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• Feedback on meeting of the Linux User Group of Mauritius

  Once upon a time in a country far far away... Okay, actually it's not that bad but it has been a while since the last meeting of the Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM). There have been plans in the past but it never really happened. Finally, Selven took the opportunity and organised a new meetup with low administrative overhead, proper scheduling on alternative dates and a small attendee's survey on the preferred option. All the pre-work was nicely executed. First, I wasn't sure whether it would be possible to attend. Luckily I got some additional information, like children should come, too, and I was sold to this community gathering. According to other long-term members of the LUGM it was the first time 'ever' that a gathering was organised outside of Quatre Bornes, and I have to admit it was great! LUGM - user group meeting on the 15.06.2013 in L'Escalier Quick overview of Linux & the LUGM With a little bit of delay the LUGM meeting officially started with a quick overview and introduction to Linux presented by Avinash. During the session he told the audience that there had been quite some activity over the island some years ago but unfortunately it had been quiet during recent times. Of course, we also spoke about the acknowledged world dominance of Linux - thanks to Android - and the interesting possibilities for countries like Mauritius. It is known that a couple of public institutions have there back-end infrastructure running on Red Hat Linux systems but the presence on the desktop is still very low. Users are simply hanging on to Windows XP and older versions of Microsoft Office. Following the introduction of the LUGM Ajay joined into the session and it quickly changed into a panel discussion with lots of interesting questions and answers, sharing of first-hand experience either on the job or in private use of Linux, and a couple of ideas about how the LUGM could promote Linux a bit more in Mauritius. It was great to get an insight into other attendee's opinion and activities. Especially taking into consideration that I'm already using Linux since around 1996/97. Frankly speaking, I bought a SuSE 4.x distribution back in those days because I couldn't achieve certain tasks on Windows NT 4.0 without spending a fortune. OpenELEC Mediacenter Next, Selven gave us decent introduction on OpenELEC: Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into an XBMC media center. OpenELEC is designed to make your system boot fast, and the install is so easy that anyone can turn a blank PC into a media machine in less than 15 minutes. I didn't know about it until this presentation. In the past, I was mainly attached to Video Disk Recorder (VDR) as it allows the use of satellite receiver cards very easily. Hm, somehow I'm still missing my precious HTPC that I had to leave back in Germany years ago. It was great piece of hardware and software; self-built PC in a standard HiFi-sized (43cm) black desktop casing with 2 full-featured Hauppauge DVB-s cards, an old-fashioned Voodoo graphics card, WiFi card, Pioneer slot-in DVD drive, and fully remote controlled via infra-red thanks to Debian, VDR and LIRC. With EP Guide, scheduled recordings and general multimedia centre it offered all the necessary comfort in the living room, besides a Nintendo game console; actually a GameCube at that time... But I have to admit that putting OpenELEC on a Raspberry Pi would be a cool DIY project in the near future. LUGM - our next generation of linux users (15.06.2013) Project Evil Genius (PEG) Don't be scared of the paragraph header. Ish gave us a cool explanation why he named it PEG - Project Evil Genius; it's because of the time of the day when he was scripting down his ideas to be able to build, package and provide software applications to various Linux distributions. The main influence came from openSuSE but the platform didn't cater for his needs and ideas, so he started to work out something on his own. During his passionate session he also talked about the amazing experience he had due to other Linux users from all over the world. During the next couple of days Ish promised to put his script to GitHub... Looking forward to that. Check out Ish's personal blog over at hacklog.in. Highly recommended to read. Why India? Simply because the registration fees per year for an Indian domain are approximately 20 times less than for a Mauritian domain (.mu). Exploring the beach of L'Escalier af the meeting 'After-party' at the beach of L'Escalier Puh, after such interesting sessions, ideas around Linux and good conversation during the breaks and over lunch it was time for a little break-out. Selven suggested that we all should head down to the beach of L'Escalier and get some impressions of nature down here in the south of the island. Talking about 'beach' ;-) - absolutely not comparable to the white-sanded ones here in Flic en Flac... There are no lagoons down at the south coast of Mauriitus, and watching the breaking waves is a different experience and joy after all. Unfortunately, I was a little bit worried about the thoughtless littering at such a remote location. You have to drive on natural paths through the sugar cane fields and I was really shocked by the amount of rubbish lying around almost everywhere. Sad, really sad and it concurs with Yasir's recent article on the same topic. Resumé & outlook It was a great event. I met with new people, had some good conversations, and even my children enjoyed themselves the whole day. The location was well-chosen, enough space for each and everyone, parking spaces and even a playground for the children. Also, a big "Thank You" to Selven and his helpers for the organisation and preparation of lunch. I'm kind of sure that this was an exceptional meeting of LUGM and I'm really looking forward to the next gathering of Linux geeks. Hopefully, soon. All images are courtesy of Avinash Meetoo. More pictures are available on Flickr.

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• Slicing the EDG

  - by Antony Reynolds

  Different SOA Domain Configurations In this blog entry I would like to introduce three different configurations for a SOA environment.  I have omitted load balancers and OTD/OHS as they introduce a whole new round of discussion.  For each possible deployment architecture I have identified some of the advantages. Super Domain This is a single EDG style domain for everything needed for SOA/OSB.   It extends the standard EDG slightly but otherwise assumes a single “super” domain. This is basically the SOA EDG.  I have broken out JMS servers and Coherence servers to improve scalability and reduce dependencies. Key Points Separate JMS allows those servers to be kept up separately from rest of SOA Domain, allowing JMS clients to post messages even if rest of domain is unavailable. JMS servers are only used to host application specific JMS destinations, SOA/OSB JMS destinations remain in relevant SOA/OSB managed servers. Separate Coherence servers allow OSB cache to be offloaded from OSB servers. Use of Coherence by other components as a shared infrastructure data grid service. Coherence cluster may be managed by WLS but more likely run as a standalone Coherence cluster. Benefits Single Administration Point (1 Admin Server) Closely follows EDG with addition of application specific JMS servers and standalone Coherence servers for OSB caching and application specific caches. Coherence grid can be scaled independent of OSB/SOA. JMS queues provide for inter-application communication. Drawbacks Patching is an all or nothing affair. Startup time for SOA may be slow if large number of composites deployed. Multiple Domains This extends the EDG into multiple domains, allowing separate management and update of these domains.  I see this type of configuration quite often with customers, although some don't have OWSM, others don't have separate Coherence etc. SOA & BAM are kept in the same domain as little benefit is obtained by separating them. Key Points Separate JMS allows those servers to be kept up separately from rest of SOA Domain, allowing JMS clients to post messages even if other domains are unavailable. JMS servers are only used to host application specific JMS destinations, SOA/OSB JMS destinations remain in relevant SOA/OSB managed servers. Separate Coherence servers allow OSB cache to be offloaded from OSB servers. Use of Coherence by other components as a shared infrastructure data grid service. Coherence cluster may be managed by WLS but more likely run as a standalone Coherence cluster. Benefits Follows EDG but in separate domains and with addition of application specific JMS servers and standalone Coherence servers for OSB caching and application specific caches. Coherence grid can be scaled independent of OSB/SOA. JMS queues provide for inter-application communication. Patch lifecycle of OSB/SOA/JMS are no longer lock stepped. JMS may be kept running independently of other domains allowing applications to insert messages fro later consumption by SOA/OSB. OSB may be kept running independent of other domains, allowing service virtualization to continue independent of other domains availability. All domains use same OWSM policy store (MDS-WSM). Drawbacks Multiple domains to manage and configure. Multiple Admin servers (single view requires use of Grid Control) Multiple Admin servers/WSM clusters waste resources. Additional homes needed to enjoy benefits of separate patching. Cross domain trust needs setting up to simplify cross domain interactions. Startup time for SOA may be slow if large number of composites deployed. Shared Service Environment This model extends the previous multiple domain arrangement to provide a true shared service environment.This extends the previous model by allowing multiple additional SOA domains and/or other domains to take advantage of the shared services.  Only one non-shared domain is shown, but there could be multiple, allowing groups of applications to share patching independent of other application groups. Key Points Separate JMS allows those servers to be kept up separately from rest of SOA Domain, allowing JMS clients to post messages even if other domains are unavailable. JMS servers are only used to host application specific JMS destinations, SOA/OSB JMS destinations remain in relevant SOA/OSB managed servers. Separate Coherence servers allow OSB cache to be offloaded from OSB servers. Use of Coherence by other components as a shared infrastructure data grid service Coherence cluster may be managed by WLS but more likely run as a standalone Coherence cluster. Shared SOA Domain hosts Human Workflow Tasks BAM Common "utility" composites Single OSB domain provides "Enterprise Service Bus" All domains use same OWSM policy store (MDS-WSM) Benefits Follows EDG but in separate domains and with addition of application specific JMS servers and standalone Coherence servers for OSB caching and application specific caches. Coherence grid can be scaled independent of OSB/SOA. JMS queues provide for inter-application communication. Patch lifecycle of OSB/SOA/JMS are no longer lock stepped. JMS may be kept running independently of other domains allowing applications to insert messages fro later consumption by SOA/OSB. OSB may be kept running independent of other domains, allowing service virtualization to continue independent of other domains availability. All domains use same OWSM policy store (MDS-WSM). Supports large numbers of deployed composites in multiple domains. Single URL for Human Workflow end users. Single URL for BAM end users. Drawbacks Multiple domains to manage and configure. Multiple Admin servers (single view requires use of Grid Control) Multiple Admin servers/WSM clusters waste resources. Additional homes needed to enjoy benefits of separate patching. Cross domain trust needs setting up to simplify cross domain interactions. Human Workflow needs to be specially configured to point to shared services domain. Summary The alternatives in this blog allow for patching to have different impacts, depending on the model chosen.  Each organization must decide the tradeoffs for itself.  One extreme is to go for the shared services model and have one domain per SOA application.  This requires a lot of administration of the multiple domains.  The other extreme is to have a single super domain.  This makes the entire enterprise susceptible to an outage at the same time due to patching or other domain level changes.  Hopefully this blog will help your organization choose the right model for you.

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• Effectiveness and Efficiency

  - by Daniel Moth

  In the professional environment, i.e. at work, I am always seeking personal growth and to be challenged. The result is that my assignments, my work list, my tasks, my goals, my commitments, my [insert whatever word resonates with you] keep growing (in scope and desired impact). Which in turn means I have to keep finding new ways to deliver more value, while not falling into the trap of working more hours. To do that I continuously evaluate both my effectiveness and my efficiency. EFFECTIVENESS The first thing I check is my effectiveness: Am I doing the right things? Am I focusing too much on unimportant things? Am I spending more time doing stuff that is important to my team/org/division/business/company, or am I spending it on stuff that is important to me and that I enjoy doing? Am I valuing activities that maybe I have outgrown and should be delegated to others who are at a stage I have surpassed (in Microsoft speak: is the work I am doing level appropriate or am I still operating at the previous level)? Notice how the answers to those questions change over time and due to certain events, so I have to remind myself to revisit them frequently. Events that force me to re-examine them are: change of role, change of team/org/etc, change of direction of team/org/etc, re-org, new hires on the team that take on some of the work I did, personal promotion, change of manager... and if none of those events has occurred since the last annual review, I ask myself those at each annual review anyway. If you think you are not being effective at work, make a list of the stuff that you do and start tracking where your time goes. In parallel, have a discussion with your manager about where they think your time should go. Ultimately your time is finite and hence it is your most precious investment, don't waste it. If your management doesn't value as highly what you spend your time on, then either convince your management, or stop spending your time on it, or find different management: Lead, Follow, or get out of the way! That's my view on effectiveness. You have to fix that before moving to being efficient, or you may end up being very efficient at stuff that nobody wants you to be doing in the first place. For example, you may be spending your time writing blog posts and becoming better and faster at it all the time. If your manager thinks that is not even part of your job description, you are wasting your time to satisfy your inner desires. Nobody can help you with your effectiveness other than your management chain and your management peers - they are the judges of it. EFFICIENCY The second thing I check is my efficiency: Am I doing things right? For me, doing things right means that I deliver the same quality of work faster [than what I used to, and than my peers, and than expected of me]. The result is that I can achieve more [than what I used to, and than my peers, and than expected of me]. Notice how the efficiency goal is a more portable one. If, by whatever criteria, you think you are the best at [insert your own skill here], this can change at two events: because you have new colleagues (who are potentially better than your older ones), and it can change with a change of manager (who has potentially higher expectations). That's about it. Once you are efficient at something, you carry that with you... All you need to really be doing here is, when taking on new kinds of work that you haven't done before, try a few approaches and devise a system so that you can become efficient at this new activity too... Just keep "collecting" stuff that you are efficient at. If you think you are not being efficient at something, break it down: What are the steps you take to complete that task? How long do you spend on each step? Talk to others about what steps they take, to see if you can optimize some steps away or trade them for better steps, or just learn how to complete a step faster. Have a system for every task you take so that you can have repeatable success. That's my view on efficiency. You have to fix it so that you can free up time to do more. When you plan a route from A to B - all else being equal - you try to get there as fast as possible so why would you not want to do that with your everyday work? For example, imagine you are inefficient at processing email: You spend more time than necessary dealing with email, and you still end up with dropped email threads and with slower response times than others. How can you improve? Talk to someone that you think is good at this, understand their system (e.g. here is my email processing system) and come up with one that works for you. Parting Thoughts Are you considered, by your colleagues and manager, an effective and efficient person at your workplace? If you are, what would you change if you were asked by your management to do the job of two people? Seriously, think about that! Your immediate reaction may be "that is not possible", but it actually is. You just have to re-assess what things that were previously important will now stop being important, by discussing them with your management and reaching agreement on relative priorities. For example, stuff that was previously on your plate may now have to be delegated or dropped. Where you thought you were efficient, maybe now you have to find an even faster path to completion, perhaps keeping in mind that Perfect is the Enemy of “Good Enough”. My personal experience (from both observing others and from my own reflection) is that when folks are struggling to keep up at work it is because of two reasons: They are investing energy in stuff that they enjoy doing which the business regards as having a lower priority than a lot of other things on their plate. They are completing tasks to a level of higher quality than what is required (due to personal pride) missing the big picture which almost always mandates completing three tasks at good enough quality than knocking only one of them out of the park while the other two come in late or not at all. There is a lot of content on the web, so I strongly encourage you to use your favorite search engine to read other views on effectiveness and efficiency (Bing, Google). Comments about this post by Daniel Moth welcome at the original blog.

