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Help to argue why to develop software on a physical computer rather than via a remote desktop

- by s5804

Remote desktops are great and many times a blessing and cost effective (instead of leasing expensive cables). I am not arguing against remote desktops, just if one have the alternative to use either remote desktop or physical computer, I would choose the later. Also note that I am not arguing for or against remote work practices. But in my case I am required to be physically present in the office when developing software. Background, I work in a company which main business is not to develop software. Therefore the company IT policies are mainly focused on security and to efficiently deploying/maintaing thousands of computer to users. Further, the typical employee runs typical Office applications, like a word processors. Because safety/stability is such a big priority, every non production system/application, shall be deployed into a physical different network, called the test network. Software development of course also belongs in the test network. To access the test network the company has created a standard policy, which dictates that access to the test network shall go only via a remote desktop client. Practically from ones production computer one would open up a remote desktop client to a virtual computer located in the test network. On the virtual computer's remote desktop one would be able to access/run/install all development tools, like Eclipse IDE. Another solution would be to have a dedicated physical computer, which is physically only connected to the test network. Both solutions are available in the company. I have tested both approaches and found running Eclipse IDE, SQL developer, in the remote desktop client to be sluggish (keyboard strokes are delayed), commands like alt-tab takes me out of the remote client, enjoying... Further, screen resolution and colors are different, just to mention a few. Therefore there is nothing technical wrong with the remote client, just not optimal and frankly de-motivating. Now with the new policies put in place, plans are to remove the physical computers connected to the test network. I am looking for help to argue for why software developers shall have a dedicated physical software development computer, to be productive and cost effective. Remember that we are physically in office. Further one can notice that we are talking about approx. 50 computers out of 2000 employees. Therefore the extra budget is relatively small. This is more about policy than cost. Please note that there are lots of similar setups in other companies that work great due to a perfectly tuned systems. However, in my case it is sluggish and it would cost more money to trouble shoot the performance and fine tune it rather than to have a few physical computers. As a business case we have argued that productivity will go down by 25%, however it's my feeling that the reality is probably closer to 50%. This business case isn't really accepted and I find it very difficult to defend it to managers that has never ever used a rich IDE in their life, never mind developed software. Further the test network and remote client has no guaranteed service level, therefore it is down for a few hours per month with the lowest priority on the fix list. Help is appreciated.

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Is there a potential for resource leak/double free here?

- by nhed

The following sample (not compiled so I won't vouch for syntax) pulls two resources from resource pools (not allocated with new), then "binds" them together with MyClass for the duration of a certain transaction. The transaction, implemented here by myFunc, attempts to protect against leakage of these resources by tracking their "ownership". The local resource pointers are cleared when its obvious that instantiation of MyClass was successful. The local catch, as well as the destructor ~MyClass return the resources to their pool (double-frees are protected by teh above mentioned clearing of the local pointers). Instantiation of MyClass can fail and result in an exception at two steps (1) actual memory allocation, or (2) at the constructor body itself. I do not have a problem with #1, but in the case of #2, if the exception is thrown AFTER m_resA & m_resB were set. Causing both the ~MyClass and the cleanup code of myFunc to assume responsibility for returning these resources to their pools. Is this a reasonable concern? Options I have considered, but didn't like: Smart pointers (like boost's shared_ptr). I didn't see how to apply to a resource pool (aside for wrapping in yet another instance). Allowing double-free to occur at this level but protecting at the resource pools. Trying to use the exception type - trying to deduce that if bad_alloc was caught that MyClass did not take ownership. This will require a try-catch in the constructor to make sure that any allocation failures in ABC() ...more code here... wont be confused with failures to allocate MyClass. Is there a clean, simple solution that I have overlooked? class SomeExtResourceA; class SomeExtResourceB; class MyClass { private: // These resources come out of a resource pool not allocated with "new" for each use by MyClass SomeResourceA* m_resA; SomeResourceB* m_resB; public: MyClass(SomeResourceA* resA, SomeResourceB* resB): m_resA(resA), m_resB(resB) { ABC(); // ... more code here, could throw exceptions } ~MyClass(){ if(m_resA){ m_resA->Release(); } if(m_resB){ m_resB->Release(); } } }; void myFunc(void) { SomeResourceA* resA = NULL; SomeResourceB* resB = NULL; MyClass* pMyInst = NULL; try { resA = g_pPoolA->Allocate(); resB = g_pPoolB->Allocate(); pMyInst = new MyClass(resA,resB); resA=NULL; // ''ownership succesfully transfered to pMyInst resB=NULL; // ''ownership succesfully transfered to pMyInst // Do some work with pMyInst; ...; delete pMyInst; } catch (...) { // cleanup // need to check if resA, or resB were allocated prior // to construction of pMyInst. if(resA) resA->Release(); if(resB) resB->Release(); delete pMyInst; throw; // rethrow caught exception } }

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jquery parent/children selector for counting <li>

- by Kreker

Hi. I have this piece of HTML <div id="fileTreeInviati"> <ul class="php-file-tree"> <li class="pft-directory"> <a href="#" class="" name="101">A006 - SOMETEXT (<span name="contaNew"></span>)</a> <img src="./moduli/home/images/info.png" title="Informazioni Azienda" class="imgInfo"/> <ul style="display: none;"> <li class="pft-file ext-png"> <a href="javascript:getInfoFile('4');" class="" id="4">cut.png</a> </li> <li class="pft-file ext-dll"> <a href="javascript:getInfoFile('27');" class="new" id="27">Safari.dll</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="pft-directory"> <a href="#" class="" name="102">A012 - SOMETEXT (<span name="contaNew"></span>)</a> <img src="./moduli/home/images/info.png" title="Informazioni Azienda" class="imgInfo"/> <ul style="display: none;"> <li class="pft-file ext-jpg"> <a href="javascript:getInfoFile('19');" class="new" id="19">04.jpg</a> </li> <li class="pft-file ext-dll"> <a href="javascript:getInfoFile('24');" class="new" id="24">Safari.dll</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="pft-directory"> <a href="#" class="" name="103">A014 - SOMETEXT (<span name="contaNew"></span>)</a> <img src="./moduli/home/images/info.png" title="Informazioni Azienda" class="imgInfo"/> <ul style="display: none;"> <li class="pft-file ext-txt"> <a href="javascript:getInfoFile('17');" class="new" id="17">acu.txt</a> </li> <li class="pft-file ext-dll"> <a href="javascript:getInfoFile('22');" class="new" id="22">Safari.dll</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> I'm working on a js snippet that cycle through all "a" of the "li" and checks if it has the class "new" if yes increment a counter by one. This counter now has to be printed on the relative "li" "span" 3 level before. So I have the number of the element with the "new" class. The js snippet is this $("#fileTreeInviati .php-file-tree .pft-directory li").each(function(){ $(this).children("a").each(function(i,e){ if ($(e).hasClass("new")){ cont++; console.log($(e).text()); $(this).parent().parent().parent().children("a").children("span").text(cont); } }) cont = 0; }); I think I'm almost there but the counter is always 1. I think there is something mess with .children, maybe it can handle only the first occurrence? Thanks for help

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Servlet response wrapper has encoding problem

- by John O

A servlet response wrapper is being used in a Servlet Filter. The idea is that the response is manipulated, with a 'nonce' value being injected into forms, as part of defence against CSRF attacks. The web app is using UTF-8 everywhere. When the Servlet Filter is absent, no problems. When the filter is added, encoding issues occur. (It seems as if the response is reverting to 8859-1.) The guts of the code : final class CsrfResponseWrapper extends AbstractResponseWrapper { ... byte[] modifyResponse(byte[] aInputResponse){ ... String originalInput = new String(aInputResponse, encoding); String modifiedResult = addHiddenParamToPostedForms(originalInput); result = modifiedResult.getBytes(encoding); ... } ... } As I understand it, the transition between byte-land and String-land should specify an encoding. That is done here, as you can see, in two places. The value of the 'encoding' variable is 'UTF-8'; the alteration of the String itself is standard string manipulation (with a regex), and never specifies an encoding (addHiddenParamToPostedForms). Where am I in error about the encoding? EDIT: Here is the base class (sorry it's rather long): package hirondelle.web4j.security; import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream; import javax.servlet.ServletResponse; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.PrintWriter; /** Abstract Base Class for altering response content. (May be useful in future contexts as well. For now, keep package-private.) */ abstract class AbstractResponseWrapper extends HttpServletResponseWrapper { AbstractResponseWrapper(ServletResponse aServletResponse) throws IOException { super((HttpServletResponse)aServletResponse); fOutputStream = new ModifiedOutputStream(aServletResponse.getOutputStream()); fWriter = new PrintWriter(fOutputStream); } /** Return the modified response. */ abstract byte[] modifyResponse(byte[] aInputResponse); /** Standard servlet method. */ public final ServletOutputStream getOutputStream() { //fLogger.fine("Modified Response : Getting output stream."); if ( fWriterReturned ) { throw new IllegalStateException(); } fOutputStreamReturned = true; return fOutputStream; } /** Standard servlet method. */ public final PrintWriter getWriter() { //fLogger.fine("Modified Response : Getting writer."); if ( fOutputStreamReturned ) { throw new IllegalStateException(); } fWriterReturned = true; return fWriter; } // PRIVATE /* Well-behaved servlets return either an OutputStream or a PrintWriter, but not both. */ private PrintWriter fWriter; private ModifiedOutputStream fOutputStream; /* These items are used to implement conformance to the javadoc for ServletResponse, regarding exceptions being thrown. */ private boolean fWriterReturned; private boolean fOutputStreamReturned; /** Modified low level output stream. */ private class ModifiedOutputStream extends ServletOutputStream { public ModifiedOutputStream(ServletOutputStream aOutputStream) { fServletOutputStream = aOutputStream; fBuffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); } /** Must be implemented to make this class concrete. */ public void write(int aByte) { fBuffer.write(aByte); } public void close() throws IOException { if ( !fIsClosed ){ processStream(); fServletOutputStream.close(); fIsClosed = true; } } public void flush() throws IOException { if ( fBuffer.size() != 0 ){ if ( !fIsClosed ) { processStream(); fBuffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); } } } /** Perform the core processing, by calling the abstract method. */ public void processStream() throws IOException { fServletOutputStream.write(modifyResponse(fBuffer.toByteArray())); fServletOutputStream.flush(); } // PRIVATE // private ServletOutputStream fServletOutputStream; private ByteArrayOutputStream fBuffer; /** Tracks if this stream has been closed. */ private boolean fIsClosed = false; } }

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Adjust parameters of serial port reading

