if not text: return False if '-' in text: if text.count('-') != 1: return False if text[0] != '-': return False text = text[1:] if not text: return False valid_set = frozenset(string.digits) value_set = frozenset(text) if len(value_set - valid_set) != 0: return False return True ################################################################################ ################################################################################ from Interpreter import partition_number VMC_2_TRI = { (INS.PUSH, True): (0, 0), (INS.COPY, False): (0, 2, 0), (INS.COPY, True): (0, 1, 0), (INS.SWAP, False): (0, 2, 1), (INS.AWAY, False): (0, 2, 2), (INS.AWAY, True): (0, 1, 2), (INS.ADD, False): (1, 0, 0, 0), (INS.SUB, False): (1, 0, 0, 1), (INS.MUL, False): (1, 0, 0, 2), (INS.DIV, False): (1, 0, 1, 0), (INS.MOD, False): (1, 0, 1, 1), (INS.SET, False): (1, 1, 0), (INS.GET, False): (1, 1, 1), (INS.PART, True): (2, 0, 0), (INS.CALL, True): (2, 0, 1), (INS.GOTO, True): (2, 0, 2), (INS.ZERO, True): (2, 1, 0), (INS.LESS, True): (2, 1, 1), (INS.BACK, False): (2, 1, 2), (INS.EXIT, False): (2, 2, 2), (INS.OCHR, False): (1, 2, 0, 0), (INS.OINT, False): (1, 2, 0, 1), (INS.ICHR, False): (1, 2, 1, 0), (INS.IINT, False): (1, 2, 1, 1) } ################################################################################ def to_trinary(program): trinary_code = [] for ins in program: if isinstance(ins, tuple): ins, arg = ins trinary_code.extend(VMC_2_TRI[(ins, True)]) trinary_code.extend(from_number(arg)) else: trinary_code.extend(VMC_2_TRI[(ins, False)]) return tuple(trinary_code) def from_number(arg): code = [int(arg < 0)] if arg: for bit in reversed(list(partition_number(abs(arg), 2))): code.append(bit) return code + [2] return code + [0, 2] to_ws = lambda trinary: ''.join(' \t\n'[index] for index in trinary) def compile_wsa(source): program = parse(source) trinary = to_trinary(program) ws_code = to_ws(trinary) return ws_code ################################################################################ ################################################################################ import os import sys import time import traceback def main(): name, source, command_line, error = get_source() if not error: start = time.clock() try: ws_code = compile_wsa(source) except: print('ERROR: File could not be compiled.\n') traceback.print_exc() error = True else: path = os.path.join('Programs', name + '.ws') try: open(path, 'w').write(ws_code) except IOError as err: print(err) error = True else: div, mod = divmod((time.clock() - start) * 1000, 1) args = int(div), '{:.3}'.format(mod)[1:] print('DONE: Comipled in {}{} ms'.format(*args)) handle_close(error, command_line) def get_source(): if len(sys.argv) > 1: command_line = True name = sys.argv[1] else: command_line = False try: name = input('Source File: ') except: return None, None, False, True print() path = os.path.join('Assembly', name + '.wsa') try: return name, open(path).read(), command_line, False except IOError as err: print(err) return None, None, command_line, True def handle_close(error, command_line): if error: usage = 'Usage: {} <assembly>'.format(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])) print('\n{}\n{}'.format('-' * len(usage), usage)) if not command_line: time.sleep(10) ################################################################################ if __name__ == '__main__': main() Whitespace Helpers #! /usr/bin/env python """Helpers.py Includes a function to encode Python strings into my WSA format. Has a "PRINT_LINE" function that can be copied to a WSA program. Contains a "PRINT" function and documentation as an explanation.""" ################################################################################ __author__ = 'Stephen "Zero" Chappell <[email protected]>' __date__ = '14 March 2010' __version__ = '$Revision: 1 $' ################################################################################ def encode_string(string, addr): print(' push', addr) print(' push', len(string)) print(' set') addr += 1 for offset, character in enumerate(string): print(' push', addr + offset) print(' push', ord(character)) print(' set') ################################################################################ # Prints a string with newline. # push addr # call "PRINT_LINE" """ part "PRINT_LINE" call "PRINT" push 10 ochr back """ ################################################################################ # def print(array): # if len(array) <= 0: # return # offset = 1 # while len(array) - offset >= 0: # ptr = array.ptr + offset # putch(array[ptr]) # offset += 1 """ part "PRINT" # Line 1-2 copy get less "__PRINT_RET_1" copy get zero "__PRINT_RET_1" # Line 3 push 1 # Line 4 part "__PRINT_LOOP" copy copy 2 get swap sub less "__PRINT_RET_2" # Line 5 copy 1 copy 1 add # Line 6 get ochr # Line 7 push 1 add goto "__PRINT_LOOP" part "__PRINT_RET_2" away part "__PRINT_RET_1" away back """ Whitespace Interpreter #! /usr/bin/env python """Interpreter.py Runs programs in "Programs" and creates *.WSO files when needed. Can be executed directly by double-click or on the command line. If run on command line, add "ASM" flag to dump program assembly.""" ################################################################################ __author__ = 'Stephen "Zero" Chappell <[email protected]>' __date__ = '14 March 