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• Super constructor must be a first statement in Java constructor [closed]

  - by Val

  I know the answer: "we need rules to prevent shooting into your own foot". Ok, I make millions of programming mistakes every day. To be prevented, we need one simple rule: prohibit all JLS and do not use Java. If we explain everything by "not shooting your foot", this is reasonable. But there is not much reason is such reason. When I programmed in Delphy, I always wanted the compiler to check me if I read uninitializable. I have discovered myself that is is stupid to read uncertain variable because it leads unpredictable result and is errorenous obviously. By just looking at the code I could see if there is an error. I wished if compiler could do this job. It is also a reliable signal of programming error if function does not return any value. But I never wanted it do enforce me the super constructor first. Why? You say that constructors just initialize fields. Super fields are derived; extra fields are introduced. From the goal point of view, it does not matter in which order you initialize the variables. I have studied parallel architectures and can say that all the fields can even be assigned in parallel... What? Do you want to use the unitialized fields? Stupid people always want to take away our freedoms and break the JLS rules the God gives to us! Please, policeman, take away that person! Where do I say so? I'm just saying only about initializing/assigning, not using the fields. Java compiler already defends me from the mistake of accessing notinitialized. Some cases sneak but this example shows how this stupid rule does not save us from the read-accessing incompletely initialized in construction: public class BadSuper { String field; public String toString() { return "field = " + field; } public BadSuper(String val) { field = val; // yea, superfirst does not protect from accessing // inconstructed subclass fields. Subclass constr // must be called before super()! System.err.println(this); } } public class BadPost extends BadSuper { Object o; public BadPost(Object o) { super("str"); this. o = o; } public String toString() { // superconstructor will boom here, because o is not initialized! return super.toString() + ", obj = " + o.toString(); } public static void main(String[] args) { new BadSuper("test 1"); new BadPost(new Object()); } } It shows that actually, subfields have to be inilialized before the supreclass! Meantime, java requirement "saves" us from writing specializing the class by specializing what the super constructor argument is, public class MyKryo extends Kryo { class MyClassResolver extends DefaultClassResolver { public Registration register(Registration registration) { System.out.println(MyKryo.this.getDepth()); return super.register(registration); } } MyKryo() { // cannot instantiate MyClassResolver in super super(new MyClassResolver(), new MapReferenceResolver()); } } Try to make it compilable. It is always pain. Especially, when you cannot assign the argument later. Initialization order is not important for initialization in general. I could understand that you should not use super methods before initializing super. But, the requirement for super to be the first statement is different. It only saves you from the code that does useful things simply. I do not see how this adds safety. Actually, safety is degraded because we need to use ugly workarounds. Doing post-initialization, outside the constructors also degrades safety (otherwise, why do we need constructors?) and defeats the java final safety reenforcer. To conclude Reading not initialized is a bug. Initialization order is not important from the computer science point of view. Doing initalization or computations in different order is not a bug. Reenforcing read-access to not initialized is good but compilers fail to detect all such bugs Making super the first does not solve the problem as it "Prevents" shooting into right things but not into the foot It requires to invent workarounds, where, because of complexity of analysis, it is easier to shoot into the foot doing post-initialization outside the constructors degrades safety (otherwise, why do we need constructors?) and that degrade safety by defeating final access modifier When there was java forum alive, java bigots attecked me for these thoughts. Particularly, they dislaked that fields can be initialized in parallel, saying that natural development ensures correctness. When I replied that you could use an advanced engineering to create a human right away, without "developing" any ape first, and it still be an ape, they stopped to listen me. Cos modern technology cannot afford it. Ok, Take something simpler. How do you produce a Renault? Should you construct an Automobile first? No, you start by producing a Renault and, once completed, you'll see that this is an automobile. So, the requirement to produce fields in "natural order" is unnatural. In case of alarmclock or armchair, which are still chair and clock, you may need first develop the base (clock and chair) and then add extra. So, I can have examples where superfields must be initialized first and, oppositely, when they need to be initialized later. The order does not exist in advance. So, the compiler cannot be aware of the proper order. Only programmer/constructor knows is. Compiler should not take more responsibility and enforce the wrong order onto programmer. Saying that I cannot initialize some fields because I did not ininialized the others is like "you cannot initialize the thing because it is not initialized". This is a kind of argument we have. So, to conclude once more, the feature that "protects" me from doing things in simple and right way in order to enforce something that does not add noticeably to the bug elimination at that is a strongly negative thing and it pisses me off, altogether with the all the arguments to support it I've seen so far. It is "a conceptual question about software development" Should there be the requirement to call super() first or not. I do not know. If you do or have an idea, you have place to answer. I think that I have provided enough arguments against this feature. Lets appreciate the ones who benefit form it. Let it just be something more than simple abstract and stupid "write your own language" or "protection" kind of argument. Why do we need it in the language that I am going to develop?

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• Notifications for Expiring DBSNMP Passwords

  - by Courtney Llamas

  Most user accounts these days have a password profile on them that automatically expires the password after a set number of days.   Depending on your company’s security requirements, this may be as little as 30 days or as long as 365 days, although typically it falls between 60-90 days. For a normal user, this can cause a small interruption in your day as you have to go get your password reset by an admin. When this happens to privileged accounts, such as the DBSNMP account that is responsible for monitoring database availability, it can cause bigger problems. In Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c you may notice the error message “ORA-28002: the password will expire within 5 days” when you connect to a target, or worse you may get “ORA-28001: the password has expired". If you wait too long, your monitoring will fail because the password is locked out. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get an alert 10 days before our DBSNMP password expired? Thanks to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Metric Extensions (ME), you can! See the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administrator’s Guide for more information on Metric Extensions. To create a metric extension, select Enterprise / Monitoring / Metric Extensions, and then click on Create. On the General Properties screen select either Cluster Database or Database Instance, depending on which target you need to monitor.  If you have both RAC and Single instance you may need to create one for each. In this example we will create a Cluster Database metric.  Enter a Name for the ME and a Display Name. Then select SQL for the Adapter.  Adjust the Collection Schedule as desired, for this example we will collect this metric every 1 day. Notice for metric collected every day, we can determine the exact time we want to collect. On the Adapter page, enter the query that you wish to execute.  In this example we will use the query below that specifically checks for the DBSNMP user that is expiring within 10 days. Of course, you can adjust this query to alert for any user that can cause an outage such as an application account or service account such as RMAN. select username, account_status, trunc(expiry_date-sysdate) days_to_expirefrom dba_userswhere username = 'DBSNMP'and expiry_date is not null; The next step is to create the columns to store the data returned from the query.  Click Add and add a column for each of the fields in the same order that data is returned.  The table below will help you complete the column additions. Name Display Name Column Type Value Type Metric Category Unit Username User Name Key String Security AccountStatus Account Status Data String Security DaysToExpire Days Until Expiration Data Number Security Days When creating the DaysToExpire column, you can add a default threshold here for Warning and Critical (say < 10 and 5).  When all columns have been added, click Next. On the Credentials page, you can choose to use the default monitoring credentials or specify new credentials.  We will use the default credentials established for our target (dbsnmp). The next step is to test your Metric Extension.  Click on Add to select a target for testing, then click Select. Now click the button Run Test to execute the test against the selected target(s). We can see in the example below that the Metric Extension has executed and returned a value of 68 days to expire. Click Next to proceed. Review the metric extension in the final screen and click Finish. The metric will be created in Editable status.  Select the metric, click Actions and select Deployable Draft. You can do this once more to move to Published. Finally, we want to apply this metric to a target. When managing many targets, it’s best to add your metric to a template, for details on adding a Metric Extension to a template see the Administrator’s Guide. For this example, we will deploy this to a target directly. Select Actions / Deploy to Targets. Click Add and select the target you wish to deploy to and click Submit.  Once deployment is complete, we can go to the target and view the Metric & Collection Settings to see the new metric and its thresholds.   After some time, you will find the metric has collected and the days to expiration for DBSNMP user can be seen in the All Metrics view.   For metrics collected once per day, you may have to wait up to 24 hours to see the metric and current severity. In the example below, the current severity is Clear (green check) as it is not scheduled to expire within 10 days. To test the notification, we can edit the thresholds for the new metric so they trigger an alert.  Our password expires in 139 days, so we’ll change our Warning to 140 and leave Critical at 5, in our example we also changed the collection time to every 5 minutes.  At the next collection, you’ll find that the current severity changes to a Warning and any related Incident Rules would be triggered to create an Incident or Notification as desired. Now that you get a notification that your DBSNMP passwords is about to expire, you can use OEM Command Line Interface (EM CLI) verb update_db_password to change it at both the database target and the OEM target in one step.  The caveat is you must know the existing password to use the update_db_password command.  To learn more about EM CLI, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface Guide.  Below is an example of changing the password with the update_db_password verb.  $ ./emcli update_db_password -target_name=emrep -target_type=oracle_database -user_name=dbsnmp -change_at_target=yes -change_all_references=yes Enter value for old_password :Enter value for new_password :Enter value for retype_new_password :Successfully submitted a job to change the password in Enterprise Manager and on the target database: "emrep"Execute "emcli get_jobs -job_id=FA66C1C4D663297FE0437656F20ACC84" to check the status of the job.Search for job name "CHANGE_PWD_JOB_FA66C1C4D662297FE0437656F20ACC84" on the Jobs home page to check job execution details. The subsequent job created will typically run quickly enough that a blackout is not needed, however if you submit a script with many targets to change, your job may run slower so adding a blackout to the script is recommended. $ ./emcli get_jobs -job_id=FA66C1C4D663297FE0437656F20ACC84 Name Type Job ID Execution ID Scheduled Completed TZ Offset Status Status ID Owner Target Type Target Name CHANGE_PWD_JOB_FA66C1C4D662297FE0437656F20ACC84 ChangePassword FA66C1C4D663297FE0437656F20ACC84 FA66C1C4D665297FE0437656F20ACC84 2014-05-28 09:39:12 2014-05-28 09:39:18 GMT-07:00 Succeeded 5 SYSMAN oracle_database emrep After implementing the above Metric Extension and using the EM CLI update_db_password verb, you will be able to stay on top of your DBSNMP password changes without experiencing an unplanned monitoring outage.  

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• Loaded OBJ Model Will Not Display in OpenGL / C++ Project