- by clinisbut

Hello. I'm facing a particular issue that regards serial communication under win32. I'm communicating with a device can only accept frames when it is not already communicating. So I must find a valid frame and then inmediatelly send my request. I developed a class named Serial that handles basic operations on serial port (open, close, read, write) and then a Thread calls inside a loop read and write functions. Thread loop //Device is an object of class Serial while( device->isOpen() && !terminate ) { unsigned int readed = 0; unsigned long error = ERROR_SUCCESS; unsigned char* data = device->read( &readed, &error ); if( error==ERROR_SUCCESS ) { //If data received, deliver to upper level if( readed>0 ) { QByteArray output( (const char*)data, (signed int)readed ); emit dataArrived( output, readed ); } } else { //unrelated stuff } //Here I manage the writting issue //Only when nothing is received, and Upper layer wants to send a frame //(Upper layer only will mark as something to send when it detects a valid frame) if( readed==0 ) { out_lock.lock(); //If something to send... if( something_to_send > 0 ) { if( device->write( output_buffer, output_size, &error ) ) { //things... } } } } The Thread basically keeps reading, and when nothing is received, sees if somebody has signaled to send a frame (this means that a valid frame is just received). When this happens, it writes the frame through serial port. Here comes my problem. Inside the Serial::read() function: I use the overlapped way of reading: ::ClearCommError( handle, &dwErrors, &stat); if( stat.cbInQue ) { //If there's something to read, read it, please note the bytes to read parameter, here 1. bool ok = ::ReadFile( handle, buffer_in, 1, &bytes_read, &ov_reader ); if( !ok ) { DWORD _error = ::GetLastError(); if( _error == ERROR_IO_PENDING ) { DWORD result = ::WaitForMultipleObjects( 2, waiters, FALSE,INFINITE ); switch( result ) { //Eventshutdown case WAIT_OBJECT_0: /*code omitted*/break; case WAIT_OBJECT_0+1: ok = ::GetOverlappedResult( handle, &ov_reader, &bytes_read, true ); //check ok value omitted break; } } } } if( bytes_read>0 ) { *size = bytes_read; } Here starts my problem. When device sends me small frames (around 30 bytes) everything works fine, but when larger frames are sent, the code is not able to find any free time between frames causing the thread to never be able send any frame because readed is never 0. If I increase the number of bytes to read inside the read() function, lose the ability to detect when the device "listens": bool ok = ::ReadFile(handle, buffer_in, 50, &bytes_read, &ov_reader ); This happens because my app can receive the end of a frame together with the start of the next one. This behaviour is very common. In the other hand, if I change the INFINITE argument by a valid timeout in the WaitForMultipleObjects function, I lose data. So my question basically is... what I'm doing wrong? Why when reading 1 byte each time I don't find any free time to send my own frames? Thank you

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Make wix installation set upgrade to same folder

- by Magnus Akselvoll

How can I make a major upgrade to an installation set (MSI) built with Wix install into the same folder as the original installation? The installation is correctly detected as an upgrade, but the directory selection screen is still shown and with the default value (not necessarily the current installation folder). Do I have to do manual work like saving the installation folder in a registry key upon first installing and then read this key upon upgrade? If so, is there any example? Or is there some easier way to achieve this in MSI / Wix? As reference I paste in my current Wix file below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  <Package Keywords="Installer" Id="e85e6190-1cd4-49f5-8924-9da5fcb8aee8" Description="Installs MyCompany Integration Framework 1.0.0" Comments="Installs MyCompany Integration Framework 1.0.0" InstallerVersion="100" Compressed="yes" /> <Upgrade Id='9071eacc-9b5a-48e3-bb90-8064d2b2c45d'> <UpgradeVersion Property="PATCHFOUND" OnlyDetect="no" Minimum="0.0.1" IncludeMinimum="yes" Maximum="1.0.0" IncludeMaximum="yes"/> </Upgrade>  <Media Id="1" Cabinet="MyCompany.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />  <Condition Message='This setup requires the .NET Framework 2 or higher.'> <![CDATA[MsiNetAssemblySupport >= "2.0.50727"]]> </Condition> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="MyCompany" Name="MyCompany"> <Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="Integrat" LongName="MyCompany Integration Framework"> <Component Id="MyCompanyDllComponent" Guid="4f362043-03a0-472d-a84f-896522ce7d2b" DiskId="1"> <File Id="MyCompanyIntegrationDll" Name="IbIntegr.dll" src="..\Build\MyCompany.Integration.dll" Vital="yes" LongName="MyCompany.Integration.dll" /> <File Id="MyCompanyServiceModelDll" Name="IbSerMod.dll" src="..\Build\MyCompany.ServiceModel.dll" Vital="yes" LongName="MyCompany.ServiceModel.dll" /> </Component>  </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> <Feature Id="MyCompanyProductFeature" Title='MyCompany Integration Framework' Description='The complete package' Display='expand' Level="1" InstallDefault='local' ConfigurableDirectory="INSTALLDIR"> <ComponentRef Id="MyCompanyDllComponent" /> </Feature>  <Property Id="finaltaskexe" Value="MyCompany.Integration.Host.exe" /> <Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="INSTALLDIR" /> <InstallExecuteSequence>  <Custom Action='PropertyAssign' After='InstallFinalize'>NOT Installed AND NOT PATCHFOUND</Custom> <Custom Action='LaunchFile' After='InstallFinalize'>NOT Installed AND NOT PATCHFOUND</Custom> <RemoveExistingProducts Before='CostInitialize' /> </InstallExecuteSequence>  <CustomAction Id='PropertyAssign' Property='PathProperty' Value='[INSTALLDIR][finaltaskexe]' /> <CustomAction Id='LaunchFile' Property='PathProperty' ExeCommand='/INITIALCONFIG "[INSTALLDIR]parameters.xml"' Return='asyncNoWait' />  <UIRef Id="WixUI_InstallDir" /> <UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />

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Need help with a memory management problem in my game model

- by user309030

Hi, I'm a beginner level programmer trying to make a game app for the iphone and I've encountered a possible issue with the memory management (exc_bad_access) of my program so far. I've searched and read dozens of articles regarding memory management (including apple's docs) but I still can't figure out what exactly is wrong with my codes. So I would really appreciate it if someone can help clear up the mess I made for myself. //in the .h file @property(nonatomic,retain) NSMutableArray *fencePoleArray; @property(nonatomic,retain) NSMutableArray *fencePoleImageArray; @property(nonatomic,retain) NSMutableArray *fenceImageArray; //in the .m file - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.gameState = gameStatePaused; fencePoleArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; fencePoleImageArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; fenceImageArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; mainField = CGRectMake(10, 35, 310, 340); .......... [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.05 target:self selector:@selector(gameLoop) userInfo:nil repeats:YES]; } So basically, the player touches the screen to set up the fences/poles -(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { if(.......) { ....... } else { UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject]; currentTapLoc = [touch locationInView:touch.view]; NSLog(@"%i, %i", (int)currentTapLoc.x, (int)currentTapLoc.y); if(CGRectContainsPoint(mainField, currentTapLoc)) { if([self checkFence]) { onFencePole++; //this 3 set functions adds their respective objects into the 3 NSMutableArrays using addObject: [self setFencePole]; [self setFenceImage]; [self setFencePoleImage]; ....... } } else { ....... } } } } The setFence function (setFenceImage and setFencePoleImage is similar to this) -(void)setFencePole { Fence *fencePole; if (!elecFence) { fencePole = [[Fence alloc] initFence:onFencePole fenceType:1 fencePos:currentTapLoc]; } else { fencePole = [[Fence alloc] initFence:onFencePole fenceType:2 fencePos:currentTapLoc]; } [fencePoleArray addObject:fencePole]; [fencePole release]; and whenever I press a button in the game, endOpenState is called to clear away all the extra images(fence/poles) on the screen and also to remove all existing objects in the 3 NSMutableArray. Point is to remove all the objects in the NSMutableArrays but keep the array itself so it can be reused later. -(void)endOpenState { ........ int xMax = [fencePoleArray count]; int yMax = [fenceImageArray count]; for (int x = 0; x < xMax; x++) { [[fencePoleImageArray objectAtIndex:x] removeFromSuperview]; } for (int y = 0; y < yMax; y++) { [[fenceImageArray objectAtIndex:y] removeFromSuperview]; } [fencePoleArray removeAllObjects]; [fencePoleImageArray removeAllObjects]; [fenceImageArray removeAllObjects]; ........ } The crash happens here at the checkFence function. -(BOOL)checkFence { if (onFencePole == 0) { return YES; } else if (onFencePole >= 1 && onFencePole < currentMaxFencePole - 1) { CGPoint tempPoint1 = currentTapLoc; CGPoint tempPoint2 = [[fencePoleArray objectAtIndex:onFencePole-1] returnPos]; // the crash happens at this line if ([self checkDistance:tempPoint1 point2:tempPoint2]) { return YES; } else { return NO; } } else if (onFencePole == currentMaxFencePole - 1) { ...... } else { return NO; } } So the problem here is, everything works fine until checkFence is called the 2nd time after endOpenState is called. So its like tap_screen - tap_screen - press_button_to_call_endOpenState - tap screen - tap_screen - crash What I'm thinking of is that fencePoleArray got messed up when I used [fencePoleArray removeAllObjects] because it doesn't crash when I comment it out. It would really be great if someone can explain to me what went wrong. And thanks in advance.

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IE7 rendering bug: Heading before a floated list

- by Tomalak

Can somebody please explain this IE7 bug to me? It occurs in Standards and Quirks mode rendering, it does not occur in Firefox, Chrome or IE8 (though switching the rendering engine via IE8 developer tools will provoke it). Here's the HTML to reproduce the behavior: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> /* h1 { margin: 0px; } */ ul { padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style-type: none; } ul li { float: left; width: 140px; padding: 3px; } div { clear: left; padding: 3px; } div, li { background-color: OrangeRed; } /* ul { border: 1px solid blue; } */ </style> </head> <body> <h1>Heading 1</h1> <ul class="t"> <li>bla 1</li><li>bla 2</li><li>bla 3</li> </ul> <div>yada</div> </body> </html> This renders a floated <ul> above a <div> (supposed to be a tabbed user interface). There's an unexplained gap between the <div> and the <ul>. Now do one of the following: Uncomment the CSS rule for <h1>. The gap disappears and the list is rendered tight to the <div>, but also very close to the <h1>. Alternatively, uncomment the CSS rule for <ul>. Now a narrow blue border is rendered above the <ul>, but the gap disappears. My questions: How can the <h1> margin (I suppose any block level element with a defined margin will do) affect the space below the list? Can I prevent this from happening without having to set header margins to 0 or messing with the <ul> borders (setting border-width: 0; does not work BTW)? I suppose it is connected to the <ul> having no width because it has only floated children. Maybe someone with more insight into IE7 peculiarities than I have can explain what the rendering engine is doing here. Thanks!

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Effective optimization strategies on modern C++ compilers

- by user168715

I'm working on scientific code that is very performance-critical. An initial version of the code has been written and tested, and now, with profiler in hand, it's time to start shaving cycles from the hot spots. It's well-known that some optimizations, e.g. loop unrolling, are handled these days much more effectively by the compiler than by a programmer meddling by hand. Which techniques are still worthwhile? Obviously, I'll run everything I try through a profiler, but if there's conventional wisdom as to what tends to work and what doesn't, it would save me significant time. I know that optimization is very compiler- and architecture- dependent. I'm using Intel's C++ compiler targeting the Core 2 Duo, but I'm also interested in what works well for gcc, or for "any modern compiler." Here are some concrete ideas I'm considering: Is there any benefit to replacing STL containers/algorithms with hand-rolled ones? In particular, my program includes a very large priority queue (currently a std::priority_queue) whose manipulation is taking a lot of total time. Is this something worth looking into, or is the STL implementation already likely the fastest possible? Along similar lines, for std::vectors whose needed sizes are unknown but have a reasonably small upper bound, is it profitable to replace them with statically-allocated arrays? I've found that dynamic memory allocation is often a severe bottleneck, and that eliminating it can lead to significant speedups. As a consequence I'm interesting in the performance tradeoffs of returning large temporary data structures by value vs. returning by pointer vs. passing the result in by reference. Is there a way to reliably determine whether or not the compiler will use RVO for a given method (assuming the caller doesn't need to modify the result, of course)? How cache-aware do compilers tend to be? For example, is it worth looking into reordering nested loops? Given the scientific nature of the program, floating-point numbers are used everywhere. A significant bottleneck in my code used to be conversions from floating point to integers: the compiler would emit code to save the current rounding mode, change it, perform the conversion, then restore the old rounding mode --- even though nothing in the program ever changed the rounding mode! Disabling this behavior significantly sped up my code. Are there any similar floating-point-related gotchas I should be aware of? One consequence of C++ being compiled and linked separately is that the compiler is unable to do what would seem to be very simple optimizations, such as move method calls like strlen() out of the termination conditions of loop. Are there any optimization like this one that I should look out for because they can't be done by the compiler and must be done by hand? On the flip side, are there any techniques I should avoid because they are likely to interfere with the compiler's ability to automatically optimize code? Lastly, to nip certain kinds of answers in the bud: I understand that optimization has a cost in terms of complexity, reliability, and maintainability. For this particular application, increased performance is worth these costs. I understand that the best optimizations are often to improve the high-level algorithms, and this has already been done.