2010' __version__ = '$Revision: 4 $' ################################################################################ def test_file(path): disassemble(parse(trinary(load(path))), True) ################################################################################ load = lambda ws: ''.join(c for r in open(ws) for c in r if c in ' \t\n') trinary = lambda ws: tuple(' \t\n'.index(c) for c in ws) ################################################################################ def enum(names): names = names.replace(',', ' ').split() space = dict((reversed(pair) for pair in enumerate(names)), __slots__=()) return type('enum', (object,), space)() INS = enum('''\ PUSH, COPY, SWAP, AWAY, \ ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, MOD, \ SET, GET, \ PART, CALL, GOTO, ZERO, LESS, BACK, EXIT, \ OCHR, OINT, ICHR, IINT''') ################################################################################ def parse(code): ins = iter(code).__next__ program = [] while True: try: imp = ins() except StopIteration: return tuple(program) if imp == 0: # [Space] parse_stack(ins, program) elif imp == 1: # [Tab] imp = ins() if imp == 0: # [Tab][Space] parse_math(ins, program) elif imp == 1: # [Tab][Tab] parse_heap(ins, program) else: # [Tab][Line] parse_io(ins, program) else: # [Line] parse_flow(ins, program) def parse_number(ins): sign = ins() if sign == 2: raise StopIteration() buffer = '' code = ins() if code == 2: raise StopIteration() while code != 2: buffer += str(code) code = ins() if sign == 1: return int(buffer, 2) * -1 return int(buffer, 2) ################################################################################ def parse_stack(ins, program): code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space] number = parse_number(ins) program.append((INS.PUSH, number)) elif code == 1: # [Tab] code = ins() number = parse_number(ins) if code == 0: # [Tab][Space] program.append((INS.COPY, number)) elif code == 1: # [Tab][Tab] raise StopIteration() else: # [Tab][Line] program.append((INS.AWAY, number)) else: # [Line] code = ins() if code == 0: # [Line][Space] program.append(INS.COPY) elif code == 1: # [Line][Tab] program.append(INS.SWAP) else: # [Line][Line] program.append(INS.AWAY) def parse_math(ins, program): code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space] code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space][Space] program.append(INS.ADD) elif code == 1: # [Space][Tab] program.append(INS.SUB) else: # [Space][Line] program.append(INS.MUL) elif code == 1: # [Tab] code = ins() if code == 0: # [Tab][Space] program.append(INS.DIV) elif code == 1: # [Tab][Tab] program.append(INS.MOD) else: # [Tab][Line] raise StopIteration() else: # [Line] raise StopIteration() def parse_heap(ins, program): code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space] program.append(INS.SET) elif code == 1: # [Tab] program.append(INS.GET) else: # [Line] raise StopIteration() def parse_io(ins, program): code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space] code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space][Space] program.append(INS.OCHR) elif code == 1: # [Space][Tab] program.append(INS.OINT) else: # [Space][Line] raise StopIteration() elif code == 1: # [Tab] code = ins() if code == 0: # [Tab][Space] program.append(INS.ICHR) elif code == 1: # [Tab][Tab] program.append(INS.IINT) else: # [Tab][Line] raise StopIteration() else: # [Line] raise StopIteration() def parse_flow(ins, program): code = ins() if code == 0: # [Space] code = ins() label = parse_number(ins) if code == 0: # [Space][Space] program.append((INS.PART, label)) elif code == 1: # [Space][Tab] program.append((INS.CALL, label)) else: # [Space][Line] program.append((INS.GOTO, label)) elif code == 1: # [Tab] code = ins() if code == 0: # [Tab][Space] label = parse_number(ins) program.append((INS.ZERO, label)) elif code == 1: # [Tab][Tab] label = parse_number(ins) program.append((INS.LESS, label)) else: # [Tab][Line] program.append(INS.BACK) else: # [Line] code = ins() if code == 2: # [Line][Line] program.append(INS.EXIT) else: # [Line][Space] or [Line][Tab] raise StopIteration() ################################################################################ MNEMONIC = '\ push copy swap away add sub mul div mod set get part \ call goto zero less back exit ochr oint ichr iint'.split() HAS_ARG = [getattr(INS, name) for name in 'PUSH COPY AWAY PART CALL GOTO ZERO LESS'.split()] HAS_LABEL = [getattr(INS, name) for name in 'PART CALL GOTO ZERO LESS'.split()] def disassemble(program, names=False): if names: names = create_names(program) for ins in program: if isinstance(ins, tuple): ins, arg = ins assert ins in HAS_ARG has_arg = True else: assert INS.PUSH <= ins <= INS.IINT has_arg = False if ins == INS.PART: if names: print(MNEMONIC[ins], '"' + names[arg] + '"') else: print(MNEMONIC[ins], arg) elif has_arg and ins in HAS_ARG: if ins in HAS_LABEL and names: assert arg in names print(' ' + MNEMONIC[ins], '"' + names[arg] + '"') else: print(' ' + MNEMONIC[ins], arg) else: print(' ' + MNEMONIC[ins]) ################################################################################ def create_names(program): names = {} number = 1 for ins in program: if isinstance(ins, tuple) and ins[0] == INS.PART: label = ins[1] assert label not in names names[label] = number_to_name(number) number += 1 return names def number_to_name(number): name = '' for offset in reversed(list(partition_number(number, 27))): if offset: name += chr(ord('A') + offset - 1) else: name += '_' return name def partition_number(number, base): div, mod = divmod(number, base) yield mod while div: div, mod = divmod(div, base) yield mod ################################################################################ CODE = (' \t\n', ' \n ', ' \t \t\n', ' \n\t', ' \n\n', ' \t\n \t\n', '\t ', '\t \t', '\t \n', '\t \t ', '\t \t\t', '\t\t ', '\t\t\t', '\n \t\n', '\n \t \t\n', '\n \n \t\n', '\n\t \t\n', '\n\t\t \t\n', '\n\t\n', '\n\n\n', '\t\n ', '\t\n \t', '\t\n\t ', '\t\n\t\t') EXAMPLE = ''.join(CODE) ################################################################################ NOTES = '''\ STACK ===== push number copy copy number swap away away number MATH ==== add sub mul div mod HEAP ==== set get FLOW ==== part label call label goto label zero label less label back exit I/O === ochr oint ichr iint''' ################################################################################ ################################################################################ class Stack: def __init__(self): self.__data = [] # Stack Operators def push(self, number): self.__data.append(number) def copy(self, number=None): if number is None: self.__data.append(self.__data[-1]) else: size = len(self.__data) index = size - number - 1 assert 0 <= index < size self.__data.append(self.__data[index]) def swap(self): self.__data[-2], self.__data[-1] = self.__data[-1], self.__data[-2] def away(self, number=None): if number is None: self.__data.pop() else: size = len(self.__data) index = size - number - 1 assert 0 <= index < size del self.__data[index:-1] # Math Operators def add(self): suffix = self.__data.pop() prefix = self.__data.pop() self.__data.append(prefix + suffix) def sub(self): suffix = self.__data.pop() prefix = self.__data.pop() self.__data.append(prefix - suffix) def mul(self): suffix = self.__data.pop() prefix = self.__data.pop() self.__data.append(prefix * suffix) def div(self): suffix = self.__data.pop() prefix = self.__data.pop() self.__data.append(prefix // suffix) def mod(self): suffix = self.__data.pop() prefix = self.__data.pop() self.__data.append(prefix % suffix) # Program Operator def pop(self): return self.__data.pop() ################################################################################ class Heap: def __init__(self): self.__data = {} def set_(self, addr, item): if item: self.__data[addr] = item elif addr in self.__data: del self.__data[addr] def get_(self, addr): return self.__data.get(addr, 0) ################################################################################ import os import zlib import msvcrt import pickle import string class CleanExit(Exception): pass NOP = lambda arg: None DEBUG_WHITESPACE = False ################################################################################ class Program: NO_ARGS = INS.COPY, INS.SWAP, INS.AWAY, INS.ADD, \ INS.SUB, INS.MUL, INS.DIV, INS.MOD, \ INS.SET, INS.GET, INS.BACK, INS.EXIT, \ INS.OCHR, INS.OINT, INS.ICHR, INS.IINT HAS_ARG = INS.PUSH, INS.COPY, INS.AWAY, INS.PART, \ INS.CALL, INS.GOTO, INS.ZERO, INS.LESS def __init__(self, code): self.__data = code self.__validate() self.__build_jump() self.__check_jump() self.__setup_exec() def __setup_exec(self): self.__iptr = 0 self.__stck = stack = Stack() self.__heap = Heap() self.__cast = [] self.__meth = (stack.push, stack.copy, stack.swap, stack.away, stack.add, stack.sub, stack.mul, stack.div, stack.mod, self.__set, self.__get, NOP, self.__call, self.__goto, self.__zero, self.__less, self.__back, self.__exit, self.__ochr, self.__oint, self.__ichr, self.__iint) def step(self): ins = self.__data[self.__iptr] self.__iptr += 1 if isinstance(ins, tuple): self.__meth[ins[0]](ins[1]) else: self.__meth[ins]() def run(self): while True: ins = self.__data[self.__iptr] self.__iptr += 1 if isinstance(ins, tuple): self.__meth[ins[0]](ins[1]) else: self.__meth[ins]() def __oint(self): for digit in str(self.__stck.pop()): msvcrt.putwch(digit) def __ichr(self): addr = self.__stck.pop() # Input Routine while msvcrt.kbhit(): msvcrt.getwch() while True: char = msvcrt.getwch() if char in '\x00\xE0': msvcrt.getwch() elif char in string.printable: char = char.replace('\r', '\n') msvcrt.putwch(char) break item = ord(char) # Storing Number self.__heap.set_(addr, item) def __iint(self): addr = self.__stck.pop() # Input Routine while msvcrt.kbhit(): msvcrt.getwch() buff = '' char = msvcrt.getwch() while char != '\r' or not buff: if char in '\x00\xE0': msvcrt.getwch() elif char in '+-' and not buff: msvcrt.putwch(char) buff += char elif '0' <= char <= '9': msvcrt.putwch(char) buff += char elif char == '\b': if buff: buff = buff[:-1] msvcrt.putwch(char) msvcrt.putwch(' ') msvcrt.putwch(char) char = msvcrt.getwch() msvcrt.putwch(char) msvcrt.putwch('\n') item = int(buff) # Storing Number self.__heap.set_(addr, item) def __goto(self, label): self.__iptr = self.__jump[label] def __zero(self, label): if self.__stck.pop() == 0: self.__iptr = self.__jump[label] def __less(self, label): if self.__stck.pop() < 0: self.__iptr = self.__jump[label] def __exit(self): self.__setup_exec() raise CleanExit() def __set(self): item = self.__stck.pop() addr = self.__stck.po