  - by Drake Summers

  I have been experimenting with new effects in game development. The programs I have written have been using generic shapes for the visuals. I wanted to test the effects on something a bit more complex, and wrote a resource loader for Wavefront OBJ files. I started with a simple cube in blender, exported it to an OBJ file with just vertices and triangulated faces, and used it to test the resource loader. I could not get the mesh to show up in my application. The loader never gave me any errors, so I wrote a snippet to loop through my vertex and index arrays that were returned from the loader. The data is exactly the way it is supposed to be. So I simplified the OBJ file by editing it directly to just show a front facing square. Still, nothing is displayed in the application. And don't worry, I did check to make sure that I decreased the value of each index by one while importing the OBJ. - BEGIN EDIT I also tested using glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3 ); to draw the first triangle and it worked! So the issue could be in the binding of the VBO/IBO items. END EDIT - INDEX/VERTEX ARRAY OUTPUT: GLOBALS AND INITIALIZATION FUNCTION: GLuint program; GLint attrib_coord3d; std::vector<GLfloat> vertices; std::vector<GLushort> indices; GLuint vertexbuffer, indexbuffer; GLint uniform_mvp; int initialize() { if (loadModel("test.obj", vertices, indices)) { GLfloat myverts[vertices.size()]; copy(vertices.begin(), vertices.end(), myverts); GLushort myinds[indices.size()]; copy(indices.begin(), indices.end(), myinds); glGenBuffers(1, &vertexbuffer); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertexbuffer); glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(myverts), myverts, GL_STATIC_DRAW); glGenBuffers(1, &indexbuffer); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexbuffer); glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(myinds), myinds, GL_STATIC_DRAW); // OUTPUT DATA FROM NEW ARRAYS TO CONSOLE // ERROR HANDLING OMITTED FOR BREVITY } GLint link_result = GL_FALSE; GLuint vert_shader, frag_shader; if ((vert_shader = create_shader("tri.v.glsl", GL_VERTEX_SHADER)) == 0) return 0; if ((frag_shader = create_shader("tri.f.glsl", GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER)) == 0) return 0; program = glCreateProgram(); glAttachShader(program, vert_shader); glAttachShader(program, frag_shader); glLinkProgram(program); glGetProgramiv(program, GL_LINK_STATUS, &link_result); // ERROR HANDLING OMITTED FOR BREVITY const char* attrib_name; attrib_name = "coord3d"; attrib_coord3d = glGetAttribLocation(program, attrib_name); // ERROR HANDLING OMITTED FOR BREVITY const char* uniform_name; uniform_name = "mvp"; uniform_mvp = glGetUniformLocation(program, uniform_name); // ERROR HANDLING OMITTED FOR BREVITY return 1; } RENDERING FUNCTION: glm::mat4 model = glm::translate(glm::mat4(1.0f), glm::vec3(0.0, 0.0, -4.0)); glm::mat4 view = glm::lookAt(glm::vec3(0.0, 0.0, 4.0), glm::vec3(0.0, 0.0, 3.0), glm::vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)); glm::mat4 projection = glm::perspective(45.0f, 1.0f*(screen_width/screen_height), 0.1f, 10.0f); glm::mat4 mvp = projection * view * model; int size; glUseProgram(program); glUniformMatrix4fv(uniform_mvp, 1, GL_FALSE, glm::value_ptr(mvp)); glClearColor(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0); glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); glEnableVertexAttribArray(attrib_coord3d); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertexbuffer); glVertexAttribPointer(attrib_coord3d, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, 0); glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexbuffer); glGetBufferParameteriv(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, GL_BUFFER_SIZE, &size); glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, size/sizeof(GLushort), GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, 0); glDisableVertexAttribArray(attrib_coord3d); VERTEX SHADER: attribute vec3 coord3d; uniform mat4 mvp; void main(void) { gl_Position = mvp * vec4(coord3d, 1.0); } FRAGMENT SHADER: void main(void) { gl_FragColor[0] = 0.0; gl_FragColor[1] = 0.0; gl_FragColor[2] = 1.0; gl_FragColor[3] = 1.0; } OBJ RESOURCE LOADER: bool loadModel(const char * path, std::vector<GLfloat> &out_vertices, std::vector<GLushort> &out_indices) { std::vector<GLfloat> temp_vertices; std::vector<GLushort> vertexIndices; FILE * file = fopen(path, "r"); // ERROR HANDLING OMITTED FOR BREVITY while(1) { char lineHeader[128]; int res = fscanf(file, "%s", lineHeader); if (res == EOF) { break; } if (strcmp(lineHeader, "v") == 0) { float _x, _y, _z; fscanf(file, "%f %f %f\n", &_x, &_y, &_z ); out_vertices.push_back(_x); out_vertices.push_back(_y); out_vertices.push_back(_z); } else if (strcmp(lineHeader, "f") == 0) { unsigned int vertexIndex[3]; int matches = fscanf(file, "%d %d %d\n", &vertexIndex[0], &vertexIndex[1], &vertexIndex[2]); out_indices.push_back(vertexIndex[0] - 1); out_indices.push_back(vertexIndex[1] - 1); out_indices.push_back(vertexIndex[2] - 1); } else { ... } } // ERROR HANDLING OMITTED FOR BREVITY return true; } I can edit the question to provide any further info you may need. I attempted to provide everything of relevance and omit what may have been unnecessary. I'm hoping this isn't some really poor mistake, because I have been at this for a few days now. If anyone has any suggestions or advice on the matter, I look forward to hearing it. As a final note: I added some arrays into the code with manually entered data, and was able to display meshes by using those arrays instead of the generated ones. I do not understand!

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• Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 2 of 3&ndash;Setup)

  - by ToStringTheory

  Welcome to part two in my series covering the LESS CSS language.  In the first post, I covered the two major CSS precompiled languages - LESS and SASS to a small extent, iterating over some of the features that you could expect to find in them.  In this post, I will go a little further in depth into the setup and execution of using the LESS framework. Introduction It really doesn’t take too much to get LESS working in your project.  The basic workflow will be including the necessary translator in your project, defining bundles for the LESS files, add the necessary code to your layouts.cshtml file, and finally add in all your necessary styles to the LESS files!  Lets get started… New Project Just like all great experiments in Visual Studio, start up a File > New Project, and create a new MVC 4 Web Application.  The Base Package After you have the new project spun up, use the Nuget Package Manager to install the Bundle Transformer: LESS package. This will take care of installing the main translator that we will be using for LESS code (dotless which is another Nuget package), as well as the core framework for the Bundle Transformer library.  The installation will come up with some instructions in a readme file on how to modify your web.config to handle all your *.less requests through the Bundle Transformer, which passes the translating onto dotless. Where To Put These LESS Files?! This step isn’t really a requirement, however I find that I don’t like how ASP.Net MVC just has a content directory where they store CSS, content images, css images….  In my project, I went ahead and created a new directory just for styles – LESS files, CSS files, and images that are only referenced in LESS or CSS.  Ignore the MVC directory as this was my testbed for another project I was working on at the same time.  As you can see here, I have: A top level directory for images which contains only images used in a page A top level directory for scripts A top level directory for Styles A few directories for plugins I am using (Colrizr, JQueryUI, Farbtastic) Multiple *.less files for different functions (I’ll go over these in a minute) I find that this layout offers the best separation of content types.  Bring Out Your Bundles! The next thing that we need to do is add in the necessary code for the bundling of these LESS files.  Go ahead and open your BundleConfig.cs file, usually located in the /App_Start/ folder of the project.  As you will see in a minute, instead of using the method Microsoft does in the base MVC 4 project, I change things up a bit.  Define Constants The first thing I do is define constants for each of the virtual paths that will be used in the bundler: The main reason is that I hate magic strings in my program, so the fact that you first defined a virtual path in the BundleConfig file, and then used that path in the _Layout.cshtml file really irked me. Add Bundles to the BundleCollection Next, I am going to define the bundles for my styles in my AddStyleBundles method: That is all it takes to get all of my styles in play with LESS.  The CssTransformer and NullOrderer types come from the Bundle Transformer we grabbed earlier.  If we didn’t use that package, we would have to write our own function (not too hard, but why do it if it’s been done). I use the site.less file as my main hub for LESS - I will cover that more in the next section. Add Bundles To Layout.cshtml File With the constants in the BundleConfig file, instead of having to use the same magic string I defined for the bundle virtual path, I am able to do this: Notice here that besides the RenderSection magic strings (something I am working on in another side project), all of the bundles are now based on const strings.  If I need to change the virtual path, I only have to do it in one place.  Nifty! Get Started! We are now ready to roll!  As I said in the previous section, I use the site.less file as a central hub for my styles: As seen here, I have a reset.css file which is a simple CSS reset.  Next, I have created a file for managing all my color variables – colors.less: Here, you can see some of the standards I started to use, in this case for color variables.  I define all color variables with the @col prefix.  Currently, I am going for verbose variable names. The next file imported is my font.less file that defines the typeface information for the site: Simple enough.  A couple of imports for fonts from Google, and then declaring variables for use throughout LESS.  I also set up the heading sizes, margins, etc..  You can also see my current standardization for font declaration strings – @font. Next, I pull in a mixins.less file that I grabbed from the Twitter Bootstrap library that gives some useful parameterized mixins for use such as border-radius, gradient, box-shadow, etc… The common.less file is a file that just contains items that I will be defining that can be used across all my LESS files.  Kind of like my own mixins or font-helpers: Finally I have my layout.less file that contains all of my definitions for general site layout – width, main/sidebar widths, footer layout, etc: That’s it!  For the rest of my one off definitions/corrections, I am currently putting them into the site.less file beneath my original imports Note Probably my favorite side effect of using the LESS handler/translator while bundling is that it also does a CSS checkup when rendering…  See, when your web.config is set to debug, bundling will output the url to the direct less file, not the bundle, and the http handler intercepts the call, compiles the less, and returns the result.  If there is an error in your LESS code, the CSS file can be returned empty, or may have the error output as a comment on the first couple lines. If you have the web.config set to not debug, then if there is an error in your code, you will end up with the usual ASP.Net exception page (unless you catch the exception of course), with information regarding the failure of the conversion, such as brace mismatch, undefined variable, etc…  I find it nifty. Conclusion This is really just the beginning.  LESS is very powerful and exciting!  My next post will show an actual working example of why LESS is so powerful with its functions and variables…  At least I hope it will!  As for now, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions on my current practice, I would love to hear them!  Feel free to drop a comment or shoot me an email using the contact page.  In the mean time, I plan on posting the final post in this series tomorrow or the day after, with my side project, as well as a whole base ASP.Net MVC4 templated project with LESS added in it so that you can check out the layout I have in this post.  Until next time…

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• FreeBSD performance tuning. Sysctls, loader.conf, kernel

