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Cannot read status the monit daemon, even with allowed group

- by jefflunt

I cannot seem to get monit status or other CLI commands to work. I've built monit v5.8 to run on a Raspberry Pi. I'm able to add services to be monitored, and the web interface can be accessed just fine, as I've set it up for public read-only access (it's a test server, not my final production setup, so not a big deal right now). Problem is, when I run monit status while logged in as root I get: # monit status monit: cannot read status from the monit daemon I also have monit started on boot via this /etc/inittab file entry: mo:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/monit -Ic /etc/monitrc I've verified that monit is running, and I'm getting email alerts anytime I either kill the monit process manually, or reboot my raspberry pi. So, next I check my monitrc file permissions to see which group is allowed access. # ls -al /etc/monitrc -rw------- 1 root root 2359 Aug 24 14:48 /etc/monitrc Here's my relevant allow section of the control file. set httpd port 80 allow [omitted] readonly allow @root allow localhost allow 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 Also tried setting permissions on this file to 640 to allow group read permissions, but no matter what I try I either get the same error as noted above, or when the permissions are set to 640 I get: # monit status monit: The control file '/etc/monitrc' must have permissions no more than -rwx------ (0700); right now permissions are -rw-r----- (0640). What am I missing here? I know that the httpd must be enabled, as that's the interface that the CLI uses to get information (or so I've read), so I've done that. And in terms of monit doing its monitoring job and sending email alerts, that's all working as well. Here's my entire monitrc file - again, this is version v5.8, and it was build with both PAM and SSL support. The process runs under the root user: # Global settings set daemon 300 with start delay 5 set logfile /var/log/monit.log set pidfile /var/run/monit.pid set idfile /var/run/.monit.id set statefile /var/run/.monit.state # Mail alerts ## Set the list of mail servers for alert delivery. Multiple servers may be ## specified using a comma separator. If the first mail server fails, Monit # will use the second mail server in the list and so on. By default Monit uses # port 25 - it is possible to override this with the PORT option. # set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587 username [omitted] password [omitted] using tlsv1 ## Send status and events to M/Monit (for more informations about M/Monit ## see http://mmonit.com/). By default Monit registers credentials with ## M/Monit so M/Monit can smoothly communicate back to Monit and you don't ## have to register Monit credentials manually in M/Monit. It is possible to ## disable credential registration using the commented out option below. ## Though, if safety is a concern we recommend instead using https when ## communicating with M/Monit and send credentials encrypted. # # set mmonit http://monit:[email protected]:8080/collector # # and register without credentials # Don't register credentials # # ## Monit by default uses the following format for alerts if the the mail-format ## statement is missing:: set mail-format { from: [email protected] subject: $SERVICE $DESCRIPTION message: $EVENT Service: $SERVICE Date: $DATE Action: $ACTION Host: $HOST Description: $DESCRIPTION Monit instance provided by chicagomeshnet.com } # Web status page set httpd port 80 allow [omitted] readonly allow @root allow localhost allow 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 ## You can set alert recipients whom will receive alerts if/when a ## service defined in this file has errors. Alerts may be restricted on ## events by using a filter as in the second example below.

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Kernel panic when bringing up DRBD resource

- by sc.

I'm trying to set up two machines synchonizing with DRBD. The storage is setup as follows: PV - LVM - DRBD - CLVM - GFS2. DRBD is set up in dual primary mode. The first server is set up and running fine in primary mode. The drives on the first server have data on them. I've set up the second server and I'm trying to bring up the DRBD resources. I created all the base LVM's to match the first server. After initializing the resources with `` drbdadm create-md storage I'm bringing up the resources by issuing drbdadm up storage After issuing that command, I get a kernel panic and the server reboots in 30 seconds. Here's a screen capture. My configuration is as follows: OS: CentOS 6 uname -a Linux host.structuralcomponents.net 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 24 01:07:11 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux rpm -qa | grep drbd kmod-drbd84-8.4.1-2.el6.elrepo.x86_64 drbd84-utils-8.4.1-2.el6.elrepo.x86_64 cat /etc/drbd.d/global_common.conf global { usage-count yes; # minor-count dialog-refresh disable-ip-verification } common { handlers { pri-on-incon-degr "/usr/lib/drbd/notify-pri-on-incon-degr.sh; /usr/lib/drbd/notify-emergency-reboot.sh; echo b /proc/sysrq-trigger ; reboot -f"; pri-lost-after-sb "/usr/lib/drbd/notify-pri-lost-after-sb.sh; /usr/lib/drbd/notify-emergency-reboot.sh; echo b /proc/sysrq-trigger ; reboot -f"; local-io-error "/usr/lib/drbd/notify-io-error.sh; /usr/lib/drbd/notify-emergency-shutdown.sh; echo o /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f"; # fence-peer "/usr/lib/drbd/crm-fence-peer.sh"; # split-brain "/usr/lib/drbd/notify-split-brain.sh root"; # out-of-sync "/usr/lib/drbd/notify-out-of-sync.sh root"; # before-resync-target "/usr/lib/drbd/snapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh -p 15 -- -c 16k"; # after-resync-target /usr/lib/drbd/unsnapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh; } startup { # wfc-timeout degr-wfc-timeout outdated-wfc-timeout wait-after-sb become-primary-on both; wfc-timeout 30; degr-wfc-timeout 10; outdated-wfc-timeout 10; } options { # cpu-mask on-no-data-accessible } disk { # size max-bio-bvecs on-io-error fencing disk-barrier disk-flushes # disk-drain md-flushes resync-rate resync-after al-extents # c-plan-ahead c-delay-target c-fill-target c-max-rate # c-min-rate disk-timeout } net { # protocol timeout max-epoch-size max-buffers unplug-watermark # connect-int ping-int sndbuf-size rcvbuf-size ko-count # allow-two-primaries cram-hmac-alg shared-secret after-sb-0pri # after-sb-1pri after-sb-2pri always-asbp rr-conflict # ping-timeout data-integrity-alg tcp-cork on-congestion # congestion-fill congestion-extents csums-alg verify-alg # use-rle protocol C; allow-two-primaries yes; after-sb-0pri discard-zero-changes; after-sb-1pri discard-secondary; after-sb-2pri disconnect; } } cat /etc/drbd.d/storage.res resource storage { device /dev/drbd0; meta-disk internal; on host.structuralcomponents.net { address 10.10.1.120:7788; disk /dev/vg_storage/lv_storage; } on host2.structuralcomponents.net { address 10.10.1.121:7788; disk /dev/vg_storage/lv_storage; } /var/log/messages is not logging anything about the crash. I've been trying to find a cause of this but I've come up with nothing. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

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La Universidad Estatal de California estandariza 23 campus a través de Oracle PeopleSoft

- by Noelia Gomez

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Normal 0 21 false false false ES X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} La Universidad Estatal de California (CSU) está estandarizando su sistema de 23 campus y la Oficina del Rector con las aplicaciones de Oracle PeopleSoft. La CSU es el mayor sistema universitario público en los Estados Unidos. Los premios CSU con 90.000 grados por año y desde su creación en 1961, ha otorgado casi 2,6 millones. Como parte de su plan estratégico, “Acces to Excellence”, la CSU se ha comprometido a tomar ventaja de la tecnología para satisfacer las futuras necesidades de educación y ha creado los Sistemas Comunes de Gestión (CMS). La misión de CMS es brindar un servicio de calidad eficiente, eficaz y de calidad a los estudiantes, profesores y personal de los 23 campus de la CSU y la Oficina del Decanato. En un esfuerzo por mejorar la eficiencia y reducir los costes de todo el sistema, la CSU ha consolidado sus procesos de gestión financiera y los sistemas a través de PeopleSoft Financial Management. Para proporcionar una visión unificada de las operaciones financieras, CSU ha consolidado 22 campus en un mismo sistema a través de PeopleSoft Financials. Estas aplicaciones incluyen: Contabilidad, Facturación, Cuentas a Pagar, Cuentas a Cobrar y Compras. CSU también utiliza Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition para el análisis y presentación de informes. CSU está consolidando en PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) en pos de varios objetivos estratégicos como, entre otros: atraer y retener al personal superior y de la facultad. El sistema financiero consolidad de la CSU es ahora el mayor despliegue único de educación superior de PeopleSoft Financials en los Estados Unidos. Una centralización de esta envergadura no tiene precedentes, y sin embargo todavía se completó a tiempo y dentro del presupuesto. Una vez completado, la CSU también será el mayor despliegue de educación superior de PeopleSoft HCM. CSU también utiliza PeopleSoft Campus Solutions para gestionar sus operaciones académicas de los estudiantes, incluyendo la programación y registro de clases, cálculo y recaudación de las tasas, la concesión de la ayuda financiera y la evaluación y el progreso académico de los estudiantes. Las aplicaciones de Oracle PeopleSoft están diseñadas para atender las necesidades de negocio más complejas. Estas proveen soluciones integrales de negocios y de industria, permitiendo a las organizaciones aumentar la productividad, acelerar el rendimiento del negocio y un menor coste total de propiedad.PeopleSoft de Oracle Campus Solutions es una completa suite de software diseñado para las necesidades cambiantes de las instituciones de educación superior. Oracle sigue colaborando con la CSU y los colegios y universidades de todo el mundo para ofrecer los sistemas de administración y desarrollo de estudiantes más sensible y comprensivo y disponibles en la actualidad. Unisys está implantando aplicaciones PeopleSoft CSU y facilitando el acceso a los estudiantes, profesores y personal de las universidades a través de la solución de Unisys Hosted Secure Private Cloud. Unisys es un miembro de nivel Platino de Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). "Con el fin de seguir cumpliendo los objetivos de nuestro plan estratégico, creemos que es fundamental para estandarizar nuestros procesos operativos - tanto en el back office como allí donde lleguen nuestros estudiantes todos los días - maximizar nuestra inversión en tecnología y reducir costes", dijo Larry Furukawa-Schlereth, Director de Finanzas, Sonoma State University, y presidente del Comité Global Ejecutivo de Gestión de la CSU, California State University. "Contar con una vista única de toda la información importante en un sistema ayuda a la Universidad Estatal de California a continuar ofreciendo excelentes oportunidades de educación a un coste asequible mientras ayudamos a dar forma a la futura calidad de vida cívica y económica en California". 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FreeBSD with Vagrant - don't know how to check guest additions version

- by joelmaranhao

On Mac OS X 10.9.3 Picked a box from the VagrantCloud Init the vagrant box $ vagrant init chef/freebsd-9.2-i386 A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on `vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant. List the files $ ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 joel staff 4831 Jun 5 17:17 Vagrantfile Vagrantfile content VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2" Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config| config.vm.box = "chef/freebsd-9.2-i386" end Starting my virtual box leads to Errors $ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'chef/freebsd-9.2-i386' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Loading metadata for box 'chef/freebsd-9.2-i386' default: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/chef/freebsd-9.2-i386 ==> default: Adding box 'chef/freebsd-9.2-i386' (v1.0.0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/chef/freebsd-9.2-i386/version/1/provider/virtualbox.box ==> default: Successfully added box 'chef/freebsd-9.2-i386' (v1.0.0) for 'virtualbox'! ==> default: Importing base box 'chef/freebsd-9.2-i386'... ==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking... ==> default: Checking if box 'chef/freebsd-9.2-i386' is up to date... ==> default: Setting the name of the VM: freebsd92-i386_default_1401982167145_49633 ==> default: Fixed port collision for 22 => 2222. Now on port 2201. ==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces... ==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration... default: Adapter 1: nat ==> default: Forwarding ports... default: 22 => 2201 (adapter 1) ==> default: Booting VM... ==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes... default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2201 default: SSH username: vagrant default: SSH auth method: private key default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying... default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying... ==> default: Machine booted and ready! Sorry, don't know how to check guest version of Virtualbox Guest Additions on this platform. Stopping installation. ==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM... default: The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on default: your host and reload your VM. default: default: Guest Additions Version: 4.2.16 default: VirtualBox Version: 4.3 ==> default: Mounting shared folders... default: /vagrant => /Users/joel/Code/anybots/operations/robot/freebsd92-i386 Vagrant attempted to execute the capability 'mount_virtualbox_shared_folder' on the detect guest OS 'freebsd', but the guest doesn't support that capability. This capability is required for your configuration of Vagrant. Please either reconfigure Vagrant to avoid this capability or fix the issue by creating the capability. Note that I have recently installed the latest version of VirtualBox, but somehow I can't find the Guest Additions.

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Installing rtorrent on my ubuntu server

- by Shishant

Hello, I am try to install rtorrent on my ubuntu server. I ran these commands and they worked fine. ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c make and then when i tried to use make install i guess it didnt get install because no .rtorrent.rc' was created in home directory and running rtorrent returned this error rtorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libtorrent.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory below is the log of my make install. root@ubuntu:~/rtorrent-0.8.6# make install Making install in doc make[1]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/doc' make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/doc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man1" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/man/man1" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './rtorrent.1' '/usr/local/share/man/man1/rtorrent.1 ' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/doc' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/doc' Making install in src make[1]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src' Making install in core make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/core' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/core' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/core' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/core' Making install in display make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/display' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/display' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/display' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/display' Making install in input make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/input' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/input' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/input' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/input' Making install in rpc make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/rpc' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/rpc' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/rpc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/rpc' Making install in ui make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/ui' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/ui' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/ui' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/ui' Making install in utils make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/utils' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/utils' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/utils' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src/utils' make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src' test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin" /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'rtorrent' '/usr/loc al/bin/rtorrent' libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c rtorrent /usr/local/bin/rtorrent make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6/src' make[1]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6' make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rtorrent-0.8.6' Thank You.