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  • Control to Control Binding in WPF/Silverlight

    - by psheriff
    In the past if you had two controls that you needed to work together, you would have to write code. For example, if you want a label control to display any text a user typed into a text box you would write code to do that. If you want turn off a set of controls when a user checks a check box, you would also have to write code. However, with XAML, these operations become very easy to do. Bind Text Box to Text Block As a basic example of this functionality, let’s bind a TextBlock control to a TextBox. When the user types into a TextBox the value typed in will show up in the TextBlock control as well. To try this out, create a new Silverlight or WPF application in Visual Studio. On the main window or user control type in the following XAML. <StackPanel>  <TextBox Margin="10" x:Name="txtData" />  <TextBlock Margin="10"              Text="{Binding ElementName=txtData,                             Path=Text}" /></StackPanel> Now run the application and type into the TextBox control. As you type you will see the data you type also appear in the TextBlock control. The {Binding} markup extension is responsible for this behavior. You set the ElementName attribute of the Binding markup to the name of the control that you wish to bind to. You then set the Path attribute to the name of the property of that control you wish to bind to. That’s all there is to it! Bind the IsEnabled Property Now let’s apply this concept to something that you might use in a business application. Consider the following two screen shots. The idea is that if the Add Benefits check box is un-checked, then the IsEnabled property of the three “Benefits” check boxes will be set to false (Figure 1). If the Add Benefits check box is checked, then the IsEnabled property of the “Benefits” check boxes will be set to true (Figure 2). Figure 1: Uncheck Add Benefits and the Benefits will be disabled. Figure 2: Check Add Benefits and the Benefits will be enabled. To accomplish this, you would write XAML to bind to each of the check boxes in the “Benefits To Add” section to the check box named chkBenefits. Below is a fragment of the XAML code that would be used. <CheckBox x:Name="chkBenefits" /> <CheckBox Content="401k"           IsEnabled="{Binding ElementName=chkBenefits,                               Path=IsChecked}" /> Since the IsEnabled property is a boolean type and the IsChecked property is also a boolean type, you can bind these two together. If they were different types, or if you needed them to set the IsEnabled property to the inverse of the IsChecked property then you would need to use a ValueConverter class. SummaryOnce you understand the basics of data binding in XAML, you can eliminate a lot code. Connecting controls together is as easy as just setting the ElementName and Path properties of the Binding markup extension. NOTE: You can download the complete sample code at my website. http://www.pdsa.com/downloads. Choose Tips & Tricks, then "SL – Basic Control Binding" from the drop-down. Good Luck with your Coding,Paul Sheriff ** SPECIAL OFFER FOR MY BLOG READERS **Visit http://www.pdsa.com/Event/Blog for a free eBook on "Fundamentals of N-Tier".