  - by SaveTheRbtz

  I wanted to share knowledge of tuning FreeBSD via sysctl.conf/loader.conf/KENCONF. It was initially based on Igor Sysoev's (author of nginx) presentation about FreeBSD tuning up to 100,000-200,000 active connections. Tunings are for FreeBSD-CURRENT. Since 7.2 amd64 some of them are tuned well by default. Prior 7.0 some of them are boot only (set via /boot/loader.conf) or does not exist at all. sysctl.conf: # No zero mapping feature # May break wine # (There are also reports about broken samba3) #security.bsd.map_at_zero=0 # If you have really busy webserver with apache13 you may run out of processes #kern.maxproc=10000 # Same for servers with apache2 / Pound #kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc=4096 # Max. backlog size kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096 # Shared memory // 7.2+ can use shared memory > 2Gb kern.ipc.shmmax=2147483648 # Sockets kern.ipc.maxsockets=204800 # Can cause this on older kernels: # http://old.nabble.com/Significant-performance-regression-for-increased-maxsockbuf-on-8.0-RELEASE-tt26745981.html#a26745981 ) kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=10485760 # Mbuf 2k clusters (on amd64 7.2+ 25600 is default) # For such high value vm.kmem_size must be increased to 3G kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144 # Jumbo pagesize(_SC_PAGESIZE) clusters # Used as general packet storage for jumbo frames # can be monitored via `netstat -m` #kern.ipc.nmbjumbop=262144 # Jumbo 9k/16k clusters # If you are using them #kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9=65536 #kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16=32768 # For lower latency you can decrease scheduler's maximum time slice # default: stathz/10 (~ 13) #kern.sched.slice=1 # Increase max command-line length showed in `ps` (e.g for Tomcat/Java) # Default is PAGE_SIZE / 16 or 256 on x86 # This avoids commands to be presented as [executable] in `ps` # For more info see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120749 kern.ps_arg_cache_limit=4096 # Every socket is a file, so increase them kern.maxfiles=204800 kern.maxfilesperproc=200000 kern.maxvnodes=200000 # On some systems HPET is almost 2 times faster than default ACPI-fast # Useful on systems with lots of clock_gettime / gettimeofday calls # See http://old.nabble.com/ACPI-fast-default-timecounter,-but-HPET-83--faster-td23248172.html # After revision 222222 HPET became default: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=222222 kern.timecounter.hardware=HPET # Small receive space, only usable on http-server, on file server this # should be increased to 65535 or even more #net.inet.tcp.recvspace=8192 # This is useful on Fat-Long-Pipes #net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=10485760 #net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=65535 # Small send space is useful for http servers that serve small files # Autotuned since 7.x net.inet.tcp.sendspace=16384 # This is useful on Fat-Long-Pipes #net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=10485760 #net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=65535 # Turn off receive autotuning # You can play with it. #net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=0 #net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=0 # This should be enabled if you going to use big spaces (>64k) # Also timestamp field is useful when using syncookies net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 # Turn this off on high-speed, lossless connections (LAN 1Gbit+) # If you set it there is no need in TCP_NODELAY sockopt (see man tcp) net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 # This feature is useful if you are serving data over modems, Gigabit Ethernet, # or even high speed WAN links (or any other link with a high bandwidth delay product), # especially if you are also using window scaling or have configured a large send window. # Automatically disables on small RTT ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c?#rev1.237 ) # This sysctl was removed in 10-CURRENT: # See: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06178.html #net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 # TCP slowstart algorithm tunings # We assuming we have very fast clients #net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize=100 #net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart_flightsize=100 # Disable randomizing of ports to avoid false RST # Before usage check SA here www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/ImprovingTCPIP.pdf # (it's also says that port randomization auto-disables at some conn.rates, but I didn't checked it thou) #net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized=0 # Increase portrange # For outgoing connections only. Good for seed-boxes and ftp servers. net.inet.ip.portrange.first=1024 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535 # # stops route cache degregation during a high-bandwidth flood # http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html #net.inet.ip.rtexpire=2 net.inet.ip.rtminexpire=2 net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache=1024 # Security net.inet.ip.redirect=0 net.inet.ip.sourceroute=0 net.inet.ip.accept_sourceroute=0 net.inet.icmp.maskrepl=0 net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=0 net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin=1 # # There is also good example of sysctl.conf with comments: # http://www.thern.org/projects/sysctl.conf # # icmp may NOT rst, helpful for those pesky spoofed # icmp/udp floods that end up taking up your outgoing # bandwidth/ifqueue due to all that outgoing RST traffic. # #net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst=0 # Security net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 # IPv6 Security # For more info see http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/security-implications-ipv6 # Disable Node info replies # To see this vulnerability in action run `ping6 -a sglAac ::1` or `ping6 -w ::1` on unprotected node net.inet6.icmp6.nodeinfo=0 # Turn on IPv6 privacy extensions # For more info see proposal http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2008-06/msg00103.html net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=1 net.inet6.ip6.prefer_tempaddr=1 # Disable ICMP redirect net.inet6.icmp6.rediraccept=0 # Disable acceptation of RA and auto linklocal generation if you don't use them #net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=0 #net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal=0 # Increases default TTL, sometimes useful # Default is 64 net.inet.ip.ttl=128 # Lessen max segment life to conserve resources # ACK waiting time in miliseconds # (default: 30000. RFC from 1979 recommends 120000) net.inet.tcp.msl=5000 # Max bumber of timewait sockets net.inet.tcp.maxtcptw=200000 # Don't use tw on local connections # As of 15 Apr 2009. Igor Sysoev says that nolocaltimewait has some buggy realization. # So disable it or now till get fixed #net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait=1 # FIN_WAIT_2 state fast recycle net.inet.tcp.fast_finwait2_recycle=1 # Time before tcp keepalive probe is sent # default is 2 hours (7200000) #net.inet.tcp.keepidle=60000 # Should be increased until net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops is zero net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=4096 # Interrupt handling via multiple CPU, but with context switch. # You can play with it. Default is 1; #net.isr.direct=0 # This is for routers only #net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 #net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1 # This speed ups dummynet when channel isn't saturated net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_fast=1 # Increase dummynet(4) hash #net.inet.ip.dummynet.hash_size=2048 #net.inet.ip.dummynet.max_chain_len # Should be increased when you have A LOT of files on server # (Increase until vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem becomes lower) vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem=67108864 # Note from commit http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head@211031 : # For systems with RAID volumes and/or virtualization envirnments, where # read performance is very important, increasing this sysctl tunable to 32 # or even more will demonstratively yield additional performance benefits. vfs.read_max=32 # Explicit Congestion Notification (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Congestion_Notification) net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable=1 # Flowtable - flow caching mechanism # Useful for routers #net.inet.flowtable.enable=1 #net.inet.flowtable.nmbflows=65535 # Extreme polling tuning #kern.polling.burst_max=1000 #kern.polling.each_burst=1000 #kern.polling.reg_frac=100 #kern.polling.user_frac=1 #kern.polling.idle_poll=0 # IPFW dynamic rules and timeouts tuning # Increase dyn_buckets till net.inet.ip.fw.curr_dyn_buckets is lower net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets=65536 net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max=65536 net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime=120 net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_syn_lifetime=10 net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_fin_lifetime=2 net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime=10 # Make packets pass firewall only once when using dummynet # i.e. packets going thru pipe are passing out from firewall with accept #net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 # shm_use_phys Wires all shared pages, making them unswappable # Use this to lessen Virtual Memory Manager's work when using Shared Mem. # Useful for databases #kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 # ZFS # Enable prefetch. Useful for sequential load type i.e fileserver. # FreeBSD sets vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable to 1 on any i386 systems and # on any amd64 systems with less than 4GB of avaiable memory # For additional info check this nabble thread http://old.nabble.com/Samba-read-speed-performance-tuning-td27964534.html #vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 # On highload servers you may notice following message in dmesg: # "Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the # vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable" vm.pmap.shpgperproc=2048 loader.conf: # Accept filters for data, http and DNS requests # Useful when your software uses select() instead of kevent/kqueue or when you under DDoS # DNS accf available on 8.0+ accf_data_load="YES" accf_http_load="YES" accf_dns_load="YES" # Async IO system calls aio_load="YES" # Linux specific devices in /dev # As for 8.1 it only /dev/full #lindev_load="YES" # Adds NCQ support in FreeBSD # WARNING! all ad[0-9]+ devices will be renamed to ada[0-9]+ # 8.0+ only #ahci_load="YES" #siis_load="YES" # FreeBSD 8.2+ # New Congestion Control for FreeBSD # http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/tools/cc_chd-readme-0.1.txt # http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/78/slides/iccrg-5.pdf # Initial merge commit message http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg31410.html #cc_chd_load="YES" # Increase kernel memory size to 3G. # # Use ONLY if you have KVA_PAGES in kernel configuration, and you have more than 3G RAM # Otherwise panic will happen on next reboot! # # It's required for high buffer sizes: kern.ipc.nmbjumbop, kern.ipc.nmbclusters, etc # Useful on highload stateful firewalls, proxies or ZFS fileservers # (FreeBSD 7.2+ amd64 users: Check that current value is lower!) #vm.kmem_size="3G" # If your server has lots of swap (>4Gb) you should increase following value # according to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-October/029616.html # Otherwise you'll be getting errors # "kernel: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone" # kern.maxswzone="256M" # Older versions of FreeBSD can't tune maxfiles on the fly #kern.maxfiles="200000" # Useful for databases # Sets maximum data size to 1G # (FreeBSD 7.2+ amd64 users: Check that current value is lower!) #kern.maxdsiz="1G" # Maximum buffer size(vfs.maxbufspace) # You can check current one via vfs.bufspace # Should be lowered/upped depending on server's load-type # Usually decreased to preserve kmem # (default is 10% of mem) #kern.maxbcache="512M" # Sendfile buffers # For i386 only #kern.ipc.nsfbufs=10240 # FreeBSD 9+ # HPET "legacy route" support. It should allow HPET to work per-CPU # See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03603.html #hint.atrtc.0.clock=0 #hint.attimer.0.clock=0 #hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1 # syncache Hash table tuning net.inet.tcp.syncache.hashsize=1024 net.inet.tcp.syncache.bucketlimit=512 net.inet.tcp.syncache.cachelimit=65536 # Increased hostcache # Later host cache can be viewed via net.inet.tcp.hostcache.list hidden sysctl # Very useful for it's RTT RTTVAR # Must be power of two net.inet.tcp.hostcache.hashsize=65536 # hashsize * bucketlimit (which is 30 by default) # It allocates 255Mb (1966080*136) of RAM net.inet.tcp.hostcache.cachelimit=1966080 # TCP control-block Hash table tuning net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize=4096 # Disable ipfw deny all # Should be uncommented when there is a chance that # kernel and ipfw binary may be out-of sync on next reboot #net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1 # # SIFTR (Statistical Information For TCP Research) is a kernel module that # logs a range of statistics on active TCP connections to a log file. # See prerelease notes http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/b4c18be6cdce76e4 # and man 4 sitfr #siftr_load="YES" # Enable superpages, for 7.2+ only # Also read http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-November/030094.html vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=1 # Usefull if you are using Intel-Gigabit NIC #hw.em.rxd=4096 #hw.em.txd=4096 #hw.em.rx_process_limit="-1" # Also if you have ALOT interrupts on NIC - play with following parameters # NOTE: You should set them for every NIC #dev.em.0.rx_int_delay: 250 #dev.em.0.tx_int_delay: 250 #dev.em.0.rx_abs_int_delay: 250 #dev.em.0.tx_abs_int_delay: 250 # There is also multithreaded version of em/igb drivers can be found here: # http://people.yandex-team.ru/~wawa/ # # for additional em monitoring and statistics use # sysctl dev.em.0.stats=1 ; dmesg # sysctl dev.em.0.debug=1 ; dmesg # Also after r209242 (-CURRENT) there is a separate sysctl for each stat variable; # Same tunings for igb #hw.igb.rxd=4096 #hw.igb.txd=4096 #hw.igb.rx_process_limit=100 # Some useful netisr tunables. See sysctl net.isr #net.isr.maxthreads=4 #net.isr.defaultqlimit=4096 #net.isr.maxqlimit: 10240 # Bind netisr threads to CPUs #net.isr.bindthreads=1 # # FreeBSD 9.x+ # Increase interface send queue length # See commit message http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=207554 #net.link.ifqmaxlen=1024 # Nicer boot logo =) loader_logo="beastie" And finally here is KERNCONF: # Just some of them, see also # cat /sys/{i386,amd64,}/conf/NOTES # This one useful only on i386 #options KVA_PAGES=512 # You can play with HZ in environments with high interrupt rate (default is 1000) # 100 is for my notebook to prolong it's battery life #options HZ=100 # Polling is goot on network loads with high packet rates and low-end NICs # NB! Do not enable it if you want more than one netisr thread #options DEVICE_POLLING # Eliminate datacopy on socket read-write # To take advantage with zero copy sockets you should have an MTU >= 4k # This req. is only for receiving data. # Read more in man zero_copy_sockets # Also this epic thread on kernel trap: # http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 # Here Linus says that "anybody that does it that way (FreeBSD) is totally incompetent" #options ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS # Support TCP sign. Used for IPSec options TCP_SIGNATURE # There was stackoverflow found in KAME IPSec stack: # See http://secunia.com/advisories/43995/ # For quick workaround you can use `ipfw add deny proto ipcomp` options IPSEC # This ones can be loaded as modules. They described in loader.conf section #options ACCEPT_FILTER_DATA #options ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP # Adding ipfw, also can be loaded as modules options IPFIREWALL # On 8.1+ you can disable verbose to see blocked packets on ipfw0 interface. # Also there is no point in compiling verbose into the kernel, because # now there is net.inet.ip.fw.verbose tunable. #options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10 options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD # Adding kernel NAT options IPFIREWALL_NAT options LIBALIAS # Traffic shaping options DUMMYNET # Divert, i.e. for userspace NAT options IPDIVERT # This is for OpenBSD's pf firewall device pf device pflog # pf's QoS - ALTQ options ALTQ options ALTQ_CBQ # Class Bases Queuing (CBQ) options ALTQ_RED # Random Early Detection (RED) options ALTQ_RIO # RED In/Out options ALTQ_HFSC # Hierarchical Packet Scheduler (HFSC) options ALTQ_PRIQ # Priority Queuing (PRIQ) options ALTQ_NOPCC # Required for SMP build # Pretty console # Manual can be found here http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6134 #options VESA #options SC_PIXEL_MODE # Disable reboot on Ctrl Alt Del #options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT # Change normal|kernel messages color options SC_NORM_ATTR=(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_YELLOW|BG_BLACK) # More scroll space options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8192 # Adding hardware crypto device device crypto device cryptodev # Useful network interfaces device vlan device tap #Virtual Ethernet driver device gre #IP over IP tunneling device if_bridge #Bridge interface device pfsync #synchronization interface for PF device carp #Common Address Redundancy Protocol device enc #IPsec interface device lagg #Link aggregation interface device stf #IPv4-IPv6 port # Also for my notebook, but may be used with Opteron device amdtemp # Same for Intel processors device coretemp # man 4 cpuctl device cpuctl # CPU control pseudo-device # Support for ECMP. More than one route for destination # Works even with default route so one can use it as LB for two ISP # For now code is unstable and panics (panic: rtfree 2) on route deletions. #options RADIX_MPATH # Multicast routing #options MROUTING #options PIM # Debug & DTrace options KDB # Kernel debugger related code options KDB_TRACE # Print a stack trace for a panic options KDTRACE_FRAME # amd64-only(?) options KDTRACE_HOOKS # all architectures - enable general DTrace hooks #options DDB #options DDB_CTF # all architectures - kernel ELF linker loads CTF data # Adaptive spining in lockmgr (8.x+) # See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10782.html options ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS # UTF-8 in console (8.x+) #options TEKEN_UTF8 # FreeBSD 8.1+ # Deadlock resolver thread # For additional information see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18124.html # (FYI: "resolution" is panic so use with caution) #options DEADLKRES # Increase maximum size of Raw I/O and sendfile(2) readahead #options MAXPHYS=(1024*1024) #options MAXBSIZE=(1024*1024) # For scheduler debug enable following option. # Debug will be available via `kern.sched.stats` sysctl # For more information see http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/conf/NOTES?view=markup #options SCHED_STATS If you are tuning network for maximum performance you may wish to play with ifconfig options like: # You can list all capabilities via `ifconfig -m` ifconfig [-]rxcsum [-]txcsum [-]tso [-]lro mtu In case you've enabled DDB in kernel config, you should edit your /etc/ddb.conf and add something like this to enable automatic reboot (and textdump as bonus): script kdb.enter.panic=textdump set; capture on; show pcpu; bt; ps; alltrace; capture off; call doadump; reset script kdb.enter.default=textdump set; capture on; bt; ps; capture off; call doadump; reset And do not forget to add ddb_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf Since FreeBSD 9 you can select to enable/disable flowcontrol on your NIC: # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_flow_control and # http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07927.html for additional info ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol PS. Also most of FreeBSD's limits can be monitored by # vmstat -z and # limits PPS. variety of network counters can be monitored via # netstat -s In FreeBSD-9 netstat's -Q option appeared, try following command to display netisr stats # netstat -Q PPPS. also see # man 7 tuning PPPPS. I wanted to thank FreeBSD community, especially author of nginx - Igor Sysoev, nginx-ru@ and FreeBSD-performance@ mailing lists for providing useful information about FreeBSD tuning. FreeBSD WIP * Whats cooking for FreeBSD 7? * Whats cooking for FreeBSD 8? * Whats cooking for FreeBSD 9? So here is the question: What tunings are you using on yours FreeBSD servers? You can also post your /etc/sysctl.conf, /boot/loader.conf, kernel options, etc with description of its' meaning (do not copy-paste from sysctl -d). Don't forget to specify server type (web, smb, gateway, etc) Let's share experience!

