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• Small business server 2011 standard - applications randomly closing for remote desktop users

  - by Ash King

  Small business server 2011 standard - applications randomly closing for remote desktop users I have an issue where when you are connected through remote desktop (doesn't matter whether you have administrative rights or not). What happens: Any application that you run (outlook, word, excel, notepad, cmd etc..) the application will randomly crash and produce an error as such: Faulting application name: EXCEL.EXE, version: 14.0.6112.5000, time stamp: 0x4e9b2b30 Faulting module name: ieframe.dll, version: 8.0.7600.16930, time stamp: 0x4eeb0187 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0000000000131e03 Faulting process id: 0x3d4c Faulting application start time: 0x01cecf3491388e43 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\ieframe.dll Report Id: 1c06abd4-3b2b-11e3-bd8d-001999b270e9 I noticed the ieframe.dll, but its not constant for every application that crashes, e.g.: Faulting application name: OUTLOOK.EXE, version: 14.0.6109.5005, time stamp: 0x4e79b6c0 Faulting module name: PSTOREC.DLL_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4a5be02a Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000007fef39c7158 Faulting process id: 0x43f8 Faulting application start time: 0x01cecf33fe5eec26 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE Faulting module path: PSTOREC.DLL Report Id: 0c0f5934-3b2b-11e3-bd8d-001999b270e9 I am unable to perform a sfc /scannow command due to the cmd.exe crashing as well.. I have performed a virus scan on the server which did originally pick up 5 viruses: riskware.tool.ck -> File riskware.tool.ck - > Memory Process trojan.agent.bdavgen -> File trojan.agent -> File HiJack.comsysapp -> Registry Data But after removing these and rebooting the machine we have had no luck Has anyone else ever come across this issue before? Also to elaborate it is happening as frequently as every minute.

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• Need guidance on a Google Map application that has to show 250 000 polylines.

  - by lucian.jp

  I am looking for advice for an application I am developing that uses Google Map. Summary: A user has a list of criteria for searching a street segment that fulfills the criteria. The street segments will be colored with 3 colors for showing those below average, average and over average. Then the user clicks on the street segment to see an information window showing the properties of that specific segment hiding those not selected until he/she closes the window and other polyline becomes visible again. This looks quite like the Monopoly City Streets game Hasbro made some month ago the difference being I do not use Flash, I can’t use Open Street Map because it doesn’t list street segment (if it does the IDs won’t be the same anyway) and I do not have to show Google sketch building over. Information: I have a database of street segments with IDs, polyline points and centroid. The database has 6,000,000 street segment records in it. To narrow the generated data a bit we focus on city. The largest city we must show has 250,000 street segments. This means 250,000 line segment polyline to show. Our longest polyline uses 9600 characters which is stored in two 8000 varchar columns in SQL Server 2008. We need to use the API v3 because it is faster than the API v2 and the application will be ported to iPhone. For now it's an ASP.NET 3.5 with SQl Server 2008 application. Performance is a priority. Problems: Most of the demo projects that do this are made with API v2. So besides tutorial on the Google API v3 reference page I have nothing to compare performance or technology use to achieve my goal. There is no available .NET wrapper for the API v3 yet. Generating a 250,000 line segment polyline creates a heavy file which takes time to transfer and parse. (I have found a demo of one polyline of 390,000 points. I think the encoder would be far less efficient with more polylines with less points since there will be less rounding.) Since streets segments are shown based on criteria, polylines must be dynamically created and cache can't be used. Some thoughts: KML/KMZ: Pros: Since it is a standard we can easily load Bing maps, Yahoo! maps, Google maps, Google Earth, with the same KML file. The data generation would be the same. Cons: LineString in KML cannot be encoded polyline like the Google map API can handle. So it would probably be bigger and slower to display. Zipping the file at the size it will take more processing time and require the client side to uncompress the data and I am not quite sure with 250,000 data how an iPhone would handle this and how a server would handle 40 users browsing at the same time. JavaScript file: Pros: JavaScript file can have encoded polyline and would significantly reduce the file to transfer. Cons: Have to create my own stripped version of API v3 to add overlays, create polyline, etc. It is more complex than just create a KML file and point to the source. GeoRSS: This option isn't adapted for my needs I think, but I could be wrong. MapServer: I saw some post suggesting using MapServer to generate overlays. Not quite sure for the connection with our database and the performance it would give. Plus it requires a plugin for generating KML. It seems to me that it wouldn't allow me to do better than creating my own KML or JavaScript file. Maintenance would be simpler without. Monopoly City Streets: The game is now over, but for those who know what I am talking about Monopoly City Streets was showing at max zoom level only the streets that the centroid was inside the Bounds of the window. Moving the map was sending request to the server for the new streets to show. While I think this was ingenious, I have no idea how to implement something similar. The only thing I thought about was to compare if the long was inside the bound of map area X and same with Y. While this could improve performance significantly at high zoom level, this would give nothing when showing a whole city. Clustering: While cluster is awesome for marker, it seems we cannot cluster polylines. I would have liked something like MarkerClusterer for polylines and be able to cluster by my 3 polyline colors. This will probably stay as a “would have been freaking awesome but forget it”. Arrow: I will have in a future version to show a direction for the polyline and will have to show an arrow at the centroid. Loading an image or marker will only double my data so creating a custom overlay will probably be my only option. I have found that demo for something similar I would like to achieve. Unfortunately, the demo is very slow, but I only wish to show 1 arrow per polyline and not multiple like the demo. This functionality will depend on the format of data since I don't think KML support custom overlays. Criteria: While the application is done with ASP.NET 3.5, the port to the iPhone won't use the web to show the application and be limited in screen size for selecting the criteria. This is why I was more orienting on a service or page generating the file based on criteria passed in parameters. The service would than generate the file I need to display the polylines on the map. I could also create an aspx page that does this. The aspx page is more documented than the service way. There should be a reason. Questions: Should I create a web service to returns the street segments file or create an aspx page that return the file? Should I create a JavaScript file with encoded polyline or a KML with longitude/latitude based on the fact that maximum longitude/latitude polyline have 9600 characters and I have to render maximum 250,000 line segment polyline. Or should I go with a MapServer that generate the overlay? Will I be able to display simple arrow on the polyline on the next version. In case of KML generation is it faster to create the file with XDocument, XmlDocument, XmlWriter and this manually or just serialize the street segment in the stream? This is more a brainstorming Stack Overflow question than an actual code problem. Any answer helping narrow the possibilities is as good as someone having all the knowledge to point me out a better choice.

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• Varnish POST problem "9 FetchError c backend write error: 11" for application/x-www-form-urlencoded content

  - by ompap

  Cutting a longish story short, we have managed to get a more precise error out of Varnishlog. Varnishlog tells us that we are sending a 31 TxRequest - POST 31 TxHeader - Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded but we are getting 9 FetchError c backend write error: 11 31 BackendClose - [backend name] 9 VCL_call c error 9 VCL_return c deliver 9 Length c 488 9 VCL_call c deliver 9 VCL_return c deliver 9 TxProtocol c HTTP/1.1 9 TxStatus c 503 We still do not know what this is exactly, but apparently Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded is not getting through as it should. Help still needed, please! Original message below. The title was "Varnish not letting Joomla users to log in - 503 guru meditation error", but I changed it to get more attention to the problem and not to the symptoms. Hello, We have a production site for a local newspaper which is currently behind an Apache reverse proxy, basicly the site on one server and the other being reserved as a reverse proxy only (well, there is more but that has no relevance here). Apache as a reverse proxy works, but could be faster. We want to change the reverse proxy to use Varnish instead of Apache on an Ubuntu 10.4 Server. The Varnish is version 2.10 installed directly from Ubuntu repos. Ubuntu 10.4 uses PHP 5.3.2. For anonymous surfers the site works wonderfully with Varnish. So far we can get very good speed out of Varnish, we just have a few problems with logging in or out. The big one is, that the users cannot log in: they get a Varnish 503 error page every time. The logs do not reveal the cause. It feels as if the request would never leave Varnish. So we are merely guessing - not a strong starting point. We have gone through what has been suggested on various plces on the web. We have increased the timeouts to backend xxx { .host = "xxx.xx"; .port = "http"; .connect_timeout = 60s; .first_byte_timeout = 60s; .between_bytes_timeout = 60s; } but we seem to get the 503 guru error page much faster than that, as in approx. 5 seconds. We have increased the Varnish headers size to 128 in daemon. In vcl_recv we have if (req.http.Authenticate || req.http.Authorization) { return(pass); } and in vcl_fetch ## auhtentication handling if (req.http.Authenticate || req.http.Authorization) { return(pass); } We do not strip cookies. We have tried to make sure that error pages are not cached. As said above, we cannot see anything in the backend Apache logs, apparently it never gets asked for Joomla user authentication. Varnish does not seem to get much mentioning with connection to Joomla. (We cannot dump Joomla, that selection has been done and we just have to live with what we have been given) Has anyone a working Varnish - Joomla combination? Thanks for reading. Please help. We need some hints - desperately. Any suggestions? ompap

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• Add Windows 7’s AeroSnap Feature to Vista and XP