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Is it possible to shuffle a 2D matrix while preserving row AND column frequencies?

- by j_random_hacker

Suppose I have a 2D array like the following: GACTG AGATA TCCGA Each array element is taken from a small finite set (in my case, DNA nucleotides -- {A, C, G, T}). I would like to randomly shuffle this array somehow while preserving both row and column nucleotide frequencies. Is this possible? Can it be done efficiently? [EDIT]: By this I mean I want to produce a new matrix where each row has the same number of As, Cs, Gs and Ts as the corresponding row of the original matrix, and where each column has the same number of As, Cs, Gs and Ts as the corresponding column of the original matrix. Permuting the rows or columns of the original matrix will not achieve this in general. (E.g. for the example above, the top row has 2 Gs, and 1 each of A, C and T; if this row was swapped with row 2, the top row in the resulting matrix would have 3 As, 1 G and 1 T.) It's simple enough to preserve just column frequencies by shuffling a column at a time, and likewise for rows. But doing this will in general alter the frequencies of the other kind. My thoughts so far: If it's possible to pick 2 rows and 2 columns so that the 4 elements at the corners of this rectangle have the pattern XY YX for some pair of distinct elements X and Y, then replacing these 4 elements with YX XY will maintain both row and column frequencies. In the example at the top, this can be done for (at least) rows 1 and 2 and columns 2 and 5 (whose corners give the 2x2 matrix AG;GA), and for rows 1 and 3 and columns 1 and 4 (whose corners give GT;TG). Clearly this could be repeated a number of times to produce some level of randomisation. Generalising a bit, any "subrectangle" induced by a subset of rows and a subset of columns, in which the frequencies of all rows are the same and the frequencies of all columns are the same, can have both its rows and columns permuted to produce a valid complete rectangle. (Of these, only those subrectangles in which at least 1 element is changed are actually interesting.) Big questions: Are all valid complete matrices reachable by a series of such "subrectangle rearrangements"? I suspect the answer is yes. Are all valid subrectangle rearrangements decomposable into a series of 2x2 swaps? I suspect the answer is no, but I hope it's yes, since that would seem to make it easier to come up with an efficient algorithm. Can some or all of the valid rearrangements be computed efficiently? This question addresses a special case in which the set of possible elements is {0, 1}. The solutions people have come up with there are similar to what I have come up with myself, and are probably usable, but not ideal as they require an arbitrary amount of backtracking to work correctly. Also I'm concerned that only 2x2 swaps are considered. Finally, I would ideally like a solution that can be proven to select a matrix uniformly at random from the set of all matrices having identical row frequencies and column frequencies to the original. I know, I'm asking for a lot :)

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Create a named cell dynamically

- by CaptMorgan

I have a workbook with 3 worksheets. 1 worksheet will have input values (not created at the moment and not needed for this question), 1 worksheet with several "template" or "source" tables, and the last worksheet has 4 formatted "target" tables (empty or not doesn't matter). Each template table has 3 columns, 1 column identifying what the values are for in the second 2 columns. The value columns have formulas in them and each cell is Named. The formulas use the cell Names rather than cell address (e.g. MyData1 instead of C2). I am trying to copy the templates into the target tables while also either copying the cell Names from the source into the targets or create the Names in the target tables based on the source cell Names. My code below I am creating the target names by using a "base" in the Name that will be changed depending on which target table it gets copied to. my sample tables have "Num0_" for a base in all the cell names (e.g. Num0_MyData1, Num0_SomeOtherData2, etc). Once the copy has completed the code will then name the cells by looking at the target Names (and address), replacing the base of the name with a new base, just adding a number of which target table it goes to, and replacing the sheet name in the address. Here's where I need help. The way I am changing that address will only work if my template and target are using the same cell addresses of their perspective sheets. Which they are not. (e.g. Template1 table has value cells, each named, of B2 thru C10, and my target table for the copy may be F52 thur G60). Bottom line I need to figure out how to copy those names over with the templates or name the cells dynamically by doing something like a replace where I am incrementing the address value based on my target table #...remember I have 4 target tables which are static, I will only copy to those areas. I am a newbie to vba so any suggestions or help is appreciated. NOTE: The copying of the table works as I want. It even names the cells (if the Template and Target Table have the same local worksheet cell address (e.g. C2) 'Declare Module level variables 'Variables for target tables are defined in sub's for each target table. Dim cellName As Name Dim newName As String Dim newAddress As String Dim newSheetVar Dim oldSheetVar Dim oldNameVar Dim srcTable1 Sub copyTables() newSheetVar = "TestSheet" oldSheetVar = "Templates" oldNameVar = "Num0_" srcTable1 = "TestTableTemplate" 'Call sub functions to copy tables, name cells and update functions. copySrc1Table copySrc2Table End Sub '****there is another sub identical to this one below for copySrc2Table. Sub copySrc1Table() newNameVar = "Num1_" trgTable1 = "SourceEnvTable1" Sheets(oldSheetVar).Select Range(srcTable1).Select Selection.Copy For Each cellName In ActiveWorkbook.Names 'Find all names with common value If cellName.Name Like oldNameVar & "*" Then 'Replace the common value with the update value you need newName = Replace(cellName.Name, oldNameVar, newNameVar) newAddress = Replace(cellName.RefersTo, oldSheetVar, newSheetVar) 'Edit the name of the name. This will change any formulas using this name as well ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:=newName, RefersTo:=newAddress End If Next cellName Sheets(newSheetVar).Select Range(trgTable1).Select Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:= _ False, Transpose:=False End Sub PING

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C# LINQ filtering with nested if statements

- by Tim Sumrall

I have a learning project where a data grid is filtered by 3 controls (a checkbox and 2 dropdowns) I'm about to wrap up and move on to another project as it works well but I don't like the complexity of nesting IF statements to capture all the possible combinations of the 3 filters and was wondering if there is a better way. For example: Something that would allow for more filters to be added easily rather than walking through all the nests and adding another level of madness. private void BuildQuery() { EntityQuery<MASTER_DOCKS> query = QDocksContext.GetMASTER_DOCKSQuery(); if (Tonnage.IsChecked.HasValue && Tonnage.IsChecked.Value) { if (null != FilterWaterWay.SelectedValue) { string WaterwaytoFilterBy = FilterWaterWay.SelectedValue.ToString(); if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(WaterwaytoFilterBy) && WaterwaytoFilterBy != "[Select WaterWay]") { if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue) { string StateToFilterBy = FilterState.SelectedValue.ToString(); if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { query = query.Where(s => s.WTWY_NAME == WaterwaytoFilterBy && s.STATE == StateToFilterBy && (s.Tons != "0" && s.Tons != "")).OrderBy(s => s.WTWY_NAME); MyQuery.Text = "Tonnage, WW and State"; } } if (StateToFilterBy == "[Select State]") //waterway but no state { query = query.Where(s => s.WTWY_NAME == WaterwaytoFilterBy && (s.Tons != "0" && s.Tons != "")).OrderBy(s => s.WTWY_NAME); MyQuery.Text = "Tonnage, WW No State"; } } } else { if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue) { string StateToFilterBy = FilterState.SelectedValue.ToString(); if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { query = query.Where(s => s.STATE == StateToFilterBy && (s.Tons != "0" && s.Tons != "")).OrderBy(s => s.WTWY_NAME); MyQuery.Text = "Tonnage State No WW"; } } else { query = query.Where(s => (s.Tons != "0" && s.Tons != "")); MyQuery.Text = "Tonnage No State No WW"; } } } } } else //no tonnage { if (null != FilterWaterWay.SelectedValue) { string WaterwaytoFilterBy = FilterWaterWay.SelectedValue.ToString(); if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(WaterwaytoFilterBy) && WaterwaytoFilterBy != "[Select WaterWay]") { if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue) { string StateToFilterBy = FilterState.SelectedValue.ToString(); if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { query = query.Where(s => s.WTWY_NAME == WaterwaytoFilterBy && s.STATE == StateToFilterBy).OrderBy(s => s.WTWY_NAME); MyQuery.Text = "No Tonnage, WW and State"; } } if (StateToFilterBy == "[Select State]") //waterway but no state { query = query.Where(s => s.WTWY_NAME == WaterwaytoFilterBy).OrderBy(s => s.WTWY_NAME); MyQuery.Text = "No Tonnage, WW No State"; } } } else { if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue) { string StateToFilterBy = FilterState.SelectedValue.ToString(); if (null != FilterState.SelectedValue && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StateToFilterBy) && StateToFilterBy != "[Select State]") { query = query.Where(s => s.STATE == StateToFilterBy).OrderBy(s => s.WTWY_NAME); MyQuery.Text = "No Tonnage State No WW"; } } else { LoadAllData(); MyQuery.Text = "No Tonnage No State No WW"; } } } } } LoadOperation<MASTER_DOCKS> loadOp = this.QDocksContext.Load(query); DocksGrid.ItemsSource = loadOp.Entities; }

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nil object in view when building objects on two different associations

- by Shako

Hello all. I'm relatively new to Ruby on Rails so please don't mind my newbie level! I have following models: class Paintingdescription < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :paintings belongs_to :languages end class Paintingtitle < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :paintings belongs_to :languages end class Painting < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :paintingtitles, :dependent => :destroy has_many :paintingdescriptions, :dependent => :destroy has_many :languages, :through => :paintingdescriptions has_many :languages, :through => :paintingtitles end class Language < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :paintingtitles, :dependent => :nullify has_many :paintingdescriptions, :dependent => :nullify has_many :paintings, :through => :paintingtitles has_many :paintings, :through => :paintingdescriptions end In my painting new/edit view, I would like to show the painting details, together with its title and description in each of the languages, so I can store the translation of those field. In order to build the languagetitle and languagedescription records for my painting and each of the languages, I wrote following code in the new method of my Paintings_controller.rb: @temp_languages = @languages @languages.size.times{@painting.paintingtitles.build} @painting.paintingtitles.each do |paintingtitle| paintingtitle.language_id = @temp_languages[0].id @temp_languages.slice!(0) end @temp_languages = @languages @languages.size.times{@painting.paintingdescriptions.build} @painting.paintingdescriptions.each do |paintingdescription| paintingdescription.language_id = @temp_languages[0].id @temp_languages.slice!(0) end In form partial which I call in the new/edit view, I have <% form_for @painting, :html => { :multipart => true} do |f| %> ... <% languages.each do |language| %> <p> <%= label language, language.name %> <% paintingtitle = @painting.paintingtitles[counter] %> <% new_or_existing = paintingtitle.new_record? ? 'new' : 'new' %> <% prefix = "painting[#{new_or_existing}_title_attributes][]" %> <% fields_for prefix, paintingtitle do |paintingtitle_form| %> <%= paintingtitle_form.hidden_field :language_id%> <%= f.label :title %><br /> <%= paintingtitle_form.text_field :title%> <% end %> <% paintingdescription = @painting.paintingdescriptions[counter] %> <% new_or_existing = paintingdescription.new_record? ? 'new' : 'new' %> <% prefix = "painting[#{new_or_existing}_title_attributes][]" %> <% fields_for prefix, paintingdescription do |paintingdescription_form| %> <%= paintingdescription_form.hidden_field :language_id%> <%= f.label :description %><br /> <%= paintingdescription_form.text_field :description %> <% end %> </p> <% counter += 1 %> <% end %> ... <% end %> But, when running the code, ruby encounters a nil object when evaluating paintingdescription.new_record?: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error occurred while evaluating nil.new_record? However, if I change the order in which I a) build the paintingtitles and painting descriptions in the paintings_controller new method and b) show the paintingtitles and painting descriptions in the form partial then I get the nil on the paintingtitles.new_record? call. I always get the nil for the objects I build in second place. The ones I build first aren't nil in my view. Is it possible that I cannot build objects for 2 different associations at the same time? Or am I missing something else? Thanks in advance!