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• Camera Preview App in Android throwing many errors (Nexus 4)

  - by Jagatheesan Jack

  I am trying to develop a camera app that takes a picture and saves it in a SQLite database. I get a lot of errors when executing the application. My code is as below. Any idea? CameraActivity.java private Camera mCamera; private CameraPreview mPreview; private int CAMERA_RETURN_CODE=100; private static final String TAG = "Take_Picture"; public static final int MEDIA_TYPE_IMAGE = 1; public static final int MEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO = 2; private Bitmap cameraBmp; private int MAX_FACES = 1; private Face[] faceList; public RectF[] rects; private Canvas canvas; private Drawable pictureDataDrawable; private MySQLiteHelper database; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.camera_activity); //this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); //Create an instance of Camera mCamera = getCameraInstance(); setCameraDisplayOrientation(this, 0, mCamera); // Create our Preview view and set it as the content of our activity. mPreview = new CameraPreview(this, mCamera); FrameLayout preview = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.camera_preview); preview.addView(mPreview); database = new MySQLiteHelper(getApplicationContext()); Button captureButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_capture); captureButton.setOnClickListener( new View.OnClickListener() { private PictureCallback mPicture; @Override public void onClick(View v) { //mCamera.startPreview(); // get an image from the camera mCamera.takePicture(null, null, mPicture); PictureCallback mPicture = new PictureCallback() { @Override public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera) { try{ if (data != null) database.addEntry(data); //mCamera.startPreview(); } catch(Exception e){ Log.d(TAG, e.getMessage()); } } } ); } /** A safe way to get an instance of the Camera object. */ public static Camera getCameraInstance(){ Camera c = null; try { c = Camera.open(c.getNumberOfCameras()-1); // attempt to get a Camera instance } catch (Exception e){ // Camera is not available (in use or does not exist) } return c; // returns null if camera is unavailable } public static void setCameraDisplayOrientation(Activity activity, int cameraId, android.hardware.Camera camera) { android.hardware.Camera.CameraInfo info = new android.hardware.Camera.CameraInfo(); android.hardware.Camera.getCameraInfo(cameraId, info); int rotation = activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay() .getRotation(); int degrees = 360; /*switch (rotation) { case Surface.ROTATION_0: degrees = 0; break; case Surface.ROTATION_90: degrees = 90; break; case Surface.ROTATION_180: degrees = 180; break; case Surface.ROTATION_270: degrees = 270; break; }*/ int result; if (info.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) { result = (info.orientation + degrees) % 360; result = (360 - result) % 360; // compensate the mirror } else { // back-facing result = (info.orientation - degrees + 360) % 360; } camera.setDisplayOrientation(result); } @Override protected void onPause() { super.onPause(); //releaseMediaRecorder(); // if you are using MediaRecorder, release it first releaseCamera(); // release the camera immediately on pause event } private void releaseCamera(){ if (mCamera != null){ mCamera.release(); // release the camera for other applications mCamera = null; } } public void startFaceDetection(){ // Try starting Face Detection Camera.Parameters params = mCamera.getParameters(); // start face detection only *after* preview has started if (params.getMaxNumDetectedFaces() > 0){ // camera supports face detection, so can start it: mCamera.startFaceDetection(); } } CameraPreview.java public class CameraPreview extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback { private SurfaceHolder mHolder; private Camera mCamera; private String TAG; private List<Size> mSupportedPreviewSizes; public CameraPreview(Context context, Camera camera) { super(context); mCamera = camera; // Install a SurfaceHolder.Callback so we get notified when the // underlying surface is created and destroyed. mHolder = getHolder(); mHolder.addCallback(this); // deprecated setting, but required on Android versions prior to 3.0 mHolder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS); } public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) { // The Surface has been created, now tell the camera where to draw the preview. try { mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder); mCamera.setDisplayOrientation(90); mCamera.startPreview(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.d(TAG, "Error setting camera preview: " + e.getMessage()); } } public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) { // empty. Take care of releasing the Camera preview in your activity. } public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int w, int h) { // If your preview can change or rotate, take care of those events here. // Make sure to stop the preview before resizing or reformatting it. if (mHolder.getSurface() == null){ // preview surface does not exist return; } // stop preview before making changes try { mCamera.stopPreview(); } catch (Exception e){ // ignore: tried to stop a non-existent preview } try { mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder); mCamera.startPreview(); } catch (Exception e){ Log.d(TAG, "Error starting camera preview: " + e.getMessage()); } } public void setCamera(Camera camera) { if (mCamera == camera) { return; } mCamera = camera; if (mCamera != null) { List<Size> localSizes = mCamera.getParameters().getSupportedPreviewSizes(); mSupportedPreviewSizes = localSizes; requestLayout(); try { mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } /* Important: Call startPreview() to start updating the preview surface. Preview must be started before you can take a picture. */ mCamera.startPreview(); } } MySQLiteHelper.java private static final int count = 0; public static final String TABLE_IMAGE = "images"; public static final String COLUMN_ID = "_id"; public static final String PICTURE_DATA = "picture"; public static final String DATABASE_NAME = "images.db"; public static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1; public static final String DATABASE_CREATE = "create table " + TABLE_IMAGE + "(" + COLUMN_ID + " integer primary key autoincrement, " + PICTURE_DATA + " blob not null);"; public static SQLiteDatabase database; private static String TAG = "test"; public MySQLiteHelper(Context context) { super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION); // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub } public MySQLiteHelper(Context context, String name, CursorFactory factory, int version, DatabaseErrorHandler errorHandler) { super(context, name, factory, version, errorHandler); // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub } @Override public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase database) { database.execSQL(DATABASE_CREATE); } @Override public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) { Log.w(MySQLiteHelper.class.getName(), "Upgrading database from version " + oldVersion + " to " + newVersion + ", which will destroy all old data"); db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + TABLE_IMAGE); onCreate(db); } /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } public void addEntry(byte [] array) throws SQLiteException{ ContentValues cv = new ContentValues(); //cv.put(KEY_NAME, name); cv.put(PICTURE_DATA, array); database.insert( TABLE_IMAGE, null, cv ); Log.w(TAG , "added " +count+ "images"); database.close(); } Errors 11-07 23:28:39.050: E/mm-libcamera2(176): PROFILE HAL: stopPreview(): E: 1383838119.067589459 11-07 23:28:39.050: E/mm-camera(201): config_MSG_ID_STOP_ACK: streamon_mask is not clear. Should not call PP_Release_HW 11-07 23:28:39.090: E/QCameraHWI(176): android::status_t android::QCameraHardwareInterface::setPreviewWindow(preview_stream_ops_t*):Received Setting NULL preview window 11-07 23:28:39.090: E/QCameraHWI(176): android::status_t android::QCameraHardwareInterface::setPreviewWindow(preview_stream_ops_t*): mPreviewWindow = 0x0x0, mStreamDisplay = 0x0xb8a9df90 11-07 23:28:39.090: E/mm-camera(201): config_shutdown_pp Camera not in streaming mode. Returning. 11-07 23:28:39.090: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_ops_deinit: E 11-07 23:28:39.120: E/qcom_sensors_hal(533): hal_process_report_ind: Bad item quality: 11 11-07 23:28:39.310: E/qcom_sensors_hal(533): hal_process_report_ind: Bad item quality: 11 11-07 23:28:39.330: E/mm-camera(201): sensor_load_chromatix: libchromatix_imx119_preview.so: 30 11-07 23:28:39.340: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_ops_init: E 11-07 23:28:39.360: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_legacy_stats_buffer_init: AEC_STATS_BUFNUM 11-07 23:28:39.360: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_legacy_stats_buffer_init: AEC_STATS_BUFNUM 11-07 23:28:39.360: E/mm-camera(201): mctl_init_stats_proc_info: snap_max_line_cnt =25776 11-07 23:28:39.440: E/QCameraHWI(176): android::status_t android::QCameraHardwareInterface::setPreviewWindow(preview_stream_ops_t*): mPreviewWindow = 0x0xb8aa1780, mStreamDisplay = 0x0xb8a9df90 11-07 23:28:39.440: E/mm-camera(201): config_proc_CAMERA_SET_INFORM_STARTPREVIEW 11-07 23:28:39.450: E/mm-camera(201): config_update_stream_info Storing stream parameters for video inst 1 as : width = 640, height 480, format = 1 inst_handle = 810081 cid = 0 11-07 23:28:39.490: E/mm-camera(201): config_update_stream_info Storing stream parameters for video inst 3 as : width = 640, height 480, format = 1 inst_handle = 830083 cid = 0 11-07 23:28:39.490: E/mm-camera(201): config_update_stream_info Storing stream parameters for video inst 4 as : width = 512, height 384, format = 1 inst_handle = 840084 cid = 0 11-07 23:28:39.500: E/mm-camera(201): config_decide_vfe_outputs: Ports Used 3, Op mode 1 11-07 23:28:39.500: E/mm-camera(201): config_decide_vfe_outputs Current mode 0 Full size streaming : Disabled 11-07 23:28:39.500: E/mm-camera(201): config_decide_vfe_outputs: Primary: 640x480, extra_pad: 0x0, Fmt: 1, Type: 1, Path: 1 11-07 23:28:39.500: E/mm-camera(201): config_decide_vfe_outputs: Secondary: 640x480, extra_pad: 0x0, Fmt: 1, Type: 3, Path: 4 11-07 23:28:39.510: E/mm-camera(201): config_update_inst_handles Updated the inst handles as 810081, 830083, 0, 0 11-07 23:28:39.631: E/mm-camera(201): sensor_load_chromatix: libchromatix_imx119_preview.so: 30 11-07 23:28:39.631: E/mm-camera(201): camif_client_set_params: camif has associated with obj mask 0x1 11-07 23:28:39.631: E/mm-camera(201): config_v2_CAMERA_START_common CAMIF_PARAMS_ADD_OBJ_ID failed -1 11-07 23:28:39.641: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_operation_config: format 3 11-07 23:28:39.641: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_operation_config:vfe_op_mode=5 11-07 23:28:39.641: E/mm-camera(201): Invalid ASD Set Params Type 11-07 23:28:39.641: E/mm-camera(201): vfe_set_bestshot: Bestshot mode not changed

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• ASP.NET MVC2 Implementing Custom RoleManager problem

