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  • Is it possible to post to Facebook application Wall via JavaScript?

    - by Bess
    I have a Canvas Facebook app embedded via an iframe. I would like to include a feedback link which would encourage the user to leave a comment that would be added to the Application wall - this comment would open like a standard FB modal window. Is there anyway to post to to the Application Wall directly via JS? Everything I have found such as FB.Connect.StreamPublish(), only publishes to the users stream, I need to publish to the application stream. Thanks!

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  • Clearing Page Cache in ASP.NET

    - by GateKiller
    For my blog I am wanting to use the Output Cache to save a cached version of a perticular post for around 10 minutes, and thats fine... <%@OutputCache Duration="600" VaryByParam="*" %> However, if someone posts a comment, I want to clear the cache so that the page is refreshed and the comment can be seen. How do I do this in ASP.Net C#?

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  • Cloning a selector + all its children in jQuery?

    - by HipHop-opatamus
    I'm having trouble getting the following JQuery script to function properly - its functionality is as follows: 1) Hide the content below each headline 2) Upon clicking a headline, substitute the "#first-post" with the headline + the hidden content below the headline. I can only seem to get the script to clone the headline itself to #first-post, not the headline + the content beneath it. Any idea why? <HTML> <HEAD> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> </HEAD> <script> $(document).ready( function(){ $('.title').siblings().hide(); $('.title').click( function() { $('#first-post').replaceWith($(this).closest(".comment").clone().attr('id','first-post')); $('html, body').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'fast'); return false; }); }); </script> <BODY> <div id="first-post"> <div class="content"><p>This is a test discussion topic</p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <h2 class="title"><a href="#1">1st Post</a></h2> <div class="content"> <p>this is 1st reply to the original post</p> </div> <div class="test">1st post second line</div> </div> <div class="comment"> <h2 class="title"><a href="#2">2nd Post</a></h2> <div class="content"> <p>this is 2nd reply to the original post</p> </div> <div class="test">2nd post second line</div> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <h2 class="title"><a href="#3">3rd Post</a></h2> <div class="content"> <p>this is 3rd reply to the original post</p> </div> <div class="test">3rd post second line</div> </div> </div> </BODY> </HTML>

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  • Expanding / grow a JQuery element selection?

    - by HipHop-opatamus
    In the Jquery example below, I would like to expand $(this) before it is cloned, so it includes everything contained in the parent class "comment". How do I do this? I've tried using ReplaceWith($(this).parent('.comment').clone()... and it does not work! $(document).ready( function(){ $('.forumthreadtitle').siblings().hide(); $('.forumthreadtitle').click( function() { $('#first-post').replaceWith($(this).clone().attr('id','first-post')); });

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  • Need help converting SQL to EF4 please

    - by Ken Eldridge
    I need help converting this SQL statement, into EF4: Select Posts.PostID, Post, Comment from Posts left join Comments on posts.PostID = Comments.PostID Where CommentID not in ( Select PostID from Votes where VoteTypeID = 4 --4 = flagged comment type ) In my database, the Votes table stores either the PostID of reported posts, or CommentID of reported comments in the column Votes.PostID Thanks in advance!

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  • Is there a way to clear all JavaScript timers at once?

    - by Jens
    Im building an automatic refreshing comment section for my website using jQuery .load. So I am using a javascript 'setTimeout' timer to check for new comments. But after doing some stuff like changing comment pages or deleting (all using ajax), a few old timers keep running, even though I used clearTimeout before loading new ajax content. Is there some way to clear ALL javascript timers when I load new ajax content?

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  • Does deleting 'M'odified line in SVN Commit have an effect

    - by cdated
    When running the commandsvn ci you get a text editor that allows you to place a comment, below that is there is the text "--This line, and those below, will be ignored--", then the files modified, added, or deleted. If I were to delete a line such as: M folderA/fileA Would it remove that file from the check in, or is that just an SVN comment that has no other effect?