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Why isn't the inline element inheriting height from its children?

- by jbarz

I'm trying to make a rather complicated grid of images and information (almost like Pinterest). Specifically, I'm trying to inline position one set of <ul>s right after another. I have it working but one aspect is causing issues so I'm trying to ask about this small piece to avoid the complication of the whole problem. In order to horizontally align the images and their information we are using inline <li>s with other inline-block level elements inside of them. Everything works correctly for the most part except that the <li>s have almost no height. HTML and CSS is in JSFiddle here if you want to mess with it in addition to below: HTML: <div> <ul class="Container"> <li> <span class="Item"> <a href="#"><img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png"/></a> <span class="Info"> <a href="#">Title One</a> <span class="Details">One Point One</span> </span> </span> </li> <li> <span class="Item"> <a href="#"><img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png"/></a> <span class="Info"> <a href="#">Title Two</a> <span class="Details">Two Point One</span> </span> </span> </li> </ul> CSS: .Container { list-style-type:none; } .Container li { background-color:grey; display:inline; text-align:center; } .Container li .Item { border:solid 2px #ccc; display:inline-block; min-height:50px; vertical-align:top; width:170px; } .Container li .Item .Info { display:inline-block; } .Container li .Item .Info a { display:inline-block; width:160px; } If you check out the result in the jsfiddle link you can see that the grey background only encompasses a small strip of the whole <li>. I know that changing the <li> to display:inline-block solves this problem but that isn't feasible for other reasons. So first of all, I'm just looking to see if anyone understands why the inline <li> element doesn't have any height. I can't find anything in the spec that explains this. I know I can't add height to an inline element but any explanation as to why this is happening that might enable me to fix would be great. Secondly, if you inspect the elements using IE's Developer Mode you will see that although the background color is in the correct location, the actual location of the <li>'s bounding box is at the bottom of the container according to hovering over the element. I could deal with this problem if it was at the top in every browser but it apparently varies. NOTE: I don't really care about older browsers in this case but I don't use HTML5 or JavaScript positioning. Thanks.

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(iOS) UI Automation AlertPrompt button/textField accessiblity

- by lipd

I'm having a bit of trouble with UI Automation (the built in to iOS tool) when it comes to alertView. First off, I'm not sure where I can set the accessibilityLabel and such for the buttons that are on the alertView. Secondly, although I am not getting an error, I can't get my textField to actually set the value of the textField to something. I'll put up my code for the alertView and the javaScript I am using for UI Automation. UIATarget.onAlert = function onAlert(alert) { // Log alerts and bail, unless it's the one we want var title = alert.name(); UIALogger.logMessage("Alert with title '" + title + "' encountered!"); alert.logElementTree(); if (title == "AlertPrompt") { UIALogger.logMessage(alert.textFields().length + ''); target.delay(1); alert.textFields()["AlertText"].setValue("AutoTest"); target.delay(1); return true; // Override default handler } else return false; } var target = UIATarget.localTarget(); var application = target.frontMostApp(); var mainWindow = application.mainWindow(); mainWindow.logElementTree(); //target.delay(1); //mainWindow.logElementTree(); //target.delay(1); var tableView = mainWindow.tableViews()[0]; var button = tableView.buttons(); //UIALogger.logMessage("Num buttons: " + button.length); //UIALogger.logMessage("num Table views: " + mainWindow.tableViews().length); //UIALogger.logMessage("Number of cells: " + tableView.cells().length); /*for (var currentCellIndex = 0; currentCellIndex < tableView.cells().length; currentCellIndex++) { var currentCell = tableView.cells()[currentCellIndex]; UIALogger.logStart("Testing table option: " + currentCell.name()); tableView.scrollToElementWithName(currentCell.name()); target.delay(1); currentCell.tap();// Go down a level target.delay(1); UIATarget.localTarget().captureScreenWithName(currentCell.name()); //mainWindow.navigationBar().leftButton().tap(); // Go back target.delay(1); UIALogger.logPass("Testing table option " + currentCell.name()); }*/ UIALogger.logStart("Testing add item"); target.delay(1); mainWindow.navigationBar().buttons()["addButton"].tap(); target.delay(1); if(tableView.cells().length == 5) UIALogger.logPass("Successfully added item to table"); else UIALogger.logFail("FAIL: didn't add item to table"); Here's what I'm using for the alertView #import "AlertPrompt.h" @implementation AlertPrompt @synthesize textField; @synthesize enteredText; - (id)initWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message delegate:(id)delegate cancelButtonTitle:(NSString *)cancelButtonTitle okButtonTitle:(NSString *)okayButtonTitle withOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation) orientation { if ((self == [super initWithTitle:title message:message delegate:delegate cancelButtonTitle:cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:okayButtonTitle, nil])) { self.isAccessibilityElement = YES; self.accessibilityLabel = @"AlertPrompt"; UITextField *theTextField; if(orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait) theTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)]; else theTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 30.0, 260.0, 25.0)]; [theTextField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; [self addSubview:theTextField]; self.textField = theTextField; self.textField.isAccessibilityElement = YES; self.textField.accessibilityLabel = @"AlertText"; [theTextField release]; CGAffineTransform translate = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, 0.0); [self setTransform:translate]; } return self; } - (void)show { [textField becomeFirstResponder]; [super show]; } - (NSString *)enteredText { return [self.textField text]; } - (void)dealloc { //[textField release]; [super dealloc]; } @end Thanks for any help!

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I am making a maze type of game using javascript and HTML and need some questions answered [on hold]

- by Timothy Bilodeau

First off, i am a noob to JavaScript but am willing to learn. :) I found a simple JavaScript moment engine created by another member on this site. Using that i made it so my character can walk around within a rectangle/square shaped room. I want to make it so the character can walk through a "doorway" within a wall to the next room. Either that or make it so if the character moves over a certain image within the room it will take the player to another webpage in which the character "spawns" into the room and so on and so fourth. Here is a link to what i have made so far as to get an idea. http://bit.ly/1fSMesA Any help would be much appreciated. Here is the javascript code for the character movement and boundaries. <script type='text/javascript'> // movement vars var xpos = 100; var ypos = 100; var xspeed = 1; var yspeed = 0; var maxSpeed = 5; // boundary var minx = 37; var miny = 41; var maxx = 187; // 10 pixels for character's width var maxy = 178; // 10 pixels for character's width // controller vars var upPressed = 0; var downPressed = 0; var leftPressed = 0; var rightPressed = 0; function slowDownX() { if (xspeed > 0) xspeed = xspeed - 1; if (xspeed < 0) xspeed = xspeed + 1; } function slowDownY() { if (yspeed > 0) yspeed = yspeed - 1; if (yspeed < 0) yspeed = yspeed + 1; } function gameLoop() { // change position based on speed xpos = Math.min(Math.max(xpos + xspeed,minx),maxx); ypos = Math.min(Math.max(ypos + yspeed,miny),maxy); // or, without boundaries: // xpos = xpos + xspeed; // ypos = ypos + yspeed; // change actual position document.getElementById('character').style.left = xpos; document.getElementById('character').style.top = ypos; // change speed based on keyboard events if (upPressed == 1) yspeed = Math.max(yspeed - 1,-1*maxSpeed); if (downPressed == 1) yspeed = Math.min(yspeed + 1,1*maxSpeed) if (rightPressed == 1) xspeed = Math.min(xspeed + 1,1*maxSpeed); if (leftPressed == 1) xspeed = Math.max(xspeed - 1,-1*maxSpeed); // deceleration if (upPressed == 0 && downPressed == 0) slowDownY(); if (leftPressed == 0 && rightPressed == 0) slowDownX(); // loop setTimeout("gameLoop()",10); } function keyDown(e) { var code = e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which; if (code == 38) upPressed = 1; if (code == 40) downPressed = 1; if (code == 37) leftPressed = 1; if (code == 39) rightPressed = 1; } function keyUp(e) { var code = e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which; if (code == 38) upPressed = 0; if (code == 40) downPressed = 0; if (code == 37) leftPressed = 0; if (code == 39) rightPressed = 0; } </script> here is the HTML code to follow  <img src="room1.png" />  <img id='character' src='../texture packs/characters/snazgel.png' style='position:absolute;left:100;top:100;height:40;width:26;'/>

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simplify in declaring variables value in php

- by Robert John Concepcion

$jan5 = 0; $feb5 = 0; $mar5 = 0; $apr5 = 0; $may5 = 0; $jun5 = 0; $jul5 = 0; $aug5 = 0; $sep5 = 0; $oct5 = 0; $nov5 = 0; $dec5 = 0; $jan4 = 0; $feb4 = 0; $mar4 = 0; $apr4 = 0; $may4 = 0; $jun4 = 0; $jul4 = 0; $aug4 = 0; $sep4 = 0; $oct4 = 0; $nov4 = 0; $dec4 = 0; $jan3 = 0; $feb3 = 0; $mar3 = 0; $apr3 = 0; $may3 = 0; $jun3 = 0; $jul3 = 0; $aug3 = 0; $sep3 = 0; $oct3 = 0; $nov3 = 0; $dec3 = 0; this is the most time consuming code when i try to make for example i want the default value of $jan5 is equal to zero.. can some one teach me how to make this short? thank you so much for reading $date = 'smi_initialdate'; $level = 'smi_level'; $year = '2012'; $result1 = mysql_query("SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT( $date, '%m' ) As monthz FROM eis_mngt_sales_iti WHERE year($date) = '$year' ORDER BY $date"); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result1)) { $count++; if($row['smi_level']=='5star') { if($row['monthz']==1) { $jan++; }elseif($row['monthz']==2) { $feb++; }elseif($row['monthz']==3) { $mar++; }elseif($row['monthz']==4) { $apr++; }elseif($row['monthz']==5) { $may++; }elseif($row['monthz']==6) { $jun++; }elseif($row['monthz']==7) { $jul++; }elseif($row['monthz']==8) { $aug++; }elseif($row['monthz']==9) { $sep++; }elseif($row['monthz']==10) { $oct++; }elseif($row['monthz']==11) { $nov++; }elseif($row['monthz']==12) { $dec++; } } } i decide to put this $jan5 = 0;$feb5 = 0;$mar5 = 0;$apr5 = 0;$may5 = 0;$jun5 = 0;$jul5 = 0; so that if the data did not pass to this condition if($row['smi_level']=='5star') they have the return value of zero(0). so that my output can adapt in this code [<?php echo$jan5.",".$feb5.",".$mar5.",".$apr5.",".$may5.",".$jun5.",".$jul5.",".$aug5.",".$sep5.",".$oct5.",".$nov5.",".$dec5; ?] if a dont use the above code the $jan5 = 0;$feb5 = 0;$mar5 = 0;$apr5 = 0;$may5 = 0;$jun5 = 0;$jul5 = 0;................ when i echo or print it i look like this 1,2,5,11,12 but with the use of that(the first sample code above) the output will be 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,5,11,12. thank, sorry if this became confusing, sorry about my grammar