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  • Blogging: MacJournal & Windows Live Writer

    - by Jeff Julian
    One thing I have learned about using a Mac is that Apple does not produce very many free applications. The ones they do are typically not full featured and to get the full feature you need to buy their upgraded version. For example, when it comes to Photo editing and cataloging, iPhoto is not a solution for large files or RAW processing, you need Aperture which is a couple hundred dollars. I am not complaining because I like it when an application has a product team who generates revenue with it, because the chance of them being around longer seems to be higher. What is my point in all of this? Apple does not produce a product for blogging/journaling like Microsoft does with Windows Live Writer. I love Windows Live Writer. If you are on a Windows box, it is a required tool in your toolbox if you publish to a blog. The cleanness of the interface, integration with most blog APIs and ability to Save Local or Publish as a Draft make capturing your thoughts for publishing now or later a very easy task. My hope is that Microsoft will port it to the Mac, but I don’t believe that will ever happen as it is not a revenue generating product and Microsoft doesn’t often port to a Mac besides Remote Desktop Connection and MSN Messenger. For my configuration I used to use only Boot Camp on my two MacBook Pros I have owned in the past three years because I’m a PC, but after four different rebuilds (not typically due to Windows, but Boot Camp or Parallels) I decided to move off the Boot Camp platform and to VMWare Fusion. This is a complete separate blog post that I should spec out in MacJournal, but I now always boot into the Mac OS and use Fusion for my AJI Software VM or my client’s VMs. It just seems to work better for me and I have a very nice way to backup my Windows environments with VMWare.Needless to say, there was need in my new laptop configuration for a blogging tool that worked natively on a Mac. I don’t like to power up my machine for writing a document or working on an image and need to boot up a VM just so I can use Windows. Some would say why not just use a Windows laptop and put the MBP on eBay? It is just a preference and right now, I like the Mac OS for day to day work. So in comes MacJournal, part of the current MacHeist package for $19.95 (MacJournal is normally $39.95). This product is definitely not WLW, but WLW is missing some features I like in MacJournal. I hope the price point comes down on MacJournal cause I could see paying $19.95 for it, but it is always hard for me to buy a piece of software for $39.95 when I can use something else. But I am a cheapskate when it comes to software packages. I suggest if you are using a Mac to drop what you are doing pick up the MacHeist bundle today before it is over, but if you are reading this later, than download the trial and see if MacJournal is a solution for you. If you have any other suggestions that are as nice or cheaper, please comment.Product LinksMacJournal by Mariners Software $39.95 (part of MacHeist bundle for $19.95 with only one day left)Windows Live Writer by MicrosoftThis post was created using MacJournal.[Update: The joys of formatting. Make sure if you are a Geekswithblogs.net member that you use this configuration to setup the Metablog formatting of paragraphs correctly]

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  • Add Microsoft Core Fonts to Ubuntu

    - by Matthew Guay
    Have you ever needed the standard Microsoft fonts such as Times New Roman on your Ubuntu computer?  Here’s how you can easily add the core Microsoft fonts to Ubuntu. Times New Roman, Arial, and other core Microsoft fonts are still some of the most commonly used fonts in documents and websites.  Times New Roman especially is often required for college essays, legal docs, and other critical documents that you may need to write or edit.  Ubuntu includes the Liberation alternate fonts that include similar alternates to Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New, but these may not be accepted by professors and others when a certain font is required.  But, don’t worry; it only takes a couple clicks to add these fonts to Ubuntu for free. Installing the Core Microsoft Fonts Microsoft has released their core fonts, including Times New Roman and Arial, for free, and you can easily download these from the Software Center.  Open your Applications menu, and select Ubuntu Software Center.   In the search box enter the following: ttf-mscorefonts Click Install on the “Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts” directly in the search results. Enter your password when requested, and click Authenticate. The fonts will then automatically download and install in a couple minutes depending on your internet connection speed. Once the install is finished, you can launch OpenOffice Writer to try out the new fonts.  Here’s a preview of all the fonts included in this pack.  And, yes, this does included the infamous Comic Sans and Webdings fonts as well as the all-important Times New Roman. Please Note:  By default in Ubuntu, OpenOffice uses Liberation Serif as the default font, but after installing this font pack, the default font will switch to Times New Roman. Adding Other Fonts In addition to the Microsoft Core Fonts, the Ubuntu Software Center has hundreds of free fonts available.  Click the Fonts link on the front page to explore these, and install the same as above. If you’ve downloaded another font individually, you can also install it easily in Ubuntu.  Just double-click it, and then click Install in the preview window. Conclusion Although you may prefer the fonts that are included with Ubuntu, there are many reasons why having the Microsoft core fonts can be helpful.  Thankfully it’s easy in Ubuntu to install them, so you’ll never have to worry about not having them when you need to edit an important document. Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu LinuxEmbed True Type Fonts in Word and PowerPoint 2007 DocumentsNew Vista Syntax for Opening Control Panel Items from the Command-lineStupid Geek Tricks: Enable More Fonts for the Windows Command PromptAdding extra Repositories on Ubuntu TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips DVDFab 6 Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 Awe inspiring, inter-galactic theme (Win 7) Case Study – How to Optimize Popular Wordpress Sites Restore Hidden Updates in Windows 7 & Vista Iceland an Insurance Job? Find Downloads and Add-ins for Outlook Recycle !