  - by Asian Angel

  Are you using Windows Vista or XP and want that Windows 7 AeroSnap goodness on your own system? Then join us as we look at AeroSnap for Windows Vista and XP. Note: Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher (link provided at bottom of article). Setup What exactly does AeroSnap do you might ask…here is a quote directly from the website: “AeroSnap is a simple but powerful application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just drag’n'drop. Simply drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize. When you drag it back to the last position, the last window size will be restored.” As soon as you have finished installing AeroSnap and started it for the first time the only item that will be visible is the “System Tray Icon”. Before going any further you should take a moment to view and make any desired adjustments in the “Options”. Note: AeroSnap works with multiple monitors. You may want to have AeroSnap start with Windows each time but the really nice setting to enable here is the “Snap Preview”. If you are using AeroSnap on Vista and have Aero enabled this will really be nice. The second portion may be of interest for those who would like to enable the keyboard shortcut function. One point worth noting about this screen is that the highest number of pixels from the screen’s edge that you can set AeroSnap for is 20 pixels. AeroSnap in Action AeroSnap is extremely easy to use…just grab the top of an app window and drag it to the left, right, or top of your screen. Since we installed this on Windows Vista we made certain to enable the “Snap Preview” in the “Options”.  We started off with dragging our Firefox 3.7 window towards the left…once we got close to the edge of the screen you can see that the left half of the screen temporarily “shaded over”. Note: The “Snap Preview” displays on the left and right movements but not the top movement. Releasing Firefox snapped it right into the “shaded over” part of the screen. The great thing about AeroSnap is that it is really easy to return the app window to it former size…all that you have to do is simply click on and grab the top portion of the app window. Moving Firefox towards the top of our screen and… It quickly snaps into filling the screen. One thing that we did notice is that the window did not “Maximize” as per the function for the button in the upper right corner. Dragging towards the right side now… And snap! Tucked in all nice and neat… You can minimize the app windows to the Taskbar and they will return to their previous “snap area” when “maximized” again. Conclusion If you have been wanting to add Windows 7’s AeroSnap goodness to your Vista and XP systems then you should definitely give this app a try. AeroSnap is very easy to set up and operate… Links Download AeroSnap for Windows Vista & XP Download the .NET Framework Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Using Windows 7 or Vista System RestoreRoundup: 16 Tweaks to Windows Vista Look & FeelSelect Files using Check Boxes in Windows VistaSpeed up Your Windows Vista Computer with ReadyBoostHow-To Geek Bounty: $103.24(Paid!) for Active Desktop for Vista TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips DVDFab 6 Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 Add a Custom Title in IE using Spybot or Spyware Blaster When You Need to Hail a Taxi in NYC Live Map of Marine Traffic NoSquint Remembers Site Specific Zoom Levels (Firefox) New Firefox release 3.6.3 fixes 1 Critical bug Dark Side of the Moon (8-bit)

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• Windows Azure Use Case: Web Applications

  - by BuckWoody

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx  Description: Many applications have a requirement to be located outside of the organization’s internal infrastructure control. For instance, the company website for a brick-and-mortar retail company may want to post not only static but interactive content to be available to their external customers, and not want the customers to have access inside the organization’s firewall. There are also cases of pure web applications used for a great many of the internal functions of the business. This allows for remote workers, shared customer/employee workloads and data and other advantages. Some firms choose to host these web servers internally, others choose to contract out the infrastructure to an “ASP” (Application Service Provider) or an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company. In any case, the design of these applications often resembles the following: In this design, a server (or perhaps more than one) hosts the presentation function (http or https) access to the application, and this same system may hold the computational aspects of the program. Authorization and Access is controlled programmatically, or is more open if this is a customer-facing application. Storage is either placed on the same or other servers, hosted within an RDBMS or NoSQL database, or a combination of the options, all coded into the application. High-Availability within this scenario is often the responsibility of the architects of the application, and by purchasing more hosting resources which must be built, licensed and configured, and manually added as demand requires, although some IaaS providers have a partially automatic method to add nodes for scale-out, if the architecture of the application supports it. Disaster Recovery is the responsibility of the system architect as well. Implementation: In a Windows Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment, many of these architectural considerations are designed into the system. The Azure “Fabric” (not to be confused with the Azure implementation of Application Fabric - more on that in a moment) is designed to provide scalability. Compute resources can be added and removed programmatically based on any number of factors. Balancers at the request-level of the Fabric automatically route http and https requests. The fabric also provides High-Availability for storage and other components. Disaster recovery is a shared responsibility between the facilities (which have the ability to restore in case of catastrophic failure) and your code, which should build in recovery. In a Windows Azure-based web application, you have the ability to separate out the various functions and components. Presentation can be coded for multiple platforms like smart phones, tablets and PC’s, while the computation can be a single entity shared between them. This makes the applications more resilient and more object-oriented, and lends itself to a SOA or Distributed Computing architecture. It is true that you could code up a similar set of functionality in a traditional web-farm, but the difference here is that the components are built into the very design of the architecture. The API’s and DLL’s you call in a Windows Azure code base contains components as first-class citizens. For instance, if you need storage, it is simply called within the application as an object.  Computation has multiple options and the ability to scale linearly. You also gain another component that you would either have to write or bolt-in to a typical web-farm: the Application Fabric. This Windows Azure component provides communication between applications or even to on-premise systems. It provides authorization in either person-based or claims-based perspectives. SQL Azure provides relational storage as another option, and can also be used or accessed from on-premise systems. It should be noted that you can use all or some of these components individually. Resources: Design Strategies for Scalable Active Server Applications - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972349.aspx  Physical Tiers and Deployment  - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee658120.aspx

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• Understanding try..catch in Javascript

  - by user295189

  I have this try and catch problem. I am trying to redirect to a different page. But sometimes it does and some times it doesnt. I think the problem is in try and catch . can someone help me understand this. Thanks var pg = new Object(); var da = document.all; var wo = window.opener; pg.changeHideReasonID = function(){ if(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 && pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex > 0){ pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = "ffffff"; pg.otherReason.disabled = 0; pg.otherReason.focus(); } else { pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = "f5f5f5"; pg.otherReason.disabled = 1; } } pg.exit = function(pid){ try { if(window.opener.hideRecordReload){ window.opener.hideRecordReload(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } else { window.opener.pg.hideRecord(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideEncounter(pg.recordID); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideRecordResponse(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 ? pg.otherReason.value : pg.hideReasonID.options[pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex].text); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideRecord_Response(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideRecord_Response(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.window.parent.frames[1].pg.loadQualityMeasureRequest(); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.closeWindow(); } catch(e) {} parent.loadCenter2({reportName:'redirectedpage',patientID:pid}); parent.$.fancybox.close(); } pg.hideRecord = function(){ var pid = this.pid; pg.otherReason.value = pg.otherReason.value.trim(); if(pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex == 0){ alert("You have not indicated your reason for hiding this record."); pg.hideReasonID.focus(); } else if(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 && pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex > 0 && pg.otherReason.value.length < 2){ alert("You have indicated that you wish to enter a reason\nnot on the list, but you have not entered a reason."); pg.otherReason.focus(); } else { pg.workin(1); var n = new Object(); n.noheaders = 1; n.recordID = pg.recordID; n.recordType = pg.recordType; n.recordTypeID = pg.recordTypeID; n.encounterID = request.encounterID; n.hideReasonID = pg.hideReasonID.value; n.hideReason = pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 ? pg.otherReason.value : pg.hideReasonID.options[pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex].text; Connect.Ajax.Post("/emr/hideRecord/act_hideRecord.php", n, pg.exit(pid)); } } pg.init = function(){ pg.blocker = da.blocker; pg.hourglass = da.hourglass; pg.content = da.pageContent; pg.recordType = da.recordType.value; pg.recordID = parseInt(da.recordID.value); pg.recordTypeID = parseInt(da.recordTypeID.value); pg.information = da.information; pg.hideReasonID = da.hideReasonID; pg.hideReasonID.onchange = pg.changeHideReasonID; pg.hideReasonID.tabIndex = 1; pg.otherReason = da.otherReason; pg.otherReason.tabIndex = 2; pg.otherReason.onblur = function(){ this.value = this.value.trim(); } pg.otherReason.onfocus = function(){ this.select(); } pg.btnCancel = da.btnCancel; pg.btnCancel.tabIndex = 4; pg.btnCancel.title = "Close this window"; pg.btnCancel.onclick = function(){ //window.close(); parent.$.fancybox.close(); } pg.btnHide = da.btnHide; pg.btnHide.tabIndex = 3; pg.btnHide.onclick = pg.hideRecord; pg.btnHide.title = "Hide " + pg.recordType.toLowerCase() + " record"; document.body.onselectstart = function(){ if(event.srcElement.tagName.search(/INPUT|TEXT/i)){ return false; } } pg.workin(0); } pg.workin = function(){ var n = arguments.length ? arguments[0] : 1; pg.content.disabled = pg.hideReasonID.disabled = n; pg.blocker.style.display = pg.hourglass.style.display = n ? "block" : "none"; if(n){ pg.otherReason.disabled = 1; pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = "f5f5f5"; } else { pg.otherReason.disabled = !(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 && pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex > 0); pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = pg.otherReason.disabled ? "f5f5f5" : "ffffff"; pg.hideReasonID.focus(); } }

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• Next Generation Mobile Clients for Oracle Applications & the role of Oracle Fusion Middleware