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WiX 3 Tutorial: Understanding main WXS and WXI file

- by Mladen Prajdic

In the previous post we’ve taken a look at the WiX solution/project structure and project properties. We’re still playing with our super SuperForm application and today we’ll take a look at the general parts of the main wxs file, SuperForm.wxs, and the wxi include file. For wxs file we’ll just go over the general description of what each part does in the code comments. The more detailed descriptions will be in future posts about features themselves. WXI include file Include files are exactly what their name implies. To include a wxi file into the wxs file you have to put the wxi at the beginning of each .wxs file you wish to include it in. If you’ve ever worked with C++ you can think of the include files as .h files. For example if you include SuperFormVariables.wxi into the SuperForm.wxs, the variables in the wxi won’t be seen in FilesFragment.wxs or RegistryFragment.wxs. You’d have to include it manually into those two wxs files too. For preprocessor variable $(var.VariableName) to be seen by every file in the project you have to include them in the WiX project properties->Build->“Define preprocessor variables” textbox. This is why I’ve chosen not to go this route because in multi developer teams not everyone has the same directory structure and having a single variable would mean each developer would have to checkout the wixproj file to edit the variable. This is pretty much unacceptable by my standards. This is why we’ve added a System Environment variable named SuperFormFilesDir as is shown in the previous Wix Tutorial post. Because the FilesFragment.wxs is autogenerated on every project build we don’t want to change it manually each time by adding the include wxi at the beginning of the file. This way we couldn’t recreate it in each pre-build event. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Include>  <?define MajorVersion="1" ?> <?define MinorVersion="0" ?> <?define BuildVersion="0" ?>  <?define Revision="0" ?>  <?define VersionNumber="$(var.MajorVersion).$(var.MinorVersion).$(var.BuildVersion).$(var.Revision)" ?>  <?define UpgradeCode="YOUR-GUID-HERE" ?>  <?define ResourcesDir="$(var.ProjectDir)\Resources" ?>  <?define ExeProcessName="SuperForm.MainApp.exe" ?></Include> For now there’s no way to tell WiX in Visual Studio to have a wxi include file available to the whole project, so you have to include it in each file separately. Only variables set in “Define preprocessor variables” or System Environment variables are accessible to the whole project for now. The main WXS file: SuperForm.wxs We’ll only take a look at the general structure of the main SuperForm.wxs and not its the details. We’ll cover the details in future posts. The code comments should provide plenty info about what each part does in general. Basically there are 5 major parts. The update part, the conditions and actions part, the UI install sequence, the directory structure and the features we want to include. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension">  <?include $(sys.CURRENTDIR)Includes\SuperFormVariables.wxi ?>  <Product Id="*" Name="!(loc.ProductName) $(var.VersionNumber)" Language="!(loc.LANG)" Version="$(var.VersionNumber)" Manufacturer="!(loc.ManufacturerName)" UpgradeCode="$(var.UpgradeCode)">  <Package InstallerVersion="300" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine"/> <Media Id="1" Cabinet="media1.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />  <Upgrade Id="$(var.UpgradeCode)"> <UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="yes" Minimum="$(var.VersionNumber)" IncludeMinimum="no" Property="NEWER_VERSION_FOUND" /> <UpgradeVersion Minimum="0.0.0.0" IncludeMinimum="yes" Maximum="$(var.VersionNumber)" IncludeMaximum="no" Property="OLDER_VERSION_FOUND" /> </Upgrade>  <PropertyRef Id="NETFRAMEWORK35"/>  <Condition Message="!(loc.DotNetFrameworkNeeded)"> <![CDATA[Installed OR NETFRAMEWORK35]]> </Condition> <Condition Message="!(loc.AppNotSupported)"> <![CDATA[Installed OR ((VersionNT >= 501 AND ServicePackLevel >= 2) OR (VersionNT >= 502))]]> </Condition>  <CustomAction Id="NewerVersionFound" Error="!(loc.SuperFormNewerVersionInstalled)" /> <InstallExecuteSequence>  <Custom Action="NewerVersionFound" After="FindRelatedProducts"> <![CDATA[NEWER_VERSION_FOUND]]> </Custom>  <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallInitialize"/>  <Custom Action="WixCloseApplications" Before="InstallInitialize" /> </InstallExecuteSequence>  <util:CloseApplication Id="CloseSuperForm" CloseMessage="no" Description="!(loc.MustCloseSuperForm)" ElevatedCloseMessage="no" RebootPrompt="no" Target="$(var.ExeProcessName)" />  <UIRef Id="WixUI_InstallDir" /> <UI>  <DialogRef Id="FilesInUse" /> <DialogRef Id="MsiRMFilesInUse" />  </UI>  <Icon Id="SuperFormIcon.ico" SourceFile="$(var.ResourcesDir)\Exclam.ico" /> <Property Id="ARPPRODUCTICON" Value="SuperFormIcon.ico" />   <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder"> <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="!(loc.ProductName)" /> </Directory> </Directory>  <Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="INSTALLLOCATION" />  <Feature Id="SuperFormFeature" Title="!(loc.ProductName)" Level="1"> <ComponentGroupRef Id="SuperFormFiles" /> <ComponentRef Id="cmpVersionInRegistry" /> <ComponentRef Id="cmpIsThisUpdateInRegistry" /> </Feature> </Product></Wix> For more info on what certain attributes mean you should look into the WiX Documentation. WiX 3 tutorial by Mladen Prajdic navigation WiX 3 Tutorial: Solution/Project structure and Dev resources WiX 3 Tutorial: Understanding main wxs and wxi file WiX 3 Tutorial: Generating file/directory fragments with Heat.exe

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kernel module compiling error

- by wati

sh@ubuntu:/home/ccpp/helloworld$ make gcc-4.6 -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c -o hello-1.o hello-1.c hello-1.c:4:0: warning: "MODULE" redefined [enabled by default] <command-line>:0:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition hello-1.c:6:0: warning: "_KERNEL_" redefined [enabled by default] <command-line>:0:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:4:0, from /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/module.h:9, from hello-1.c:7: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/types.h:13:2: warning: #warning "Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders" [-Wcpp] In file included from /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/module.h:9:0, from hello-1.c:7: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘INIT_LIST_HEAD’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:26:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:27:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘__list_add’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:41:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:42:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:43:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:44:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_add’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:62:28: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_add_tail’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:76:22: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘__list_del’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:88:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:89:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘__list_del_entry’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:101:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:101:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_del’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:106:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:106:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:107:7: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:108:7: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_replace’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:125:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:125:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:126:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:127:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:127:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:128:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_is_last’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:179:13: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_empty’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:188:13: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_empty_careful’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:206:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:207:40: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_rotate_left’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:219:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_is_singular’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:230:35: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:230:49: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘__list_cut_position’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:236:37: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:237:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:237:19: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:238:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:239:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:240:7: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:241:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:242:11: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_cut_position’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:265:8: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘__list_splice’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:277:32: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:278:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:280:7: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:281:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:283:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:284:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_splice’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:296:33: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_splice_tail’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:308:27: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_splice_init’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:322:33: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘list_splice_tail_init’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:339:27: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘INIT_HLIST_NODE’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:572:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:573:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_unhashed’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:578:11: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_empty’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:583:11: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘__hlist_del’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:588:29: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:589:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:592:7: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_del’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:598:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:599:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_add_head’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:612:30: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:613:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:615:8: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:615:20: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:616:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:617:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:617:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_add_before’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:624:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:624:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:625:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:626:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:626:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:627:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_add_after’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:633:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:633:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:634:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:635:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:635:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:637:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:638:7: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:638:29: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_add_fake’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:644:3: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:644:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h: In function ‘hlist_move_list’: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:654:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:654:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:655:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:656:6: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:656:27: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/list.h:657:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type In file included from /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/module.h:12:0, from hello-1.c:7: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/cache.h: At top level: /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/linux/cache.h:5:23: fatal error: asm/cache.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [hello-1.o] Error 1 i got this error after compiling an helloworld program my program is #define MODULE #define LINUX #define _KERNEL_ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> int init_module(void) { printk("<1>hello World 1.\n"); return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { printk(KERN_ALERT "goodbye world 1.\n"); } MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); my make file is: TARGET := hello-1 WARN := -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes INCLUDE := -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include CFLAGS := -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ ${WARN} ${INCLUDE} CC := gcc-4.6 ${TARGET}.o: ${TARGET}.c .PHONY: clean clean: rm -rf ${TARGET}.o iam usin kernel 3.2.0.25 as novice i can't able to figure out where the problem is I SEARCHED EVERY THING I CAN TO KNOW ABOUT THIS ERROR BUT I CANT UNDERSTAND &I GET IRRELEVANT DOCS anybody help me please