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  • Python script to remove all comments from XML file

    - by Jennifer Greentree
    I am trying to build a python script that will take in an XML document and remove all of the comment blocks from it. I tried something along the lines of: tree = ElementTree() tree.parse(file) commentElements = tree.findall('//comment()') for element in commentElements: element.parentNode.remove(element) Doing this yields a weird error from python: "KeyError: '()' I know there are ways to easily edit the file using other methods ( like sed ), but I have to do it in a python script.

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  • Store request.headers in a serialized model attribute

    - by Horace Loeb
    Here's my model: class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base serialize :request_headers end But when I try to do @comment.request_headers = request.headers I get a TypeError (can't dump anonymous class Class) exception. Another way to ask my question: how can I convert request.headers into a Hash? It uses a Hash under the covers so this should be easy, no?

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  • Facebook: Getting comments of notes.

    - by RD
    You can get notes using "notes_get". And you get comments using "comments_get" if you know the id of the comment. But how do you get all the comments of a note? or, actually, how do you get a list of all the comment id's posted to a note?

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  • Append INPUT to TEXTAREA as being types in JQuery

    - by Ricky
    I have an INPUT text box. As someone types into the INPUT text box, i need it to append/add-to a TEXTAREA value. Lets say user types '12345' into the text box. The textarea (default value="Comment: ") will automatically add: 'Comment: 12345'. Adding '12345' as they type.

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  • How to set custom form input field for "Price"?

    - by RodeoRamsey
    I have a basic html form that adds some data to the page using PHP. I want to make this form field a "Price" field. My html is: <input class="bids" name="comment" id="comment" tabindex="4" /> How can I fix this field so that users can't enter random letters, dollar signs, dashes, or other weird formats. I want the output to be whole dollars. Sorry I'm a complete programming moron. :)

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  • php parse error always on the last line

    - by is0lated
    I'm trying to read a comment that is stored in a mysql table. For some reason I always get a parse error on the last line of the file even if the last line is blank. I'm not sure if it's relevant but the connect.php works for putting the comment into the database. I'm using wampserver to host it and coding it by hand. I think that's it's something to do with the while loop, when I comment out the while(){ and the } near the end I just get a few missing variable errors as you would expect. I'm quite new to php coding so I'm pretty sure the problem will be something simple that I've either missed or not understood properly. Anyway, here's my code: <?php include "connect.php"; ?> <?php $sql = "SELECT * FROM main"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die("Could not get posts from table"); while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ ?> <table bgcolor="green" align="center"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong> <? echo $rows['name']; ?> </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <? echo $rows['email']; ?> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <? echo $rows['comment']; ?> </td> </tr> </table> <? } ?> Thanks for the help. :)

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  • Default subclass objects in Sqlalchemy?

    - by Timmy
    im using the example from the pylons book orm.mapper(Comment, comment_table) orm.mapper(Tag, tag_table) orm.mapper(Nav, nav_table, polymorphic_on=nav_table.c.type, polymorphic_identity='nav') orm.mapper(Section, section_table, inherits=Nav, polymorphic_identity='section') orm.mapper(Page, page_table, inherits=Nav, polymorphic_identity='page', properties={ 'comments':orm.relation(Comment, backref='page', cascade='all'), 'tags':orm.relation(Tag, secondary=pagetag_table) }) i am mostly copying from this, but is there a simple way have a default Page that gets referenced, but if users requests a change, create a new Page object? thanks i want something similar to this class DefaultPage(Page): __init__(self): self.a = a self.b = b self.c = c orm.mapper(DefaultPage, None, inherits=Nav, yada yada )

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  • How to pass dynamic id text box value to another page without refreshing with jquery and php

    - by linlin
    $('.btncomment').click(function() { var id = $(this).attr('id'); $.post('SaveTopicInformation.php',{tid:commentform.(topic_+id).value, topicdetail:commentform.(topicdetail_+id).value,userid:commentform.(user_+id).value}); }); $userid=$rows['UserID']; $topicid=$rows['TopicID']; ? " " class="commentAlink"Comment " " value=""/ " value=""/ " cols="50" rows="5" "Cancel " value="Comment" / ?