  - by Manish Palaparthy

  Oracle Enterprise Applications have been available with modern web browser based interfaces for a while now. The web browsers available in smart phones no longer require special markup language such as WML since the processing power of these handsets is quite near to that of a typical personal computer. Modern Mobile devices such as the IPhone, Android Phones, BlackBerry, Windows 8 devices can now render XHTML & HTML quite well. This means you could potentially use your mobile browser to access your favorite enterprise application. While the Mobile browser would render the UI, you might find it difficult to use it due to the formatting & Presentation of the Native UI. Smart phones offer a lot more than just a powerful web browser, they offer capabilities such as Maps, GPS, Multi touch, pinch zoom, accelerometers, vivid colors, camera with video, support for 3G, 4G networks, cloud storage, NFC, streaming media, tethering, voice based features, multi tasking, messaging, social networking web browsers with support for HTML 5 and many more features.  While the full potential of Enterprise Mobile Apps is yet to be realized, Oracle has published a few of its applications that take advantage of the above capabilities and are available for the IPhone natively. Here are some of them Iphone Apps  Oracle Business Approvals for Managers: Offers a highly intuitive user interface built as a native mobile application to conveniently access pending actions related to expenses, purchase requisitions, HR vacancies and job offers. You can even view BI reports related to the worklist actions. Works with Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle Business Indicators : Real-time secure access to OBI reports. Oracle Business Approvals for Sales Managers: Enables sales executives to review key targeted tasks, access relevant business intelligence reports. Works with Siebel CRM, Siebel Quote & Order Capture. Oracle Mobile Sales Assistant: CRM application that provides real-time, secure access to the information your sales organization needs, complete frequent tasks, collaborate with colleagues and customers. Works with Oracle CRMOracle Mobile Sales Forecast: Designed specifically for the mobile business user to view key opportunities. Works with Oracle CRM on demand Oracle iReceipts : Part of Oracle PeopleSoft Expenses, which allows users to create and submit expense lines for cash transactions in real-time. Works with Oracle PeopleSoft expenses Now, we have seen some mobile Apps that Oracle has published, I am sure you are intrigued as to how develop your own clients for the use-cases that you deem most fit. For that Oracle has ADF Mobile ADF Mobile You could develop Mobile Applications with the SDK available with the smart phone platforms!, but you'd really have to be a mobile ninja developer to develop apps with the rich user experience like the ones above. The challenges really multiply when you have to support multiple mobile devices. ADF Mobile framework is really handy to meet this challenge ADF Mobile can in be used to Develop Apps for the Mobile browser : An application built with ADF Mobile framework installs on a smart device, renders user interface via HTML5, and has access to device services. This means the programming model is primarily web-based, which offers consistency with other enterprise applications as well as easier migration to new platforms. Develop Apps for the Mobile Client (Native Apps): These applications have access to device services, enabling a richer experience for users than a browser alone can offer. ADF mobile enables rapid and declarative development of rich, on-device mobile applications. Developers only need to write an application once and then they can deploy the same application across multiple leading smart phone platforms. Oracle SOA Suite Although the Mobile users are using the smart phone apps, and actual transactions are being executed in the underlying app, there is lot of technical wizardry that is going under the surface. All of this key technical components to make 1. WebService calls 2. Authentication 3. Intercepting Webservice calls and adding security credentials to the request 4. Invoking the services of the enterprise application 5. Integrating with the Enterprise Application via the Adapter is all being implemented at the SOA infrastructure layer.  As you can see from the above diagram. The key pre-requisites to mobile enable an Enterprise application are The core enterprise application Oracle SOA Suite ADF Mobile

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• help me understand try and catch

  - by user295189

  I have this try and catch problem. I am trying to redirect to a different page. But sometimes it does and some times it doesnt. I think the problem is in try and catch . can someone help me understand this. Thanks var pg = new Object(); var da = document.all; var wo = window.opener; pg.changeHideReasonID = function(){ if(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 && pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex > 0){ pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = "ffffff"; pg.otherReason.disabled = 0; pg.otherReason.focus(); } else { pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = "f5f5f5"; pg.otherReason.disabled = 1; } } pg.exit = function(pid){ try { if(window.opener.hideRecordReload){ window.opener.hideRecordReload(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } else { window.opener.pg.hideRecord(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideEncounter(pg.recordID); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideRecordResponse(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 ? pg.otherReason.value : pg.hideReasonID.options[pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex].text); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideRecord_Response(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.hideRecord_Response(pg.recordID, pg.recordTypeID); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.window.parent.frames[1].pg.loadQualityMeasureRequest(); } catch(e) {} try { window.opener.pg.closeWindow(); } catch(e) {} parent.loadCenter2({reportName:'redirectedpage',patientID:pid}); parent.$.fancybox.close(); } pg.hideRecord = function(){ var pid = this.pid; pg.otherReason.value = pg.otherReason.value.trim(); if(pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex == 0){ alert("You have not indicated your reason for hiding this record."); pg.hideReasonID.focus(); } else if(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 && pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex > 0 && pg.otherReason.value.length < 2){ alert("You have indicated that you wish to enter a reason\nnot on the list, but you have not entered a reason."); pg.otherReason.focus(); } else { pg.workin(1); var n = new Object(); n.noheaders = 1; n.recordID = pg.recordID; n.recordType = pg.recordType; n.recordTypeID = pg.recordTypeID; n.encounterID = request.encounterID; n.hideReasonID = pg.hideReasonID.value; n.hideReason = pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 ? pg.otherReason.value : pg.hideReasonID.options[pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex].text; Connect.Ajax.Post("/emr/hideRecord/act_hideRecord.php", n, pg.exit(pid)); } } pg.init = function(){ pg.blocker = da.blocker; pg.hourglass = da.hourglass; pg.content = da.pageContent; pg.recordType = da.recordType.value; pg.recordID = parseInt(da.recordID.value); pg.recordTypeID = parseInt(da.recordTypeID.value); pg.information = da.information; pg.hideReasonID = da.hideReasonID; pg.hideReasonID.onchange = pg.changeHideReasonID; pg.hideReasonID.tabIndex = 1; pg.otherReason = da.otherReason; pg.otherReason.tabIndex = 2; pg.otherReason.onblur = function(){ this.value = this.value.trim(); } pg.otherReason.onfocus = function(){ this.select(); } pg.btnCancel = da.btnCancel; pg.btnCancel.tabIndex = 4; pg.btnCancel.title = "Close this window"; pg.btnCancel.onclick = function(){ //window.close(); parent.$.fancybox.close(); } pg.btnHide = da.btnHide; pg.btnHide.tabIndex = 3; pg.btnHide.onclick = pg.hideRecord; pg.btnHide.title = "Hide " + pg.recordType.toLowerCase() + " record"; document.body.onselectstart = function(){ if(event.srcElement.tagName.search(/INPUT|TEXT/i)){ return false; } } pg.workin(0); } pg.workin = function(){ var n = arguments.length ? arguments[0] : 1; pg.content.disabled = pg.hideReasonID.disabled = n; pg.blocker.style.display = pg.hourglass.style.display = n ? "block" : "none"; if(n){ pg.otherReason.disabled = 1; pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = "f5f5f5"; } else { pg.otherReason.disabled = !(pg.hideReasonID.value == 0 && pg.hideReasonID.selectedIndex > 0); pg.otherReason.style.backgroundColor = pg.otherReason.disabled ? "f5f5f5" : "ffffff"; pg.hideReasonID.focus(); } }

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• What information must never appear in logs?

  - by MainMa

  I'm about to write the company guidelines about what must never appear in logs (trace of an application). In fact, some developers try to include as many information as possible in trace, making it risky to store those logs, and extremely dangerous to submit them, especially when the customer doesn't know this information is stored, because she never cared about this and never read documentation and/or warning messages. For example, when dealing with files, some developers are tempted to trace the names of the files. For example before appending file name to a directory, if we trace everything on error, it will be easy to notice for example that the appended name is too long, and that the bug in the code was to forget to check for the length of the concatenated string. It is helpful, but this is sensitive data, and must never appear in logs. In the same way: Passwords, IP addresses and network information (MAC address, host name, etc.)¹, Database accesses, Direct input from user and stored business data must never appear in trace. So what other types of information must be banished from the logs? Are there any guidelines already written which I can use? ¹ Obviously, I'm not talking about things as IIS or Apache logs. What I'm talking about is the sort of information which is collected with the only intent to debug the application itself, not to trace the activity of untrusted entities. Edit: Thank you for your answers and your comments. Since my question is not too precise, I'll try to answer the questions asked in the comments: What I'm doing with the logs? The logs of the application may be stored in memory, which means either in plain on hard disk on localhost, in a database, again in plain, or in Windows Events. In every case, the concern is that those sources may not be safe enough. For example, when a customer runs an application and this application stores logs in plain text file in temp directory, anybody who has a physical access to the PC can read those logs. The logs of the application may also be sent through internet. For example, if a customer has an issue with an application, we can ask her to run this application in full-trace mode and to send us the log file. Also, some application may sent automatically the crash report to us (and even if there are warnings about sensitive data, in most cases customers don't read them). Am I talking about specific fields? No. I'm working on general business applications only, so the only sensitive data is business data. There is nothing related to health or other fields covered by specific regulations. But thank you to talk about that, I probably should take a look about those fields for some clues about what I can include in guidelines. Isn't it easier to encrypt the data? No. It would make every application much more difficult, especially if we want to use C# diagnostics and TraceSource. It would also require to manage authorizations, which is not the easiest think to do. Finally, if we are talking about the logs submitted to us from a customer, we must be able to read the logs, but without having access to sensitive data. So technically, it's easier to never include sensitive information in logs at all and to never care about how and where those logs are stored.