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Processing Email in Outlook

- by Daniel Moth

A. Why Goal 1 = Help others: Have at most a 24-hour response turnaround to internal (from colleague) emails, typically achieving same day response. Goal 2 = Help projects: Not to implicitly pass/miss an opportunity to have impact on electronic discussions around any project on the radar. Not achieving goals 1 & 2 = Colleagues stop relying on you, drop you off conversations, don't see you as a contributing resource or someone that cares, you are perceived as someone with no peripheral vision. Note this is perfect if all you are doing is cruising at your job, trying to fly under the radar, with no ambitions of having impact beyond your absolute minimum 'day job'. B. DON'T: Leave unread email lurking around Don't: Receive or process all incoming emails in a single folder ('inbox' or 'unread mail'). This is actually possible if you receive a small number of emails (e.g. new to the job, not working at a company like Microsoft). Even so, with (your future) success at any level (company, community) comes large incoming email, so learn to deal with it. With large volumes, it is best to let the system help you by doing some categorization and filtering on your behalf (instead of trying to do that in your head as you process the single folder). See later section on how to achieve this. Don't: Leave emails as 'unread' (or worse: read them, then mark them as unread). Often done by individuals who think they possess super powers ("I can mentally cache and distinguish between the emails I chose not to read, the ones that are actually new, and the ones I decided to revisit in the future; the fact that they all show up the same (bold = unread) does not confuse me"). Interactions with this super-powered individuals typically end up with them saying stuff like "I must have missed that email you are talking about (from 2 weeks ago)" or "I am a bit behind, so I haven't read your email, can you remind me". TIP: The only place where you are "allowed" unread email is in your Deleted Items folder. Don't: Interpret a read email as an email that has been processed. Doing that, means you will always end up with fake unread email (that you have actually read, but haven't dealt with completely so you then marked it as unread) lurking between actual unread email. Another side effect is reading the email and making a 'mental' note to action it, then leaving the email as read, so the only thing left to remind you to carry out the action is… you. You are not super human, you will forget. This is a key distinction. Reading (or even scanning) a new email, means you now know what needs to be done with it, in order for it to be truly considered processed. Truly processing an email is to, for example, write an email of your own (e.g. to reply or forward), or take a non-email related action (e.g. create calendar entry, do something on some website), or read it carefully to gain some knowledge (e.g. it had a spec as an attachment), or keep it around as reference etc. 'Reading' means that you know what to do, not that you have done it. An email that is read is an email that is triaged, not an email that is resolved. Sometimes the thing that needs to be done based on receiving the email, you can (and want) to do immediately after reading the email. That is fine, you read the email and you processed it (typically when it takes no longer than X minutes, where X is your personal tolerance – mine is roughly 2 minutes). Other times, you decide that you don't want to spend X minutes at that moment, so after reading the email you need a quick system for "marking" the email as to be processed later (and you still leave it as 'read' in outlook). See later section for how. C. DO: Use Outlook rules and have multiple folders where incoming email is automatically moved to Outlook email rules are very powerful and easy to configure. Use them to automatically file email into folders. Here are mine (note that if a rule catches an email message then no further rules get processed): "personal" Email is either personal or business related. Almost all personal email goes to my gmail account. The personal emails that end up on my work email account, go to a dedicated folder – that is achieved via a rule that looks at the email's 'From' field. For those that slip through, I use the new Outlook 2010 quick step of "Conversation To Folder" feature to let the slippage only occur once per conversation, and then update my rules. "External" and "ViaBlog" The remaining external emails either come from my blog (rule on the subject line) or are unsolicited (rule on the domain name not being microsoft) and they are filed accordingly. "invites" I may do a separate blog post on calendar management, but suffice to say it should be kept up to date. All invite requests end up in this folder, so that even if mail gets out of control, the calendar can stay under control (only 1 folder to check). I.e. so I can let the organizer know why I won't be attending their meeting (or that I will be). Note: This folder is the only one that shows the total number of items in it, instead of the total unread. "Inbox" The only email that ends up here is email sent TO me and me only. Note that this is also the only email that shows up above the systray icon in the notification toast – all other emails cannot interrupt. "ToMe++" Email where I am on the TO line, but there are other recipients as well (on the TO or CC line). "CC" Email where I am on the CC line. I need to read these, but nobody is expecting a response or action from me so they are not as urgent (and if they are and follow up with me, they'll receive a link to this). "@ XYZ" Emails to aliases that are about projects that I directly work on (and I wasn't on the TO or CC line, of course). Test: these projects are in my commitments that I get measured on at the end of the year. "Z Mass" and subfolders under it per distribution list (DL) Emails to aliases that are about topics that I am interested in, but not that I formally own/contribute to. Test: if I unsubscribed from these aliases, nobody could rightfully complain. "Admin" folder, which resides under "Z Mass" folder Emails to aliases that I was added typically by an admin, e.g. broad emails to the floor/group/org/building/division/company that I am a member of. "BCC" folder, which resides under "Z Mass" Emails where I was not on the TO or the CC line explicitly and the alias it was sent to is not one I explicitly subscribed to (or I have been added to the BCC line, which I briefly touched on in another post). When there are only a few quick minutes to catch up on email, read as much as possible from these folders, in this order: Invites, Inbox, ToMe++. Only when these folders are all read (remember that doesn't mean that each email in them has been fully dealt with), we can move on to the @XYZ and then the CC folders. Only when those are read we can go on to the remaining folders. Note that the typical flow in the "Z Mass" subfolders is to scan subject lines and use the new Ctrl+Delete Outlook 2010 feature to ignore conversations. D. DO: Use Outlook Search folders in combination with categories As you process each folder, when you open a new email (i.e. click on it and read it in the preview pane) the email becomes read and stays read and you have to decide whether: It can take 2 minutes to deal with for good, right now, or It will take longer than 2 minutes, so it needs to be postponed with a clear next step, which is one of ToReply – there may be intermediate action steps, but ultimately someone else needs to receive email about this Action – no email is required, but I need to do something ReadLater – no email is required from the quick scan, but this is too long to fully read now, so it needs to be read it later WaitingFor – the email is informing of an intermediate status and 'promising' a future email update. Need to track. SomedayMaybe – interesting but not important, non-urgent, non-time-bound information. I may want to spend part of one of my weekends reading it. For all these 'next steps' use Outlook categories (right click on the email and assign category, or use shortcut key). Note that I also use category 'WaitingFor' for email that I send where I am expecting a response and need to track it. Create a new search folder for each category (I dragged the search folders into my favorites at the top left of Outlook, above my inboxes). So after the activity of reading/triaging email in the normal folders (where the email arrived) is done, the result is a bunch of emails appearing in the search folders (configure them to show the total items, not the total unread items). To actually process email (that takes more than 2 minutes to deal with) process the search folders, starting with ToReply and Action. E. DO: Get into a Routine Now you have a system in place, get into a routine of using it. Here is how I personally use mine, but this part I keep tweaking: Spend short bursts of time (between meetings, during boring but mandatory meetings and, in general, 2-4 times a day) aiming to have no unread emails (and in the process deal with some emails that take less than 2 minutes). Spend around 30 minutes at the end of each day processing most urgent items in search folders. Spend as long as it takes each Friday (or even the weekend) ensuring there is no unnecessary email baggage carried forward to the following week. F. Other resources Official Outlook help on: Create custom actions rules, Manage e-mail messages with rules, creating a search folder. Video on ignoring conversations (Ctrl+Del). Official blog post on Quick Steps and in particular the Move Conversation to folder. If you've read "Getting Things Done" it is very obvious that my approach to email management is driven by GTD. A very similar approach was described previously by ScottHa (also influenced by GTD), worth reading here. He also described how he sets up 2 outlook rules ('invites' and 'external') which I also use – worth reading that too. Comments about this post welcome at the original blog.

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Processing Email in Outlook

- by Daniel Moth

A. Why Goal 1 = Help others: Have at most a 24-hour response turnaround to internal (from colleague) emails, typically achieving same day response. Goal 2 = Help projects: Not to implicitly pass/miss an opportunity to have impact on electronic discussions around any project on the radar. Not achieving goals 1 & 2 = Colleagues stop relying on you, drop you off conversations, don't see you as a contributing resource or someone that cares, you are perceived as someone with no peripheral vision. Note this is perfect if all you are doing is cruising at your job, trying to fly under the radar, with no ambitions of having impact beyond your absolute minimum 'day job'. B. DON'T: Leave unread email lurking around Don't: Receive or process all incoming emails in a single folder ('inbox' or 'unread mail'). This is actually possible if you receive a small number of emails (e.g. new to the job, not working at a company like Microsoft). Even so, with (your future) success at any level (company, community) comes large incoming email, so learn to deal with it. With large volumes, it is best to let the system help you by doing some categorization and filtering on your behalf (instead of trying to do that in your head as you process the single folder). See later section on how to achieve this. Don't: Leave emails as 'unread' (or worse: read them, then mark them as unread). Often done by individuals who think they possess super powers ("I can mentally cache and distinguish between the emails I chose not to read, the ones that are actually new, and the ones I decided to revisit in the future; the fact that they all show up the same (bold = unread) does not confuse me"). Interactions with this super-powered individuals typically end up with them saying stuff like "I must have missed that email you are talking about (from 2 weeks ago)" or "I am a bit behind, so I haven't read your email, can you remind me". TIP: The only place where you are "allowed" unread email is in your Deleted Items folder. Don't: Interpret a read email as an email that has been processed. Doing that, means you will always end up with fake unread email (that you have actually read, but haven't dealt with completely so you then marked it as unread) lurking between actual unread email. Another side effect is reading the email and making a 'mental' note to action it, then leaving the email as read, so the only thing left to remind you to carry out the action is… you. You are not super human, you will forget. This is a key distinction. Reading (or even scanning) a new email, means you now know what needs to be done with it, in order for it to be truly considered processed. Truly processing an email is to, for example, write an email of your own (e.g. to reply or forward), or take a non-email related action (e.g. create calendar entry, do something on some website), or read it carefully to gain some knowledge (e.g. it had a spec as an attachment), or keep it around as reference etc. 'Reading' means that you know what to do, not that you have done it. An email that is read is an email that is triaged, not an email that is resolved. Sometimes the thing that needs to be done based on receiving the email, you can (and want) to do immediately after reading the email. That is fine, you read the email and you processed it (typically when it takes no longer than X minutes, where X is your personal tolerance – mine is roughly 2 minutes). Other times, you decide that you don't want to spend X minutes at that moment, so after reading the email you need a quick system for "marking" the email as to be processed later (and you still leave it as 'read' in outlook). See later section for how. C. DO: Use Outlook rules and have multiple folders where incoming email is automatically moved to Outlook email rules are very powerful and easy to configure. Use them to automatically file email into folders. Here are mine (note that if a rule catches an email message then no further rules get processed): "personal" Email is either personal or business related. Almost all personal email goes to my gmail account. The personal emails that end up on my work email account, go to a dedicated folder – that is achieved via a rule that looks at the email's 'From' field. For those that slip through, I use the new Outlook 2010 quick step of "Conversation To Folder" feature to let the slippage only occur once per conversation, and then update my rules. "External" and "ViaBlog" The remaining external emails either come from my blog (rule on the subject line) or are unsolicited (rule on the domain name not being microsoft) and they are filed accordingly. "invites" I may do a separate blog post on calendar management, but suffice to say it should be kept up to date. All invite requests end up in this folder, so that even if mail gets out of control, the calendar can stay under control (only 1 folder to check). I.e. so I can let the organizer know why I won't be attending their meeting (or that I will be). Note: This folder is the only one that shows the total number of items in it, instead of the total unread. "Inbox" The only email that ends up here is email sent TO me and me only. Note that this is also the only email that shows up above the systray icon in the notification toast – all other emails cannot interrupt. "ToMe++" Email where I am on the TO line, but there are other recipients as well (on the TO or CC line). "CC" Email where I am on the CC line. I need to read these, but nobody is expecting a response or action from me so they are not as urgent (and if they are and follow up with me, they'll receive a link to this). "@ XYZ" Emails to aliases that are about projects that I directly work on (and I wasn't on the TO or CC line, of course). Test: these projects are in my commitments that I get measured on at the end of the year. "Z Mass" and subfolders under it per distribution list (DL) Emails to aliases that are about topics that I am interested in, but not that I formally own/contribute to. Test: if I unsubscribed from these aliases, nobody could rightfully complain. "Admin" folder, which resides under "Z Mass" folder Emails to aliases that I was added typically by an admin, e.g. broad emails to the floor/group/org/building/division/company that I am a member of. "BCC" folder, which resides under "Z Mass" Emails where I was not on the TO or the CC line explicitly and the alias it was sent to is not one I explicitly subscribed to (or I have been added to the BCC line, which I briefly touched on in another post). When there are only a few quick minutes to catch up on email, read as much as possible from these folders, in this order: Invites, Inbox, ToMe++. Only when these folders are all read (remember that doesn't mean that each email in them has been fully dealt with), we can move on to the @XYZ and then the CC folders. Only when those are read we can go on to the remaining folders. Note that the typical flow in the "Z Mass" subfolders is to scan subject lines and use the new Ctrl+Delete Outlook 2010 feature to ignore conversations. D. DO: Use Outlook Search folders in combination with categories As you process each folder, when you open a new email (i.e. click on it and read it in the preview pane) the email becomes read and stays read and you have to decide whether: It can take 2 minutes to deal with for good, right now, or It will take longer than 2 minutes, so it needs to be postponed with a clear next step, which is one of ToReply – there may be intermediate action steps, but ultimately someone else needs to receive email about this Action – no email is required, but I need to do something ReadLater – no email is required from the quick scan, but this is too long to fully read now, so it needs to be read it later WaitingFor – the email is informing of an intermediate status and 'promising' a future email update. Need to track. SomedayMaybe – interesting but not important, non-urgent, non-time-bound information. I may want to spend part of one of my weekends reading it. For all these 'next steps' use Outlook categories (right click on the email and assign category, or use shortcut key). Note that I also use category 'WaitingFor' for email that I send where I am expecting a response and need to track it. Create a new search folder for each category (I dragged the search folders into my favorites at the top left of Outlook, above my inboxes). So after the activity of reading/triaging email in the normal folders (where the email arrived) is done, the result is a bunch of emails appearing in the search folders (configure them to show the total items, not the total unread items). To actually process email (that takes more than 2 minutes to deal with) process the search folders, starting with ToReply and Action. E. DO: Get into a Routine Now you have a system in place, get into a routine of using it. Here is how I personally use mine, but this part I keep tweaking: Spend short bursts of time (between meetings, during boring but mandatory meetings and, in general, 2-4 times a day) aiming to have no unread emails (and in the process deal with some emails that take less than 2 minutes). Spend around 30 minutes at the end of each day processing most urgent items in search folders. Spend as long as it takes each Friday (or even the weekend) ensuring there is no unnecessary email baggage carried forward to the following week. F. Other resources Official Outlook help on: Create custom actions rules, Manage e-mail messages with rules, creating a search folder. Video on ignoring conversations (Ctrl+Del). Official blog post on Quick Steps and in particular the Move Conversation to folder. If you've read "Getting Things Done" it is very obvious that my approach to email management is driven by GTD. A very similar approach was described previously by ScottHa (also influenced by GTD), worth reading here. He also described how he sets up 2 outlook rules ('invites' and 'external') which I also use – worth reading that too. Comments about this post welcome at the original blog.