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First PC Build (Part 1)

- by Anthony Trudeau

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/tonyt/archive/2014/08/05/157959.aspxA couple of months ago I made the decision to build myself a new computer. The intended use is gaming and for using the last real version of Photoshop. I was motivated by the poor state of console gaming and a simple desire to do something I haven’t done before – build a PC from the ground up. I’ve been using PCs for more than two decades. I’ve replaced a component hear and there, but for the last 10 years or so I’ve only used laptops. Therefore, this article will be written from the perspective of someone familiar with PCs, but completely new at building. I’m not an expert and this is not a definitive guide for building a PC, but I do hope that it encourages you to try it yourself. Component List Research There was a lot of research necessary, because building a PC is completely new to me, and I haven’t kept up with what’s out there. The first thing you want to do is nail down what your goals are. Your goals are going to be driven by what you want to do with your computer and personal choice. Don’t neglect the second one, because if you’re doing this for fun you want to get what you want. In my case, I focused on three things: performance, longevity, and aesthetics. The performance aspect is important for gaming and Photoshop. This will drive what components you get. For example, heavy gaming use is going to drive your choice of graphics card. Longevity is relevant to me, because I don’t want to be changing things out anytime soon for the next hot game. The consequence of performance and longevity is cost. Finally, aesthetics was my next consideration. I could have just built a box, but it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun for me. Aesthetics might not be important to you. They are for me. I also like gadgets and that played into at least one purchase for this build. I used PC Part Picker to put together my component list. I found it invaluable during the process and I’d recommend it to everyone. One caveat is that I wouldn’t trust the compatibility aspects. It does a pretty good job of not steering you wrong, but do your own research. The rest of it isn’t really sexy. I started out with what appealed to me and then I made changes and additions as I dived deep into researching each component and interaction I could find. The resources I used are innumerable. I used reviews, product descriptions, forum posts (praises and problems), et al. to assist me. I also asked friends into gaming what they thought about my component list. And when I got near the end I posted my list to the Reddit /r/buildapc forum. I cannot stress the value of extra sets of eyeballs and first hand experiences. Some of the resources I used: PC Part Picker Tom’s Hardware bit-tech Reddit Purchase PC Part Picker favors certain vendors. You should look at others too. In my case I found their favorites to be the best. My priorities were out-the-door price and shipping time. I knew that once I started getting parts I’d want to start building. Luckily, I timed it well and everything arrived within the span of a few days. Here are my opinions on the vendors I ended up using in alphabetical order. Amazon.com is a good, reliable choice. They have excellent customer service in my experience, and I knew I wouldn’t have trouble with them. However, shipping time is often a problem when you use their free shipping unless you order expensive items (I’ve found items over $100 ship quickly). Ultimately though, price wasn’t always the best and their collection of sales tax in my state turned me off them. I did purchase my case from them. I ordered the mouse as well, but I cancelled after it was stuck four days in a “shipping soon” state. I purchased the mouse locally. Best Buy is not my favorite place to do business. There’s a lot of history with poor, uninterested sales representatives and they used to have a lot of bad anti-consumer policies. That’s a lot better now, but the bad taste is still in my mouth. I ended up purchasing the accessories from them including mouse (locally) and headphones. NCIX is a company that I’ve never heard of before. It popped up as a recommendation for my CPU cooler on PC Part Picker. I didn’t do a lot of research on the company, because their policy on you buying insurance for your orders turned me off. That policy makes it clear to me that the company finds me responsible for the shipment once it leaves their dock. That’s not right, and may run afoul of state laws. Regardless they shipped my CPU cooler quickly and I didn’t have a problem. NewEgg.com is a well known company. I had never done business with them, but I’m glad I did. They shipped quickly and provided good visibility over everything. The prices were also the best in most cases. My main complaint is that they have a lot of exchange only return policies on components. To their credit those policies are listed in the cart underneath each item. The visibility tells me that they’re not playing any shenanigans and made me comfortable dealing with that risk. The vast majority of what I ordered came from them. Coming Next In the next part I’ll tackle my build experience.

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Accessing your web server via IPv6

Being able to run your systems on IPv6, have automatic address assignment and the ability to resolve host names are the necessary building blocks in your IPv6 network infrastructure. Now, that everything is in place it is about time that we are going to enable another service to respond to IPv6 requests. The following article will guide through the steps on how to enable Apache2 httpd to listen and respond to incoming IPv6 requests. This is the fourth article in a series on IPv6 configuration: Configure IPv6 on your Linux system DHCPv6: Provide IPv6 information in your local network Enabling DNS for IPv6 infrastructure Accessing your web server via IPv6 Piece of advice: This is based on my findings on the internet while reading other people's helpful articles and going through a couple of man-pages on my local system. Surfing the web - IPv6 style Enabling IPv6 connections in Apache 2 is fairly simply. But first let's check whether your system has a running instance of Apache2 or not. You can check this like so: $ service apache2 status Apache2 is running (pid 2680). In case that you got a 'service unknown' you have to install Apache to proceed with the following steps: $ sudo apt-get install apache2 Out of the box, Apache binds to all your available network interfaces and listens to TCP port 80. To check this, run the following command: $ sudo netstat -lnptu | grep "apache2\W*$"tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 28306/apache2 In this case Apache2 is already binding to IPv6 (and implicitly to IPv4). If you only got a tcp output, then your HTTPd is not yet IPv6 enabled. Check your Listen directive, depending on your system this might be in a different location than the default in Ubuntu. $ sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf # If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also# have to change the VirtualHost statement in# /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default# This is also true if you have upgraded from before 2.2.9-3 (i.e. from# Debian etch). See /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/NEWS.Debian.gz and# README.Debian.gzNameVirtualHost *:80Listen 80<IfModule mod_ssl.c> # If you add NameVirtualHost *:443 here, you will also have to change # the VirtualHost statement in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl # to <VirtualHost *:443> # Server Name Indication for SSL named virtual hosts is currently not # supported by MSIE on Windows XP. Listen 443</IfModule><IfModule mod_gnutls.c> Listen 443</IfModule> Just in case that you don't have a ports.conf file, look for it like so: $ cd /etc/apache2/$ fgrep -r -i 'listen' ./* And modify the related file instead of the ports.conf. Which most probably might be either apache2.conf or httpd.conf anyways. Okay, please bear in mind that Apache can only bind once on the same interface and port. So, eventually, you might be interested to add another port which explicitly listens to IPv6 only. In that case, you would add the following in your configuration file: Listen 80Listen [2001:db8:bad:a55::2]:8080 But this is completely optional... Anyways, just to complete all steps, you save the file, and then check the syntax like so: $ sudo apache2ctl configtestSyntax OK Ok, now let's apply the modifications to our running Apache2 instances: $ sudo service apache2 reload * Reloading web server config apache2 ...done. $ sudo netstat -lnptu | grep "apache2\W*$" tcp6 0 0 2001:db8:bad:a55:::8080 :::* LISTEN 5922/apache2 tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 5922/apache2 There we have two daemons running and listening to different TCP ports. Now, that the basics are in place, it's time to prepare any website to respond to incoming requests on the IPv6 address. Open up any configuration file you have below your sites-enabled folder. $ ls -al /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/... $ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default <VirtualHost *:80 [2001:db8:bad:a55::2]:8080> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName server.ios.mu ServerAlias server Here, we have to check and modify the VirtualHost directive and enable it to respond to the IPv6 address and port our web server is listening to. Save your changes, run the configuration test and reload Apache2 in order to apply your modifications. After successful steps you can launch your favourite browser and navigate to your IPv6 enabled web server. Accessing an IPv6 address in the browser That looks like a successful surgery to me... Note: In case that you received a timeout, check whether your client is operating on IPv6, too.

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1600+ 'postfix-queue' processes - OK to have this many?

- by atomicguava

I have a Plesk 9.5.4 CentOS server running Postfix. I had been having massive problems with the mailq being full of 'double-bounce' email messages containing errors relating to 'Queue File Write Error', but I believe these are now fixed thanks to this thread. My new problem is that when I run top, I can see lots of processes called 'postfix-queue' and have fairly high load: top - 13:59:44 up 6 days, 21:14, 1 user, load average: 2.33, 2.19, 1.96 Tasks: 1743 total, 1 running, 1742 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 5.1%us, 8.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 85.3%id, 0.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3145728k total, 1950640k used, 1195088k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1324 apache 16 0 344m 33m 5664 S 21.7 1.1 0:03.17 httpd 32443 apache 15 0 350m 36m 6864 S 14.4 1.2 0:13.83 httpd 1678 root 15 0 13948 2568 952 R 2.0 0.1 0:00.37 top 1890 mysql 15 0 689m 318m 7600 S 1.0 10.4 219:45.23 mysqld 1394 apache 15 0 352m 41m 5972 S 0.7 1.3 0:03.91 httpd 1369 apache 15 0 344m 33m 5444 S 0.3 1.1 0:02.03 httpd 1592 apache 15 0 349m 37m 5912 S 0.3 1.2 0:02.52 httpd 1633 apache 15 0 336m 20m 1828 S 0.3 0.7 0:00.01 httpd 1952 root 19 0 335m 28m 10m S 0.3 0.9 1:35.41 httpd 1 root 15 0 10304 732 612 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.41 init 1034 mhandler 15 0 11520 1160 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1036 mhandler 15 0 11516 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1041 mhandler 17 0 11516 1156 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1043 mhandler 15 0 11512 1116 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1063 mhandler 16 0 11516 1160 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1068 mhandler 15 0 11516 1128 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1071 mhandler 17 0 11512 1152 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1072 mhandler 15 0 11512 1116 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1081 mhandler 16 0 11516 1156 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1082 mhandler 15 0 11512 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1089 popuser 15 0 33892 1972 1200 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 pop3d 1116 mhandler 16 0 11516 1164 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1117 mhandler 15 0 11516 1124 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1120 mhandler 16 0 11516 1160 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1121 mhandler 15 0 11512 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1130 mhandler 17 0 11516 1160 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1131 mhandler 15 0 11516 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1149 root 17 -4 12572 680 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 udevd 1181 mhandler 16 0 11516 1160 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1183 mhandler 15 0 11512 1116 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1224 mhandler 16 0 11516 1160 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1225 mhandler 15 0 11516 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1228 apache 15 0 345m 34m 5472 S 0.0 1.1 0:04.64 httpd 1241 mhandler 16 0 11516 1156 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1242 mhandler 15 0 11512 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1251 mhandler 17 0 11516 1156 884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1252 mhandler 15 0 11516 1120 860 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postfix-queue 1258 apache 15 0 349m 37m 5444 S 0.0 1.2 0:01.28 httpd When I run ps -Al | grep -c postfix-queue it returns 1618! My question is this: is this normal or is there something else going wrong with Postfix? Right now, if I run mailq it is empty, and qshape deferred / qshape active are empty too. Thanks in advance for your help.

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Can't configure frame relay T1 on Cisco 1760

- by sonar

For the past few days I've been trying to configure a data T1 via a Frame Relay. Now I've been pretty unsuccessful at it, and it's been a while, since I've done this so please bare with me. The ISP provided me the following information: 1. IP address 2. Gateway address 3. Encapsulation Frame Relay 4. DLCI 100 5. BZ8 ESF (I think the bz8 was supposed to be b8zs) 6. Time Slot (1 al 24). And what I have configured up until now is the following: interface Serial0/0 ip address <ip address> 255.255.255.252 encapsulation frame-relay service-module t1 timeslots 1-24 frame-relay interface-dlci 100 sh service-module s0/0 (outputs): Module type is T1/fractional Hardware revision is 0.128, Software revision is 0.2, Image checksum is 0x73D70058, Protocol revision is 0.1 Receiver has no alarms. Framing is **ESF**, Line Code is **B8ZS**, Current clock source is line, Fraction has **24 timeslots** (64 Kbits/sec each), Net bandwidth is 1536 Kbits/sec. Last module self-test (done at startup): Passed Last clearing of alarm counters 00:17:17 loss of signal : 0, loss of frame : 0, AIS alarm : 0, Remote alarm : 2, last occurred 00:10:10 Module access errors : 0, Total Data (last 1 15 minute intervals): 0 Line Code Violations, 0 Path Code Violations 0 Slip Secs, 0 Fr Loss Secs, 0 Line Err Secs, 0 Degraded Mins 0 Errored Secs, 0 Bursty Err Secs, 0 Severely Err Secs, 0 Unavail Secs Data in current interval (138 seconds elapsed): 0 Line Code Violations, 0 Path Code Violations 0 Slip Secs, 0 Fr Loss Secs, 0 Line Err Secs, 0 Degraded Mins 0 Errored Secs, 0 Bursty Err Secs, 0 Severely Err Secs, 0 Unavail Secs sh int: FastEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is PQUICC_FEC, address is 000d.6516.e5aa (bia 000d.6516.e5aa) Internet address is 10.0.0.1/24 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set Keepalive set (10 sec) Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00 Last input 00:20:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters never Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue: 0/40 (size/max) 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 0 packets input, 0 bytes Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored 0 watchdog 0 input packets with dribble condition detected 191 packets output, 20676 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out Serial0/0 is up, line protocol is down Hardware is PQUICC with Fractional T1 CSU/DSU MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1536 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation FRAME-RELAY, loopback not set Keepalive set (10 sec) LMI enq sent 157, LMI stat recvd 0, LMI upd recvd 0, DTE LMI down LMI enq recvd 23, LMI stat sent 0, LMI upd sent 0 LMI DLCI 1023 LMI type is CISCO frame relay DTE FR SVC disabled, LAPF state down Broadcast queue 0/64, broadcasts sent/dropped 2/0, interface broadcasts 0 Last input 00:24:51, output 00:00:05, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:27:20 Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: weighted fair Output queue: 0/1000/64/0 (size/max total/threshold/drops) Conversations 0/1/256 (active/max active/max total) Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max allocated) Available Bandwidth 1152 kilobits/sec 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 23 packets input, 302 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 1725 input errors, 595 CRC, 1099 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 30 abort 246 packets output, 3974 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 48 interface resets 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out 4 carrier transitions DCD=up DSR=up DTR=up RTS=up CTS=up Serial0/0.1 is down, line protocol is down Hardware is PQUICC with Fractional T1 CSU/DSU MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1536 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation FRAME-RELAY Last clearing of "show interface" counters never Serial0/0.100 is down, line protocol is down Hardware is PQUICC with Fractional T1 CSU/DSU Internet address is <ip address>/30 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1536 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation FRAME-RELAY Last clearing of "show interface" counters never And everything seems to be accounted for to me, but apparently I'm missing something. My issue is that I'm stuck on interface up, line protocol down, so the T1 doesn't go up. Any ideas? Thank you,