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• SQL SERVER – Importance of User Without Login

  - by pinaldave

  Some questions are very open ended and it is very hard to come up with exact requirements. Here is one question I was asked in recent User Group Meeting. Question: “In recent version of SQL Server we can create user without login. What is the use of it?” Great question indeed. Let me first attempt to answer this question but after reading my answer I need your help. I want you to help him as well with adding more value to it. Answer: Let us visualize a scenario. An application has lots of different operations and many of them are very sensitive operations. The common practice was to do give application specific role which has more permissions and access level. When a regular user login (not system admin), he/she might have very restrictive permissions. The application itself had a user name and password which means applications can directly login into the database and perform the operation. Developers were well aware of the username and password as it was embedded in the application. When developer leaves the organization or when the password was changed, the part of the application had to be changed where the same username and passwords were used. Additionally, developers were able to use the same username and password and login directly to the same application. In earlier version of SQL Server there were application roles. The same is later on replaced by “User without Login”. Now let us recreate the above scenario using this new “User without Login”. In this case, User will have to login using their own credentials into SQL Server. This means that the user who is logged in will have his/her own username and password. Once the login is done in SQL Server, the user will be able to use the application. Now the database should have another User without Login which has all the necessary permissions and rights to execute various operations. Now, Application will be able to execute the script by impersonating “user without login – with more permissions”. Here there is assumed that user login does not have enough permissions and another user (without login) there are more rights. If a user knows how the application is using the database and their various operations, he can switch the context to user without login making him enable for doing further modification. Make sure to explicitly DENY view definition permission on the database. This will make things further difficult for user as he will have to know exact details to get additional permissions. If a user is System Admin all the details which I just mentioned in above three paragraphs does not apply as admin always have access to everything. Additionally, the method describes above is just one of the architecture and if someone is attempting to damage the system, they will still be able to figure out a workaround. You will have to put further auditing and policy based management to prevent such incidents and accidents. I guess this is my answer. I read it multiple times but I still feel that I am missing something. There should be more to this concept than what I have just described. I have merely described one scenario but there will be many more scenarios where this situation will be useful. Now is your turn to help – please leave a comment with the additional suggestion where exactly “User without Login” will be useful as well did I miss anything when I described above scenario. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Security, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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• Garbled text in Screen [closed]