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Bug Triage

In this blog post brain dump, I'll attempt to describe the process my team tries to follow when dealing with new bug reports (specifically, code defect reports). This is not official Microsoft policy, just the way we do things… if you do things differently and want to share, you can do so at the bottom in the comments (or on your blog).Feature Triage TeamA subset of the feature crew, the triage team (which has representations from the PM, Dev and QA disciplines), looks at all unassigned bugs at regular intervals. This can be weekly or daily (or other frequency) dependent on which part of the product cycle we are in and what the untriaged bug load looks like. They discuss each bug considering the evidence and make a decision of whether the bug goes from Not Yet Assigned to Assigned (plus the name of the DEV to fix this) or whether it goes from Active to Resolved (which means it gets assigned back to the requestor for closure or further debate if they were not present at the triage meeting). Close to critical milestones, the feature triage team needs to further justify bugs they take to additional higher-level triage teams.Bug Opened = Not Yet AssignedSomeone (typically an SDET from the QA team) creates the bug item (e.g. in TFS), ensuring they populate all the relevant fields including: Title, Description, Repro Steps (including the Actual Result at the end of the steps), attachments of code and/or screenshots, Build number that they observed the issue in, regression details if applicable, how it was found, if a test case exists or needs to be created etc. They also indicate their opinion on the Priority and Severity. The bug status is left as Not Yet Assigned."Issue" versus "Fix for issue"The solution to some bugs is easy to determine, e.g. "bug: the column name is misspelled". Obviously the fix is to correct the spelling – still, the triage team should be explicit and enter the correct spelling in the bug's Description. Note that a bad bug name here would be "bug: fix the spelling of the column" (it describes the solution, rather than the problem).Other solutions are trickier to establish, e.g. "bug: the column header is not accessible (can only be clicked on with the mouse, not reached via keyboard)". What is the correct solution here? The last thing to do is leave this undetermined and just assign it to a developer. The solution has to be entered in the description. Behind this type of a bug usually hides a spec defect or a new feature request.The person opening the bug should focus on describing the issue, rather than the solution. The person indicates what the fix is in their opinion by stating the Expected Result (immediately after stating the Actual Result). If they have a complex suggested solution, that should be split out in a separate part, but the triage team has the final say before assigning it. If the solution is lengthy/complicated to describe, the bug can be assigned to the PM. Note: the strict interpretation suggests that any bug with no clear, obvious solution is always a hole in the spec and should always go to the PM. This also ensures the spec gets updated.Not Yet Assigned - Not Yet Assigned (on someone else's plate)If the bug is observed in our feature, but the cause is actually another team, we change the Area Path (which is the way we identify teams in TFS) and leave it as Not Yet Assigned. The triage team may add more comments as appropriate including potentially changing the repro steps. In some cases, we may even resolve the bug in our area path and open a new bug in the area path of the other team.Even though there is no action on a dev on the team, the bug still needs to be tracked. One way of doing this is to implement some notification system that informs the team when the tracked bug changed status; another way is to occasionally run a global query (against all area paths) for bugs that have been opened by a member of the team and follow up with the current owners for stale bugs.Not Yet Assigned - ResolvedThis state transition can only be made by the Feature Triage Team.0. Sometimes the bug description is not clear and in that case it gets Resolved as More Information Needed, so the original requestor can provide it.After understanding what the bug item is about, the first decision is to determine whether it needs to go to a dev.1. If it is a known bug, it gets resolved as "Duplicate" and linked to the existing bug.2. If it is "By Design" it gets resolved as such, indicating that the triage team does not think this is a bug.3. If the bug does not repro on latest bits, it is resolved as "No Repro"4. The most painful: If it is decided that we cannot fix it for this release it gets resolved as "Postponed" or "Won't Fix". The former is typically due to resources and time constraints, while the latter is due to deciding that it is not important enough to consume our resources in any release (yes, not all bugs must be fixed!). For both cases, there are other factors that contribute to the decision such as: existence of a reasonable workaround, frequency we expect users to encounter the issue, dependencies on other team to offer a solution, whether it breaks a core scenario, whether it prohibits customer feedback on a major feature, is it a regression from a previous release, impact of the fix on other partner teams (e.g. User Education, User Experience, Localization/Globalization), whether this is the right fix, does the fix impact performance goals, and last but not least, severity of bug (e.g. loss of customer data, security threat, crash, hang). The bar for fixing a bug goes up as the release date approaches. The triage team becomes hardnosed about which bugs to take, while the developers are busy resolving assigned bugs thus everyone drives for Zero Bug Bounce (ZBB). ZBB is when you have 0 active bugs older than 48 hours.Not Yet Assigned - AssignedIf the bug is something we decide to fix in this release and the solution is known, then it is assigned to a DEV. This is either the developer that will do the work, or a Lead that can further assign it to one of his developer team based on a load balancing algorithm of their choosing.Sometimes, the triage team needs the dev to do some investigation work before deciding whether to take the fix; similarly, the checkin for the fix may be gated on code review by the triage team. In these cases, these instructions are provided in the comments section of the bug and when the developer is done they notify the triage team for final decision.Additionally, a Priority and Severity (from 0 to 4) has to be entered, e.g. a P0 means "drop anything you are doing and fix this now" whereas a P4 is something you get to after all P0,1,2,3 bugs are fixed.From a testing perspective, if the bug was found through ad-hoc testing or an external team, the decision is made whether test cases should be added to avoid future regressions. This is communicated to the QA team.Assigned - ResolvedWhen the developer receives the bug (they should be checking daily for new bugs on their plate looking at bugs in order of priority and from older to newer) they can send it back to triage if the information is not clear. Otherwise, they investigate the bug, setting the Sub Status to "Investigating"; if they cannot make progress, they set the Sub Status to "Blocked" and discuss this with triage or whoever else can help them get unblocked. Once they are unblocked, they set the Sub Status to "Working on Solution"; once they are code complete they send a code review request, setting the Sub Status to "Fix Available". After the iterative code review process is over and everyone is happy with the fix, the developer checks it in and changes the state of the bug from Active (and Assigned to them) to Resolved (and Assigned to someone else).The developer needs to ensure that when the status is changed to Resolved that it is assigned to a QA person. For example, maybe the PM opened the bug, but it should be a QA person that will verify the fix - the developer needs to manually change the assignee in that case. Typically the QA person will send an email to the original requestor notifying them that the fix is verified.Resolved - ??In all cases above, note that the final state was Resolved. What happens after that? The final step should be Closed. The bug is closed once the QA person verifying the fix is happy with it. If the person is not happy, then they change the state from Resolved to Active, thus sending it back to the developer. If the developer and QA person cannot reach agreement, then triage can be brought into it. An easy way to do that is change the status back to Not Yet Assigned with appropriate comments so the triage team can re-review.It is important to note that only QA can close a bug. That means that if the opener of the bug was a PM, when the bug gets resolved by the dev it may land on the PM's plate and after a quick review, the PM would re-assign to an SDET, which is the only role that can close bugs. One exception to this is if the person that filed the bug is external: in that case, we leave it Resolved and assigned to them and also send them a notification that they need to verify the fix. Another exception is if specialized developer knowledge is needed for verifying the bug fix (e.g. it was a refactoring suggestion bug typically not observable by the user) in which case it is fine to have a developer verify the fix, and ideally a different developer to the one that opened the bug.Other links on bug triageA quick search reveals that others have talked about this subject, e.g. here, here, here, here and here.Your take?If you have other best practices your team uses to deal with incoming bug reports, feel free to share in the comments below or on your blog. Comments about this post welcome at the original blog.

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External HDD USB 3.0 failure