  - by ile

  To create a custom membership provider I followed these instructions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2771094/asp-net-mvc2-custom-membership and these: http://mattwrock.com/post/2009/10/14/Implementing-custom-Membership-Provider-and-Role-Provider-for-Authinticating-ASPNET-MVC-Applications.aspx So far, I've managed to implement custom membership provider and that part works fine. RoleManager still needs some modifications... Project structure: SAMembershipProvider.cs: public class SAMembershipProvider : MembershipProvider { #region - Properties - private int NewPasswordLength { get; set; } private string ConnectionString { get; set; } public bool enablePasswordReset { get; set; } public bool enablePasswordRetrieval { get; set; } public bool requiresQuestionAndAnswer { get; set; } public bool requiresUniqueEmail { get; set; } public int maxInvalidPasswordAttempts { get; set; } public int passwordAttemptWindow { get; set; } public MembershipPasswordFormat passwordFormat { get; set; } public int minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { get; set; } public int minRequiredPasswordLength { get; set; } public string passwordStrengthRegularExpression { get; set; } public override string ApplicationName { get; set; } public override bool EnablePasswordRetrieval { get { return enablePasswordRetrieval; } } public override bool EnablePasswordReset { get { return enablePasswordReset; } } public override bool RequiresQuestionAndAnswer { get { return requiresQuestionAndAnswer; } } public override int MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts { get { return maxInvalidPasswordAttempts; } } public override int PasswordAttemptWindow { get { return passwordAttemptWindow; } } public override bool RequiresUniqueEmail { get { return requiresUniqueEmail; } } public override MembershipPasswordFormat PasswordFormat { get { return passwordFormat; } } public override int MinRequiredPasswordLength { get { return minRequiredPasswordLength; } } public override int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { get { return minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters; } } public override string PasswordStrengthRegularExpression { get { return passwordStrengthRegularExpression; } } #endregion #region - Methods - public override void Initialize(string name, NameValueCollection config) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool ChangePassword(string username, string oldPassword, string newPassword) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool ChangePasswordQuestionAndAnswer(string username, string password, string newPasswordQuestion, string newPasswordAnswer) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUser CreateUser(string username, string password, string email, string passwordQuestion, string passwordAnswer, bool isApproved, object providerUserKey, out MembershipCreateStatus status) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool DeleteUser(string username, bool deleteAllRelatedData) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByEmail(string emailToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByName(string usernameToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUserCollection GetAllUsers(int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override int GetNumberOfUsersOnline() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override string GetPassword(string username, string answer) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUser GetUser(object providerUserKey, bool userIsOnline) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUser GetUser(string username, bool userIsOnline) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override string GetUserNameByEmail(string email) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } protected override void OnValidatingPassword(ValidatePasswordEventArgs e) { base.OnValidatingPassword(e); } public override string ResetPassword(string username, string answer) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool UnlockUser(string userName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override void UpdateUser(MembershipUser user) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool ValidateUser(string username, string password) { AccountRepository accountRepository = new AccountRepository(); var user = accountRepository.GetUser(username); if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(password.Trim())) return false; if (user == null) return false; //string hash = EncryptPassword(password); var email = user.Email; var pass = user.Password; if (user == null) return false; if (pass == password) { //User = user; return true; } return false; } #endregion protected string EncryptPassword(string password) { //we use codepage 1252 because that is what sql server uses byte[] pwdBytes = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(password); byte[] hashBytes = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create().ComputeHash(pwdBytes); return Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(hashBytes); } } SARoleProvider.cs public class SARoleProvider : RoleProvider { AccountRepository accountRepository = new AccountRepository(); public override bool IsUserInRole(string username, string roleName) { return true; } public override string ApplicationName { get { throw new NotImplementedException(); } set { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } public override void AddUsersToRoles(string[] usernames, string[] roleNames) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override void RemoveUsersFromRoles(string[] usernames, string[] roleNames) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override void CreateRole(string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool DeleteRole(string roleName, bool throwOnPopulatedRole) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool RoleExists(string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override string[] GetRolesForUser(string username) { int rolesCount = 0; IQueryable<RoleViewModel> rolesNames; try { // get roles for this user from DB... rolesNames = accountRepository.GetRolesForUser(username); rolesCount = rolesNames.Count(); } catch (Exception ex) { throw ex; } string[] roles = new string[rolesCount]; int counter = 0; foreach (var item in rolesNames) { roles[counter] = item.RoleName.ToString(); counter++; } return roles; } public override string[] GetUsersInRole(string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override string[] FindUsersInRole(string roleName, string usernameToMatch) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override string[] GetAllRoles() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } AccountRepository.cs public class RoleViewModel { public string RoleName { get; set; } } public class AccountRepository { private DB db = new DB(); public User GetUser(string email) { return db.Users.SingleOrDefault(d => d.Email == email); } public IQueryable<RoleViewModel> GetRolesForUser(string email) { var result = ( from role in db.Roles join user in db.Users on role.RoleID equals user.RoleID where user.Email == email select new RoleViewModel { RoleName = role.Name }); return result; } } webconfig <membership defaultProvider="SAMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="SAMembershipProvider" type="SA_Contacts.Membership.SAMembershipProvider, SA_Contacts" connectionStringName ="ShinyAntConnectionString" /> </providers> </membership> <roleManager defaultProvider="SARoleProvider" enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="SARoleProvider" type="SA_Contacts.Membership.SARoleProvider" connectionStringName ="ShinyAntConnectionString" /> </providers> </roleManager> AccountController.cs: public class AccountController : Controller { SAMembershipProvider provider = new SAMembershipProvider(); AccountRepository accountRepository = new AccountRepository(); public AccountController() { } public ActionResult LogOn() { return View(); } [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult LogOn(string userName, string password, string returnUrl) { if (!ValidateLogOn(userName, password)) { return View(); } var user = accountRepository.GetUser(userName); var userFullName = user.FirstName + " " + user.LastName; FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userFullName, false); if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl) && returnUrl != "/") { return Redirect(returnUrl); } else { return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home"); } } public ActionResult LogOff() { FormsAuthentication.SignOut(); return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home"); } private bool ValidateLogOn(string userName, string password) { if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(userName)) { ModelState.AddModelError("username", "You must specify a username."); } if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(password)) { ModelState.AddModelError("password", "You must specify a password."); } if (!provider.ValidateUser(userName, password)) { ModelState.AddModelError("_FORM", "The username or password provided is incorrect."); } return ModelState.IsValid; } } In some testing controller I have following: [Authorize] public class ContactsController : Controller { SAMembershipProvider saMembershipProvider = new SAMembershipProvider(); SARoleProvider saRoleProvider = new SARoleProvider(); // // GET: /Contact/ public ActionResult Index() { string[] roleNames = Roles.GetRolesForUser("[email protected]"); // Outputs admin ViewData["r1"] = roleNames[0].ToString(); // Outputs True // I'm not even sure if this method is the same as the one below ViewData["r2"] = Roles.IsUserInRole("[email protected]", roleNames[0].ToString()); // Outputs True ViewData["r3"] = saRoleProvider.IsUserInRole("[email protected]", "admin"); return View(); } If I use attribute [Authorize] then everything works ok, but if I use [Authorize(Roles="admin")] then user is always rejected, like he is not in role. Any idea of what could be wrong here? Thanks in advance, Ile

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• App using MonoTouch Core Graphics mysteriously crashes

  - by Stephen Ashley

  My app launches with a view controller and a simple view consisting of a button and a subview. When the user touches the button, the subview is populated with scrollviews that display the column headers, row headers, and cells of a spreadsheet. To draw the cells, I use CGBitmapContext to draw the cells, generate an image, and then put the image into the imageview contained in the scrollview that displays the cells. When I run the app on the iPad, it displays the cells just fine, and the scrollview lets the user scroll around in the spreadsheet without any problems. If the user touches the button a second time, the spreadsheet redraws and continues to work perfectly, If, however, the user touches the button a third time, the app crashes. There is no exception information display in the Application Output window. My first thought was that the successive button pushes were using up all the available memory, so I overrode the DidReceiveMemoryWarning method in the view controller and used a breakpoint to confirm that this method was not getting called. My next thought was that the CGBitmapContext was not getting released and looked for a Monotouch equivalent of Objective C's CGContextRelease() function. The closest I could find was the CGBitmapContext instance method Dispose(), which I called, without solving the problem. In order to free up as much memory as possible (in case I was somehow running out of memory without tripping a warning), I tried forcing garbage collection each time I finished using a CGBitmapContext. This made the problem worse. Now the program would crash moments after displaying the spreadsheet the first time. This caused me to wonder whether the Garbage Collector was somehow collecting something necessary to the continued display of graphics on the screen. I would be grateful for any suggestions on further avenues to investigate for the cause of these crashes. I have included the source code for the SpreadsheetView class. The relevant method is DrawSpreadsheet(), which is called when the button is touched. Thank you for your assistance on this matter. Stephen Ashley public class SpreadsheetView : UIView { public ISpreadsheetMessenger spreadsheetMessenger = null; public UIScrollView cellsScrollView = null; public UIImageView cellsImageView = null; public SpreadsheetView(RectangleF frame) : base() { Frame = frame; BackgroundColor = Constants.backgroundBlack; AutosizesSubviews = true; } public void DrawSpreadsheet() { UInt16 RowHeaderWidth = spreadsheetMessenger.RowHeaderWidth; UInt16 RowHeaderHeight = spreadsheetMessenger.RowHeaderHeight; UInt16 RowCount = spreadsheetMessenger.RowCount; UInt16 ColumnHeaderWidth = spreadsheetMessenger.ColumnHeaderWidth; UInt16 ColumnHeaderHeight = spreadsheetMessenger.ColumnHeaderHeight; UInt16 ColumnCount = spreadsheetMessenger.ColumnCount; // Add the corner UIImageView cornerView = new UIImageView(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, RowHeaderWidth, ColumnHeaderHeight)); cornerView.BackgroundColor = Constants.headingColor; CGColorSpace cornerColorSpace = null; CGBitmapContext cornerContext = null; IntPtr buffer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(RowHeaderWidth * ColumnHeaderHeight * 4); if (buffer == IntPtr.Zero) throw new OutOfMemoryException("Out of memory."); try { cornerColorSpace = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB(); cornerContext = new CGBitmapContext (buffer, RowHeaderWidth, ColumnHeaderHeight, 8, 4 * RowHeaderWidth, cornerColorSpace, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedFirst); cornerContext.SetFillColorWithColor(Constants.headingColor.CGColor); cornerContext.FillRect(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, RowHeaderWidth, ColumnHeaderHeight)); cornerView.Image = UIImage.FromImage(cornerContext.ToImage()); } finally { Marshal.FreeHGlobal(buffer); if (cornerContext != null) { cornerContext.Dispose(); cornerContext = null; } if (cornerColorSpace != null) { cornerColorSpace.Dispose(); cornerColorSpace = null; } } cornerView.Image = DrawBottomRightCorner(cornerView.Image); AddSubview(cornerView); // Add the cellsScrollView cellsScrollView = new UIScrollView (new RectangleF(RowHeaderWidth, ColumnHeaderHeight, Frame.Width - RowHeaderWidth, Frame.Height - ColumnHeaderHeight)); cellsScrollView.ContentSize = new SizeF (ColumnCount * ColumnHeaderWidth, RowCount * RowHeaderHeight); Size iContentSize = new Size((int)cellsScrollView.ContentSize.Width, (int)cellsScrollView.ContentSize.Height); cellsScrollView.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Black; AddSubview(cellsScrollView); CGColorSpace colorSpace = null; CGBitmapContext context = null; CGGradient gradient = null; UIImage image = null; int bytesPerRow = 4 * iContentSize.Width; int byteCount = bytesPerRow * iContentSize.Height; buffer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(byteCount); if (buffer == IntPtr.Zero) throw new OutOfMemoryException("Out of memory."); try { colorSpace = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB(); context = new CGBitmapContext (buffer, iContentSize.Width, iContentSize.Height, 8, 4 * iContentSize.Width, colorSpace, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedFirst); float[] components = new float[] {.75f, .75f, .75f, 1f, .25f, .25f, .25f, 1f}; float[] locations = new float[]{0f, 1f}; gradient = new CGGradient(colorSpace, components, locations); PointF startPoint = new PointF(0f, (float)iContentSize.Height); PointF endPoint = new PointF((float)iContentSize.Width, 0f); context.DrawLinearGradient(gradient, startPoint, endPoint, 0); context.SetLineWidth(Constants.lineWidth); context.BeginPath(); for (UInt16 i = 1; i <= RowCount; i++) { context.MoveTo (0f, iContentSize.Height - i * RowHeaderHeight + (Constants.lineWidth/2)); context.AddLineToPoint((float)iContentSize.Width, iContentSize.Height - i * RowHeaderHeight + (Constants.lineWidth/2)); } for (UInt16 j = 1; j <= ColumnCount; j++) { context.MoveTo((float)j * ColumnHeaderWidth - Constants.lineWidth/2, (float)iContentSize.Height); context.AddLineToPoint((float)j * ColumnHeaderWidth - Constants.lineWidth/2, 0f); } context.StrokePath(); image = UIImage.FromImage(context.ToImage()); } finally { Marshal.FreeHGlobal(buffer); if (gradient != null) { gradient.Dispose(); gradient = null; } if (context != null) { context.Dispose(); context = null; } if (colorSpace != null) { colorSpace.Dispose(); colorSpace = null; } // GC.Collect(); //GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); } UIImage finalImage = ActivateCell(1, 1, image); finalImage = ActivateCell(0, 0, finalImage); cellsImageView = new UIImageView(finalImage); cellsImageView.Frame = new RectangleF(0f, 0f, iContentSize.Width, iContentSize.Height); cellsScrollView.AddSubview(cellsImageView); } private UIImage ActivateCell(UInt16 column, UInt16 row, UIImage backgroundImage) { UInt16 ColumnHeaderWidth = (UInt16)spreadsheetMessenger.ColumnHeaderWidth; UInt16 RowHeaderHeight = (UInt16)spreadsheetMessenger.RowHeaderHeight; CGColorSpace cellColorSpace = null; CGBitmapContext cellContext = null; UIImage cellImage = null; IntPtr buffer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(4 * ColumnHeaderWidth * RowHeaderHeight); if (buffer == IntPtr.Zero) throw new OutOfMemoryException("Out of memory: ActivateCell()"); try { cellColorSpace = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB(); // Create a bitmap the size of a cell cellContext = new CGBitmapContext (buffer, ColumnHeaderWidth, RowHeaderHeight, 8, 4 * ColumnHeaderWidth, cellColorSpace, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedFirst); // Paint it white cellContext.SetFillColorWithColor(UIColor.White.CGColor); cellContext.FillRect(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, ColumnHeaderWidth, RowHeaderHeight)); // Convert it to an image cellImage = UIImage.FromImage(cellContext.ToImage()); } finally { Marshal.FreeHGlobal(buffer); if (cellContext != null) { cellContext.Dispose(); cellContext = null; } if (cellColorSpace != null) { cellColorSpace.Dispose(); cellColorSpace = null; } // GC.Collect(); //GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); } // Draw the border on the cell image cellImage = DrawBottomRightCorner(cellImage); CGColorSpace colorSpace = null; CGBitmapContext context = null; Size iContentSize = new Size((int)backgroundImage.Size.Width, (int)backgroundImage.Size.Height); buffer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(4 * iContentSize.Width * iContentSize.Height); if (buffer == IntPtr.Zero) throw new OutOfMemoryException("Out of memory: ActivateCell()."); try { colorSpace = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB(); // Set up a bitmap context the size of the whole grid context = new CGBitmapContext (buffer, iContentSize.Width, iContentSize.Height, 8, 4 * iContentSize.Width, colorSpace, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedFirst); // Draw the original grid into the bitmap context.DrawImage(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, iContentSize.Width, iContentSize.Height), backgroundImage.CGImage); // Draw the cell image into the bitmap context.DrawImage(new RectangleF(column * ColumnHeaderWidth, iContentSize.Height - (row + 1) * RowHeaderHeight, ColumnHeaderWidth, RowHeaderHeight), cellImage.CGImage); // Convert the bitmap back to an image backgroundImage = UIImage.FromImage(context.ToImage()); } finally { Marshal.FreeHGlobal(buffer); if (context != null) { context.Dispose(); context = null; } if (colorSpace != null) { colorSpace.Dispose(); colorSpace = null; } // GC.Collect(); //GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); } return backgroundImage; } private UIImage DrawBottomRightCorner(UIImage image) { int width = (int)image.Size.Width; int height = (int)image.Size.Height; float lineWidth = Constants.lineWidth; CGColorSpace colorSpace = null; CGBitmapContext context = null; UIImage returnImage = null; IntPtr buffer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(4 * width * height); if (buffer == IntPtr.Zero) throw new OutOfMemoryException("Out of memory: DrawBottomRightCorner()."); try { colorSpace = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB(); context = new CGBitmapContext (buffer, width, height, 8, 4 * width, colorSpace, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedFirst); context.DrawImage(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, width, height), image.CGImage); context.BeginPath(); context.MoveTo(0f, (int)(lineWidth/2f)); context.AddLineToPoint(width - (int)(lineWidth/2f), (int)(lineWidth/2f)); context.AddLineToPoint(width - (int)(lineWidth/2f), height); context.SetLineWidth(Constants.lineWidth); context.SetStrokeColorWithColor(UIColor.Black.CGColor); context.StrokePath(); returnImage = UIImage.FromImage(context.ToImage()); } finally { Marshal.FreeHGlobal(buffer); if (context != null){ context.Dispose(); context = null;} if (colorSpace != null){ colorSpace.Dispose(); colorSpace = null;} // GC.Collect(); //GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); } return returnImage; } }