  - by Prabin Dahal

  The graphical Interface in my system is garbled with some text. At the beginning I thought it was due to java and tomcat that I installed. But after removing java and tomcat, it is still the same. I am using ubuntu server and i have installed xfce desktop environment with oboard softkey I have added my dmesg output to this message. What is the problem here. I am not able to figure it out. Thank you for your help. Prabin [ 0.390936] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 0.391006] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 0.391147] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 0.391580] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 0.400509] PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to 64 bytes [ 0.400669] reserve RAM buffer: 000000000009ec00 - 000000000009ffff [ 0.400681] reserve RAM buffer: 000000007f597000 - 000000007fffffff [ 0.400699] reserve RAM buffer: 000000007f6f0000 - 000000007fffffff [ 0.401135] NetLabel: Initializing [ 0.401155] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 [ 0.401168] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 [ 0.401212] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default [ 0.401466] HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer [ 0.401494] hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0 [ 0.401520] hpet0: 3 comparators, 64-bit 14.318180 MHz counter [ 0.408228] Switching to clocksource hpet [ 0.434341] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled [ 0.434447] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 0.434531] ACPI: bus type pnp registered [ 0.434784] pnp 00:00: [bus 00-ff] [ 0.434794] pnp 00:00: [io 0x0cf8-0x0cff] [ 0.434804] pnp 00:00: [io 0x0000-0x0cf7 window] [ 0.434813] pnp 00:00: [io 0x0d00-0xffff window] [ 0.434822] pnp 00:00: [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff window] [ 0.434831] pnp 00:00: [mem 0x00000000 window] [ 0.434840] pnp 00:00: [mem 0x80000000-0xffffffff window] [ 0.435018] pnp 00:00: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0a08 PNP0a03 (active) [ 0.435526] pnp 00:01: [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff] [ 0.435537] pnp 00:01: [mem 0x7f700000-0x7f7fffff] [ 0.435545] pnp 00:01: [mem 0x7f800000-0x7fffffff] [ 0.435554] pnp 00:01: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff] [ 0.435727] system 00:01: [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff] has been reserved [ 0.435754] system 00:01: [mem 0x7f700000-0x7f7fffff] has been reserved [ 0.435775] system 00:01: [mem 0x7f800000-0x7fffffff] has been reserved [ 0.435796] system 00:01: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff] has been reserved [ 0.435818] system 00:01: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.436233] pnp 00:02: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.436245] pnp 00:02: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.436414] system 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active) [ 0.436512] pnp 00:03: [io 0x0060] [ 0.436521] pnp 00:03: [io 0x0064] [ 0.436548] pnp 00:03: [irq 1] [ 0.436682] pnp 00:03: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0303 PNP030b (active) [ 0.436825] pnp 00:04: [irq 12] [ 0.436958] pnp 00:04: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0f03 PNP0f13 (active) [ 0.437835] pnp 00:05: [io 0x03f8-0x03ff] [ 0.437861] pnp 00:05: [irq 4] [ 0.437870] pnp 00:05: [dma 0 disabled] [ 0.438142] pnp 00:05: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0501 (active) [ 0.439014] pnp 00:06: [io 0x02f8-0x02ff] [ 0.439036] pnp 00:06: [irq 3] [ 0.439045] pnp 00:06: [dma 0 disabled] [ 0.439297] pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0501 (active) [ 0.439346] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0000-0x000f] [ 0.439355] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0081-0x0083] [ 0.439363] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0087] [ 0.439371] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0089-0x008b] [ 0.439380] pnp 00:07: [io 0x008f] [ 0.439388] pnp 00:07: [io 0x00c0-0x00df] [ 0.439563] system 00:07: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.439617] pnp 00:08: [io 0x0070-0x0077] [ 0.439639] pnp 00:08: [irq 8] [ 0.439751] pnp 00:08: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active) [ 0.439788] pnp 00:09: [io 0x0061] [ 0.439893] pnp 00:09: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0800 (active) [ 0.439977] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0010-0x001f] [ 0.439986] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0022-0x003f] [ 0.439994] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0044-0x005f] [ 0.440055] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0063] [ 0.440063] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0065] [ 0.440071] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0067-0x006f] [ 0.440079] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0072-0x007f] [ 0.440086] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0080] [ 0.440094] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0084-0x0086] [ 0.440102] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0088] [ 0.440109] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x008c-0x008e] [ 0.440117] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0090-0x009f] [ 0.440125] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x00a2-0x00bf] [ 0.440133] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x00e0-0x00ef] [ 0.440141] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x04d0-0x04d1] [ 0.440150] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.440160] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.440168] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x03f4] [ 0.440175] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x03f5] [ 0.440183] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0374] [ 0.440190] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0375] [ 0.440405] system 00:0a: [io 0x04d0-0x04d1] has been reserved [ 0.440432] system 00:0a: [io 0x03f4] has been reserved [ 0.440451] system 00:0a: [io 0x03f5] has been reserved [ 0.440469] system 00:0a: [io 0x0374] has been reserved [ 0.440488] system 00:0a: [io 0x0375] has been reserved [ 0.440508] system 00:0a: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active) [ 0.440550] pnp 00:0b: [io 0x00f0-0x00ff] [ 0.440572] pnp 00:0b: [irq 13] [ 0.440691] pnp 00:0b: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c04 (active) [ 0.440770] pnp 00:0c: [io 0x0810] [ 0.440779] pnp 00:0c: [io 0x0800-0x080f] [ 0.440787] pnp 00:0c: [io 0xffff] [ 0.440947] system 00:0c: [io 0x0810] has been reserved [ 0.440970] system 00:0c: [io 0x0800-0x080f] has been reserved [ 0.440989] system 00:0c: [io 0xffff] has been reserved [ 0.441010] system 00:0c: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active) [ 0.441620] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x0900-0x097f] [ 0.441630] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x09c0-0x09ff] [ 0.441639] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x0400-0x043f] [ 0.441647] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x0480-0x04bf] [ 0.441656] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec85fff] [ 0.441664] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0xfed1c000-0xfed1ffff] [ 0.441673] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff] [ 0.441689] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0x000e0000-0x000effff] [ 0.441697] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0x000f0000-0x000fffff] [ 0.441706] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0xff800000-0xffffffff] [ 0.441911] system 00:0d: [io 0x0900-0x097f] has been reserved [ 0.441935] system 00:0d: [io 0x09c0-0x09ff] has been reserved [ 0.441955] system 00:0d: [io 0x0400-0x043f] has been reserved [ 0.441975] system 00:0d: [io 0x0480-0x04bf] has been reserved [ 0.441997] system 00:0d: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec85fff] could not be reserved [ 0.442019] system 00:0d: [mem 0xfed1c000-0xfed1ffff] has been reserved [ 0.442040] system 00:0d: [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff] could not be reserved [ 0.442061] system 00:0d: [mem 0x000e0000-0x000effff] could not be reserved [ 0.442082] system 00:0d: [mem 0x000f0000-0x000fffff] could not be reserved [ 0.442103] system 00:0d: [mem 0xff800000-0xffffffff] has been reserved [ 0.442126] system 00:0d: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.442308] pnp 00:0e: [mem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff] [ 0.442454] pnp 00:0e: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0103 (active) [ 0.442569] pnp 00:0f: [mem 0x7f6f0000-0x7f6fffff] [ 0.442762] system 00:0f: [mem 0x7f6f0000-0x7f6fffff] has been reserved [ 0.442788] system 00:0f: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.443360] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 16 devices [ 0.443378] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered [ 0.443395] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [ 0.486106] PCI: max bus depth: 3 pci_try_num: 4 [ 0.486189] pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01-01] [ 0.486217] pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [io 0xe000-0xefff] [ 0.486241] pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [mem 0xd0100000-0xd01fffff] [ 0.486266] pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [mem 0xff700000-0xff7fffff pref] [ 0.486298] pci 0000:03:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 04-04] [ 0.486319] pci 0000:03:01.0: bridge window [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486348] pci 0000:03:01.0: bridge window [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486374] pci 0000:03:01.0: bridge window [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.486406] pci 0000:03:02.0: PCI bridge to [bus 05-05] [ 0.486444] pci 0000:03:03.0: PCI bridge to [bus 06-06] [ 0.486479] pci 0000:02:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 03-06] [ 0.486499] pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge window [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486522] pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486545] pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.486575] pci 0000:00:1c.1: PCI bridge to [bus 02-06] [ 0.486593] pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge window [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486615] pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge window [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486637] pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge window [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff pref] [ 0.486710] pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 0.486735] pci 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486774] pci 0000:00:1c.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 0.486796] pci 0000:00:1c.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486817] pci 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486836] pci 0000:03:01.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486858] pci 0000:03:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486880] pci 0000:03:03.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486893] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 4 [io 0x0000-0x0cf7] [ 0.486902] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 5 [io 0x0d00-0xffff] [ 0.486912] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 6 [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff] [ 0.486922] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 7 [mem 0x80000000-0xffffffff] [ 0.486932] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 [io 0xe000-0xefff] [ 0.486941] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 [mem 0xd0100000-0xd01fffff] [ 0.486951] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 [mem 0xff700000-0xff7fffff pref] [ 0.486961] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 0 [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486970] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 1 [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486980] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 2 [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff pref] [ 0.486989] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 0 [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486998] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 1 [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.487008] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 2 [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.487018] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 0 [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.487028] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 1 [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.487038] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 2 [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.487177] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.487405] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.488397] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.489792] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.490493] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 0.490525] TCP reno registered [ 0.490551] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.490590] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.490898] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.490970] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device [ 0.491052] pci 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 [ 0.491092] pci 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A disabled [ 0.491134] pci 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 [ 0.491174] pci 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B disabled [ 0.491220] pci 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 0.491259] pci 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C disabled [ 0.491307] pci 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 0.864431] Freeing initrd memory: 13820k freed [ 2.088042] pci 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug?) 01010001 [ 2.088207] pci 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D disabled [ 2.088267] PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64 [ 2.089248] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 2.089287] type=2000 audit(1349363630.084:1): initialized [ 2.144783] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages [ 2.144808] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages [ 2.160057] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 [ 2.160232] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 2.161716] fuse init (API version 7.17) [ 2.161995] msgmni has been set to 1713 [ 2.162925] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253) [ 2.163008] io scheduler noop registered [ 2.163023] io scheduler deadline registered [ 2.163048] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 2.163339] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163530] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163706] pcieport 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163873] pcieport 0000:03:01.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163964] pcieport 0000:03:01.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.164193] pcieport 0000:03:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.164272] pcieport 0000:03:02.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.164453] pcieport 0000:03:03.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.164531] pcieport 0000:03:03.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.164783] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164801] pci 0000:01:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164816] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.0:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded [ 2.164853] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164867] pcieport 0000:02:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164880] pcieport 0000:03:01.