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  • How to understand these lines in apache.log

    - by chefnelone
    I just get 19000 lines like these in the apache.log file for my site example.com. My hosting provider shut down the hosting and notified me that I need to avoid to activate my hosting again. I understand that I got a big amount of visits but I don't know how to avoid this. 88.190.47.233 - - [27/Jun/2013:09:51:34 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 389 "http://example.com/" "Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; ru) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02" 417 88.190.47.233 - - [27/Jun/2013:09:51:34 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 389 "http://example.com/" "Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; ru) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02" 417 175.44.28.155 - - [27/Jun/2013:09:51:44 +0200] "GET /en/user/register HTTP/1.1" 403 503 "http://example.com/en/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;)" 248 175.44.29.140 - - [27/Jun/2013:09:53:19 +0200] "GET /en/node/1557?page=2 HTTP/1.0" 403 517 "http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=2" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.12 Safari/535.11" 491 These are the lines from apache-error.log. There are more than 35000 lines like this. [Thu Jun 27 09:50:58 2013] [error] [client 5.39.19.183] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:03 2013] [error] [client 125.112.29.105] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=1#comment-701 [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=1#comment-701 [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=1#comment-701 [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=1#comment-701 [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:34 2013] [error] [client 88.190.47.233] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:51:44 2013] [error] [client 175.44.28.155] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/ [Thu Jun 27 09:53:19 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=2 [Thu Jun 27 09:53:20 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=2 [Thu Jun 27 09:53:20 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=2 [Thu Jun 27 09:53:20 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied, referer: http://example.com/en/node/1557?page=2 [Thu Jun 27 09:53:21 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:53:21 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:53:21 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:53:22 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:53:22 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:53:22 2013] [error] [client 175.44.29.140] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied, referer: http://example.com/ [Thu Jun 27 09:56:53 2013] [error] [client 113.246.6.147] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/en/ [Thu Jun 27 09:58:58 2013] [error] [client 108.62.71.180] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied, referer: http://example.com/

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  • Centos does not open port/s after the rule/s are appended