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FFMPEG Segfault Solutions

- by Brentley_11

I'm trying to convert a bunch of movies into h.264 mp4's using FFMPEG. These movies are sourced from various portable camcorders such as the Flip Mino HD and the Kodak ZI8. One issue I'm having with video from the ZI8 is it seems to be causing FFMPEG to segfault. Here is my command: ffmpeg -i 'XmasSailor720p60fps.MOV' -threads 2 -acodec libfaac -ab 96kb -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -b 500kb -s 484x272 XmasSailor.mp4 Here is the output: FFmpeg version SVN-r20668, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al. built on Dec 2 2009 18:37:34 with gcc 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4) configuration: --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-shared libavutil 50. 5. 1 / 50. 5. 1 libavcodec 52.42. 0 / 52.42. 0 libavformat 52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2 libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0 libswscale 0. 7. 2 / 0. 7. 2 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.94 (60000/1001) -> 29.97 (30000/1001) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'XmasSailor720p60fps.MOV': Duration: 00:00:05.37, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 12021 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 11994 kb/s, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s Metadata major_brand : qt minor_version : 0 compatible_brands: qt comment : KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera comment-eng : KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]using SAR=1/1 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.1 Cache64 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]profile High, level 2.1 Output #0, mp4, to 'XmasSailor.mp4': Stream #0.0(eng): Video: libx264, yuv420p, 484x272 [PAR 1:1 DAR 121:68], q=10-51, 500 kb/s, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 96 kb/s Metadata comment : Encoded with the Statusfirm Video Transcoder Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press [q] to stop encoding [h264 @ 0x99de950]B picture before any references, skipping [h264 @ 0x99de950]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x99de950]no frame! Error while decoding stream #0.0 [h264 @ 0x99de950]B picture before any references, skipping [h264 @ 0x99de950]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x99de950]no frame! Error while decoding stream #0.0 frame= 20 fps= 0 q=13797729.0 size= 0kB time=0.66 bitrate= 0.6kbits/s frame= 39 fps= 37 q=13797729.0 size= 0kB time=1.30 bitrate= 0.3kbits/s frame= 48 fps= 30 q=33.0 size= 11kB time=0.10 bitrate= 903.0kbits/s frame= 58 fps= 27 q=31.0 size= 22kB time=0.43 bitrate= 421.0kbits/s frame= 67 fps= 25 q=29.0 size= 41kB time=0.73 bitrate= 462.6kbits/s frame= 75 fps= 23 q=29.0 size= 59kB time=1.00 bitrate= 486.7kbits/s frame= 83 fps= 22 q=29.0 size= 81kB time=1.27 bitrate= 521.9kbits/s frame= 90 fps= 21 q=29.0 size= 97kB time=1.50 bitrate= 530.1kbits/s frame= 98 fps= 20 q=29.0 size= 114kB time=1.77 bitrate= 526.9kbits/s frame= 106 fps= 20 q=29.0 size= 134kB time=2.04 bitrate= 537.7kbits/s frame= 114 fps= 19 q=29.0 size= 150kB time=2.30 bitrate= 533.7kbits/s frame= 122 fps= 19 q=29.0 size= 172kB time=2.57 bitrate= 547.8kbits/s frame= 130 fps= 19 q=29.0 size= 193kB time=2.84 bitrate= 557.5kbits/s frame= 136 fps= 18 q=29.0 size= 211kB time=3.04 bitrate= 570.0kbits/s frame= 144 fps= 18 q=29.0 size= 242kB time=3.30 bitrate= 599.5kbits/s frame= 152 fps= 17 q=30.0 size= 261kB time=3.57 bitrate= 598.6kbits/s frame= 157 fps= 15 q=-1.0 Lsize= 368kB time=5.21 bitrate= 579.3kbits/s video:302kB audio:61kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.416371% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]frame I:1 Avg QP:27.22 size: 8720 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]frame P:48 Avg QP:25.15 size: 3759 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]frame B:108 Avg QP:30.10 size: 1105 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]consecutive B-frames: 0.6% 11.5% 28.8% 59.0% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]mb I I16..4: 28.5% 47.6% 23.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]mb P I16..4: 0.8% 1.3% 0.5% P16..4: 50.6% 17.7% 13.1% 0.0% 0.0% skip:15.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]mb B I16..4: 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% B16..8: 44.0% 1.2% 2.6% direct: 5.1% skip:46.5% L0:45.5% L1:51.0% BI: 3.5% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]final ratefactor: 23.51 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]8x8 transform intra:49.9% inter:67.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]direct mvs spatial:98.1% temporal:1.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 54.7% 76.1% 41.4% inter: 17.1% 24.4% 7.8% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]i16 v,h,dc,p: 18% 52% 5% 25% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 12% 22% 9% 7% 10% 10% 9% 8% 13% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 13% 18% 8% 8% 10% 13% 10% 9% 12% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]Weighted P-Frames: Y:10.4% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]ref P L0: 60.2% 15.3% 11.0% 7.6% 5.2% 0.7% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]ref B L0: 72.6% 15.6% 11.8% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]kb/s:471.17 Segmentation fault I'm wondering if anyone else has ran into similar issues. I wasn't able to find anything helpful via Google. Another question I have is if anyone knows of a company that offers paid support for FFMPEG. Thank you for your time.

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FFMPEG Segfault Solutions

- by Brentley_11

I'm trying to convert a bunch of movies into h.264 mp4's using FFMPEG. These movies are sourced from various portable camcorders such as the Flip Mino HD and the Kodak ZI8. One issue I'm having with video from the ZI8 is it seems to be causing FFMPEG to segfault. Here is my command: ffmpeg -i 'XmasSailor720p60fps.MOV' -threads 2 -acodec libfaac -ab 96kb -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -b 500kb -s 484x272 XmasSailor.mp4 Here is the output: FFmpeg version SVN-r20668, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al. built on Dec 2 2009 18:37:34 with gcc 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4) configuration: --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-shared libavutil 50. 5. 1 / 50. 5. 1 libavcodec 52.42. 0 / 52.42. 0 libavformat 52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2 libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0 libswscale 0. 7. 2 / 0. 7. 2 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.94 (60000/1001) -> 29.97 (30000/1001) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'XmasSailor720p60fps.MOV': Duration: 00:00:05.37, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 12021 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 11994 kb/s, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s Metadata major_brand : qt minor_version : 0 compatible_brands: qt comment : KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera comment-eng : KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]using SAR=1/1 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.1 Cache64 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]profile High, level 2.1 Output #0, mp4, to 'XmasSailor.mp4': Stream #0.0(eng): Video: libx264, yuv420p, 484x272 [PAR 1:1 DAR 121:68], q=10-51, 500 kb/s, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 96 kb/s Metadata comment : Encoded with the Statusfirm Video Transcoder Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press [q] to stop encoding [h264 @ 0x99de950]B picture before any references, skipping [h264 @ 0x99de950]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x99de950]no frame! Error while decoding stream #0.0 [h264 @ 0x99de950]B picture before any references, skipping [h264 @ 0x99de950]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x99de950]no frame! Error while decoding stream #0.0 frame= 20 fps= 0 q=13797729.0 size= 0kB time=0.66 bitrate= 0.6kbits/s frame= 39 fps= 37 q=13797729.0 size= 0kB time=1.30 bitrate= 0.3kbits/s frame= 48 fps= 30 q=33.0 size= 11kB time=0.10 bitrate= 903.0kbits/s frame= 58 fps= 27 q=31.0 size= 22kB time=0.43 bitrate= 421.0kbits/s frame= 67 fps= 25 q=29.0 size= 41kB time=0.73 bitrate= 462.6kbits/s frame= 75 fps= 23 q=29.0 size= 59kB time=1.00 bitrate= 486.7kbits/s frame= 83 fps= 22 q=29.0 size= 81kB time=1.27 bitrate= 521.9kbits/s frame= 90 fps= 21 q=29.0 size= 97kB time=1.50 bitrate= 530.1kbits/s frame= 98 fps= 20 q=29.0 size= 114kB time=1.77 bitrate= 526.9kbits/s frame= 106 fps= 20 q=29.0 size= 134kB time=2.04 bitrate= 537.7kbits/s frame= 114 fps= 19 q=29.0 size= 150kB time=2.30 bitrate= 533.7kbits/s frame= 122 fps= 19 q=29.0 size= 172kB time=2.57 bitrate= 547.8kbits/s frame= 130 fps= 19 q=29.0 size= 193kB time=2.84 bitrate= 557.5kbits/s frame= 136 fps= 18 q=29.0 size= 211kB time=3.04 bitrate= 570.0kbits/s frame= 144 fps= 18 q=29.0 size= 242kB time=3.30 bitrate= 599.5kbits/s frame= 152 fps= 17 q=30.0 size= 261kB time=3.57 bitrate= 598.6kbits/s frame= 157 fps= 15 q=-1.0 Lsize= 368kB time=5.21 bitrate= 579.3kbits/s video:302kB audio:61kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.416371% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]frame I:1 Avg QP:27.22 size: 8720 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]frame P:48 Avg QP:25.15 size: 3759 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]frame B:108 Avg QP:30.10 size: 1105 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]consecutive B-frames: 0.6% 11.5% 28.8% 59.0% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]mb I I16..4: 28.5% 47.6% 23.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]mb P I16..4: 0.8% 1.3% 0.5% P16..4: 50.6% 17.7% 13.1% 0.0% 0.0% skip:15.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]mb B I16..4: 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% B16..8: 44.0% 1.2% 2.6% direct: 5.1% skip:46.5% L0:45.5% L1:51.0% BI: 3.5% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]final ratefactor: 23.51 [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]8x8 transform intra:49.9% inter:67.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]direct mvs spatial:98.1% temporal:1.9% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 54.7% 76.1% 41.4% inter: 17.1% 24.4% 7.8% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]i16 v,h,dc,p: 18% 52% 5% 25% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 12% 22% 9% 7% 10% 10% 9% 8% 13% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 13% 18% 8% 8% 10% 13% 10% 9% 12% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]Weighted P-Frames: Y:10.4% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]ref P L0: 60.2% 15.3% 11.0% 7.6% 5.2% 0.7% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]ref B L0: 72.6% 15.6% 11.8% [libx264 @ 0x99e1020]kb/s:471.17 Segmentation fault I'm wondering if anyone else has ran into similar issues. I wasn't able to find anything helpful via Google. Another question I have is if anyone knows of a company that offers paid support for FFMPEG. Thank you for your time.

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Unable to list contents/remove directory (linux ext3)

- by RedKrieg

System is CentOS5 x86_64, completely up to date. I've got a folder that can't be listed (ls just hangs, eating memory until it is killed). The directory size is nearly 500k: root@server [/home/user/public_html/domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03]# stat . File: `.' Size: 458752 Blocks: 904 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 812h/2066d Inode: 44499071 Links: 2 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 3292/ user) Gid: ( 3287/ user) Access: 2012-06-29 17:31:47.000000000 -0400 Modify: 2012-10-23 14:41:58.000000000 -0400 Change: 2012-10-23 14:41:58.000000000 -0400 I can see the file names if I use ls -1f, but it just repeats the same 48 files ad infinitum, all of which have non-ascii characters somewhere in the file name: La-critic\363-al-servicio-la-privacidad-300x160.jpg When I try to access the files (say to copy them or remove them) I get messages like the following: lstat("/home/user/public_html/domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Sebast\355an-Pi\361era-el-balc\363n-150x120.jpg", 0x7fff364c52c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I tried altering the code found on this man page and modified the code to call unlink for each file. I get the same ENOENT error from the unlink call: unlink("/home/user/public_html/domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Marca-naci\363n-Madrid-150x120.jpg") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I also straced a "touch", grabbed the syscalls it makes and replicated them, then tried to unlink the resulting file by name. This works fine, but the folder still contains an entry by the same name after the operation completes and the program runs for an arbitrarily long time (strace output ended up at 20GB after 5 minutes and I stopped the process). I'm stumped on this one, I'd really prefer not to have to take this production machine (hundreds of customers) offline to fsck the filesystem, but I'm leaning toward that being the only option at this point. If anyone's had success using other methods for removing files (by inode number, I can get those with the getdents code) I'd love to hear them. (Yes, I've tried find . -inum <inode> -exec rm -fv {} \; and it still has the problem with unlink returning ENOENT) For those interested, here's the diff between that man page's code and mine. I didn't bother with error checking on mallocs, etc because I'm lazy and this is a one-off: root@server [~]# diff -u listdir-orig.c listdir.c --- listdir-orig.c 2012-10-23 15:10:02.000000000 -0400 +++ listdir.c 2012-10-23 14:59:47.000000000 -0400 @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> +#include <string.h> #define handle_error(msg) \ do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0) @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ char d_name[]; }; -#define BUF_SIZE 1024 +#define BUF_SIZE 1024*1024*5 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { @@ -26,11 +27,16 @@ struct linux_dirent *d; int bpos; char d_type; + int deleted; + int file_descriptor; fd = open(argc > 1 ? argv[1] : ".", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY); if (fd == -1) handle_error("open"); + char* full_path; + char* fd_path; + for ( ; ; ) { nread = syscall(SYS_getdents, fd, buf, BUF_SIZE); if (nread == -1) @@ -55,7 +61,24 @@ printf("%4d %10lld %s\n", d->d_reclen, (long long) d->d_off, (char *) d->d_name); bpos += d->d_reclen; + if ( d_type == DT_REG ) + { + full_path = malloc(strlen((char *) d->d_name) + strlen(argv[1]) + 2); //One for the /, one for the \0 + strcpy(full_path, argv[1]); + strcat(full_path, (char *) d->d_name); + + //We're going to try to "touch" the file. + //file_descriptor = open(full_path, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, 0666); + //fd_path = malloc(32); //Lazy, only really needs 16 + //sprintf(fd_path, "/proc/self/fd/%d", file_descriptor); + //utimes(fd_path, NULL); + //close(file_descriptor); + deleted = unlink(full_path); + if ( deleted == -1 ) printf("Error unlinking file\n"); + break; //Break on first try + } } + break; //Break on first try } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);

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Dynamic JSON Parsing in .NET with JsonValue