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• jsf submit button not wrking

  - by tejas-a

  I am using hx:commandExButton of IBM Faces Client Framework to call my method. But the method is not getting called. But if I use immediate="true" it's getting called. But as you all know with this my model won't get updated, so it has no use to me. Has anyone faced this? Check the hx:commandExButton id="btnSearch" <%-- tpl:metadata --%> <%-- jsf:pagecode language="java" location="/src/pagecode/view/costestimation/SearchAssignee.java" --%><%-- /jsf:pagecode --%> <%-- /tpl:metadata --%> <%@taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"%><%@taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"%><%@taglib uri="http://www.ibm.com/jsf/html_extended" prefix="hx"%><%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/portlet_2_0" prefix="portlet"%><%@taglib uri="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/portal/v6.1/portlet-client-model" prefix="portlet-client-model"%><%@page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%><portlet-client-model:init> <portlet-client-model:require module="ibm.portal.xml.*" /> <portlet-client-model:require module="ibm.portal.portlet.*" /> </portlet-client-model:init> <portlet:defineObjects /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="Style" href="../../theme/stylesheet.css"> <f:view> <f:loadBundle var="giamsBundle" basename="com.ibm.costprojectionportlet.nl.GIAMSResourceBundle" /> <hx:viewFragment id="viewFragment1"> <hx:scriptCollector id="scriptCollector1"> <script language="JavaScript" src='<%=renderResponse.encodeURL(renderRequest .getContextPath() + "/js/common.js")%>'></script> <h:outputText value="<br/>" escape="false" /> <h:outputText id="titleSearch" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['title.search']}" escape="false"></h:outputText> <h:outputText value="<br/>" escape="false" /> <h:messages style="font-weight:bold;color:red;" layout="table"></h:messages> <hx:panelSection styleClass="panelSection" title="SearchCriteria" id="searchCriteriaPanel" initClosed="false" style="border-width: thin; border-style: groove"> <h:form styleClass="form" id="searchCriteriaForm"> <h:messages style="font-weight:bold;color:red;" layout="table"></h:messages> <h:panelGrid columns="2" cellpadding="1" border="0" width="100%"> <h:column> <hx:panelFormBox helpPosition="over" labelPosition="left" styleClass="panelFormBox" id="formBoxLeft"> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmLastName" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.lastname']}" escape="false"> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" size="20" id="txtLastName" value="#{pc_SearchAssignee.assignee.lastName}"> </h:inputText> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmHomeCountrySerial" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homecountryserial']}" escape="false"> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" size="20" id="txtHomeCountrySerial" value="#{pc_SearchAssignee.assignee.companyDetails.homeCountrySerial}"> </h:inputText> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmHomeCountry" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homecountry']}" escape="false"> <h:selectOneMenu styleClass="selectOneMenu" id="ddHomeCountry" value=""> <f:selectItems value="#{pc_referenceData.telephoneTypeList}" /> </h:selectOneMenu> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmHomeBusinessUnit" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homebusunit']}" escape="false"> <h:selectOneMenu styleClass="selectOneMenu" value="" id="ddHomeBusinessUnit"> <f:selectItems value="#{pc_referenceData.telephoneTypeList}" /> </h:selectOneMenu> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmforButtons" label="" escape="false"> <h:panelGroup> <hx:commandExButton styleClass="commandExButton" id="btnSearch" value="#{giamsBundle['btn.search']}" action="#{pc_SearchAssignee.searchAssignee}"> </hx:commandExButton> <hx:commandExButton styleClass="commandExButton" id="btnCancel" value="#{giamsBundle['btn.cancel']}" action="#{pc_SearchAssignee.searchAssignee}"> </hx:commandExButton> </h:panelGroup> </hx:formItem> </hx:panelFormBox> </h:column> <h:column> <hx:panelFormBox helpPosition="over" labelPosition="left" styleClass="panelFormBox" id="formBoxRight"> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmFirstName" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.firstname']}" escape="false"> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" size="20" id="txtFirstName" value="#{pc_SearchAssignee.assignee.firstName}"> </h:inputText> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmHomeNotesEmail" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homenotesemail']}" escape="false"> <h:panelGroup> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" size="20" id="txtHomeNotesEmail" value="#{pc_SearchAssignee.assignee.lotusNotesId}"> </h:inputText> </h:panelGroup> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="frmHomeLocation" label="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homeloc']}" escape="false"> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" size="20" id="txtHomeLocation" value="#{pc_SearchAssignee.assignee.homeAddress.cityName}"> </h:inputText> </hx:formItem> <hx:formItem styleClass="formItem" id="blank" label="" escape="false"> <h:outputText id="txtblank" escape="false"></h:outputText> </hx:formItem> </hx:panelFormBox> </h:column> </h:panelGrid> </h:form> <f:facet name="opened"> <hx:jspPanel id="jspPanelMainOpen"> <hx:graphicImageEx id="imageExMainOpen" styleClass="graphicImageEx" align="middle" value="/theme/img/form_header.GIF" width="100%" height="20"></hx:graphicImageEx> </hx:jspPanel> </f:facet> </hx:panelSection> <h:outputText id="titleResults" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.results']}" escape="false"></h:outputText> <h:outputText value="<br/>" escape="false" /> <hx:dataTableEx border="0" cellspacing="2" width="100%" columnClasses="columnClass1" headerClass="headerClass" footerClass="footerClass" rowClasses="rowClass1, rowClass2" styleClass="dataTableEx" id="searchAssignee" value="#{pc_SearchAssignee.assigneeList}" var="searchitr" binding="#{pc_SearchAssignee.searchDataTable}" rendered="#{pc_SearchAssignee.render}"> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx1"> <f:facet name="header"> <hx:panelBox styleClass="panelBox" id="selectPanelBox"> <hx:outputSelecticons styleClass="outputSelecticons" id="selectCheckBox"></hx:outputSelecticons> </hx:panelBox> </f:facet> <hx:inputRowSelect styleClass="inputRowSelect" value="#{searchitr.selected}" id="rowSelect"></hx:inputRowSelect> <f:facet name="header"></f:facet> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx2"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblEeId" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.eeid']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtEEID" value="#{searchitr.employeeID}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx3"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblFirstName" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.firstname']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtFirstName" value="#{searchitr.firstName}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx4"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblLastName" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.lastname']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtLastName" value="#{searchitr.lastName}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx5"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblHomeNotesEmail" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homenotesemail']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtHomeNotesEmail" value="#{searchitr.homeAddress.addressLine1}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx6"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblHomeCountry" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homecountry']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtHomeCountry" value="#{searchitr.homeAddress.addressLine1}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx7"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblHomeLocation" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homeloc']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtHomeLocation" value="#{searchitr.homeTaxID}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx8"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblHomeBusUnit" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.homebusunit']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtHomeBusUnit" value="#{searchitr.homeTaxID}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> <hx:columnEx id="columnEx9"> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText id="lblAssignStatus" styleClass="outputText" value="#{giamsBundle['lbl.search.assignmentstatus']}"></h:outputText> </f:facet> <h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="dttxtAssignStatus" value="#{searchitr.homeTaxID}"></h:inputText> </hx:columnEx> </hx:dataTableEx> <h:outputText value="<br/>" escape="false" /> <hx:commandExButton type="submit" styleClass="commandExButton" rendered="#{pc_SearchAssignee.render}" id="btnContinue" value="#{giamsBundle['btn.continue']}" action="#{pc_SearchAssignee.searchAssignee}"> </hx:commandExButton> </hx:scriptCollector> </hx:viewFragment> </f:view>

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• Reason for Null pointer Exception

  - by Rahul Varma

  Hi, I cant figure out why my program is showing null pointer exception. Plz help me...Here's the program... public class MusicListActivity extends Activity { List<HashMap<String, String>> songNodeDet = new ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>>(); HashMap<?,?>[] songNodeWeb; XMLRPCClient client; String logInSess; ArrayList<String> paths=new ArrayList<String>(); public ListAdapter adapter ; Object[] websongListObject; List<SongsList> SngList=new ArrayList<SongsList>(); Runnable r; ProgressDialog p; ListView lv; String s; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle si){ super.onCreate(si); setContentView(R.layout.openadiuofile); lv=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.list1); r=new Runnable(){ public void run(){ try{ getSongs(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (XMLRPCException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } }; Thread t=new Thread(r,"background"); t.start(); Log.e("***","process over"); } @Override protected void onResume() { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onResume(); } private Runnable returnRes = new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { Log.d("handler","handler"); removeDialog(0); p.dismiss(); list(); } }; public void list() { Log.d("#####","#####"); LayoutInflater inflater=getLayoutInflater(); String[] from={}; int[] n={}; adapter=new SongsAdapter(getApplicationContext(),songNodeDet,R.layout.row,from,n,inflater); lv.setAdapter(adapter);} private Handler handler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message msg){ Log.d("*****","handler"); removeDialog(0); p.dismiss(); } }; public void webObjectList(Object[] imgListObj,String logInSess) throws XMLRPCException{ songNodeWeb = new HashMap<?,?>[imgListObj.length]; if(imgListObj!=null){ Log.e("completed","completed"); for(int i=0;i<imgListObj.length;i++){ //imgListObj.length songNodeWeb[i]=(HashMap<?,?>)imgListObj[i]; String nodeid=(String) songNodeWeb[i].get("nid"); break; Log.e("img",i+"completed"); HashMap<String,String> nData=new HashMap<String,String>(); nData.put("nid",nodeid); Object nodeget=client.call("node.get",logInSess,nodeid); HashMap<?,?> imgNode=(HashMap<?,?>)nodeget; String titleName=(String) imgNode.get("titles"); String movieName=(String) imgNode.get("album"); String singerName=(String) imgNode.get("artist"); nData.put("titles", titleName); nData.put("album", movieName); nData.put("artist", singerName); Object[] imgObject=(Object[])imgNode.get("field_image"); HashMap<?,?>[] imgDetails=new HashMap<?,?>[imgObject.length]; imgDetails[0]=(HashMap<?, ?>)imgObject[0]; String path=(String) imgDetails[0].get("filepath"); if(path.contains(" ")){ path=path.replace(" ", "%20"); } String imgPath="http://www.gorinka.com/"+path; paths.add(imgPath); nData.put("path", imgPath); Log.e("my path",path); String mime=(String)imgDetails[0].get("filemime"); nData.put("mime", mime); SongsList songs=new SongsList(titleName,movieName,singerName,imgPath,imgPath); SngList.add(i,songs); songNodeDet.add(i,nData); } Log.e("paths values",paths.toString()); // return imgNodeDet; handler.sendEmptyMessage(0); } } public void getSongs() throws MalformedURLException, XMLRPCException { String ur="http://www.gorinka.com/?q=services/xmlrpc"; URL u=new URL(ur); client = new XMLRPCClient(u); //Connecting to the website HashMap<?, ?> siteConn =(HashMap<?, ?>) client.call("system.connect"); // Getting initial sessio id String initSess=(String)siteConn.get("sessid"); //Login to the site using session id HashMap<?, ?> logInConn =(HashMap<?, ?>) client.call("user.login",initSess,"prakash","stellentsoft2009"); //Getting Login sessid logInSess=(String)logInConn.get("sessid"); websongListObject =(Object[]) client.call("nodetype.get",logInSess,""); webObjectList(websongListObject,logInSess); Log.d("webObjectList","webObjectList"); runOnUiThread(returnRes); } } Here's the Adapter associated... public class SongsAdapter extends SimpleAdapter{ static List<HashMap<String,String>> songsList; Context context; LayoutInflater inflater; public SongsAdapter(Context context,List<HashMap<String,String>> imgListWeb,int layout,String[] from,int[] to,LayoutInflater inflater) { super(context,songsList,layout,from,to); this.songsList=songsList; this.context=context; this.inflater=inflater; // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub } @Override public View getView(int postition,View convertView,ViewGroup parent)throws java.lang.OutOfMemoryError{ try { View v = ((LayoutInflater) inflater).inflate(R.layout.row,null); ImageView images=(ImageView)v.findViewById(R.id.image); TextView tvTitle=(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.text1); TextView tvAlbum=(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.text2); TextView tvArtist=(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.text3); HashMap<String,String> songsHash=songsList.get(postition); String path=songsHash.get("path"); String title=songsHash.get("title"); String album=songsHash.get("album"); String artist=songsHash.get("artist"); String imgPath=path; final ImageView imageView = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.image); AsyncImageLoaderv asyncImageLoader=new AsyncImageLoaderv(); Bitmap cachedImage = asyncImageLoader.loadDrawable(imgPath, new AsyncImageLoaderv.ImageCallback() { public void imageLoaded(Bitmap imageDrawable, String imageUrl) { imageView.setImageBitmap(imageDrawable); } }); imageView.setImageBitmap(cachedImage); tvTitle.setText(title); tvAlbum.setText(album); tvArtist.setText(artist); return v; } catch(Exception e){ Log.e("error",e.toString()); } return null; } public static Bitmap loadImageFromUrl(String url) { InputStream inputStream;Bitmap b; try { inputStream = (InputStream) new URL(url).getContent(); BitmapFactory.Options bpo= new BitmapFactory.Options(); bpo.inSampleSize=2; b=BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream, null,bpo ); return b; } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } } Here is what logcat is showing... 04-23 16:02:02.211: ERROR/completed(1450): completed 04-23 16:02:02.211: ERROR/paths values(1450): [] 04-23 16:02:02.211: DEBUG/*****(1450): handler 04-23 16:02:02.211: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(1450): Shutting down VM 04-23 16:02:02.211: WARN/dalvikvm(1450): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001aa28) 04-23 16:02:02.222: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 04-23 16:02:02.241: DEBUG/webObjectList(1450): webObjectList 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): java.lang.NullPointerException 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at com.stellent.gorinka.MusicListActivity$2.handleMessage(MusicListActivity.java:81) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4203) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:791) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:549) 04-23 16:02:02.252: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1450): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) I have declared the getter and setter methods in a seperate claa named SongsList. Plz help me determine the problem...