- by Philip

[ 2560.376113] usb 9-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [ 2560.376186] usb 9-1: Device not responding to set address. [ 2560.580136] usb 9-1: Device not responding to set address. [ 2560.784104] usb 9-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71 [ 2560.840127] hub 9-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2561.080182] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd [ 2566.096163] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2566.200096] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd [ 2571.216175] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2571.376138] hub 10-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2571.744174] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd [ 2576.760116] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2576.864074] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd [ 2581.880153] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2582.040123] hub 10-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2582.224139] hub 9-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2582.464177] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd [ 2587.480122] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2587.584079] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd [ 2592.600150] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2592.760134] hub 10-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2593.128175] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [ 2598.144183] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2598.248109] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [ 2603.264171] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2603.480157] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd [ 2608.496162] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2608.600091] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd [ 2613.616166] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2613.832170] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd [ 2618.848135] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2618.952079] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd [ 2623.968155] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2624.184176] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd [ 2629.200124] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2629.304075] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd [ 2634.320172] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2634.424135] hub 10-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2634.776186] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd [ 2639.792105] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2639.896090] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd [ 2644.912172] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2645.128174] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd [ 2650.144160] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2650.248062] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd [ 2655.264120] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2655.480182] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd [ 2660.496121] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2660.600086] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd [ 2665.616167] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2665.832177] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 18 using xhci_hcd [ 2670.848110] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2670.952066] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 18 using xhci_hcd [ 2675.968081] usb 10-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 2676.072124] hub 10-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [ 2786.104531] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: remove, state 4 [ 2786.104546] usb usb10: USB disconnect, device number 1 [ 2786.104686] xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called for root hub [ 2786.104692] xHCI xhci_check_bandwidth called for root hub [ 2786.104942] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: USB bus 10 deregistered [ 2786.105054] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: remove, state 4 [ 2786.105065] usb usb9: USB disconnect, device number 1 [ 2786.105176] xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called for root hub [ 2786.105181] xHCI xhci_check_bandwidth called for root hub [ 2786.109787] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: USB bus 9 deregistered [ 2786.110134] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled [ 2794.268445] pci 0000:02:00.0: [1b73:1000] type 0 class 0x000c03 [ 2794.268483] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff] [ 2794.268689] pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot [ 2794.268700] pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled [ 2794.276383] pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xd7800000-0xd780ffff] [ 2794.276398] pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0xd7800000-0xd780ffff] (PCI address [0xd7800000-0xd780ffff]) [ 2794.276419] pci 0000:02:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform [ 2794.276658] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 2794.276675] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 2794.276762] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2794.276771] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI Host Controller [ 2794.276913] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 9 [ 2794.395760] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: irq 16, io mem 0xd7800000 [ 2794.396141] xHCI xhci_add_endpoint called for root hub [ 2794.396144] xHCI xhci_check_bandwidth called for root hub [ 2794.396195] hub 9-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2794.396203] hub 9-0:1.0: 1 port detected [ 2794.396305] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI Host Controller [ 2794.396371] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 10 [ 2794.396496] xHCI xhci_add_endpoint called for root hub [ 2794.396499] xHCI xhci_check_bandwidth called for root hub [ 2794.396547] hub 10-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2794.396553] hub 10-0:1.0: 1 port detected [ 2798.004084] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd [ 2798.140824] scsi21 : usb-storage 1-3:1.0 [ 2820.176116] usb 1-3: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd [ 2824.000526] scsi 21:0:0:0: Direct-Access BUFFALO HD-PZU3 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 2824.002263] sd 21:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 2824.003617] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953463728 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 2824.005139] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 2824.005149] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 1f 00 00 08 [ 2824.009084] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2824.009094] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2824.011944] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2824.011952] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2824.049153] sdb: sdb1 [ 2824.051814] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2824.051821] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2824.051825] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 2839.536624] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 8 [ 2844.620178] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [ 2844.640281] scsi22 : usb-storage 10-1:1.0 [ 2850.326545] scsi 22:0:0:0: Direct-Access BUFFALO HD-PZU3 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 2850.327560] sd 22:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 2850.329561] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953463728 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 2850.329889] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 2850.329897] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 1f 00 00 08 [ 2850.330223] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2850.330231] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2850.331414] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2850.331423] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2850.384116] usb 10-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [ 2850.392050] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code [ 2850.392056] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2850.392061] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 [ 2850.392074] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 [ 2850.392079] quiet_error: 70 callbacks suppressed [ 2850.392082] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 [ 2850.392194] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. [ 2850.392271] Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 0 [ 2850.392377] sdb: unable to read partition table [ 2850.392581] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed [ 2850.392584] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2850.392588] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available. [ 2850.392613] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [ 2850.392617] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2850.392621] sd 22:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 2850.732182] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2850.752228] scsi23 : usb-storage 10-1:1.0 [ 2851.752709] scsi 23:0:0:0: Direct-Access BUFFALO HD-PZU3 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 2851.754481] sd 23:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 2851.756576] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953463728 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 2851.758426] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 2851.758436] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 1f 00 00 08 [ 2851.758779] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2851.758787] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2851.759968] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2851.759977] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2851.817710] sdb: sdb1 [ 2851.820562] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 2851.820568] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2851.820572] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 2852.060352] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2852.076533] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2852.076538] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2852.196329] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2852.212593] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2852.212599] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2852.456290] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2852.472402] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2852.472408] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2852.624304] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2852.640531] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2852.640536] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2852.772296] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2852.788536] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2852.788541] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2852.920349] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2852.936536] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2852.936540] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2853.072287] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2853.088565] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2853.088570] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2884.176339] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2884.192561] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2884.192567] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2884.320349] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2884.336526] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2884.336531] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2884.468344] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2884.484551] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2884.484556] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2884.612349] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2884.628540] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2884.628545] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2884.756350] usb 10-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 2884.772528] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b19060 [ 2884.772533] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep f6b1908c [ 2884.848116] usb 10-1: USB disconnect, device number 3 [ 2884.851493] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] killing request [ 2884.851501] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] killing request [ 2884.851699] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code [ 2884.851702] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2884.851708] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 5f 2b ee 00 00 3e 00 [ 2884.851721] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 6237166 [ 2884.851726] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237102 [ 2884.851730] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237103 [ 2884.851738] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237104 [ 2884.851741] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237105 [ 2884.851744] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237106 [ 2884.851747] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237107 [ 2884.851750] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237108 [ 2884.851753] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237109 [ 2884.851757] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6237110 [ 2884.851807] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code [ 2884.851810] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2884.851813] scsi 23:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 5f 2c 2c 00 00 3e 00 [ 2884.851824] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 6237228 [ 2885.168190] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd [ 2885.188268] scsi24 : usb-storage 10-1:1.0 Please help me with my problem. 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Turn Photos and Home Videos into Movies with Windows Live Movie Maker

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Are you looking for an easy way to take your digital photos and videos and turn them into a movie or slideshow? Today we’ll take a detailed look at how to do use Windows Live Movie Maker. Installation Windows Live Movie Maker comes bundled as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite (link below). However, you don’t have to install any of the programs you may not want. Take notice of the You’re almost done screen. Before clicking Continue, be sure to uncheck the boxes to set your search provider and homepage. Adding Pictures and Videos Open Windows Live Movie Maker. You can add videos or photos by simply dragging and dropping them onto the storyboard area. You can also click on the storyboard area or on the Add videos and photos button on the Home tab to browse for videos and photos. Windows Live Movie Maker supports most video, image, and audio file types. Select your files and add click Open to add them to Windows Live Movie Maker. By default WLMM doesn’t allow you to add files from network locations…so check out our article on how to add network support to Windows Live MovieMaker if the files you want to add are on a network drive. Layout All of your added clips will appear in the storyboard area on the right, while the currently selected clip will appear in the preview window on the left. You can adjust the size of the two areas by clicking and dragging the dividing line in the middle. Make the clips on the storyboard bigger or smaller by clicking on the thumbnail size icon. The slider at the lower right adjusts the zoom time scale. Previewing your Movie At any time, you can playback your movie and preview how it will look in the Preview window by clicking the space bar, or by pushing the play button under the preview window. You can also manually move the preview bar slider across the storyboard to view the clips as the video progresses. Adjusting Clips on the Storyboard You can click and drag clips on the storyboard to change the order in which the photos and videos appear. Adding Music Nothing brings a movie to life quite like music. Selecting Add music will add your music to the beginning of the movie. Select Add music at the current point to include it in the movie to the current location of your preview bar slider, then browse for your music clip. WLMM supports many common audio files such as WAV, MP3, M4A, WMA, AIFF, and ASF. The music clip will appear above the video / photos clips on the storyboard. You can change the location of music clips by clicking and dragging them to a different location on the storyboard. Add Titles, Captions, and Credits To add a Title screen to your movie, click the Title button on the Home tab. Type your title directly into the text box on the preview screen. The title will be placed at the location of the preview slider on the storyboard. However, you can change the location by clicking and dragging title to other areas of the storyboard. On the Format tab, there are a handful of text settings. You can change the font, color, size, alignment, and transparency. The Adjust group allows you to change the background color, edit the text, and set the length of time the Title will appear in the movie. The Effects group on the Format tab allows you to select an effect for your title screen. By hovering your cursor over each option, you will get a live preview of how each effect will appear in the preview window. Click to apply any of the effects. For captions, select where you want your caption to appear with the preview slider on the storyboard, then click the captions button on the Home tab. Just like the title, you type your caption directly into the text box on the preview screen, and you can make any adjustments by using the Font and Paragraph, Adjust, and Effects groups above. Credits are done the same as titles and captions, except they are automatically placed at the end of the movie. Transitions Go to the Animation tab on the ribbon to apply transitions. Select a clip from the storyboard and hover over one of the transition to see it in the preview window. Click on the transition to apply it to the clip. You can apply transitions separately to clips or hold down Ctrl button while clicking to select multiple clips to which to apply the same transition. Pan and zoom effects are also located on the Animations tab, but can be applied to photos only. Like transition, you can apply them individually to a clip or hold down Ctrl button while clicking to select multiple clips to which to apply the same pan and zoom effect. Once applied, you can adjust the duration of the transitions and pan and zoom effects. You can also click the dropdown for additional transitions or effects. Visual Effects Similar to Pan and Zoom and Transitions, you can apply a variety of Visual Effects to individual or multiple clips. Editing Video and Music Note: This does not actually edit the original video you imported into your Windows Live Movie Maker project, only how it appears in your WLMM project. There are some very basic editing tools located on the Home tab. The Rotate left and Rotate right button will adjust any clip that may be oriented incorrectly. The Fit to music button will automatically adjust the duration of the photos (if you have any in your project) to fit the length of the music in your movie. Audio mix allows you to change the volume level You can also do some slightly more advanced editing from the Edit tab. Select the video clip on the storyboard and click the Trim tool to edit or remove portions of a video clip. Next, click and drag the sliders in the preview windows to select the are you wish to keep. For example, the area outside the sliders is the area trimmed from the movie. The area inside is the section that is kept in the movie. You can also adjust the Start and End points manually on the ribbon. When you are finished, click Save trim. You can also split your video clips. Move the preview slider to the location in the video clip where you’d like to split it, and select Split. Your video will be split into separate sections. Now you can apply different effects or move them to different locations on the storyboard. Editing Music Clips Select the music clip on the storyboard and then the Options tab on the ribbon. You can adjust the music volume by moving the slider right and left. You can also choose to have your music clip fade in or out at the beginning and end of your movie. From the Fade in and Fade out dropdowns, select None, Slow, Medium, or Fast. To adjust the sound of your audio clips, click on the Edit tab, select the Video volume button, and adjust the slider. Move it all the way to the left to mute any background noise in your video clips. AutoMovie As you have seen, Windows Live Movie Maker allows you to add effects, transitions, titles, and more. If you don’t want to do any of that stuff yourself, AutoMovie will automatically add title, credits, cross fade transitions between items, pan and zoom effects to photos, and fit your project to the music. Just select the AutoMovie button on the Home tab. You can go from zero to movie in literally a couple minutes. Uploading to YouTube You can share your video on YouTube directly from Windows Live Movie Maker. Click on the YouTube icon in the Sharing group on the Home tab. You’ll be prompted for your YouTube username and password. Fill in the details about your movie and click Publish. The movie will be converted to WMV before being uploaded to YouTube. As soon as the YouTube conversion is complete, you’re new movie is live and ready to be viewed. Saving your Movie as a Video File Select the icon at the top left, then select Save movie. As you hover your mouse over each of the options, you will see the output display size, aspect ratio, and estimated file size per minute of video. All of these settings will output your movie as a WMV file. (Unfortunately, the only option is to save a movie as a WMV file.) The only difference is how they are encoded based on preset common settings. The Burn to DVD option also outputs a WMV file, but then opens Windows DVD Maker and walks you through the process of creating and burning a DVD. If you choose the Burn to DVD option, close this window when the WMV file conversion is complete and the Windows DVD Maker will prompt you to begin. When your movie is finished, it’s time to relax and enjoy. Conclusion Windows Live Movie Maker makes it easy for the average person to quickly churn out nice looking movies and slideshows from there own pictures and videos. However, long time users of previous editions (formerly called Windows Movie Maker) will likely be disappointed by some features missing in Windows Live Movie Maker that existed in earlier editions. Looking for details on burning your new project to DVD, check out our article on how to create and author DVDs with Windows DVD Maker. 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