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  • SOA Suite 11g Asynchronous Testing with soapUI

    - by Greg Mally
    Overview The Enterprise Manager test harness that comes bundled with SOA Suite 11g is a great tool for doing smoke tests and some minor load testing. When a more robust testing tool is needed, often times soapUI is leveraged for many reasons ranging from ease of use to cost effective. However, when you want to start doing some more complex testing other than synchronous web services with static content, then the free version of soapUI becomes a bit more challenging. In this blog I will show you how to test asynchronous web services with soapUI free edition. The following assumes that you have a working knowledge of soapUI and will not go into concepts like setting up a project etc. For the basics, please review the documentation for soapUI: http://www.soapui.org/Getting-Started/ Asynchronous Web Service Testing in soapUI When invoking an asynchronous web service, the caller must provide a callback for the response. Since our testing will originate from soapUI, then it is only natural that soapUI would provide the callback mechanism. This mechanism in soapUI is called a MockService. In a nutshell, a soapUI MockService is a simulation of a Web Service (aka, a process listening on a port). We will go through the steps in setting up the MockService for a simple asynchronous BPEL process. After creating your soapUI project based on an asynchronous BPEL process, you will see something like the following: Notice that soapUI created an interface for both the request and the response (i.e., callback). The interface that was created for the callback will be used to create the MockService. Right-click on the callback interface and select the Generate MockService menu item: You will be presented with the Generate MockService dialogue where we will tweak the Path and possibly the port (depends upon what ports are available on the machine where soapUI will be running). We will adjust the Path to include the operation name (append /processResponse in this example) and the port of 8088 is fine: Once the MockService is created, you should have something like the following in soapUI: This window acts as a console/view into the callback process. When the play button is pressed (green triangle in the upper left-hand corner), soapUI will start a process running on the configured Port that will accept web service invocations on the configured Path: At this point we are “almost” ready to try out the asynchronous test. But first we must provide the web service addressing (WS-A) configuration on the request message. We will edit the message for the request interface that was generated when the project was created (SimpleAsyncBPELProcessBinding > process > Request 1 in this example). At the bottom of the request message editor you will find the WS-A configuration by left-clicking on the WS-A label: Here we will setup WS-A by changing the default values to: Must understand: TRUE Add default wsa:Action: Add default wsa:Action (checked) Reply to: ${host where soapUI is running}:${MockService Port}${MockService Path} … in this example: http://192.168.1.181:8088/mockSimpleAsyncBPELProcessCallbackBinding/processResponse We now are ready to run the asynchronous test from soapUI free edition. Make sure that the MockService you created is running and then push the play button for the request (green triangle in the upper left-hand corner of the request editor). If everything is configured correctly, you should see the response show up in the MockService window: To view the response message/payload, just double-click on a response message in the Message Log window of the MockService: At this point you can now expand the project to include a Test Suite for some load balance tests etc. This same topic has been covered in various detail on other sites/blogs, but I wanted to simplify and detail how this is done in the context of SOA Suite 11g. It also serves as a nice introduction to another blog of mine: SOA Suite 11g Dynamic Payload Testing with soapUI Free Edition.

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  • Romanian parter Omnilogic Delivers “No Limits” Scalability, Performance, Security, and Affordability through Next-Generation, Enterprise-Grade Engineered Systems