- by Rick Strahl

So System.Json has been around for a while in Silverlight, but it's relatively new for the desktop .NET framework and now moving into the lime-light with the pending release of ASP.NET Web API which is bringing a ton of attention to server side JSON usage. The JsonValue, JsonObject and JsonArray objects are going to be pretty useful for Web API applications as they allow you dynamically create and parse JSON values without explicit .NET types to serialize from or into. But even more so I think JsonValue et al. are going to be very useful when consuming JSON APIs from various services. Yes I know C# is strongly typed, why in the world would you want to use dynamic values? So many times I've needed to retrieve a small morsel of information from a large service JSON response and rather than having to map the entire type structure of what that service returns, JsonValue actually allows me to cherry pick and only work with the values I'm interested in, without having to explicitly create everything up front. With JavaScriptSerializer or DataContractJsonSerializer you always need to have a strong type to de-serialize JSON data into. Wouldn't it be nice if no explicit type was required and you could just parse the JSON directly using a very easy to use object syntax? That's exactly what JsonValue, JsonObject and JsonArray accomplish using a JSON parser and some sweet use of dynamic sauce to make it easy to access in code. Creating JSON on the fly with JsonValue Let's start with creating JSON on the fly. It's super easy to create a dynamic object structure. JsonValue uses the dynamic keyword extensively to make it intuitive to create object structures and turn them into JSON via dynamic object syntax. Here's an example of creating a music album structure with child songs using JsonValue:[TestMethod] public void JsonValueOutputTest() { // strong type instance var jsonObject = new JsonObject(); // dynamic expando instance you can add properties to dynamic album = jsonObject; album.AlbumName = "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"; album.Artist = "AC/DC"; album.YearReleased = 1977; album.Songs = new JsonArray() as dynamic; dynamic song = new JsonObject(); song.SongName = "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"; song.SongLength = "4:11"; album.Songs.Add(song); song = new JsonObject(); song.SongName = "Love at First Feel"; song.SongLength = "3:10"; album.Songs.Add(song); Console.WriteLine(album.ToString()); } This produces proper JSON just as you would expect: {"AlbumName":"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap","Artist":"AC\/DC","YearReleased":1977,"Songs":[{"SongName":"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap","SongLength":"4:11"},{"SongName":"Love at First Feel","SongLength":"3:10"}]} The important thing about this code is that there's no explicitly type that is used for holding the values to serialize to JSON. I am essentially creating this value structure on the fly by adding properties and then serialize it to JSON. This means this code can be entirely driven at runtime without compile time restraints of structure for the JSON output. Here I use JsonObject() to create a new object and immediately cast it to dynamic. JsonObject() is kind of similar in behavior to ExpandoObject in that it allows you to add properties by simply assigning to them. Internally, JsonValue/JsonObject these values are stored in pseudo collections of key value pairs that are exposed as properties through the DynamicObject functionality in .NET. The syntax gets a little tedious only if you need to create child objects or arrays that have to be explicitly defined first. Other than that the syntax looks like normal object access sytnax. Always remember though these values are dynamic - which means no Intellisense and no compiler type checking. It's up to you to ensure that the values you create are accessed consistently and without typos in your code. Note that you can also access the JsonValue instance directly and get access to the underlying type. This means you can assign properties by string, which can be useful for fully data driven JSON generation from other structures. Below you can see both styles of access next to each other:// strong type instance var jsonObject = new JsonObject(); // you can explicitly add values here jsonObject.Add("Entered", DateTime.Now); // expando style instance you can just 'use' properties dynamic album = jsonObject; album.AlbumName = "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"; JsonValue internally stores properties keys and values in collections and you can iterate over them at runtime. You can also manipulate the collections if you need to to get the object structure to look exactly like you want. Again, if you've used ExpandoObject before JsonObject/Value are very similar in the behavior of the structure. Reading JSON strings into JsonValue The JsonValue structure supports importing JSON via the Parse() and Load() methods which can read JSON data from a string or various streams respectively. Essentially JsonValue includes the core JSON parsing to turn a JSON string into a collection of JsonValue objects that can be then referenced using familiar dynamic object syntax. Here's a simple example:[TestMethod] public void JsonValueParsingTest() { var jsonString = @"{""Name"":""Rick"",""Company"":""West Wind"",""Entered"":""2012-03-16T00:03:33.245-10:00""}"; dynamic json = JsonValue.Parse(jsonString); // values require casting string name = json.Name; string company = json.Company; DateTime entered = json.Entered; Assert.AreEqual(name, "Rick"); Assert.AreEqual(company, "West Wind"); } The JSON string represents an object with three properties which is parsed into a JsonValue object and cast to dynamic. Once cast to dynamic I can then go ahead and access the object using familiar object syntax. Note that the actual values - json.Name, json.Company, json.Entered - are actually of type JsonPrimitive and I have to assign them to their appropriate types first before I can do type comparisons. The dynamic properties will automatically cast to the right type expected as long as the compiler can resolve the type of the assignment or usage. The AreEqual() method oesn't as it expects two object instances and comparing json.Company to "West Wind" is comparing two different types (JsonPrimitive to String) which fails. So the intermediary assignment is required to make the test pass. The JSON structure can be much more complex than this simple example. Here's another example of an array of albums serialized to JSON and then parsed through with JsonValue():[TestMethod] public void JsonArrayParsingTest() { var jsonString = @"[ { ""Id"": ""b3ec4e5c"", ""AlbumName"": ""Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"", ""Artist"": ""AC/DC"", ""YearReleased"": 1977, ""Entered"": ""2012-03-16T00:13:12.2810521-10:00"", ""AlbumImageUrl"": ""http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61kTaH-uZBL._AA115_.jpg"", ""AmazonUrl"": ""http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008BXJ4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=westwindtechn-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00008BXJ4"", ""Songs"": [ { ""AlbumId"": ""b3ec4e5c"", ""SongName"": ""Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"", ""SongLength"": ""4:11"" }, { ""AlbumId"": ""b3ec4e5c"", ""SongName"": ""Love at First Feel"", ""SongLength"": ""3:10"" }, { ""AlbumId"": ""b3ec4e5c"", ""SongName"": ""Big Balls"", ""SongLength"": ""2:38"" } ] }, { ""Id"": ""67280fb8"", ""AlbumName"": ""Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace"", ""Artist"": ""Foo Fighters"", ""YearReleased"": 2007, ""Entered"": ""2012-03-16T00:13:12.2810521-10:00"", ""AlbumImageUrl"": ""http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mtlesQPVL._SL500_AA280_.jpg"", ""AmazonUrl"": ""http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UFAURI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=westwindtechn-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000UFAURI"", ""Songs"": [ { ""AlbumId"": ""67280fb8"", ""SongName"": ""The Pretender"", ""SongLength"": ""4:29"" }, { ""AlbumId"": ""67280fb8"", ""SongName"": ""Let it Die"", ""SongLength"": ""4:05"" }, { ""AlbumId"": ""67280fb8"", ""SongName"": ""Erase/Replay"", ""SongLength"": ""4:13"" } ] }, { ""Id"": ""7b919432"", ""AlbumName"": ""End of the Silence"", ""Artist"": ""Henry Rollins Band"", ""YearReleased"": 1992, ""Entered"": ""2012-03-16T00:13:12.2800521-10:00"", ""AlbumImageUrl"": ""http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FO3rb1tuL._SL160_AA160_.jpg"", ""AmazonUrl"": ""http://www.amazon.com/End-Silence-Rollins-Band/dp/B0000040OX/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1302232195&sr=8-5"", ""Songs"": [ { ""AlbumId"": ""7b919432"", ""SongName"": ""Low Self Opinion"", ""SongLength"": ""5:24"" }, { ""AlbumId"": ""7b919432"", ""SongName"": ""Grip"", ""SongLength"": ""4:51"" } ] } ]"; dynamic albums = JsonValue.Parse(jsonString); foreach (dynamic album in albums) { Console.WriteLine(album.AlbumName + " (" + album.YearReleased.ToString() + ")"); foreach (dynamic song in album.Songs) { Console.WriteLine("\t" + song.SongName ); } } Console.WriteLine(albums[0].AlbumName); Console.WriteLine(albums[0].Songs[1].SongName);} It's pretty sweet how easy it becomes to parse even complex JSON and then just run through the object using object syntax, yet without an explicit type in the mix. In fact it looks and feels a lot like if you were using JavaScript to parse through this data, doesn't it? And that's the point…© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2012Posted in .NET Web Api JSON Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Friday, February 26, 2010

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Contains RE API Toolkit built using 7.85 Dlls and 7.91 Dlls.SharePoint Enhanced Calendar by ArtfulBits: ArtfulBits.EnhancedCalendar v1.3: New Features: Simple to activate mechanism added (add Enhanced Calendar Web Part on the same page as standard calendar) Support for any type of S...Silverlight 4.0 Com Library for SQL Server Access: Version 1.0: This is the intial alpha release. It includes ExecuteQuery, ExecuteNonQuery and ExecuteScalar routines. See roadmap section of home page for detai...Silverlight HTML 5 Canvas: SLCanvas 1.1: This release enables <canvas renderMethod="auto" onload="runme(this)"></canvas> or <canvas renderMethod="Silverlight" onload="runme(this)"></ca...SilverSynth - Digital Audio Synthesis for Silverlight: SilverSynth 1.0: Source code including demo application.StringDefs: StringDefs Alpha Release 1.01: In this release of the Library few namespaces are added.STSDev 2008: STSDev 2008 2.1: Update to the StsDev 2008 project to correct Manifest Building issues.Text to HTML: 0.4.0.2: Cambios de la versión:Correcciones menores en el sistema de traducción. Controlada la excepción aparecida al suprimir los archivos de idioma. A...The Silverlight Hyper Video Player [http://slhvp.com]: Release 4 - Friendly User Release (Pre-Beta): Release 4 - Friendly User Release (Pre-Beta) This version of the code has much of the design that we plan to go forward with for Mix and utilizes a...TreeSizeNet: TreeSizeNet 0.10.2: - Assemblies merged in one executableVCC: Latest build, v2.1.30225.0: Automatic drop of latest buildVCC: Latest build, v2.1.30225.1: Automatic drop of latest buildVS 2010 Architecture Layers Patterns: VS 2010 RC Architecture Layers Patterns v1.0: Architecture layers patterns toolbox items based on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition for the layer diagram designer of Vi...Yakiimo3D: DirectX11 BitonicSortCPU Source and Binary: DirectX11 BitonicSortCPU sample source and binary.Yakiimo3D: DirectX11 MandelbrotGPU Source and Binary: DirectX11 MandelbrotGPU source and binary.Most Popular ProjectsVSLabOSIS Interop TestsRawrWBFS ManagerAJAX Control ToolkitMicrosoft SQL Server Product Samples: DatabaseSilverlight ToolkitWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)ASP.NETMicrosoft SQL Server Community & SamplesMost Active ProjectsDinnerNow.netRawrBlogEngine.NETSLARToolkit - Silverlight Augmented Reality ToolkitInfoServiceSharpMap - Geospatial Application Framework for the CLRCommon Context AdaptersNB_Store - Free DotNetNuke Ecommerce Catalog ModulejQuery Library for SharePoint Web Servicespatterns & practices – Enterprise Library

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500 - An error has occurred! DB function reports no errors when adding new article in Joomla!

- by Roland

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, June 13, 2010

CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, June 13, 2010New ProjectsCurve Drawer: A Java project to explore the possibilities of drawing curves and knots.File Manager Redux: .NET version of the original File Manager.Hierachical Gantt Chart In SharePoint 2010: This solution makes it easier for shedule management. We will provide a wsp including a list definition and a custom gantt control. The list defi...Light Box Control for Asp.Net: Lightbox control for asp.net is used to display the thumbnail images. on clicking the thumbnail images the original images is displayed in the ligh...Linquify: Linquify is a Visual Studio 2008/2010 Addin and C# .NET business class / DTO generator for LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. It supports rapid ...Microsoft Dynamics CRM Query - T4 Template: A T4 Template that generates code that leverages LINQ to SQL and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM API to give a CRM data access solution. There is also ...Open Sound Control Library: A .NET Library for the Open Sound Control Protocol. This library makes it easy to use devices which communicate via OSC.Questionable Content Screensaver: A screensaver for the questionable content comic. It is written in C#, and uses the windows presentation foundation. See the comic at http://ww...Reflect: Reflect is an open source .NET reflection tool used for viewing metadata of .NET assemblies.runescape 602 client tools and server: runescape 602 client tools and serverSharpCrack: Hash cracker written in managed code.SilverCAT project: This is my Windows Azure study project. So far I did not find any value to share it to the public. If I find it out one day, I will add hereSilverStackAPI: My entry for the Stack Exchange API contest. A silverlight library and demo app.social bookmark control for asp.net: social bookmark control for asp.net, This control is used to bookmark the current asp.net page into popular social networking sites like facebook, ...SSIS Event Log Source: An SSIS 2005 Data Source component for loading Windows 2003/XP event logs (*.evt) into SQL Server 2005 for analysisUnOfficial ActiveWorlds Wrapper.Net: UnOfficial ActiveWorlds Wrapper .Net makes it easier for programmers to make active worlds bots. You'll no longer have to make it by yourself. It'...Using Named Pipe and self-elevation feature of Vista in a console application.: NPipeWithElevatedProc, make it easier for console application users, running programs with administrator privileges. The processing messages are al...Virtual Keyboard control for asp.net: Virtual Keyboard control for asp.net, This control is used to get the secured inputs through virtual keyboards.Visual Studio 2010 PowerShell Code Generator: Brings rich PowerShell functionalities into VS Templating. You can access the file system, the registry, and many other PowerShell features. You ca...WatchersNET.UrlShorty: This Module allows users to shorten a long URL and share it, this is a similiar service to web services like bit.ly, tinyurl.com and others. It als...New ReleasesBD File Hash: BD File Hash 1.0.5: The first public release of BD File Hash.Cassandraemon: Cassandraemon 0.6.0: Cassandraemon is LINQ Provider for Apache Cassandra. This is first release of Cassandraemon. Features You can Query by LINQ Support Regist, Del...Community Forums NNTP bridge: Community Forums NNTP Bridge V36: Release of the Community Forums NNTP Bridge to access the social and anwsers MS forums with a single, open source NNTP bridge. This release has ad...Curve Drawer: Alpha 1: Basic functionality is available to draw curves and clear them.CycleMania Starter Kit EAP - ASP.NET 4 Problem - Design - Solution: Cyclemania 09.32: see Source Code tab for recent change historyDEWD: DEWD for Umbraco v1.0 (beta-2): Beta release of the package. Functional feature set and fairly stable. Since the last release: Default values (support for dynamic values such as t...Fiddler TreeView Panel Extension: FiddlerTreeViewPanel 0.71: Added support for double-click to expand/collapse all child nodes. Keep selected node when losing focus from the TreeView. Please refer to http://...HKGolden Express: HKGoldenExpress (Build 201006130200): New features: User can reply to message with quoting others' message. Bug fix: Incorrect format of dynamically generated Sitemap XML. Improveme...Liekhus ADO.NET Entity Data Model XAF Extensions: Version 1.1.2: Latest patches and changes.Light Box Control for Asp.Net: Light Box Control for asp.net: Lightbox control for asp.net is used to display the thumbnail images. on clicking the thumbnail images the original images is displayed in the ligh...Lightweight Fluent Workflow: Objectflow 1.1.0.0: This release has support for multi-threaded operations. As this required significant changes to the fluent interface I have introduced breaking ch...Linquify: Linquify 1.6: Linquify 1.6 Includes: - Support for Entity Framework foreign keys - TransactionsLiteFx: LiteFx Alpha: Versão alpha do LiteFx.Microsoft Dynamics CRM Query - T4 Template: MS CRM Query T4 Template Version 0.5 Beta: Initial ReleaseNHibernate Membership Provider: NHibernate Membership Provider 0.9c: This is an updated source package with updated unit tests and some minor refactoring.NLog - Advanced .NET Logging: Nightly Build 2010.06.12.001: Changes since the last build:2010-06-12 10:42:41 Jarek Kowalski Added Width, Height, AutoScroll and MaxLines parameters to RichTextBoxTarget. 2010...Radical: Radical 1.0.1 (Vacuum): First drop with support for Windows Phone 7SharpCrack: SharpCrack v0.8: First release of SharpCrack. It does not support brute-force mode.social bookmark control for asp.net: social bookmark control for asp.net: social bookmark control for asp.net, This control is used to bookmark the current asp.net page into popular social networking sites like facebook, ...StardustExtensions: Simple hello: This is a very simple hello world script. Is just a basic script, is not packaged and works on IronPythonTiledLib: TiledLib 1.5: This release introduces breaking changes from 1.2. If you upgrade to this version from 1.2, you may have compiler errors and/or runtime differences...UDC indexes parser: UDC Parser RC1: Обновлена библиотека токенов, добавлены xml-doc комментарии, обновлен и исправлен код, обновлена логика лексера, обновлена грамматика парсера. Доба...UnOfficial ActiveWorlds Wrapper.Net: UnOfficial ActiveWorlds Wrapper.Net V0.5.85.1: NewLogin Structure. LaserBeam. ChangedOld Functions Changes Function Names Old New WorldInstanceSet SetWorldInstance WorldInstanceGet GetWo...UrzaGatherer: UrzaGatherer v2.0.2a: Inegration of VS Installer.VCC: Latest build, v2.1.30612.0: Automatic drop of latest buildVirtual Keyboard control for asp.net: virtual keyboard control: Virtual Keyboard control for asp.net, This control is used to get the secured inputs through virtual keyboards.Visual Studio 2010 PowerShell Code Generator: PSCodeGenerator: How to install PowerShell Code GeneratorDownload the zip Unzip Run .\Install-PSCodeGenerator.ps1 at the PowerShell console prompt Copies the te...VsTortoise - a TortoiseSVN add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio: VsTortoise Build 25 Beta: Build 25 (beta) New: Added support for Filter items (virtual folders) in Solution Explorer. New: Added "Get Lock..." to Solution Explorer context...WatchersNET.UrlShorty: WatchersNET.UrlShorty 01.00.00: First BETA Release Please Read the Readme or the Online Documentation for Install Instructions.Yet Another GPS: Release Beta 2.1: Release Beta 2.1: - Fix KML Template with Google Map Mobile Version - Add Signal Strength indecator - Add Time indecator - Fix Sound Language Prob...Most Popular ProjectsWBFS ManagerRawrAJAX Control ToolkitMicrosoft SQL Server Product Samples: DatabaseSilverlight ToolkitWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)patterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryPHPExcelMicrosoft SQL Server Community & SamplesASP.NETMost Active Projectspatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryjQuery Library for SharePoint Web ServicesNB_Store - Free DotNetNuke Ecommerce Catalog ModuleRhyduino - Arduino and Managed CodeBlogEngine.NETCommunity Forums NNTP bridgeCassandraemonMediaCoder.NETAndrew's XNA HelpersMicrosoft Silverlight Media Framework