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164892] pci 0000:04:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164904] pcieport 0000:03:02.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164917] pcieport 0000:03:03.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164932] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.1:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded [ 2.164988] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [ 2.165115] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 8110 ss_vid 8086 ss_did 8119 [ 2.165177] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded [ 2.165199] pciehp 0000:00:1c.1:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 8112 ss_vid 8086 ss_did 8119 [ 2.165260] pciehp 0000:00:1c.1:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded [ 2.165290] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4 [ 2.165488] intel_idle: MWAIT substates: 0x3020220 [ 2.165508] intel_idle: v0.4 model 0x1C [ 2.165513] intel_idle: lapic_timer_reliable_states 0x2 [ 2.165519] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 [ 2.165779] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0 [ 2.165855] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] [ 2.165983] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input1 [ 2.166005] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB] [ 2.173811] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0 [ 2.173829] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ00] (48 C) [ 2.174004] thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone1 [ 2.174018] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (34 C) [ 2.174194] thermal LNXTHERM:02: registered as thermal_zone2 [ 2.174207] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ02] (34 C) [ 2.174378] thermal LNXTHERM:03: registered as thermal_zone3 [ 2.174392] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ03] (34 C) [ 2.174503] ERST: Table is not found! [ 2.174513] GHES: HEST is not enabled! [ 2.174601] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 2.176175] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 2.196702] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 2.292409] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 2.528909] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 2.588733] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 2.624523] 00:06: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 2.640702] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [ 2.645138] brd: module loaded [ 2.647452] loop: module loaded [ 2.648149] pata_acpi 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.649238] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed [ 2.649315] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6 [ 2.649327] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <[email protected]> [ 2.649524] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 [ 2.649824] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver [ 2.649884] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 2.649937] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.649946] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller [ 2.650082] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 2.650148] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 [ 2.654045] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 64 is not supported [ 2.654093] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xd02c4000 [ 2.668035] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00 [ 2.668392] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.668413] hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected [ 2.668618] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver [ 2.668666] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver [ 2.668726] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 [ 2.668751] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.668759] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller [ 2.668910] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [ 2.668981] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 20, io base 0x0000f040 [ 2.669335] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.669355] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2.669508] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 [ 2.669531] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.669538] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller [ 2.669675] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 [ 2.669739] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000f020 [ 2.670099] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.670118] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2.670271] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 2.670295] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.670302] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller [ 2.670435] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 [ 2.670502] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 22, io base 0x0000f000 [ 2.670869] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.670888] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2.671186] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual [ 2.671332] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 2.673408] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 2.673437] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 2.673844] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 2.674272] rtc_cmos 00:08: RTC can wake from S4 [ 2.674482] rtc_cmos 00:08: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 [ 2.674529] rtc0: alarms up to one year, y3k, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs [ 2.674691] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [ 2.674903] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.0-ioctl (2011-10-19) initialised: [email protected] [ 2.675024] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 2.675037] EISA: Cannot allocate resource for mainboard [ 2.675050] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [ 2.675061] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2 [ 2.675072] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3 [ 2.675083] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4 [ 2.675094] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5 [ 2.675105] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6 [ 2.675116] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7 [ 2.675127] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8 [ 2.675137] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 2.675161] cpufreq-nforce2: No nForce2 chipset. [ 2.675401] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 2.675786] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 2.675797] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 [ 2.676429] TCP cubic registered [ 2.676751] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 2.678031] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 2.678052] Registering the dns_resolver key type [ 2.678107] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 2.678515] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 2.678543] registered taskstats version 1 [ 2.701145] Magic number: 0:84:234 [ 2.701312] rtc_cmos 00:08: setting system clock to 2012-10-04 15:13:51 UTC (1349363631) [ 2.702280] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found [ 2.702294] EDD information not available. [ 2.702858] Freeing unused kernel memory: 740k freed [ 2.703630] Write protecting the kernel text: 5816k [ 2.703692] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2376k [ 2.703706] NX-protecting the kernel data: 4424k [ 2.751226] udevd[84]: starting version 175 [ 2.980162] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd [ 3.001394] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 3.001474] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 3.001554] r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.001654] r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X [ 3.004220] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xf8416000, 00:18:92:03:10:46, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 43 [ 3.004254] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: jumbo features [frames: 6128 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] [ 3.004347] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 3.005085] r8169 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 3.005182] r8169 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.005292] r8169 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [ 3.007187] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth1: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xf8418000, 00:18:92:03:10:47, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 44 [ 3.007224] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth1: jumbo features [frames: 6128 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] [ 3.034417] pata_sch 0000:00:1f.1: version 0.2 [ 3.034518] pata_sch 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.036698] scsi0 : pata_sch [ 3.039842] scsi1 : pata_sch [ 3.040913] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf060 irq 14 [ 3.040940] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf068 irq 15 [ 3.131850] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 3.136405] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0 [ 3.136642] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 3.136656] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 3.524465] usb 3-1: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd [ 3.968144] usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd [ 4.137903] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access TS TS4GUFM-H 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [ 4.140067] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 4.140590] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 8028160 512-byte logical blocks: (4.11 GB/3.82 GiB) [ 4.141597] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 4.141618] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 4.142974] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present [ 4.143000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4.145837] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present [ 4.145858] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4.147931] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > [ 4.150972] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present [ 4.151001] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4.151023] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 4.249168] input: HID 046a:004b as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input2 [ 4.249579] generic-usb 0003:046A:004B.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [HID 046a:004b] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0 [ 4.287805] input: HID 046a:004b as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/input/input3 [ 4.289235] generic-usb 0003:046A:004B.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [HID 046a:004b] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input1 [ 4.297604] input: EloTouchSystems,Inc Elo TouchSystems 2216 AccuTouch\xffffffc2\xffffffae\xffffffae USB Touchmonitor Interface as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input4 [ 4.298913] generic-usb 0003:04E7:0050.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Pointer [EloTouchSystems,Inc Elo TouchSystems 2216 AccuTouch\xffffffc2\xffffffae\xffffffae USB Touchmonitor Interface] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0 [ 4.299878] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid [ 4.299925] usbhid: USB HID core driver [ 4.352639] EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 4.352661] EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 8.519257] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete [ 8.564389] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 14.280922] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 14.280944] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready [ 14.310368] udevd[308]: starting version 175 [ 14.353873] Adding 1045500k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1045500k [ 14.428718] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 14.521667] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro [ 15.073459] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 15.097073] psb_gfx: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 15.180630] gma500 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 15.180648] gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 15.182117] Stolen memory information [ 15.182127] base in RAM: 0x7f800000 [ 15.182134] size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base), seems wrong [ 15.182143] the correct size should be: 8M(dvmt mode=3) [ 15.234889] Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0x7f800000, GTT offset 0K [ 15.235126] [drm] SGX core id = 0x01130000 [ 15.235135] [drm] SGX core rev major = 0x01, minor = 0x02 [ 15.235143] [drm] SGX core rev maintenance = 0x01, designer = 0x00 [ 15.268796] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness [ 15.269888] acpi device:04: registered as cooling_device2 [ 15.270568] acpi device:05: registered as cooling_device3 [ 15.270947] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input5 [ 15.271238] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) [ 15.271424] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). [ 15.271434] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query. [ 15.374694] type=1400 audit(1349363644.167:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=435 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 15.385518] type=1400 audit(1349363644.179:3): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=435 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 15.386369] type=1400 audit(1349363644.179:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=435 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 15.677514] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down [ 15.694828] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 16.537490] gma500 0000:00:02.0: allocated 800x480 fb [ 16.558066] fbcon: psbfb (fb0) is primary device [ 16.747122] gma500 0000:00:02.0: BL bug: Reg 00000000 save 00000000 [ 16.775550] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x30 [ 16.781804] fb0: psbfb frame buffer device [ 16.781812] drm: registered panic notifier [ 16.870168] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 2011-06-06 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 [ 16.871166] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 [ 16.871186] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 [ 16.871207] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 16.871284] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 29.338953] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link up [ 29.339471] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 31.427223] init: failsafe main process (675) killed by TERM signal [ 31.522411] type=1400 audit(1349363660.316:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=889 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 31.523956] type=1400 audit(1349363660.316:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=889 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 31.524882] type=1400 audit(1349363660.320:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=889 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 31.525940] type=1400 audit(1349363660.320:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump" pid=891 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 34.526445] postgres (1003): /proc/1003/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/1003/oom_score_adj instead. [ 40.144048] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