    - by swalker
    Omnilogic SRL is a leading technology and information systems provider in Romania and central and Eastern Europe. An Oracle Value-Added Distributor Partner, Omnilogic resells Oracle software, hardware, and engineered systems to Oracle Partner Network members and provides specialized training, support, and testing facilities. Independent software vendors (ISVs) also use Omnilogic’s demonstration and testing facilities to upgrade the performance and efficiency of their solutions and those of their customers by migrating them from competitor technologies to Oracle platforms. Omnilogic also has a dedicated offering for ISV solutions, based on Oracle technology in a hosting service provider model. Omnilogic wanted to help Oracle Partners and ISVs migrate solutions to Oracle Exadata and sell Oracle Exadata to end-customers. It installed Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Quarter Rack at its data center to create a demonstration and testing environment. Demonstrations proved that Oracle Exadata achieved processing speeds up to 100 times faster than competitor systems, cut typical back-up times from 6 hours to 20 minutes, and stored 10 times more data. Oracle Partners and ISVs learned that migrating solutions to Oracle Exadata’s preconfigured, pre-integrated hardware and software can be completed rapidly, at low cost, without business disruption, and with reduced ongoing operating costs. Challenges A word from Omnilogic “Oracle Exadata is the new killer application—the smartest solution on the market. There is no competition.” – Sorin Dragomir, Chief Operating Officer, Omnilogic SRL Enable Oracle Partners in Romania and central and eastern Europe to achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status by providing facilities to test and optimize existing applications and build real-life proofs of concept (POCs) for new solutions on Oracle Exadata Database Machine Provide technical support and demonstration facilities for ISVs migrating their customers’ solutions from competitor technologies to Oracle Exadata to maximize performance, scalability, and security; optimize hardware and datacenter space; cut maintenance costs; and improve return on investment Demonstrate power of Oracle Exadata’s high-performance, high-capacity engineered systems for customer-facing businesses, such as government organizations, telecommunications, banking and insurance, and utility companies, which typically require continuous availability to support very large data volumes Showcase Oracle Exadata’s unchallenged online transaction processing (OLTP) capabilities that cut application run times to provide unrivalled query turnaround and user response speeds while significantly reducing back-up times and eliminating risk of unplanned outages Capitalize on providing a world-class training and demonstration environment for Oracle Exadata to accelerate sales with Oracle Partners Solutions Created a testing environment to enable Oracle Partners and ISVs to test their own solutions and those of their customers on Oracle Exadata running on Oracle Enterprise Linux or Oracle Solaris Express to benchmark performance prior to migration Leveraged expertise on Oracle Exadata to offer Oracle Exadata training, migration, support seminars and to showcase live demonstrations for Oracle Partners Proved how Oracle Exadata’s pre-engineered systems, that come assembled, configured, and ready to run, reduce deployment time and cost, minimize risk, and help customers achieve the full performance potential immediately after go live Increased processing speeds 10-fold and with zero data loss for a telecommunications provider’s client-facing customer relationship management solution Achieved performance improvements of between 6 and 100 times faster for financial and utility company applications currently running on IBM, Microsoft, or SAP HANA platforms Showed how daily closure procedures carried out overnight by banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions to analyze each day’s business, can typically be cut from around six hours to 20 minutes, some 18 times faster, when running on Oracle Exadata Simulated concurrent back-ups while running applications under normal working conditions to prove that Oracle Exadata-based solutions can be backed up during business hours without causing bottlenecks or impacting the end-user experience Demonstrated that Oracle Exadata’s built-in analytics, data mining and OLTP capabilities make it the highest-performance, lowest-cost choice for large data warehousing operations Showed how Oracle Exadata’s columnar compression and intelligent storage architecture allows 10 times more data to be stored than on competitor platforms Demonstrated how Oracle Exadata cuts hardware requirements significantly by consolidating workloads on to fewer servers which delivers greater power efficiency and lower operating costs that competing systems from IBM and other manufacturers Proved to ISVs that migrating solutions to Oracle Exadata’s preconfigured, pre-integrated hardware and software can be completed rapidly, at low cost, and with minimal business disruption Demonstrated how storage servers, database servers, and network switches can be added incrementally and inexpensively to the Oracle Exadata platform to support business expansion On track to grow revenues by 10% in year one and by 15% annually thereafter through increased business generated from Oracle Partners and ISVs

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  • ASP.NET Performance tip- Combine multiple script file into one request with script manager

    - by Jalpesh P. Vadgama
    We all need java script for our web application and we storing our JavaScript code in .js files. Now If we have more then .js file then our browser will create a new request for each .js file. Which is a little overhead in terms of performance. If you have very big enterprise application you will have so much over head for this. Asp.net Script Manager provides a feature to combine multiple JavaScript into one request but you must remember that this feature will be available only with .NET Framework 3.5 sp1 or higher versions.  Let’s take a simple example. I am having two javascript files Jscrip1.js and Jscript2.js both are having separate functions. //Jscript1.js function Task1() { alert('task1'); } Here is another one for another file. ////Jscript1.js function Task2() { alert('task2'); } Now I am adding script reference with script manager and using this function in my code like this. <form id="form1" runat="server"> <asp:ScriptManager ID="myScriptManager" runat="server" > <Scripts> <asp:ScriptReference Path="~/JScript1.js" /> <asp:ScriptReference Path="~/JScript2.js" /> </Scripts> </asp:ScriptManager> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> Task1(); Task2(); </script> </form> Now Let’s test in Firefox with Lori plug-in which will show you how many request are made for this. Here is output of that. You can see 5 Requests are there. Now let’s do same thing in with ASP.NET Script Manager combined script feature. Like following <form id="form1" runat="server"> <asp:ScriptManager ID="myScriptManager" runat="server" > <CompositeScript> <Scripts> <asp:ScriptReference Path="~/JScript1.js" /> <asp:ScriptReference Path="~/JScript2.js" /> </Scripts> </CompositeScript> </asp:ScriptManager> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> Task1(); Task2(); </script> </form> Now let’s run it and let’s see how many request are there like following. As you can see now we have only 4 request compare to 5 request earlier. So script manager combined multiple script into one request. So if you have lots of javascript files you can save your loading time with this with combining multiple script files into one request. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more!!!.. Happy programming.. Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,ScriptManager,Microsoft Ajax

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  • Systems Solutions at COLLABORATE12