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, October 27, 2011

CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, October 27, 2011Popular ReleasesAcDown????? - Anime&Comic Downloader: AcDown????? v3.6: ?? ● AcDown??????????、??????，??????????????????????，???????Acfun、Bilibili、???、???、???、Tucao.cc、SF???、?????80????，???????????、?????????。 ● AcDown???????????????????????????，???，???????????????????。 ● AcDown???????C#??，????.NET Framework 2.0??。?????"Acfun?????"。 ????32??64? Windows XP/Vista/7 ????????????? ??：????????Windows XP???,?????????.NET Framework 2.0???(x86)?.NET Framework 2.0???(x64)，?????"?????????"??? ??????????????，??????????： ??"AcDown?????"????????? ?? v3.6?? ??“????”...Facebook C# SDK: 5.3.1: This is a BETA release which adds new features and bug fixes to v5.2.1. removed dependency from Code Contracts enabled Task Parallel Support in .NET 4.0+ added support for early preview for .NET 4.5 added additional method overloads for .NET 4.5 to support IProgress<T> for upload progress added new CS-WinForms-AsyncAwait.sln sample demonstrating the use of async/await, upload progress report using IProgress<T> and cancellation support Query/QueryAsync methods uses graph api instead...SQL Backup Helper: SQL Backup Helper v1.0: Version 1.0 Changes Description added to settings table Automatic LOG files truncation added to BACKUP stored procedure Only database in status ONLINE will be backed upFlowton: Release 0.2: This release is the first official release of Flowton along with Source. Printpreview/Print is enabled with minor bug fixes from 0.1 alpha release locally.MySemanticSearch Sample: MySemanticSearch Installer (CTP3): Note: This release of the MySemanticSearch Sample works with SQL Server 2012 CTP3. Installation InstructionsDownload this self-extracting archive to your computer Execute the self-extracting archive Accept the licensing agreement Choose a target directory on your computer and extract the files Open Windows PowerShell command prompt with elevated priveleges Execute the following command: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Close the Windows PowerShell command prompt Run C:\MySema...Microsoft Ajax Minifier: Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.33: Add JSParser.ParseExpression method to parse JavaScript expressions rather than source-elements. Add -strict switch (CodeSettings.StrictMode) to force input code to ECMA5 Strict-mode (extra error-checking, "use strict" at top). Fixed bug when MinifyCode setting was set to false but RemoveUnneededCode was left it's default value of true.Path Copy Copy: 8.0: New version that mostly adds lots of requested features: 11340 11339 11338 11337 This version also features a more elaborate Settings UI that has several tabs. I tried to add some notes to better explain the use and purpose of the various options. The Path Copy Copy documentation is also on the way, both to explain how to develop custom plugins and to explain how to pre-configure options if you're a network admin. Stay tuned.MVC Controls Toolkit: Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.5.0: Added: The new Client Blocks feaure of Views A new "move" js method for the TreeViews The NewHtmlCreated js event to the DataGrid Improved the ChoiceList structure that now allows also the selection list of a dropdown to be chosen with a lambda expression Fixed: Issue with partial thrust Client handling of conditional attributes Bug in TreeView node moves that sometimes were not reflected on the server An issue in the Mvc3 Nuget package that wasn't able to uninstall properly ...Free SharePoint Master Pages: Buried Alive (Halloween) Theme: Release Notes *Created for Halloween, you will find theme file, custom css file and images. *Created by Al Roome @AlstarRoome Features: Custom styling for web part Custom background *Screenshot https://s3.amazonaws.com/kkhipple/post/sharepoint-showcase-halloween.pngDevForce Application Framework: DevForce AF 2.0.3 RTW: PrerequisitesWPF 4.0 Silverlight 4.0 DevForce 2010 6.1.3.1 Download ContentsDebug and Release Assemblies API Documentation Source code License.txt Requirements.txt Release HighlightsNew: EventAggregator event forwarding New: EntityManagerInterceptor<T> to intercept EntityManger events New: IHarnessAware to allow for ViewModel setup when executed inside of the Development Harness New: Improved design time stability New: Support for add-in development New: CoroutineFns.To...NicAudio: NicAudio 2.0.5: Minor change to accept special DTS stereo modes (LtRt, AB,...)Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3.1: Upgraded Windows Azure projects to Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.5 – September 2011 Upgraded the tools tools to support the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW Update SQL Azure only scenarios to use ASP.NET Universal Providers (through the System.Web.Providers v1.0.1 NuGet package) Changed Shared Access Signature service interface to support more operations Refactored Blobs API to have a similar interface and usage to that provided by the Windows Azure SDK Stor...xUnit.net Contrib: xunitcontrib-resharper 0.4.4 (dotCover): xunitcontrib release 0.4.4 (ReSharper runner) This release provides a test runner plugin for Resharper 6.0 RTM, targetting all versions of xUnit.net. (See the xUnit.net project to download xUnit.net itself.) This release addresses the following issues:Support for dotCover code coverage 4132 Note that this build work against ALL VERSIONS of xunit. The files are compiled against xunit.dll 1.8 - DO NOT REPLACE THIS FILE. Thanks to xunit's version independent runner system, this package can r...BookShop: BookShop: BookShop WP7 clientRibbon Editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Ribbon Editor (0.1.2122.266): Added CodePlex and PayPal links New icon Bug fix: can't connect to an IFD deployment when the discovery service url has been customizedSiteMap Editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: SiteMap Editor (1.0.921.340): Added CodePlex and PayPal links New iconDotNet.Framework.Common: DotNet.Framework.Common 4.0: ??????????，????????????XML Explorer: XML Explorer 4.0.5: Changes in 4.0.5: Added 'Copy Attribute XPath to Address Bar' feature. Added methods for decoding node text and value from Base64 encoded strings, and copying them to the clipboard. Added 'ChildNodeDefinitions' to the options, which allows for easier navigation of parent-child and ID-IDREF relationships. Discovery happens on-demand, as nodes are expanded and child nodes are added. Nodes can now have 'virtual' child nodes, defined by an xpath to select an identifier (usually relative to ...CODE Framework: 4.0.11021.0: This build adds a lot of our WPF components, including our MVVC and MVC components as well as a "Metro" and "Battleship" style.WiX Toolset: WiX v3.6 Beta: First beta release of WiX v3.6. The primary focus is on Burn but there are also many small bug fixes to the core toolset. For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2011/10/24/WiX-v3.6-Beta-releasedNew Projects5by5by4 Tic Tac Toe Project: 5by5by4 Tic Tac Toe project for CS 3420.ASP.Net Membership provider for MongoDb: A role and membership provider for ASP.Net with MongoDb as the database. Makes use of the Norm Linq provider for MongoDb.Bazookabird TFS Dashboard: Just a simple TFS dashboard. Show build results, tfs queries of your choice and display availability of build machines. Only a feature-lacking proof of concept yet, will hopefully be useful in the end. BestWebApp: Web service and web application.Code Made Simple: A group of projects to make coding life simple.DefenseXna: ??xna??Digibib.NET: Digibib.NET ist eine Portierung der Lesesoftware Digibux für die Digitale Bibliothek der Directmedia Publishing.FaceComparerDistributed: project of face compare distributed versionFMSSolution: FMSISO Analyzer: ISO Analyzer is a tool that makes it easier to analyze ISO 8583 financial transactions and also provides a platform to create a host simulator, capable of receiving requests and sending back the responses. It’s a WinForms application and it’s developed using C#.ITU Project: ITU Projekt - Víc než len klávesové skratky (navigace mezi bežicími aplikacemi)Maintenance Province Data: Help people find your project. Write a concise, reader-focused summary. Example: <project name> makes it easier for <target user group> to <activity>. You'll no longer have to <activity>. It's developed in <programming language>.m?ng chia s? công vi?c: m?ng chia s? công vi?cMetroTask: MetroTask, An example Metro based application using C#MyHomeFinance: Helps to add and keep a record of financeMySemanticSearch Sample: MySemanticSearch is a sample content management application that demonstrates semantic search capabilities introduced in SQL Server 2012. MySemanticSearch allows you to visualize tag clouds for content stored in FileTables and find similar content using semantic search.NetBlocks: This project is an implementation of the Unit-of-Work and Repository patterns using Entity Framework 4.1 and Unity. The project also includes code that can be used to initialize an application’s run-time environment from a set of components. The project includes example components for typed configuration settings, caching and a factory component based on Unity. Also included is an example of how to represent a database command with a C# class that transforms the results to typed objects.Online shopping website in ASP.NET- Open Source Project: asp.net,C#,shopping cart,college project,visual studio 2010,visual web developer 2010Pak Master: Pak Explorer for the fourth coming four.Pizza Service: A mvc3 project which aims to host both a backend webservice and a frontend page for ordering pizza and managing orders, customers and provide a drivermapScadaEveryWhere: ScadaEveryWhereSilverTwitterSearch: SilverTwitterSearch is a Siliverlight library for the Twitter Search API.Snst Salix: Salix is codename for custom solution of time management and task assignment software.SolutionManagementKit: SolutionManagementKit This product will try to combine several monitoring / support tools available right now. the primary focus will be on (T) SQL / MDX parsing for SQL 2008 R2 SSAS 2008 R2 as well as cube maintance Development in C# / VB .NETTarget: Blank Orchard Module: If enabled, outgoing links open in new window (just like with the deprecated target="_blank" attribute)WPPersonality: Psychological tests for windows phoneXrmLibrary: A base library to be used for rapid integration with one or more Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 environments. The XrmLibrary contains thread-safe singleton implementations of both the CRM IOrganizationService (1 or many instances) and a tracer/logger that utilizes Apache's log4net.

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Crypted_password is null when using Authlogic to save a user

- by kareem

i'm getting a strange error on my production install when i try and create a new user using AL: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Column 'crypted_password' cannot be null: INSERT INTO users especially strange b/c it works as expected on my local box. RUnning Rails 2.3.2 and ruby 1.8.7 on both boxes. user.rb: class User < ActiveRecord::Base before_create :set_username acts_as_authentic do |c| c.require_password_confirmation = false c.login_field = "email" c.validates_length_of_password_field_options = {:minimum => 4} c.validate_login_field = false #don't validate email field with additional validations end end Here's output from my production console: >> u = User.new => #<User id: nil, username: nil, email: nil, crypted_password: nil, password_salt: nil, persistence_token: nil, single_access_token: nil, perishable_token: nil, login_count: 0, failed_login_count: 0, last_request_at: nil, current_login_at: nil, last_login_at: nil, current_login_ip: nil, last_login_ip: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil, is_admin: 0, first_name: nil, last_name: nil> >> u.full_name = 'john smith' => "john smith" >> u.password = 'test' => "test" >> u.email = '[email protected]' => "[email protected]" >> u.valid? => true >> u.save ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Column 'crypted_password' cannot be null: INSERT INTO `users` (`single_access_token`, `last_request_at`, `created_at`, `crypted_password`, `perishable_token`, `updated_at`, `username`, `failed_login_count`, `current_login_ip`, `password_salt`, `current_login_at`, `is_admin`, `persistence_token`, `login_count`, `last_name`, `last_login_ip`, `last_login_at`, `email`, `first_name`) VALUES('B-XSXwhO7hkbtISIOyEq', NULL, '2009-07-31 01:10:44', NULL, 'FK3mYS2Tp5Tzeq5IXE1z', '2009-07-31 01:10:44', 'john', 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, '2c76b645f761eb3509353290e93874cecdb68a63caa165812ab1b126d63660757090ecf69995caef9e78f93d070b524e2542b3fec4ee050726088c2a9fdb0c9f', 0, 'smith', NULL, NULL, '[email protected]', 'john') from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:212:in `log' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:320:in `execute' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb: 259:in `insert_sql' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:330:in `insert_sql' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb: 44:in `insert_without_query_dirty' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:18:in `insert' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:2902:in `create_without_timestamps' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/timestamp.rb:29:in `create_without_callbacks' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/callbacks.rb:266:in `create' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:2868:in `create_or_update_without_callbacks' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/callbacks.rb:250:in `create_or_update' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:2539:in `save_without_validation' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/validations.rb:1009:in `save_without_dirty' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/dirty.rb:79:in `save_without_transactions' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:229:in `send' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:229:in `with_transaction_returning_status' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb: 136:in `transaction' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:182:in `transaction' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:228:in `with_transaction_returning_status' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:196:in `save' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `rollback_active_record_state!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:196:in `save' No idea why this is happening, and especially why this saves a new user on dev but not on production. Any help is much appreciated, thanks! edit: using Apache & Passenger 2.2.4

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Part 2: Career development as a Software Developer without becoming a manager.