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• ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 Review

  - by Michael B. McLaughlin

  (This is my first review as a part of the GeeksWithBlogs.net Influencers program. It’s a program in which I (and the others who have been selected for it) get the opportunity to check out new products and services and write reviews about them. We don’t get paid for this, but we do generally get to keep a copy of the software or retain an account for some period of time on the service that we review. In this case I received a copy of Red Gate Software’s ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0, which was released in January. I don’t have any upgrade rights nor is my review guided, restrained, influenced, or otherwise controlled by Red Gate or anyone else. But I do get to keep the software license. I will always be clear about what I received whenever I do a review – I leave it up to you to decide whether you believe I can be objective. I believe I can be. If I used something and really didn’t like it, keeping a copy of it wouldn’t be worth anything to me. In that case though, I would simply uninstall/deactivate/whatever the software or service and tell the company what I didn’t like about it so they could (hopefully) make it better in the future. I don’t think it’d be polite to write up a terrible review, nor do I think it would be a particularly good use of my time. There are people who get paid for a living to review things, so I leave it to them to tell you what they think is bad and why. I’ll only spend my time telling you about things I think are good.) Overview of Common .NET Memory Problems When coming to land of managed memory from the wilds of unmanaged code, it’s easy to say to one’s self, “Wow! Now I never have to worry about memory problems again!” But this simply isn’t true. Managed code environments, such as .NET, make many, many things easier. You will never have to worry about memory corruption due to a bad pointer, for example (unless you’re working with unsafe code, of course). But managed code has its own set of memory concerns. For example, failing to unsubscribe from events when you are done with them leaves the publisher of an event with a reference to the subscriber. If you eliminate all your own references to the subscriber, then that memory is effectively lost since the GC won’t delete it because of the publishing object’s reference. When the publishing object itself becomes subject to garbage collection then you’ll get that memory back finally, but that could take a very long time depending of the life of the publisher. Another common source of resource leaks is failing to properly release unmanaged resources. When writing a class that contains members that hold unmanaged resources (e.g. any of the Stream-derived classes, IsolatedStorageFile, most classes ending in “Reader” or “Writer”), you should always implement IDisposable, making sure to use a properly written Dispose method. And when you are using an instance of a class that implements IDisposable, you should always make sure to use a 'using' statement in order to ensure that the object’s unmanaged resources are disposed of properly. (A ‘using’ statement is a nicer, cleaner looking, and easier to use version of a try-finally block. The compiler actually translates it as though it were a try-finally block. Note that Code Analysis warning 2202 (CA2202) will often be triggered by nested using blocks. A properly written dispose method ensures that it only runs once such that calling dispose multiple times should not be a problem. Nonetheless, CA2202 exists and if you want to avoid triggering it then you should write your code such that only the innermost IDisposable object uses a ‘using’ statement, with any outer code making use of appropriate try-finally blocks instead). Then, of course, there are situations where you are operating in a memory-constrained environment or else you want to limit or even eliminate allocations within a certain part of your program (e.g. within the main game loop of an XNA game) in order to avoid having the GC run. On the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, for example, for every 1 MB of heap allocations you make, the GC runs; the added time of a GC collection can cause a game to drop frames or run slowly thereby making it look bad. Eliminating allocations (or else minimizing them and calling an explicit Collect at an appropriate time) is a common way of avoiding this (the other way is to simplify your heap so that the GC’s latency is low enough not to cause performance issues). ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 When the opportunity to review Red Gate’s recently released ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 arose, I jumped at it. In order to review it, I was given a free copy (which does not include upgrade rights for future versions) which I am allowed to keep. For those of you who are familiar with ANTS Memory Profiler, you can find a list of new features and enhancements here. If you are an experienced .NET developer who is familiar with .NET memory management issues, ANTS Memory Profiler is great. More importantly still, if you are new to .NET development or you have no experience or limited experience with memory profiling, ANTS Memory Profiler is awesome. From the very beginning, it guides you through the process of memory profiling. If you’re experienced and just want dive in however, it doesn’t get in your way. The help items GAHSFLASHDAJLDJA are well designed and located right next to the UI controls so that they are easy to find without being intrusive. When you first launch it, it presents you with a “Getting Started” screen that contains links to “Memory profiling video tutorials”, “Strategies for memory profiling”, and the “ANTS Memory Profiler forum”. I’m normally the kind of person who looks at a screen like that only to find the “Don’t show this again” checkbox. Since I was doing a review, though, I decided I should examine them. I was pleasantly surprised. The overview video clocks in at three minutes and fifty seconds. It begins by showing you how to get started profiling an application. It explains that profiling is done by taking memory snapshots periodically while your program is running and then comparing them. ANTS Memory Profiler (I’m just going to call it “ANTS MP” from here) analyzes these snapshots in the background while your application is running. It briefly mentions a new feature in Version 7, a new API that give you the ability to trigger snapshots from within your application’s source code (more about this below). You can also, and this is the more common way you would do it, take a memory snapshot at any time from within the ANTS MP window by clicking the “Take Memory Snapshot” button in the upper right corner. The overview video goes on to demonstrate a basic profiling session on an application that pulls information from a database and displays it. It shows how to switch which snapshots you are comparing, explains the different sections of the Summary view and what they are showing, and proceeds to show you how to investigate memory problems using the “Instance Categorizer” to track the path from an object (or set of objects) to the GC’s root in order to find what things along the path are holding a reference to it/them. For a set of objects, you can then click on it and get the “Instance List” view. This displays all of the individual objects (including their individual sizes, values, etc.) of that type which share the same path to the GC root. You can then click on one of the objects to generate an “Instance Retention Graph” view. This lets you track directly up to see the reference chain for that individual object. In the overview video, it turned out that there was an event handler which was holding on to a reference, thereby keeping a large number of strings that should have been freed in memory. Lastly the video shows the “Class List” view, which lets you dig in deeply to find problems that might not have been clear when following the previous workflow. Once you have at least one memory snapshot you can begin analyzing. The main interface is in the “Analysis” tab. You can also switch to the “Session Overview” tab, which gives you several bar charts highlighting basic memory data about the snapshots you’ve taken. If you hover over the individual bars (and the individual colors in bars that have more than one), you will see a detailed text description of what the bar is representing visually. The Session Overview is good for a quick summary of memory usage and information about the different heaps. You are going to spend most of your time in the Analysis tab, but it’s good to remember that the Session Overview is there to give you some quick feedback on basic memory usage stats. As described above in the summary of the overview video, there is a certain natural workflow to the Analysis tab. You’ll spin up your application and take some snapshots at various times such as before and after clicking a button to open a window or before and after closing a window. Taking these snapshots lets you examine what is happening with memory. You would normally expect that a lot of memory would be freed up when closing a window or exiting a document. By taking snapshots before and after performing an action like that you can see whether or not the memory is really being freed. If you already know an area that’s giving you trouble, you can run your application just like normal until just before getting to that part and then you can take a few strategic snapshots that should help you pin down the problem. Something the overview didn’t go into is how to use the “Filters” section at the bottom of ANTS MP together with the Class List view in order to narrow things down. The video tutorials page has a nice 3 minute intro video called “How to use the filters”. It’s a nice introduction and covers some of the basics. I’m going to cover a bit more because I think they’re a really neat, really helpful feature. Large programs can bring up thousands of classes. Even simple programs can instantiate far more classes than you might realize. In a basic .NET 4 WPF application for example (and when I say basic, I mean just MainWindow.xaml with a button added to it), the unfiltered Class List view will have in excess of 1000 classes (my simple test app had anywhere from 1066 to 1148 classes depending on which snapshot I was using as the “Current” snapshot). This is amazing in some ways as it shows you how in stark detail just how immensely powerful the WPF framework is. But hunting through 1100 classes isn’t productive, no matter how cool it is that there are that many classes instantiated and doing all sorts of awesome things. Let’s say you wanted to examine just the classes your application contains source code for (in my simple example, that would be the MainWindow and App). Under “Basic Filters”, click on “Classes with source” under “Show only…”. Voilà. Down from 1070 classes in the snapshot I was using as “Current” to 2 classes. If you then click on a class’s name, it will show you (to the right of the class name) two little icon buttons. Hover over them and you will see that you can click one to view the Instance Categorizer for the class and another to view the Instance List for the class. You can also show classes based on which heap they live on. If you chose both a Baseline snapshot and a Current snapshot then you can use the “Comparing snapshots” filters to show only: “New objects”; “Surviving objects”; “Survivors in growing classes”; or “Zombie objects” (if you aren’t sure what one of these means, you can click the helpful “?” in a green circle icon to bring up a popup that explains them and provides context). Remember that your selection(s) under the “Show only…” heading will still apply, so you should update those selections to make sure you are seeing the view you want. There are also links under the “What is my memory problem?” heading that can help you diagnose the problems you are seeing including one for “I don’t know which kind I have” for situations where you know generally that your application has some problems but aren’t sure what the behavior you have been seeing (OutOfMemoryExceptions, continually growing memory usage, larger memory use than expected at certain points in the program). The Basic Filters are not the only filters there are. “Filter by Object Type” gives you the ability to filter by: “Objects that are disposable”; “Objects that are/are not disposed”; “Objects that are/are not GC roots” (GC roots are things like static variables); and “Objects that implement _______”. “Objects that implement” is particularly neat. Once you check the box, you can then add one or more classes and interfaces that an object must implement in order to survive the filtering. Lastly there is “Filter by Reference”, which gives you the option to pare down the list based on whether an object is “Kept in memory exclusively by” a particular item, a class/interface, or a namespace; whether an object is “Referenced by” one or more of those choices; and whether an object is “Never referenced by” one or more of those choices. Remember that filtering is cumulative, so anything you had set in one of the filter sections still remains in effect unless and until you go back and change it. There’s quite a bit more to ANTS MP – it’s a very full featured product – but I think I touched on all of the most significant pieces. You can use it to debug: a .NET executable; an ASP.NET web application (running on IIS); an ASP.NET web application (running on Visual Studio’s built-in web development server); a Silverlight 4 browser application; a Windows service; a COM+ server; and even something called an XBAP (local XAML browser application). You can also attach to a .NET 4 process to profile an application that’s already running. The startup screen also has a large number of “Charting Options” that let you adjust which statistics ANTS MP should collect. The default selection is a good, minimal set. It’s worth your time to browse through the charting options to examine other statistics that may also help you diagnose a particular problem. The more statistics ANTS MP collects, the longer it will take to collect statistics. So just turning everything on is probably a bad idea. But the option to selectively add in additional performance counters from the extensive list could be a very helpful thing for your memory profiling as it lets you see additional data that might provide clues about a particular problem that has been bothering you. ANTS MP integrates very nicely with all versions of Visual Studio that support plugins (i.e. all of the non-Express versions). Just note that if you choose “Profile Memory” from the “ANTS” menu that it will launch profiling for whichever project you have set as the Startup project. One quick tip from my experience so far using ANTS MP: if you want to properly understand your memory usage in an application you’ve written, first create an “empty” version of the type of project you are going to profile (a WPF application, an XNA game, etc.) and do a quick profiling session on that so that you know the baseline memory usage of the framework itself. By “empty” I mean just create a new project of that type in Visual Studio then compile it and run it with profiling – don’t do anything special or add in anything (except perhaps for any external libraries you’re planning to use). The first thing I tried ANTS MP out on was a demo XNA project of an editor that I’ve been working on for quite some time that involves a custom extension to XNA’s content pipeline. The first time I ran it and saw the unmanaged memory usage I was convinced I had some horrible bug that was creating extra copies of texture data (the demo project didn’t have a lot of texture data so when I saw a lot of unmanaged memory I instantly figured I was doing something wrong). Then I thought to run an empty project through and when I saw that the amount of unmanaged memory was virtually identical, it dawned on me that the CLR itself sits in unmanaged memory and that (thankfully) there was nothing wrong with my code! Quite a relief. Earlier, when discussing the overview video, I mentioned the API that lets you take snapshots from within your application. I gave it a quick trial and it’s very easy to integrate and make use of and is a really nice addition (especially for projects where you want to know what, if any, allocations there are in a specific, complicated section of code). The only concern I had was that if I hadn’t watched the overview video I might never have known it existed. Even then it took me five minutes of hunting around Red Gate’s website before I found the “Taking snapshots from your code" article that explains what DLL you need to add as a reference and what method of what class you should call in order to take an automatic snapshot (including the helpful warning to wrap it in a try-catch block since, under certain circumstances, it can raise an exception, such as trying to call it more than 5 times in 30 seconds. The difficulty in discovering and then finding information about the automatic snapshots API was one thing I thought could use improvement. Another thing I think would make it even better would be local copies of the webpages it links to. Although I’m generally always connected to the internet, I imagine there are more than a few developers who aren’t or who are behind very restrictive firewalls. For them (and for me, too, if my internet connection happens to be down), it would be nice to have those documents installed locally or to have the option to download an additional “documentation” package that would add local copies. Another thing that I wish could be easier to manage is the Filters area. Finding and setting individual filters is very easy as is understanding what those filter do. And breaking it up into three sections (basic, by object, and by reference) makes sense. But I could easily see myself running a long profiling session and forgetting that I had set some filter a long while earlier in a different filter section and then spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out why some problem that was clearly visible in the data wasn’t showing up in, e.g. the instance list before remembering to check all the filters for that one setting that was only culling a few things from view. Some sort of indicator icon next to the filter section names that appears you have at least one filter set in that area would be a nice visual clue to remind me that “oh yeah, I told it to only show objects on the Gen 2 heap! That’s why I’m not seeing those instances of the SuperMagic class!” Something that would be nice (but that Red Gate cannot really do anything about) would be if this could be used in Windows Phone 7 development. If Microsoft and Red Gate could work together to make this happen (even if just on the WP7 emulator), that would be amazing. Especially given the memory constraints that apps and games running on mobile devices need to work within, a good memory profiler would be a phenomenally helpful tool. If anyone at Microsoft reads this, it’d be really great if you could make something like that happen. Perhaps even a (subsidized) custom version just for WP7 development. (For XNA games, of course, you can create a Windows version of the game and use ANTS MP on the Windows version in order to get a better picture of your memory situation. For Silverlight on WP7, though, there’s quite a bit of educated guess work and WeakReference creation followed by forced collections in order to find the source of a memory problem.) The only other thing I found myself wanting was a “Back” button. Between my Windows Phone 7, Zune, and other things, I’ve grown very used to having a “back stack” that lets me just navigate back to where I came from. The ANTS MP interface is surprisingly easy to use given how much it lets you do, and once you start using it for any amount of time, you learn all of the different areas such that you know where to go. And it does remember the state of the areas you were previously in, of course. So if you go to, e.g., the Instance Retention Graph from the Class List and then return back to the Class List, it will remember which class you had selected and all that other state information. Still, a “Back” button would be a welcome addition to a future release. Bottom Line ANTS Memory Profiler is not an inexpensive tool. But my time is valuable. I can easily see ANTS MP saving me enough time tracking down memory problems to justify it on a cost basis. More importantly to me, knowing what is happening memory-wise in my programs and having the confidence that my code doesn’t have any hidden time bombs in it that will cause it to OOM if I leave it running for longer than I do when I spin it up real quickly for debugging or just to see how a new feature looks and feels is a good feeling. It’s a feeling that I like having and want to continue to have. I got the current version for free in order to review it. Having done so, I’ve now added it to my must-have tools and will gladly lay out the money for the next version when it comes out. It has a 14 day free trial, so if you aren’t sure if it’s right for you or if you think it seems interesting but aren’t really sure if it’s worth shelling out the money for it, give it a try.