    - by ferhat
    Want to connect with fellow Oracle users and learn more about how to maximize your Oracle software environments with Oracle Systems?   Pack your bags for Las Vegas!   COLLABORATE 12  is right around the corner! COLLABORATE 12 Conference will be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV 22-26 April, 2012. This is an event designed and delivered by users just like you with sessions, interactive panel discussions and hands-on learning opportunities packed with first-hand experiences, case studies and practical “how-to” content.. This year’s event includes a number of educational sessions and demos for users interested in learning from the experts how to use Oracle Optimized Solutions to get the most out of their Oracle Technology and Application software. Oracle Optimized Solutions are proven blueprints that eliminate integration guesswork by combing best in class hardware and software components to deliver complete system architectures that are fully tested, and include documented best practices that reduce integration risks and deliver better application performance.  And because they are highly flexible by design,  Oracle Optimized Solutions   can be implemented as an end-to-end solution or easily adapted into existing environments. Follow Oracle Infrared at Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn  to catch the latest news, developments, announcements, and inside views from  Oracle Optimized Solutions. Please come by our Exhibition Booth #1273 to see the demos and meet 1-1 with the experts behind a number of  Oracle Optimized Solutions  including those for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft HCM, Oracle WebCenter, and Oracle Database.  Exhibitor Showcase Booth #1273 DAY TIME TITLE Monday  April 23 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome Reception in the Exhibitor Showcase Tuesday  April 24 10:15 am - 4:00 pm Exhibitor Showcase Open 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Dedicated Exhibitor Showcase Time 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Exhibitor Showcase Happy Hour Wednesday  April 25 10:30 am - 3:00 pm Exhibitor Showcase Open 2:15 pm -3:00 pm Afternoon Break in Exhibitor Showcase  There are also a number of deep dive, educational sessions covering deployment best practices using Oracle’s engineered systems and best-in-class hardware, operating system and virtualization technologies.  Education Sessions DAY TIME TITLE LOCATION Monday  April 23 9:45 am - 10:45 am Architecting and Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions Surf E Tuesday  April 24 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Oracle's High Performance Systems for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mandalay Bay GH 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Virtualization Boot Camp: What's New with Oracle VM Server for x86 Mandalay Bay C 9:30 am - 10:30 am Oracle on Oracle VM - Expert Panel Mandalay Bay L Wednesday  April 25 9:30 am - 10:30 am Cloud Computing Directions: Part II Understanding Oracle's Cloud Directions South Seas E  And don’t forget the keynotes and software roadmap sessions! Keynotes and Roadmap Sessions DAY TIME TITLE LOCATION Sunday  April 22 3:20 pm – 4:20 pm Oracle’s Cloud Computing Strategy Breakers B Monday  April 23 11:00 am – 12:00 pm JD Edwards - Vision, Promises and Execution: IT'S THE WAY WE ROLL and Why it Matters! Mandalay Bay A 11:00 am – 12:00 pm PeopleSoft Executive Update and Roadmap Mandalay Bay J 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Oracle Database - Engineered for Innovation Mandalay Bay L 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Strategy and General Manager Update Mandalay Bay D Tuesday  April 24 9:15 am - 10:15 am IT at Oracle: The Art of IT Transformation to Enable Business Growth Mandalay Bay Ballroom H

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  • Install GIMP 2.7.1 on Lucid Lynx using PPA

    - by Vivek
    GIMP lovers are going to be disappointed to hear that GIMP is going away in the next release of much awaited Ubuntu 10.04. Today we take a look at installing in on Lucid Lynx using PPA. The reason for getting rid of it as cited by the GIMP developers, is that GIMP is too professional a software to be included in regular desktop version of Ubuntu. And it takes up too much of space on the disk. Also, the fact that it’s too complicated for regular users. If you can’t live without it…let’s see how to install GIMP 2.7.1 on Lucid Lynx (Currently in Alpha). The new version of GIMP supports single window mode and we will also see how to enable this feature as well. First we need to add the official GIMP 2.7.1 PPA in the software sources of Ubuntu 10.04, by opening the terminal window and typing the following command: sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu lucid main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list” Now that we have added the PPA we need to add the GPG key, so type the following in your Terminal window. sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 405A15CB Next up we have to update the software repository… sudo apt-get update All that is left is to install GIMP 2.7.1 by typing in the following… sudo apt-get install gimp Click ‘Y’ (for yes) to install GIMP Once GIMP is installed you can start it by going to Applications > Graphics > GNU Image Manipulation Program. You now have your favorite GIMP on your favorite Ubuntu 10.04. As you can see in the image below, GIMP still comes with default 3 windows, which could clog up your lower panel In Ubuntu 10.04. However, now you can run GIMP in single window mode by going to Windows > Single-Window mode. That’s all! Now you have your GIMP running in single window mode with less of hassle to manage 3 windows. It’s unfortunate that GIMP will not be included, but by following these instructions, you’ll be able to enjoy using it in Ubuntu 10.04. Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Show the List of Installed Packages on Ubuntu or DebianHow to Install Windows Applications on Linux Using CrossoverInstall VMware Tools on Ubuntu Edgy EftInstall Adobe PDF Reader on Ubuntu EdgyInstall MySQL Server 4.1 on Ubuntu TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 PCmover Professional Stretch popurls.com with a Stylish Script (Firefox) OldTvShows.org – Find episodes of Hitchcock, Soaps, Game Shows and more Download Microsoft Office Help tab The Growth of Citibank Quickly Switch between Tabs in IE Windows Media Player 12: Tweak Video & Sound with Playback Enhancements

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