    - by Charlie Dyason
    So after some battling and struggling with the firewall, i see that I may be doing something or the firewall isnt responding correctly there is has a port filter that is blocking certain ports. by the way, I have combed the internet, posted on forums, done almost everything and now hence the website name "serverfault", is my last resort, I need help What I hoped to achieve is create a pptp server to connect to with windows/linux clients UPDATED @ bottom Okay, here is what I did: I made some changes to my iptables file, giving me endless issues and so I restored the iptables.old file contents of iptables.old: # Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT after iptables.old restore(back to stock), nmap scan shows: nmap [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 13:54 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.014s latency). Not shown: 997 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 113/tcp closed ident 8008/tcp open http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.95 seconds if I append rule: (to accept all tcp ports incoming to server on interface eth0) iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -j ACCEPT nmap output: nmap [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 13:58 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.017s latency). Not shown: 858 filtered ports, 139 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 443/tcp open https 8008/tcp open http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.77 seconds *notice it allows and opens port 443 but no other ports, and it removes port 113...? removing previous rule and if I append rule: (allow and open port 80 incoming to server on interface eth0) iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT nmap output: nmap [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 14:01 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.014s latency). Not shown: 996 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp closed http 113/tcp closed ident 8008/tcp open http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.12 seconds *notice it removes port 443 and allows 80 but is closed without removing previous rule and if I append rule: (allow and open port 1723 incoming to server on interface eth0) iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT nmap output: nmap [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 14:05 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.015s latency). Not shown: 996 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp closed http 113/tcp closed ident 8008/tcp open http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.16 seconds *notice no change in ports opened or closed??? after removing rules: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT nmap output: nmap [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 14:07 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.015s latency). Not shown: 998 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 113/tcp closed ident Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.15 seconds and returning rule: (to accept all tcp ports incoming to server on interface eth0) iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -j ACCEPT nmap output: nmap [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 14:07 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.017s latency). Not shown: 858 filtered ports, 139 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 443/tcp open https 8008/tcp open http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.87 seconds notice the eth0 changes the 999 filtered ports to 858 filtered ports, 139 closed ports QUESTION: why cant I allow and/or open a specific port, eg. I want to allow and open port 443, it doesnt allow it, or even 1723 for pptp, why am I not able to??? sorry for the layout, the editor was give issues (aswell... sigh) UPDATE @Madhatter comment #1 thank you madhatter in my iptables file: # Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT # ----------all rules mentioned in post where added here ONLY!!!---------- -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT if I want to allow and open port 1723 (or edit iptables to allow a pptp connection from remote pc), what changes would I make? (please bear with me, my first time working with servers, etc.) Update MadHatter comment #2 iptables -L -n -v --line-numbers Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 9 660 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 2 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 3 0 0 ACCEPT all -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 4 0 0 ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 5 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22 6 0 0 REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 0 0 REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 6 packets, 840 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination just on a personal note, madhatter, thank you for the support , I really appreciate it! UPDATE MadHatter comment #3 here are the interfaces ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:D8:B7:1F:DC inet addr:[server ip] Bcast:[server ip x.x.x].255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:d8ff:feb7:1fdc/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:36692 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2830372 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:427976 (417.9 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:10.8.0.1 P-t-P:10.8.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) remote nmap nmap -p 1723 [server ip] Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 16:17 SAST Nmap scan report for server.address.net ([server ip]) Host is up (0.017s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 1723/tcp filtered pptp Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.51 seconds local nmap nmap -p 1723 localhost Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-11-01 16:19 SAST Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1) Host is up (0.000058s latency). Other addresses for localhost (not scanned): 127.0.0.1 PORT STATE SERVICE 1723/tcp open pptp Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.11 seconds UPDATE MadHatter COMMENT POST #4 I apologize, if there might have been any confusion, i did have the rule appended: (only after 3rd post) iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT netstat -apn|grep -w 1723 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1723 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1142/pptpd There are not VPN's and firewalls between the server and "me" UPDATE MadHatter comment #5 So here is an intersting turn of events: I booted into windows 7, created a vpn connection, went through the verfication username & pword - checking the sstp then checking pptp (went through that very quickly which meeans there is no problem), but on teh verfication of username and pword (before registering pc on network), it got stuck, gave this error Connection failed with error 2147943625 The remote computer refused the network connection netstat -apn | grep -w 1723 before connecting: netstat -apn |grep -w 1723 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1723 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1137/pptpd after the error came tried again: netstat -apn |grep -w 1723 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1723 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1137/pptpd tcp 0 0 41.185.26.238:1723 41.13.212.47:49607 TIME_WAIT - I do not know what it means but seems like there is progress..., any thoughts???

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  • Using SQL Source Control with Fortress or Vault &ndash; Part 2