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• Adding a Network Loopback Adapter to Windows 8

  - by Greg Low

  I have to say that I continue to be frustrated with finding out how to do things in Windows 8. Here's another one and it's recorded so it might help someone else. I've also documented what I tried so that if anyone from the product group ever reads this, they'll understand how I searched for it and might try to make it easier.I wanted to add a network loopback adapter, to have a fixed IP address to work with when using an "internal" network with Hyper-V. (The fact that I even need to do this is also painful. I don't know why Hyper-V can't make it easy to work with host system folders, etc. as easily as I can with VirtualPC, VirtualBox, etc. but that's a topic for another day).In the end, what I needed was a known IP address on the same network that my guest OS was using, via the internal network (which allows connectivity from the host OS to/from guest OS's).I started by looking in the network adapters areas but there is no "add" functionality there. Realising that this was likely to be another unexpected challenge, I resorted to searching for info on doing this. I found KB article 2777200 entitled "Installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012". Aha, I thought that's what I'd need. It describes the symptom as "You are trying to install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter, but are unable to find it." and that certainly sounded like me. There's a certain irony in documenting that something's hard to find instead of making it easier to find. Anyway, you'd hope that in that article, they'd then provide a step by step example of how to do it, but what they supply is this: The Microsoft Loopback Adapter was renamed in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The new name is "Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter". When using the Add Hardware Wizard to manually add a network adapter, choose Manufacturer "Microsoft" and choose network adapter "Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter".The trick with this of course is finding the "Add Hardware Wizard". In Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound, there are options to "Add a device" and for "Device Manager". I tried the "Add a device" wizard (seemed logical to me) but after that wizard tries it's best, it just tells you that there isn't any hardware that it thinks it needs to install. It offers a link for when you can't find what you're looking for, but that leads to a generic help page that tells you how to do things like turning on your printer.In Device Manager, I checked the options in the program menus, and nothing useful was present. I even tried right-clicking "Network adapters", hoping that would lead to an option to add one, also to no avail.So back to the search engine I went, to try to find out where the "Add Hardware Wizard" is. Turns out I was in the right place in Device Manager, but I needed to right-click the computer's name, and choose "Add Legacy Hardware". No doubt that hasn't changed location lately but it's a while since I needed to add one so I'd forgotten. Regardless, I'm left wondering why it couldn't be in the menu as well.Anyway, for a step by step list, you need to do the following:1. From Control Panel, select "Device Manager" under the "Devices and Printers" section of the "Hardware and Sound" tab.2. Right-click the name of the computer at the top of the tree, and choose "Add Legacy Hardware".3. In the "Welcome to the Add Hardware Wizard" window, click Next.4. In the "The wizard can help you install other hardware" window, choose "Install the hardware that I manually select from a list" option and click Next.5. In the "The wizard did not find any new hardware on your computer" window, click Next.6. In the "From the list below, select the type of hardware you are installing" window, select "Network Adapters" from the list, and click Next.7. In the "Select Network Adapter" window, from the Manufacturer list, choose Microsoft, then in the Network Adapter window, choose "Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter", then click Next.8. In the "The wizard is ready to install your hardware" window, click Next.9. In the "Completing the Add Hardware Wizard" window, click Finish.Then you need to continue to set the IP address, etc.10. Back in Control Panel, select the "Network and Internet" tab, click "View Network Status and Tasks".11. In the "View your basic network information and set up connections" window, click "Change adapter settings".12. Right-click the new adapter that has been added (find it in the list by checking the device name of "Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter"), and click Properties.   

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• ESB Toolkit.exceptionHandling Error - The application does not exist - Any ideas?

  - by Andrew Cripps

  Hello I am getting following error while attempting to run the Management Portal for ESB Toolkit 2.0: Event Type: Warning Event Source: ENTSSO Event Category: Enterprise Single Sign-On Event ID: 10536 Description: SSO AUDIT Function: GetConfigInfo (SSOProperties) Application Name: ESB Toolkit.exceptionHandling Error Code: 0xC0002A04, The application does not exist I am using SSO config store for the ESB Config. However, looking in the esb.config file, there is no section, like there is for the other esb SSO applications. Why might this section (and therefore the SSO app) be missing? How can I set it up? Thanks for any help with this Andrew

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• SQL Server 2008 - Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Window

  - by Tom

  I've just installed SQL Server 2008 Developer edition and I'm trying to connect using SQLCMD.exe, but I get the following error: H:\>sqlcmd.exe -S ".\SQL2008" Msg 18452, Level 14, State 1, Server DEVBOX\SQL2008, Line 1 Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication. Has anyone seen this before? Any idea what it means??

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• What is the easiest way to deploy a MVC2 application from Visaul Studio 2010 to IIS 7.5?

  - by Richard

  I´ve tried a couple of different ways to deploy a application to a IIS 7.5 running on my machine for testing purposes and i´ve sort of hit a wall. Nothing works out of the box. Everything assumes I have knowledge I don't have and would prefer not to have to aqquire. Google isn't really helping either with answers ranging from "copy files by hand" to "install teamcity and set it up for CI". I have set up TeamCity for java projects before and it's really over kill for my needs at the moment. So anyone know of a fast, simple and easy way to deploy a application during testing/building?

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• How do I install an ASP.Net MVC application on IIS 7 using Wix?

  - by Simon Steele

  For IIS6 I can use the IIS helpers in Wix to install a web application like this: <iis:WebAppPool Id="AP_MyApp" Name="My Application Pool" Identity="networkService" /> <iis:WebApplication Id="WA_MyApp" Name="MyApp" WebAppPool="AP_MyApp"> <iis:WebApplicationExtension CheckPath="no" Executable="[NETFRAMEWORK20INSTALLROOTDIR]aspnet_isapi.dll" Verbs="GET,HEAD,POST"/> </iis:WebApplication> Unfortunately, this doesn't work for IIS7. We don't want to use the aspnet_isapi.dll mechanism, and instead want the integrated pipeline to handle the request routing. The app pool created by this script is in Classic mode not Integrated mode so none of the handlers get run correctly. How can I correctly install an MVC app on IIS 7?

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• Silverlight 4 application failing to build in Blend 4 Beta..

  - by loyalpenguin

  Hi, I'm creating a simple silverlight application using Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4 Beta, but when I run the Application I get the following Error: C:\Users\WebDevelop1\Documents\Expression\Blend 4 Beta\Projects\SilverlightApplication1\SilverlightApplication1.sln.metaproj : error MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Debug|HPD" is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties (e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU") or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration. Done building project "SilverlightApplication1.sln" -- FAILED. Build failed. I'm relatively new to silverlight and not really sure where to start. This has happened with every project I have created in Blend, but when I run it in VS2010 it runs perfect. Is this a known issue with the Beta release or am I possibly missing something? Thanks in advance.

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• Threading.Timer vs. Forms.Timer

  - by Jekke

  The short form of this question: When, if ever, is it appropriate to use the Forms.Timer in a multithreaded WinForms application? More specifically, I am architecting an application that uses multiple System.Threading.Timers to launch processes asynchronously, check queues containing the results of those asynchronous processes, and update the statistics to be shown by the application's main form. In an application like that, is it appropriate to use a Forms.Timer to actually check the application statistics and draw them to the main form or would that just throw a wrench into the application's smooth running?

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• How can I set the maxItemsInObjectGraph property programmatically from a Silverlight Application?

  - by Corey Sunwold

  I have a Silverlight 3.0 application that is using a WCF service to communicate with the database, and when I have large amounts of data being returned from the service methods I get Service Not Found errors. I am fairly confident that the solution to it is to simply update the maxItemsInObjectGraph property, but I am creating the service client progrogrammatically and cannot find where to set this property. Here is what I am doing right now: BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.None) { MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue, MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue }; MyService.MyServiceServiceClient client = new MyService.MyServiceProxyServiceClient(binding, new EndpointAddress(new Uri(Application.Current.Host.Source, "../MyService.svc")));

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• Proper MIME type for fonts

  - by David Hedlund

  Searching the web, I find heaps of different suggestions for what the proper MIME type for a font is, but I have yet to try any MIME type that rids me of a Chrome warning such as the following: Resource interpreted as font but transferred with MIME type font/otf The font is an OTF. I've tried the following MIME types so far font/otf application/font-otf application/font application/otf application/octet-stream application/x-font-otf application/x-font-TrueType (I know it's not truetype, but one source quoted this for OTF)

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• How to force high-dpi scaling?

  - by Ian Boyd

  How can i force an application to be high-dpi scaled? Or alternatively, how can an application that is not manifested as high-dpi aware, and doesn't have dpi-scaling disabled from the Properties-Compatibility tab, not be scaled? Pretend i have an application, who's developers decided to manifest it as high-dpi aware, when it really isn't. How can i force dpi-scaling? Pretend i have an applicaiton that Microsoft has applied the "HighDpiAware" compatiblity shim to, when the application really isn't. How can i force dpi-scaling? Pretend i have an application (i.e. Shareaza) that does not have a dpi-aware manifest, does not disable dpi-scaling from the application's Properties tab, but high-dpi scaling is not being applied? How can i force it? How can i force Windows to apply dpi-scaling to an application? See also

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• Splitting android application in to two 'branches', free and paid.

  - by Alxandr

  I've developed an android-application that I'dd like to put up on the marketplace. However, I want to split it into two separate applications, one free (with ads), and one paid (logically without ads). How would I go about doing that? I'm not wondering about adding ads (I've alreaddy managed that), but how to take one existing android-application (eclipse-project) and split it into two without having to create a new project and just copy-paste every file one by one (or in batch for that matter). Is that possible? Btw, I use GIT for SCM, so I've made two separate branches, one master and one free, but I need to set some cind of config-value that makes shure that the market separates them as two different applications. Also, when a user 'upgrades', is it possible to copy the db from the free app to the paid one?

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• Is there a utility that displays hotkeys for the current application?

  - by Alwin

  To speed up my compyuter use I'm trying to use as many hotkeys as possible. But because I'm working in many applications it is really hard to remember all those shortcuts. I'm looking for a program that looks at what application is currently in use by me, and displays a list of possible hotkeys I want to use. Example: I'm writing a document in Word, and the utility program shows a list of hotkeys I could use in Word. With such a program I could learn the shortcut keys much faster. Does such a utility exist?

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• What is your development checklist for Java low-latency application?

  - by user49767

  I would like to create comprehensive checklist for Java low latency application. Can you add your checklist here? Here is my list 1. Make your objects immutable 2. Try to reduce synchronized method 3. Locking order should be well documented, and handled carefully 4. Use profiler 5. Use Amdhal's law, and find the sequential execution path 6. Use Java 5 concurrency utilities, and locks 7. Avoid Thread priorities as they are platform dependent 8. JVM warmup can be used As per my definition, low-latency application is tuned for every Milli-seconds.

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