- by albertpascual

Seems like my previous post inspired by the work of Michael “Doc” Norton was a great success for the amount of emails I have received. Yet amazed how many people didn’t want to discuss their questions in the comments sections. I would encourage people to be more public, still I would like to reply to all of you on this public media. I still welcome those emails. What I found out is that many people feels like me, they want to be developers and still be compensated for their experience without wanting to take a job as a manager. Their perfect day is a full day of coding and learning. Many believe their companies will never pay a manager’s salary to a developer no matter what. Most of you ask how to get the ball rolling. And is the later that I’m addressing here, the previous group, will never try. What companies understand developers value and where can I find them? This is a very difficult question to ask, I don’t have a list of those companies or departments, I have seen in my past signs in companies bending backwards to compensate, in more ways the monetary, a developer that is a good resource to them. Allowing the person to move out of the state and still let them work for the company from home is a sign that company goes by individual cases. Allowing them to go to conference that will not benefit the company is another big sign. Simple signs like flexible hours and letting some people work from home. To see those signs you need to be working in that company for awhile and look at the departments where the manager is taking care of their employees in individual cases. Look for the department where people get quiet extra perks, where some people in the department work from home or remotely. In my experience, but not always true, medium to big companies, are prompt to recognize good developers. Then again, some companies just don’t get it and is when you see many technical people managing developers. For all the people that email me stating that developers can also be very good managers, I do not disagree, I just think that a good developers loves writing code, when you remove that part the better salary isn’t enough to keep a developer happy. Burned out developers appreciate being promoted to managers. How do I know I work in a bad company? In my experience I have been a consultant and seen many companies, a few signs I have learned about companies that will not recognize good developers are: When the turn over is pretty high, when developers are moving out in a big rate, no rocket scientist needs to tap you in the shoulder. When the company is looking always to outsource their development resources. The product is not that interesting nor the company cares too much for their final result and support. Code sweat shops. You’ll know when you start working in one of those. Run for the hills! Where do I start? Disclaimer: I have only based this post on Michael “Doc” Norton, this is just my interpretation and ideas. First thing is to look at Michael “Doc” Norton presentation Take Control of Your Development Career http://docondev.blogspot.com/ That should be the first thing any developer should look and follow like it was a pattern. I would personally recommend to find some language or pattern you are interested with and learn it, learn something that will make you happy. Second, join a User Group and get involve in the community. There are hundreds of user groups, and I’m sure you’ll find one in your city or near you town. Code Camps are Developers Meet Ups are also good resources. Third, I would join a open source project you are interested or better yet, create a new open source project with the new technology that you have learn and get coding. Fourth, create a Twitter account and follow the people that talks about the technology you are interested on. If you follow this 4 steps above I think you’ll be on your way, after they are complete, when you release your Open Source project you can say that you accomplished the first steps. Now, do not expect anything to change in your career life, you are changing and should not expect anything in return, besides borrowing some time from sleeping and your family. Creating a good schedule may help you, I find wasted time in many places that I use. Flying for work is actually one of those that allows me to do my best work on a airplane, don’t need to borrow time from anywhere else. Making sure you always have a light, charged laptop is so important. Next steps following the Michael “Doc” Norton Pattern or my interpretation of. First, help run a user group or better yet, start a new user group. I’ll add, as well, go to one conference a year and free development events around your city; Code Camps, Geek Dinners, etc. There are many free events sponsored by different companies for developers to get to know their products, I highly recommend those as the way to get connected. Second, chose a mentor, this is a very hard thing to do I experienced, find an expert in the technology you are learning that has the time for you, it is difficult, I wish you best of luck. Third, learn another technology or pattern, open your horizons a little bit more. Why not, if you had fun previously, keep doing it. Fourth, get involved in forums to answer and ask questions, getting notice in public forums is rewarding for your ego after such a long journey. Final steps following the Michael “Doc” Norton Pattern Teach what you know, become humble on your knowledge, find as many opportunities to teach and to get involved with the community, bring all that to your day job. Mr. Norton talks about getting naked, expose yourself to others in your knowledge and what you do not know. You are never too important for small opportunities, yet don’t be afraid to take anything big and learn from the experience. Anytime you have the opportunity to talk to somebody that has reach the point the community knows his or her name, means that you should learn from it. Take opportunities that won’t make you money, yet will make you happy. Sometimes you need to spend money and time. Register talks in Code Camps and Dev Meet Ups, those are free, also go to Conference, Development Summits and Geek Diners for example. One day, people will pay you to attend. When will all these pay off? I don’t know. I’m still in the path, there are a few things that during your journey you may get little acknowledgements that you are in the correct path. In my case I think those are the little signs that tells you about your journey. I got awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. I got selected to speak at the DevConnections in Las Vegas in 2010 and Orlando 2011. I do believe that I do have a long way to go, yet what I do makes me happy and I hope I can keep doing for years to come. Every year I can see an improvement on my code, and more frameworks and languages are under my belt, I learn to embrace them all as well as in my daily job, I have been able to work in a few projects beyond my department. I’m a learner and believer of the Michael “Doc” Norton pattern. Looking forward to learn more about it to be able to apply it better. In my short journey I now see my mistakes, I did a few things right, I have been listening the intelligent people and not being afraid to move along the technology changes. In my professional life, I have tried to avoid being placed in only one technology and product. I have always share my code and never confused anybody that wanted to take over any of my projects, I didn’t think anything I created as my own nor care too much when politics didn’t see my vision. I stayed flexible, ready and visible, yet humble. I keep my head just below the clouds, and avoided managers meetings. I credit my manager for my success, and I faulted publicly only myself for the failures. Hope this helps. Cheers, Al Follow me in Twitter Read my previous post tweetmeme_url = 'http://weblogs.asp.net/albertpascual/archive/2010/12/09/part-2-career-development-as-a-software-developer-without-becoming-a-manager.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Wednesday, April 28, 2010

CodePlex Daily Summary for Wednesday, April 28, 2010New ProjectsArgument Handler: This project aims to help the handling of arguments in command line programs.Bing for BlackBerry: Bing for BlackBerry is a SDK that allows intergration and searching Bing in there applications.C4F - GeoWallpaper: This is an extension for my MEF Utility Runner to change desktop wallpaper based on Flickr images geotagged with your current location. Uses Windo...CRM 4.0 Contract Utilities: List of Contract Utilities (i.e. custom workflow actions) 1. Change contract status from Active to Draft 2. Copy Contract (with custom start/end da...ELIS: Multimedia player based on WPFEnterprise Administration with Powershell: The EnterpriseShell aims to produce a powershell code library that will enable Enterprise Administrators to quickly reconfigure their IT infrastruc...ExposedObject: ExposedObject uses dynamic typing in C# to provide convenient access to private fields and methods from code outside of the class – for testing, ex...F# Project Extender: Installing F# Project Extender provides tools to better organize files in F# projects by allowing project subdirectories and separating file manage...Hack Framework: Code bundle with the internets brains connected into one piece of .Net frameworkKrypton XNA: Krypton allows users of the XNA framework to easily add 2D lighting to their games. Krypton is fast, as it utilizes the GPU and uses a vertex shade...Net Darts: Provides an easy way to calculate the score left to throw. Users can easily click on the score.PlayerSharp: PlayerSharp is a library written entirely in C# that allows you to communicate your C# programs with the Player Server by Brian Gerkey et al (http:...Ratpoid: RatpoidRedeemer Tower Defense: 2d tower defense game. It is developed with XNA technology, using .Net Visual Studio 2008 or .Net Visual Studio 2010SelfService: Simple self service projectSharePoint Exchange Calendar: a jQuery based calendar web part for displaying Exchange calendars within SharePoint.SharpORM, easy use Object & Relation Database mapping Library: AIM on: Object easy storeage, Create,Retrieve,Update,Delete User .NET Attribute marking or Xml Standalone Mapping eg. public class Somethin...Silverlight Calculator: Silverlight Calculator makes it easier for people to do simple math calculations. It's developed in C# Silverlight 2. Silverlight Calendar: Silverlight Calendar makes it easier for people to view a calendar in silverlight way. 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Initial ReleaseFileExplorer.NET: FileExplorer.NET 1.0: This is the first release of this project. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please report any bugs that you may en...Fluent ViewModel Configuration for WPF (MVVM): FluentViewModel Alpha3: Overhaul of the configuration system Separation of the configuratior and service locator Added support for general services - using Castle Wind...Home Access Plus+: v4.1: v4.1 Change Log: booking system fixes/additions Uploader fixes Added excluded extensions in my computer Updated Config Tool Fixed an issue ...ILMerge-GUI, merge .NET assemblies: 1.9.0 BETA: Compatible with .NET 4.0 This is the first version of ILMerge-GUI working with .NET 4.0. The final version will be 2.0.0, to be released by mid May...iTuner - The iTunes Companion: iTuner 1.2.3769 Beta 3c: Given the high download rate and awesome feedback for Beta 3b, I decided to release this interim build with the following enhancements: Added new h...Jet Login Tool (JetLoginTool): In then Out - 1.5.3770.18310: Fixed: Will only attempt to logout if currently logged in Fixed: UI no longer blocks while waiting for log outKooboo CMS: Kooboo CMS 2.1.1.0: New features Add new API RssUrl to generate RSS link, this is an extension to UrlHelper. Add possibility to index and search attachment content ...Krypton XNA: Krypton v1.0: First release of Krypton. I've tried to throw together a small testbed, but just getting tortoisehq to work the first time around was a huge pain. ...LinkedIn® for Windows Mobile: LinkedIn for Windows Mobile v0.5: Added missing files to installer packageNito.KitchenSink: Version 7: New features (since Version 5) Fixed null reference bug in ExceptionExtensions. Added DynamicStaticTypeMembers and RefOutArg for dynamically (lat...Numina Application/Security Framework: Numina.Framework Core 51341: Added multiple methods to API and classic ASP libraryOpenIdPortableArea: 0.1.0.3 OpenIdPortableArea: OpenIdPortableArea.Release: DotNetOpenAuth.dll DotNetOpenAuth.xml MvcContrib.dll MvcContrib.xml OpenIdPortableArea.dll OpenIdPortableAre...Play-kanaler (Windows Media Center Plug-in): Playkanaler 1.0.5 Alpha: Playkanaler version 1.0.5 Alpha Skärmsläckar-fix. helt otestad!PokeIn Comet Ajax Library: PokeIn v0.81 Library with ServerWatch Sample: Release Notes Functionality improved. Possible bugs fixed. Realtime server time sample addedSharpORM, easy use Object & Relation Database mapping Library: Vbyte.SharpOrm 1.0.2010.427: Vbyte.SharpOrm for Access & SQLServer.7z 1.0 alpha release for Access oledb provider and Sql Server 2000+.Silverlight 4.0 Popup Menu: Context Menu for Silverlight 4.0: - Markup items can now be added seperately using the AddItem method. Alternatingly all items can be placed inside a listbox which can then be added...Silverlight Calculator: SilverCalculator: SilverCalculator version 1.0 Live demoSilverlight Calendar: Silverlight Calendar: Silverlight Calendar version 1.0 Live demoSpeakup Desktop Frontend: Speakup Desktop Frontend v0.2a: This is new version of Speakup Desktop Frontend. It requires .net 4.0 to be installed before using it. In this release next changes were done: - ...TwitterVB - A .NET Twitter Library: Twitter-2.5: Adds xAuth support and increases TwitterLocation information (html help file is not up to date, will correct in a later version.)VCC: Latest build, v2.1.30427.5: Automatic drop of latest buildXP-More: 1.1: Added a parent VHD edit feature. Moved VM settings from double-click to a button, and rearranged the buttons' layout.Yasbg: It's Static 1.0: Many changes have been made from the previous release. Read the README! This release adds settings tab and fixes bugs. To run, first unzip, then...Most Popular ProjectsRawrWBFS Managerpatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryAJAX Control ToolkitSilverlight ToolkitMicrosoft SQL Server Product Samples: DatabaseWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)ASP.NETMicrosoft SQL Server Community & SamplesPHPExcelMost Active ProjectsRawrpatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryGMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms & PresentationNB_Store - Free DotNetNuke Ecommerce Catalog ModuleIonics Isapi Rewrite FilterParticle Plot PivotFarseer Physics EngineBlogEngine.NETDotNetZip LibrarySqlDiffFramework-A Visual Differencing Engine for Dissimilar Data Sources

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How to mount a blu-ray drive?