    - by AjarnMark
    In Part 1, I started talking about using Red-Gate’s newest version of SQL Source Control and how I really like it as a viable method to source control your database development.  It looks like this is going to turn into a little series where I will explain how we have done things in the past, and how life is different with SQL Source Control.  I will also explain some of my philosophy and methodology around deployment with these tools.  But for now, let’s talk about some of the good and the bad of the tool itself. More Kudos and Features I mentioned previously how impressed I was with the responsiveness of Red-Gate’s team.  I have been having an ongoing email conversation with Gyorgy Pocsi, and as I have run into problems or requested things behave a little differently, it has not been more than a day or two before a new Build is ready for me to download and test.  Quite impressive! I’m sure much of the requests I put in were already in the plans, so I can’t really take credit for them, but throughout this conversation, Red-Gate has implemented several features that were not in the first Early Access version.  Those include: Honoring the Fortress configuration option to require Work Item (Bug) IDs on check-ins. Adding the check-in comment text as a comment to the Work Item. Adding the list of checked-in files, along with the Fortress links for automatic History and DIFF view Updating the status of a Work Item on check-in (e.g. setting the item to Complete or, in our case “Dev-Complete”) Support for the Fortress 2.0 API, and not just the Vault Pro 5.1 API.  (See later notes regarding support for Fortress 2.0). These were all features that I felt we really needed to have in-place before I could honestly consider converting my team to using SQL Source Control on a regular basis.  Now that I have those, my only excuse is not wanting to switch boats on the team mid-stream.  So when we wrap up our current release in a few weeks, we will make the jump.  In the meantime, I will continue to bang on it to make sure it is stable.  It passed one test for stability when I did a test load of one of our larger database schemas into Fortress with SQL Source Control.  That database has about 150 tables, 200 User-Defined Functions and nearly 900 Stored Procedures.  The initial load to source control went smoothly and took just a brief amount of time. Warnings Remember that this IS still in pre-release stage and while I have not had any problems after that first hiccup I wrote about last time, you still need to treat it with a healthy respect.  As I understand it, the RTM is targeted for February.  There are a couple more features that I hope make it into the final release version, but if not, they’ll probably be coming soon thereafter.  Those are: A Browse feature to let me lookup the Work Item ID instead of having to remember it or look back in my Item details.  This is just a matter of convenience. I normally have my Work Item list open anyway, so I can easily look it up, but hey, why not make it even easier. A multi-line comment area.  The current space for writing check-in comments is a single-line text box.  I would like to have a multi-line space as I sometimes write lengthy commentary.  But I recognize that it is a struggle to get most developers to put in more than the word “fixed” as their comment, so this meets the need of the majority as-is, and it’s not a show-stopper for us. Merge.  SQL Source Control currently does not have a Merge feature.  If two or more people make changes to the same database object, you will get a warning of the conflict and have to choose which one wins (and then manually edit to include the others’ changes).  I think it unlikely you will run into actual conflicts in Stored Procedures and Functions, but you might with Views or Tables.  This will be nice to have, but I’m not losing any sleep over it.  And I have multiple tools at my disposal to do merges manually, so really not a show-stopper for us. Automation has its limits.  As cool as this automation is, it has its limits and there are some changes that you will be better off scripting yourself.  For example, if you are refactoring table definitions, and want to change a column name, you can write that as a quick sp_rename command and preserve the data within that column.  But because this tool is looking just at a before and after picture, it cannot tell that you just renamed a column.  To the tool, it looks like you dropped one column and added another.  This is not a knock against Red-Gate.  All automated scripting tools have this issue, unless the are actively monitoring your every step to know exactly what you are doing.  This means that when you go to Deploy your changes, SQL Compare will script the change as a column drop and add, or will attempt to rebuild the entire table.  Unfortunately, neither of these approaches will preserve the existing data in that column the way an sp_rename will, and so you are better off scripting that change yourself.  Thankfully, SQL Compare will produce warnings about the potential loss of data before it does the actual synchronization and give you a chance to intercept the script and do it yourself. Also, please note that the current official word is that SQL Source Control supports Vault Professional 5.1 and later.  Vault Professional is the new name for what was previously known as Fortress.  (You can read about the name change on SourceGear’s site.)  The last version of Fortress was 2.x, and the API for Fortress 2.x is different from the API for Vault Pro.  At my company, we are currently running Fortress 2.0, with plans to upgrade to Vault Pro early next year.  Gyorgy was able to come up with a work-around for me to be able to use SQL Source Control with Fortress 2.0, even though it is not officially supported.  If you are using Fortress 2.0 and want to use SQL Source Control, be aware that this is not officially supported, but it is working for us, and you can probably get the work-around instructions from Red-Gate if you’re really, really nice to them. Upcoming Topics Some of the other topics I will likely cover in this series over the next few weeks are: How we used to do source control back in the old days (a few weeks ago) before SQL Source Control was available to Vault users What happens when you restore a database that is linked to source control Handling multiple development branches of source code Concurrent Development practices and handling Conflicts Deployment Tips and Best Practices A recap after using the tool for a while

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