- by Stephan Schielke

Maybe it is for the best to close this question. This has nothing to do with a bluray drive in general anymore. Probably a hardware defect. I will try to test it with a windows system and different cables again... Thx so far. I have a bluray/dvd/cdrom drive with SATA. Ubuntu wont find it under /dev/sd wodim --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/sg2' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'BDDVDRW CH08LS10' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- cdrecord -scanbus scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'HL-DT-ST' 'BDDVDRW CH08LS10' '2.00' Removable CD-ROM fdisk dont even lists it. Ubuntu only automounts blank DVDs, but neither CDROM nor Blurays. I also changed the sata slot, sata cable and the power cable. The drive works with a windows system. This happens when I try to mount: sudo mount -t auto /dev/scd0 /media/bluray mount: you must specify the filesystem type I tried all filesystems there are. I also installed makemkv. It finds the drive but not the disc. Here is my /dev ls -al /dev total 12 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4420 2011-11-25 19:36 . drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 2011-11-25 07:12 .. crw------- 1 root root 10, 235 2011-11-25 19:28 autofs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 2011-11-25 19:28 .blkid.tab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 2011-11-25 19:28 .blkid.tab.old drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 700 2011-11-25 19:27 block drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 2011-11-25 19:27 bsg crw------- 1 root root 10, 234 2011-11-25 19:28 btrfs-control drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2011-11-25 19:27 bus drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3820 2011-11-25 19:28 char crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 console lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2011-11-25 19:28 core -> /proc/kcore drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2011-11-25 19:28 cpu crw------- 1 root root 10, 60 2011-11-25 19:28 cpu_dma_latency drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 140 2011-11-25 19:27 disk crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 2011-11-25 19:28 ecryptfs crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 fb0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2011-11-25 19:28 fd -> /proc/self/fd crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 2011-11-25 19:28 full crw-rw-rw- 1 root fuse 10, 229 2011-11-25 19:28 fuse crw------- 1 root root 251, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 hidraw0 crw------- 1 root root 251, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 hidraw1 crw------- 1 root root 10, 228 2011-11-25 19:28 hpet lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2011-11-25 19:27 .initramfs -> /run/initramfs drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 220 2011-11-25 19:28 input crw------- 1 root root 1, 11 2011-11-25 19:28 kmsg srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2011-11-25 19:28 log brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 2011-11-25 19:28 loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 loop5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 2011-11-25 19:28 loop6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 2011-11-25 19:28 loop7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2011-11-25 19:27 mapper crw------- 1 root root 10, 227 2011-11-25 19:28 mcelog crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 mem drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2011-11-25 19:27 net crw------- 1 root root 10, 59 2011-11-25 19:28 network_latency crw------- 1 root root 10, 58 2011-11-25 19:28 network_throughput crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 2011-11-25 19:28 nvidiactl crw------- 1 root root 1, 12 2011-11-25 19:28 oldmem crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 4 2011-11-25 19:28 port crw------- 1 root root 108, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 ppp crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 psaux crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2011-11-25 20:00 ptmx drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2011-11-25 19:27 pts brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 ram0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 ram1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 10 2011-11-25 19:28 ram10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 11 2011-11-25 19:28 ram11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 12 2011-11-25 19:28 ram12 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 13 2011-11-25 19:28 ram13 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 14 2011-11-25 19:28 ram14 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 15 2011-11-25 19:28 ram15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 ram2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 ram3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 4 2011-11-25 19:28 ram4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 ram5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 6 2011-11-25 19:28 ram6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 7 2011-11-25 19:28 ram7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 8 2011-11-25 19:28 ram8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 9 2011-11-25 19:28 ram9 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 2011-11-25 19:28 random crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 10, 62 2011-11-25 19:28 rfkill lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2011-11-25 19:28 rtc -> rtc0 crw------- 1 root root 254, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 rtc0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2011-11-25 19:38 scd0 -> sr0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 sda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 2011-11-25 19:28 sda6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2011-11-25 19:28 sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2011-11-25 19:28 sdb1 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 sg0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 sg1 crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 sg2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2011-11-25 19:28 shm -> /run/shm crw------- 1 root root 10, 231 2011-11-25 19:28 snapshot drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 280 2011-11-25 19:28 snd brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2011-11-25 19:38 sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-11-25 19:28 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-11-25 19:28 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-11-25 19:28 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 2011-11-25 19:35 tty crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 tty0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 tty1 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 10 2011-11-25 19:28 tty10 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 11 2011-11-25 19:28 tty11 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 12 2011-11-25 19:28 tty12 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 13 2011-11-25 19:28 tty13 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 14 2011-11-25 19:28 tty14 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 15 2011-11-25 19:28 tty15 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 16 2011-11-25 19:28 tty16 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 17 2011-11-25 19:28 tty17 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 18 2011-11-25 19:28 tty18 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 19 2011-11-25 19:28 tty19 crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 tty2 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 20 2011-11-25 19:28 tty20 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 21 2011-11-25 19:28 tty21 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 22 2011-11-25 19:28 tty22 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 23 2011-11-25 19:28 tty23 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 24 2011-11-25 19:28 tty24 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 25 2011-11-25 19:28 tty25 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 26 2011-11-25 19:28 tty26 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 27 2011-11-25 19:28 tty27 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 28 2011-11-25 19:28 tty28 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 29 2011-11-25 19:28 tty29 crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 tty3 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 30 2011-11-25 19:28 tty30 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 31 2011-11-25 19:28 tty31 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 32 2011-11-25 19:28 tty32 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 33 2011-11-25 19:28 tty33 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 34 2011-11-25 19:28 tty34 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 35 2011-11-25 19:28 tty35 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 36 2011-11-25 19:28 tty36 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 37 2011-11-25 19:28 tty37 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 38 2011-11-25 19:28 tty38 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 39 2011-11-25 19:28 tty39 crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 2011-11-25 19:28 tty4 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 40 2011-11-25 19:28 tty40 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 41 2011-11-25 19:28 tty41 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 42 2011-11-25 19:28 tty42 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 43 2011-11-25 19:28 tty43 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 44 2011-11-25 19:28 tty44 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 45 2011-11-25 19:28 tty45 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 46 2011-11-25 19:28 tty46 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 47 2011-11-25 19:28 tty47 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 48 2011-11-25 19:28 tty48 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 49 2011-11-25 19:28 tty49 crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 tty5 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 50 2011-11-25 19:28 tty50 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 51 2011-11-25 19:28 tty51 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 52 2011-11-25 19:28 tty52 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 53 2011-11-25 19:28 tty53 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 54 2011-11-25 19:28 tty54 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 55 2011-11-25 19:28 tty55 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 56 2011-11-25 19:28 tty56 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 57 2011-11-25 19:28 tty57 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 58 2011-11-25 19:28 tty58 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 59 2011-11-25 19:28 tty59 crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 2011-11-25 19:28 tty6 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 60 2011-11-25 19:28 tty60 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 61 2011-11-25 19:28 tty61 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 62 2011-11-25 19:28 tty62 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 63 2011-11-25 19:28 tty63 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 7 2011-11-25 19:28 tty7 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 8 2011-11-25 19:28 tty8 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 9 2011-11-25 19:28 tty9 crw------- 1 root root 5, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyprintk crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 74 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS10 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 75 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS11 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 76 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS12 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 77 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS13 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 78 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS14 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 79 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS15 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 80 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS16 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 81 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS17 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 82 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS18 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 83 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS19 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 84 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS20 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 85 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS21 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 86 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS22 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 87 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS23 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 88 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS24 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 89 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS25 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 90 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS26 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 91 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS27 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 92 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS28 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 93 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS29 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS3 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 94 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS30 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 95 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS31 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 68 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS4 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 69 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS5 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 70 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS6 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 71 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS7 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 72 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS8 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 73 2011-11-25 19:28 ttyS9 d rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2011-11-25 19:28 .udev crw-r----- 1 root root 10, 223 2011-11-25 19:28 uinput crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 2011-11-25 19:28 urandom drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2011-11-25 19:27 usb crw------- 1 root root 252, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon0 crw------- 1 root root 252, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon1 crw------- 1 root root 252, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon2 crw------- 1 root root 252, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon3 crw------- 1 root root 252, 4 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon4 crw------- 1 root root 252, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon5 crw------- 1 root root 252, 6 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon6 crw------- 1 root root 252, 7 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon7 crw------- 1 root root 252, 8 2011-11-25 19:28 usbmon8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 2011-11-25 19:28 v4l crw------- 1 root root 10, 57 2011-11-25 19:28 vboxdrv crw------- 1 root root 10, 56 2011-11-25 19:28 vboxnetctl drwxr-x--- 4 root vboxusers 80 2011-11-25 19:28 vboxusb crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 1 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs1 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 2 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs2 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 3 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs3 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 4 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs4 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs5 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 6 2011-11-25 19:28 vcs6 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 128 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 129 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa1 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 130 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa2 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 131 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa3 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 132 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa4 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 133 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa5 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 134 2011-11-25 19:28 vcsa6 crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 2011-11-25 19:28 vga_arbiter crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2011-11-25 19:28 video0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 2011-11-25 19:28 zero sg_scan -i gives me: sudo sg_scan -i /dev/sg0: scsi0 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em] ATA ST31000524NS SN12 [rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0] /dev/sg1: scsi0 channel=0 id=1 lun=0 [em] ATA WDC WD15EADS-00S 01.0 [rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0] /dev/sg2: scsi2 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em] HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH08LS10 2.00 [rmb=1 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x5] sg_map gives me: /dev/sg0 /dev/sda /dev/sg1 /dev/sdb /dev/sg2 /dev/scd0 lsscsi -l gives me: [0:0:0:0] disk ATA ST31000524NS SN12 /dev/sda state=running queue_depth=1 scsi_level=6 type=0 device_blocked=0 timeout=30 [0:0:1:0] disk ATA WDC WD15EADS-00S 01.0 /dev/sdb state=running queue_depth=1 scsi_level=6 type=0 device_blocked=0 timeout=30 [2:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH08LS10 2.00 /dev/sr0 state=running queue_depth=1 scsi_level=6 type=5 device_blocked=0 timeout=30 my udf mod is: filename: /lib/modules/3.0.0-14-generic/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko license: GPL description: Universal Disk Format Filesystem author: Ben Fennema srcversion: 6ABDE012374D96B9685B8E5 depends: crc-itu-t vermagic: 3.0.0-14-generic SMP mod_unload modversions Do I need special drivers or mods enabled? Do I need to change some BIOS settings? edit: Somehow I am now able to fire the mount command without any filesystem errors, but now I get: mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0

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Missing audio and problems playing FLV video converted from 720p .mov file with FFMPEG

- by undefined

I have some .mov video files recorded from a JVC GC-FM1 HD video camera in 720p mode. I have FFMPEG running on a Linux box that I upload files to and have them encoded into FLV format. The video appears to be encoding ok but there is no audio in the resulting FLV file and when I play it back in Flash Player in a browser or on Adobe Media Player, the video pauses at the start. It appears that Adobe Media Player waits for the progress bar to reach the end of the video before starting the playback - i.e. the video will load, the picture pauses, the progress bar seeks to the end as if the video was playing then when it reaches the end the video picture starts. There is no audio on the video. I am noticing this in the video player I have built with Flash 8 using an FLVPlayback component and attached seekBar. The seek bar will start moving as if the video is playing but the picture remains paused. Here are some outputs from my FFMPEG log and the command I am using to encode the video - my FFMPEG command called from PHP - $cmd = 'ffmpeg -i ' . $sourcelocation.$filename.".".$fileext . ' -ab 96k -b 700k -ar 44100 -s ' . $target['width'] . 'x' . $target['height'] . ' -ac 1 -acodec libfaac ' . $destlocation.$filename.$ext_trans .' 2>&1'; and here is the output from my error log - FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al. built on Jan 22 2010 11:31:03 with gcc 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 libavutil 50. 7. 0 / 50. 7. 0 libavcodec 52.48. 0 / 52.48. 0 libavformat 52.47. 0 / 52.47. 0 libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0 libavfilter 1.17. 0 / 1.17. 0 libswscale 0. 9. 0 / 0. 9. 0 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 119.88 (120000/1001) -> 59.94 (60000/1001) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'uploads/video/60974_v1.mov': Metadata: major_brand : qt minor_version : 0 compatible_brands: qt comment : JVC GC-FM1 comment-eng : JVC GC-FM1 Duration: 00:00:30.41, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4158 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x480 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 4017 kb/s, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s Output #0, rawvideo, to 'uploads/video/60974_v1.jpg': Stream #0.0(eng): Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 320x240 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding [h264 @ 0x8e67930]B picture before any references, skipping [h264 @ 0x8e67930]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x8e67930]no frame! Error while decoding stream #0.0 [h264 @ 0x8e67930]B picture before any references, skipping [h264 @ 0x8e67930]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x8e67930]no frame! Error while decoding stream #0.0 frame= 1 fps= 0 q=3.8 Lsize= 15kB time=0.02 bitrate=7271.4kbits/s dup=482 drop=0 video:15kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000% Which are the important errors here - B picture before any references, skipping? decode_slice_header error? no frame? or Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 119.88 (120000/1001) - 59.94 (60000/1001) Any advice welcome, thanks

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The fastest way to resize images from ASP.NET. And it’s (more) supported-ish.

- by Bertrand Le Roy

I’ve shown before how to resize images using GDI, which is fairly common but is explicitly unsupported because we know of very real problems that this can cause. Still, many sites still use that method because those problems are fairly rare, and because most people assume it’s the only way to get the job done. Plus, it works in medium trust. More recently, I’ve shown how you can use WPF APIs to do the same thing and get JPEG thumbnails, only 2.5 times faster than GDI (even now that GDI really ultimately uses WIC to read and write images). The boost in performance is great, but it comes at a cost, that you may or may not care about: it won’t work in medium trust. It’s also just as unsupported as the GDI option. What I want to show today is how to use the Windows Imaging Components from ASP.NET APIs directly, without going through WPF. The approach has the great advantage that it’s been tested and proven to scale very well. The WIC team tells me you should be able to call support and get answers if you hit problems. Caveats exist though. First, this is using interop, so until a signed wrapper sits in the GAC, it will require full trust. Second, the APIs have a very strong smell of native code and are definitely not .NET-friendly. And finally, the most serious problem is that older versions of Windows don’t offer MTA support for image decoding. MTA support is only available on Windows 7, Vista and Windows Server 2008. But on 2003 and XP, you’ll only get STA support. that means that the thread safety that we so badly need for server applications is not guaranteed on those operating systems. To make it work, you’d have to spin specialized threads yourself and manage the lifetime of your objects, which is outside the scope of this article. We’ll assume that we’re fine with al this and that we’re running on 7 or 2008 under full trust. Be warned that the code that follows is not simple or very readable. This is definitely not the easiest way to resize an image in .NET. Wrapping native APIs such as WIC in a managed wrapper is never easy, but fortunately we won’t have to: the WIC team already did it for us and released the results under MS-PL. The InteropServices folder, which contains the wrappers we need, is in the WicCop project but I’ve also included it in the sample that you can download from the link at the end of the article. In order to produce a thumbnail, we first have to obtain a decoding frame object that WIC can use. Like with WPF, that object will contain the command to decode a frame from the source image but won’t do the actual decoding until necessary. Getting the frame is done by reading the image bytes through a special WIC stream that you can obtain from a factory object that we’re going to reuse for lots of other tasks: var photo = File.ReadAllBytes(photoPath); var factory = (IWICComponentFactory)new WICImagingFactory(); var inputStream = factory.CreateStream(); inputStream.InitializeFromMemory(photo, (uint)photo.Length); var decoder = factory.CreateDecoderFromStream( inputStream, null, WICDecodeOptions.WICDecodeMetadataCacheOnLoad); var frame = decoder.GetFrame(0); We can read the dimensions of the frame using the following (somewhat ugly) code: uint width, height; frame.GetSize(out width, out height); This enables us to compute the dimensions of the thumbnail, as I’ve shown in previous articles. We now need to prepare the output stream for the thumbnail. WIC requires a special kind of stream, IStream (not implemented by System.IO.Stream) and doesn’t directlyunderstand .NET streams. It does provide a number of implementations but not exactly what we need here. We need to output to memory because we’ll want to persist the same bytes to the response stream and to a local file for caching. The memory-bound version of IStream requires a fixed-length buffer but we won’t know the length of the buffer before we resize. To solve that problem, I’ve built a derived class from MemoryStream that also implements IStream. The implementation is not very complicated, it just delegates the IStream methods to the base class, but it involves some native pointer manipulation. Once we have a stream, we need to build the encoder for the output format, which could be anything that WIC supports. For web thumbnails, our only reasonable options are PNG and JPEG. I explored PNG because it’s a lossless format, and because WIC does support PNG compression. That compression is not very efficient though and JPEG offers good quality with much smaller file sizes. On the web, it matters. I found the best PNG compression option (adaptive) to give files that are about twice as big as 100%-quality JPEG (an absurd setting), 4.5 times bigger than 95%-quality JPEG and 7 times larger than 85%-quality JPEG, which is more than acceptable quality. As a consequence, we’ll use JPEG. The JPEG encoder can be prepared as follows: var encoder = factory.CreateEncoder( Consts.GUID_ContainerFormatJpeg, null); encoder.Initialize(outputStream, WICBitmapEncoderCacheOption.WICBitmapEncoderNoCache); The next operation is to create the output frame: IWICBitmapFrameEncode outputFrame; var arg = new IPropertyBag2[1]; encoder.CreateNewFrame(out outputFrame, arg); Notice that we are passing in a property bag. This is where we’re going to specify our only parameter for encoding, the JPEG quality setting: var propBag = arg[0]; var propertyBagOption = new PROPBAG2[1]; propertyBagOption[0].pstrName = "ImageQuality"; propBag.Write(1, propertyBagOption, new object[] { 0.85F }); outputFrame.Initialize(propBag); We can then set the resolution for the thumbnail to be 96, something we weren’t able to do with WPF and had to hack around: outputFrame.SetResolution(96, 96); Next, we set the size of the output frame and create a scaler from the input frame and the computed dimensions of the target thumbnail: outputFrame.SetSize(thumbWidth, thumbHeight); var scaler = factory.CreateBitmapScaler(); scaler.Initialize(frame, thumbWidth, thumbHeight, WICBitmapInterpolationMode.WICBitmapInterpolationModeFant); The scaler is using the Fant method, which I think is the best looking one even if it seems a little softer than cubic (zoomed here to better show the defects): Cubic Fant Linear Nearest neighbor We can write the source image to the output frame through the scaler: outputFrame.WriteSource(scaler, new WICRect { X = 0, Y = 0, Width = (int)thumbWidth, Height = (int)thumbHeight }); And finally we commit the pipeline that we built and get the byte array for the thumbnail out of our memory stream: outputFrame.Commit(); encoder.Commit(); var outputArray = outputStream.ToArray(); outputStream.Close(); That byte array can then be sent to the output stream and to the cache file. Once we’ve gone through this exercise, it’s only natural to wonder whether it was worth the trouble. I ran this method, as well as GDI and WPF resizing over thirty twelve megapixel images for JPEG qualities between 70% and 100% and measured the file size and time to resize. Here are the results: Size of resized images Time to resize thirty 12 megapixel images Not much to see on the size graph: sizes from WPF and WIC are equivalent, which is hardly surprising as WPF calls into WIC. There is just an anomaly for 75% for WPF that I noted in my previous article and that disappears when using WIC directly. But overall, using WPF or WIC over GDI represents a slight win in file size. The time to resize is more interesting. WPF and WIC get similar times although WIC seems to always be a little faster. Not surprising considering WPF is using WIC. The margin of error on this results is probably fairly close to the time difference. As we already knew, the time to resize does not depend on the quality level, only the size does. This means that the only decision you have to make here is size versus visual quality. This third approach to server-side image resizing on ASP.NET seems to converge on the fastest possible one. We have marginally better performance than WPF, but with some additional peace of mind that this approach is sanctioned for server-side usage by the Windows Imaging team. It still doesn’t work in medium trust. That is a problem and shows the way for future server-friendly managed wrappers around WIC. The sample code for this article can be downloaded from: http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/bleroy/Samples/WicResize.zip The benchmark code can be found here (you’ll need to add your own images to the Images directory and then add those to the project, with content and copy if newer in the properties of the files in the solution explorer): http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/bleroy/Samples/WicWpfGdiImageResizeBenchmark.zip WIC tools can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wictools To conclude, here are some of the resized thumbnails at 85% fant:

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, June 03, 2010

CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, June 03, 2010New ProjectsAlbatross: Albatross framework. We are still working on the documentation, more details will be available soon.ApiChange: ApiChange is the Swiss army knife for inspecting your assemblies from the command line. Now you can do basic operations like diff, who uses (method...BaseCalendar: BaseCalendar is a server-side ASP.NET web control (WebForms or MVC) that renders a calendar while giving you full control over the generated HTML. ...CESAVE: Proyectos para el Comité Estatal de Sanidad Vegetal.Closure Compiler w/ Annotations Visual Studio 2010 Snippets: This is an attempt to create reusable Visual Studio snippets to make working with closure compiler annotated JavaScript more productive. VS2010 ...Common Service Host: Common Service Host is a generic Windows Communication Service Host and factory that uses the Common Service Locator to create Service objects. ...DarkLight: DarkLight is a 2D Lighting Engine written in XNA, and allows developers to create 2D shadowing effects in their 2D games easily. It supports poi...Earn Burn Tracker: A tool to track earned value against a given release, initiative, feature set, and objects.eOfficeAACS: eOffice is an open source access control and attendance management system developed by e-bird Innovation (www.ebirdinfo.com).Its flexible design al...FLV Video conversion library for .Net 3.5: This is a component created to call the ffmpeg tool to convert various video formats to the Adobe Flash FLV output format. The component also takes...Google Moderator: .NET client library for the Google Moderator API.linq to jquery: provides support for linq to jquery objectsMobile Vikings Data: App to view your data usage RefBrowser: RefBrowserRESX Translator with Bing (from Microsoft Consulting Services, UK): A Windows Form application that automatically translates RESX files using Bing web servicesRhyduino - Remote Arduino Control via Managed Code: Rhyduino makes it easy for Visual Studio / Windows devs to control the Arduino using a computer. It's like supercharging your Arduino with all the ...SharePoint 2010 CSV Bulk Term Set Importer: Allows for multiple import of *.csv files to a given term group in SharePoint 2010 Term Store. It will create new term group based on the name pr...SharePoint Feature - Export history version to Excel: Add a function to list the action button, the ability to export history version of the item sheet to Excel from the specified date. Features suppo...SwEntry: A system that allows people to open doors by using a Bluetooth enabled phone. Things to Do with the DLR: This project is about ideas and sample code around the Dynamic Language Runtime.Work Recorder - Hold on own time!: Work Recorder is a office aid software which can recorde the time used on PC for researchers, office workers and students. And it is also a good he...xuezhixu: xuezhixu foundYaget: Yet Another Game Engine TechnologyNew ReleasesBackUpAnyWhere: backupanywhere RC1: this is the RC of our programBaseCalendar: BaseControls 1.0: BaseControls 1.0 contains the BaseCalendar ASP.NET control.BizTalk Server Pipeline Component Wizard: 2.20: Version suitable for 2010 release.CheckHeader: CheckHeader v0.8.6: The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 is needed to run this program.Chirpy - VS Add In For Handling Js, Css, and DotLess Files: Chirpy Installer for VS 2010 (Ver-1.0.0.2): VS 2010 Installer for the Chirpy AddIn. Version 1.0.0.2Christoc's DotNetNuke C# Module Development Template: 00.00.01: This is the initial release of Christoc's DotNetNuke C# Module Development Template. You can use the Template as-is, or you can customize the VSTem...Closure Compiler w/ Annotations Visual Studio 2010 Snippets: v1 release: The initial release of the projectCommunity Forums NNTP bridge: Community Forums NNTP Bridge V22: Release of the Community Forums NNTP Bridge to access the social and anwsers MS forums with a single, open source NNTP bridge. This release has ad...Community Forums NNTP bridge: Community Forums NNTP Bridge V23: Release of the Community Forums NNTP Bridge to access the social and anwsers MS forums with a single, open source NNTP bridge. This release has ad...Community Forums NNTP bridge: Community Forums NNTP Bridge V24: Release of the Community Forums NNTP Bridge to access the social and anwsers MS forums with a single, open source NNTP bridge. This release has ad...DarkLight: DarkLight Engine v1.0: This is the first version of the DarkLight engine and currently supports point, spot and area lights with no upper limit on the number of lights. ...DotNetNuke® Skin Collaborate: Collaborate Package 1.1.0: Newer version of Collaborate included fixes: - removed conditional code to display control panel - changed background color to match with backgroun...dotSpatial: System.Spatial.Projection Zip June 2, 2010: This version tries to fix a problem with reprojecting to UTM zones. It is still being tested though.Entity Framework Repository & Unit of Work Template: 1.0.1: This version has more than just the T4 template. I have added a new template that has a RepositoryHelper class for use with StructureMap. Also th...FLV Video conversion library for .Net 3.5: Beta 1: This is the first release of this project. Improvements may be added if necessary.HERB.IQ: Alpha 0.1 Preview: Only clone tab works, just setting up the GUI and getting the XML data handling working correctlyJetfire - Workflow DSL: V1.2.0: The complete source code required for a Jetfire system (server and client nexus) is included in the release. Highlights of Changes Full programmat...linq to jquery: linq to jquery alpha: beta development projectMapWindow6: MapWindow 6.0 June 2, 2010: This version fixes a problem with projecting to UTM zones. I'm not sure that this works perfectly yet. It seemed to require a zone adjustment by ...patterns & practices Web Client Developer Guidance: Developing Web Apps May 2010 Beta: This RelesaeThis drop includes updated documentation, links, and graphics. We are still looking for feedback on this release. Plans going forward...patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight: Prism 4.0 Drop 1: Prism 4.0 Drop 1 Welcome to the first drop of Prism 4.0 (formally known as the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight). This drop i...Powershell4SQL: Version 1.3: Changes from version 1.2 Added support for -Confirm and -WhatIf parameters Added support for -Verbose mode. Includes SQL Batch text, parameters ...RESX Translator with Bing (from Microsoft Consulting Services, UK): v1.0: This is the initial release of the toolRhyduino - Remote Arduino Control via Managed Code: Beta Release (v0.80): LibraryAuto-detects connected Arduino devices. Uses system resources intelligently to take advantage of multiple CPU cores when present. Firmata ...SharePoint Feature - Export history version to Excel: Export Item List Version: - multilanguage support Czech, English Install: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsol...Simulo: Simulo v2.5: That's the third release of Simulo (v2.5). For detailed info on what's new, read the changes log block at the project's home page. System requirem...Site Directory for SharePoint 2010 (from Microsoft Consulting Services, UK): v1.5: Please carefully follow the Installation Guideas there are additional actions that need to be undertaken in this release. As 1.4 with the followin...Spackle.NET: 4.1.0.0 Release: Added IEquatable<T> to Range<T>StreamInsight Samples: Microsoft StreamInsight Product Team Samples: This is the current snapshot of the samples created by the Streaminsight Product Team.Touch Mice: 0.1: Initial release of Touch MiceVCC: Latest build, v2.1.30602.0: Automatic drop of latest buildVivoSocial: VivoSocial 7.2.0: Version 7.2.0 of VivoSocial has been released. If you experienced any issues with the previous version, please update your modules to the 7.2.0 rel...Work Recorder - Hold on own time!: WorkRecorder 1.0: +Finished Version 1.0Most Popular ProjectsCommunity Forums NNTP bridgeOutSyncASP.NET MVC Time PlannerNeatUploadMoonyDesk (windows desktop widgets)Mute4eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) ToolkitAgUnit - Silverlight unit testing with ReSharperASP.NET MVC ExtensionsAviva Solutions C# Coding GuidelinesMost Active ProjectsCommunity Forums NNTP bridgeGMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms & PresentationRawrIonics Isapi Rewrite FilterN2 CMSpatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryBlogEngine.NETGameSetFarseer Physics EngineMirror Testing System

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This is the End of Business as Usual...

- by Michael Snow

This week, we'll be hosting our last Social Business Thought Leader Series Webcast for 2012. Our featured guest this week will be Brian Solis of Altimeter Group. As we've been going through the preparations for Brian's webcast, it became very clear that an hour's time is barely scraping the surface of the depth of Brian's insights and analysis. Accordingly, in the spirit of sharing Brian's perspective for all of our readers, we'll be featuring guest posts all this week pulled from Brian's larger collection of blog postings on his own website. If you like what you've read here this week, we highly recommend digging deeper into his tome of wisdom. Guest Post by Brian Solis, Analyst, Altimeter Group as originally featured on his site with the minor change of the video addition at the beginning of the post. This is the End of Business as Usual and the Beginning of a New Era of Relevance - Brian Solis, Principal Analyst, Altimeter Group The Times They Are A-Changin’ Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’. - Bob Dylan I’m sure you are wondering why I chose lyrics to open this article. If you skimmed through them, stop here for a moment. Go back through the Dylan’s words and take your time. Carefully read, and feel, what it is he’s saying and savor the moment to connect the meaning of his words to the challenges you face today. His message is as important and true today as it was when they were first written in 1964. The tide is indeed once again turning. And even though the 60s now live in the history books, right here, right now, Dylan is telling us once again that this is our time to not only sink or swim, but to do something amazing. This is your time. This is our time. But, these times are different and what comes next is difficult to grasp. How people communicate. How people learn and share. How people make decisions. Everything is different now. Think about this…you’re reading this article because it was sent to you via email. Yet more people spend their online time in social networks than they do in email. Duh. According to Nielsen, of the total time spent online 22.5% are connecting and communicating in social networks. To put that in perspective, the time spent in the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube is greater than online gaming at 9.8%, email at 7.6% and search at 4%. Imagine for a moment if you and I were connected to one another in Facebook, which just so happens to be the largest social network in the world. How big? Well, Facebook is the size today of the entire Internet in 2004. There are over 1 billion people friending, Liking, commenting, sharing, and engaging in Facebook…that’s roughly 12% of the world’s population. Twitter has over 200 million users. Ever hear of tumblr? More time is spent on this popular microblogging community than Twitter. The point is that the landscape for communication and all that’s affected by human interaction is profoundly different than how you and I learned, shared or talked to one another yesterday. This transformation is only becoming more pervasive and, it’s not going back. Survival of the Fitting But social media is just one of the channels we can use to reach people. I must be honest. I’m as much a part of tomorrow as I am of yesteryear. It’s why I spend all of my time researching the evolution of media and its impact on business and culture. Because of you, I share everything I learn in newsletters, emails, blogs, Youtube videos, and also traditional books. I’m dedicated to helping everyone not only understand, but grasp the change that’s before you. Technologies such as social, mobile, virtual, augmented, et al compel us adapt our story and value proposition and extend our reach to be part of communities we don’t realize exist. The people who will keep you in business or running tomorrow are the very people you’re not reaching today. Before you continue to read on, allow me to clarify my point of view. My inspiration for writing this is to help you augment, not necessarily replace, the programs you’re running today. We must still reach those whom matter to us in the ways they prefer to be engaged. To reach what I call the connected consumer of Geneeration-C we must too reach them in the ways they wish to be engaged. And in all of my work, how they connect, talk to one another, influence others, and make decisions are not at all like the traditional consumers of the past. Nor are they merely the kids…the Millennial. Connected consumers are representative across every age group and demographic. As you can see, use of social networks, media sharing sites, microblogs, blogs, etc. equally span across Gen Y, Gen X, and Baby Boomers. The DNA of connected customers is indiscriminant of age or any other demographic for that matter. This is more about psychographics, the linkage of people through common interests (than it is their age, gender, education, nationality or level of income. Once someone is introduced to the marvels of connectedness, the sensation becomes a contagion. It touches and affects everyone. And, that’s why this isn’t going anywhere but normalcy. Social networking isn’t just about telling people what you’re doing. Nor is it just about generic, meaningless conversation. Today’s connected consumer is incredibly influential. They’re connected to hundreds and even thousands of other like-minded people. What they experiences, what they support, it’s shared throughout these networks and as information travels, it shapes and steers impressions, decisions, and experiences of others. For example, if we revisit the Nielsen research, we get an idea of just how big this is becoming. 75% spend heavily on music. How does that translate to the arts? I’d imagine the number is equally impressive. If 53% follow their favorite brand or organization, imagine what’s possible. Just like this email list that connects us, connections in social networks are powerful. The difference is however, that people spend more time in social networks than they do in email. Everything begins with an understanding of the “5 W’s and H.E.” – Who, What, When, Where, How, and to What Extent? The data that comes back tells you which networks are important to the people you’re trying to reach, how they connect, what they share, what they value, and how to connect with them. From there, your next steps are to create a community strategy that extends your mission, vision, and value and it align it with the interests, behavior, and values of those you wish to reach and galvanize. To help, I’ve prepared an action list for you, otherwise known as the 10 Steps Toward New Relevance: 1. Answer why you should engage in social networks and why anyone would want to engage with you 2. Observe what brings them together and define how you can add value to the conversation 3. Identify the influential voices that matter to your world, recognize what’s important to them, and find a way to start a dialogue that can foster a meaningful and mutually beneficial relationship 4. Study the best practices of not just organizations like yours, but also those who are successfully reaching the type of people you’re trying to reach – it’s benching marking against competitors and benchmarking against undefined opportunities 5. Translate all you’ve learned into a convincing presentation written to demonstrate tangible opportunity to your executive board, make the case through numbers, trends, data, insights – understanding they have no idea what’s going on out there and you are both the scout and the navigator (start with a recommended pilot so everyone can learn together) 6. Listen to what they’re saying and develop a process to learn from activity and adapt to interests and steer engagement based on insights 7. Recognize how they use social media and innovate based on what you observe to captivate their attention 8. Align your objectives with their objectives. If you’re unsure of what they’re looking for…ask 9. Invest in the development of content, engagement 10. Build a community, invest in values, spark meaningful dialogue, and offer tangible value…the kind of value they can’t get anywhere else. Take advantage of the medium and the opportunity! The reality is that we live and compete in a perpetual era of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than our ability to adapt. This is why it’s our time to alter our course. We must connect with those who are defining the future of engagement, commerce, business, and how the arts are appreciated and supported. Even though it is the end of business as usual, it is the beginning of a new age of opportunity. The consumer revolution is already underway, and the question is: How do you better understand the role you play in this production as a connected or social consumer as well as business professional? Again, this is your time to define a new era of engagement and relevance. Originally written for The National Arts Marketing Project Connect with Brian via: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Google+ --- Note from Michael: If you really like this post above - check out Brian's TEDTalk and his thought process for preparing it in this post: 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} http://www.briansolis.com/2012/10/tedtalk-reinventing-consumer-capitalism-screw-business-as-usual/

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