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• Retrieving saved checkboxes' name and values from database

  - by sermed

  I have a form with checkboxes, each one has a value. When the registered user select any checkbox the value is incremented (the summation) and then then registred user save his selection of checkbox if he satisfied with the result of summation into database all this work fine ...i want to enable the registred user to view his selection history by retriving and displaying the checkboxes he selected in a page with thier values ... How I can do that? I'm just able to save the selected checkboxes as choice 1, choice 2, for example .. I want to view the selected checkboxes that is saved in database as the appear in the page when the user first select them: for example if the registred user selects these 3 options LEAD DEEP KEEL (1825) FULLY BATTENED MAINSAIL (558) TEAK SIDE DECKS (2889) They will be saved as for example (choice1, choice2, choice3). But if he want to view selected checkboxes the appear exactly as first he selects them: LEAD DEEP KEEL (1825) FULLY BATTENED MAINSAIL (558) TEAK SIDE DECKS (2889) This is my user table: $query="CREATE TABLE User( user_id varchar(20), password varchar(40), user_type varchar(20), firstname varchar(30), lastname varchar(30), street varchar(50), city varchar(50), county varchar(50), post_code varchar(10), country varchar(50), gender varchar(6), dob varchar(15), tel_no varchar(50), vals varchar(50), email varchar(50))"; and the code to inser the options selected to database <?php include("databaseconnection.php"); $str = ''; foreach($_POST as $key => $val) if (strpos($key,'choice') !== false) $str .= $key.','; $query = "INSERT INTO User (vals) VALUES('$str')"; $result=mysql_query($query,$conn); if ($result) { (mysql_error(); } else { echo " done"; } ?> And this is my form: function checkTotal() { document.listForm.total.value = ''; var sum = 0; for (i=0;i <form name="listForm" method="post" action="insert_options.php" > <TABLE cellPadding=3 width=600 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TH align=left width="87%" bgColor=#b0b3b4><SPAN class=whiteText>Item</SPAN></TH> <TH align=right width="13%" bgColor=#b0b3b4><SPAN class=whiteText>Select</SPAN></TH></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#9da8af"colSpan=2><SPAN class=normalText><B>General</B></SPAN></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#c4c8ca"><SPAN class=normalText >TEAK SIDE DECKS (2889)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="2889" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()" /></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>LEAD DEEP KEEL (1825)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="1825" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>FULLY BATTENED MAINSAIL (558)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="558" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>HIGH TECH SAILS FOR CONVENTIONAL RIG (1979)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="1979" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>IN MAST REEFING WITH HIGH TECH SAILS (2539)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="2539" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>SPlNNAKER GEAR (POLE LINES DECK FITTINGS) (820)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="820" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>SPINNAKER POLE VERTICAL STOWAGE SYSTEM (214)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="214" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>GAS ROD KICKER (208)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="208" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>SIDE RAIL OPENINGS (BOTH SIDES) (392)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="392" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>SPRING CLEATS MIDSHIPS -ALUMIMIUM (148)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="148" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>ELECTRIC ANCHOR WINDLASS (1189)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="1189" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>ANCHOR CHAIN GALVANISED (50m) (202)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="202" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>ANCHOR CHAIN GALVANISED (50m) (1141)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="1141" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#9da8af"colSpan=2><SPAN class=normalText><B>NAVIGATION & ELECTRONICS</B></SPAN></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#c4c8ca"><SPAN class=normalText >WIND VANE (STAINLESS STEEL)(41)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="41" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()" /></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>RAYMARINE ST6O LOG & DEPTH (SEPARATE UNITS)(226)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="226" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#9da8af"colSpan=2><SPAN class=normalText><B>ENGINES & ELECTRICS</B></SPAN></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>SHORE SUPPLY (220V) WITH 3 OUTLETS (EXCLUDJNG SHORE CABLE) (327)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="327" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>3rd BATTERY(14OA/H)(196)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="196" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>24 AMP BATTERY CHARGER (475)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="475" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>2 BLADED FOLDING PROPELLER (UPGRADE)(299)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="299" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#9da8af"colSpan=2><SPAN class=normalText><B>BELOW DECKS/DOMESTIC</B></SPAN></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>WARM WATER (FROM ENGINE & 220V)(749)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="749" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>SHOWER IN AFT HEADS WITH PUMPOUT(446)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="446" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>DECK SUCTION DISPOSAL FOR HOLDINGTANK(166)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="166" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>REFRIGERATED COOLBOX (12V)(666)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="666" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>LFS SAFETY PACKAGE (COCKPIT HARNESS POINTS STAINLESS STEEL JACKSTAYS)(208)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="208" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>UPHOLSTERY UPGRADE IN SALOON (SUEDETYPE)(701)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="701" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#9da8af"colSpan=2><SPAN class=normalText><B>NAVIGATION ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICS</B></SPAN></TD></TR> <TD bgColor=#c4c8ca><SPAN class=normalText>VHF RADIO AERIAL CABLED TO NAVIGATION AREA(178)</SPAN></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#c4c8ca><input name="choice" value="178" type="checkbox" onchange="checkTotal()"></TD></TR> </table>

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• Silverlight MVVM Confusion: Updating Image Based on State

  - by senfo

  I'm developing a Silverlight application and I'm trying to stick to the MVVM principals, but I'm running into some problems changing the source of an image based on the state of a property in the ViewModel. For all intents and purposes, you can think of the functionality I'm implementing as a play/pause button for an audio app. When in the "Play" mode, IsActive is true in the ViewModel and the "Pause.png" image on the button should be displayed. When paused, IsActive is false in the ViewModel and "Play.png" is displayed on the button. Naturally, there are two additional images to handle when the mouse hovers over the button. I thought I could use a Style Trigger, but apparently they're not supported in Silverlight. I've been reviewing a forum post with a question similar to mine where it's suggested to use the VisualStateManager. While this might help with changing the image for hover/normal states, the part missing (or I'm not understanding) is how this would work with a state set via the view model. The post seems to apply only to events rather than properties of the view model. Having said that, I also haven't successfully completed the normal/hover affects, either. Below is my Silverlight 4 XAML. It should also probably be noted I'm working with MVVM Light. <UserControl x:Class="Foo.Bar.MyUserControl" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity" mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignHeight="100" d:DesignWidth="200"> <UserControl.Resources> <Style x:Key="MyButtonStyle" TargetType="Button"> <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFA9A9A9"/> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="#FF000000"/> <Setter Property="MinWidth" Value="5"/> <Setter Property="MinHeight" Value="5"/> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0"/> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left" /> <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Top" /> <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/> <Setter Property="Cursor" Value="Hand"/> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button"> <Grid> <Image Source="/Foo.Bar;component/Resources/Icons/Bar/Play.png"> <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> <VisualStateGroup x:Name="Active"> <VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"> <Storyboard> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Source" Storyboard.TargetName="/Foo.Bar;component/Resources/Icons/Bar/Play_Hover.png" /> </Storyboard> </VisualState> </VisualStateGroup> </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> </Image> </Grid> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> </UserControl.Resources> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <Button Style="{StaticResource MyButtonStyle}" Command="{Binding ChangeStatus}" Height="30" Width="30" /> </Grid> </UserControl> What is the proper way to update images on buttons with the state determined by the view model? Update I changed my Button to a ToggleButton hoping I could use the Checked state to differentiate between play/pause. I practically have it, but I ran into one additional problem. I need to account for two states at the same time. For example, Checked Normal/Hover and Unchecked Normal/Hover. Following is my updated XAML: <UserControl x:Class="Foo.Bar.MyUserControl" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity" mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignHeight="100" d:DesignWidth="200"> <UserControl.Resources> <Style x:Key="MyButtonStyle" TargetType="ToggleButton"> <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFA9A9A9"/> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="#FF000000"/> <Setter Property="MinWidth" Value="5"/> <Setter Property="MinHeight" Value="5"/> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0"/> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left" /> <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Top" /> <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/> <Setter Property="Cursor" Value="Hand"/> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="ToggleButton"> <Grid> <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> <VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates"> <VisualState x:Name="Normal"> <Storyboard> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)" Storyboard.TargetName="Pause"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> <Visibility>Collapsed</Visibility> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> </Storyboard> </VisualState> <VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"> <Storyboard> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)" Storyboard.TargetName="PlayHover"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> <Visibility>Visible</Visibility> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)" Storyboard.TargetName="Play"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> <Visibility>Collapsed</Visibility> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> </Storyboard> </VisualState> </VisualStateGroup> <VisualStateGroup x:Name="CheckStates"> <VisualState x:Name="Checked"> <Storyboard> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)" Storyboard.TargetName="Pause"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> <Visibility>Visible</Visibility> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)" Storyboard.TargetName="Play"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> <Visibility>Collapsed</Visibility> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)" Storyboard.TargetName="PlayHover"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> <Visibility>Collapsed</Visibility> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value> </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> </Storyboard> </VisualState> <VisualState x:Name="Unchecked" /> </VisualStateGroup> </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> <Image x:Name="Play" Source="/Foo.Bar;component/Resources/Icons/Bar/Play.png" /> <Image x:Name="Pause" Source="/Foo.Bar;component/Resources/Icons/Bar/Pause.png" Visibility="Collapsed" /> <Image x:Name="PlayHover" Source="/Foo.Bar;component/Resources/Icons/Bar/Play_Hover.png" Visibility="Collapsed" /> <Image x:Name="PauseHover" Source="/Foo.Bar;component/Resources/Icons/Bar/Pause_Hover.png" Visibility="Collapsed" /> </Grid> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> </UserControl.Resources> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <ToggleButton Style="{StaticResource MyButtonStyle}" IsChecked="{Binding IsPlaying}" Command="{Binding ChangeStatus}" Height="30" Width="30" /> </Grid> </UserControl>

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• A Web exception occurred because an HTTP 503 - ServiceUnavailable response was received from Unknown

  - by Dai

  As far as I can tell my Exchange 2010 Mailbox and Client Access server is working fine except for Outlook Anywhere. I fired up the Exchange Connectivity Tester and ran it against my server and I get this report: Part 5 Testing HTTP Authentication Methods for URL https://mail.contoso.com/rpc/rpcproxy.dll?server6.corp.contoso.com:6002. The HTTP authentication test failed. Additional details: A Web exception occurred because an HTTP 503 - ServiceUnavailable response was received from Unknown. When I do a search for "ServiceUnavailable response was received from Unknown." I get only a couple of relevant results, including a 22k-view Exchange Forum thread, but none of the solutions discussed help. There is nothing of relevance in the server's Event Log. mail.contoso.com is the public domain name of the CAS/MB/HT server. server6.corp.contoso.com is the internal domain name of the server.

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• Redmine on Apache2 with Passenger issue

  - by nkr1pt

  I installed Redmine and run it in Apache2 with the Passenger module. Apache2 boots, Passenger module gets loaded and the Redmine welcome page is shown, however when trying to login or navigate to other parts of the Redmine site, the browser keeps loading and loading and loading forever, although the Redmine production.log indicates redirects and HTTP 200 codes in the header, so everything seems to work correctly according to the log. I tested in various browsers. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? I will add apache configuration and some relevant log snippets from both apache and redmine hereafter. Apache2 Redmine configuration: DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /var/www/redmine> RailsEnv production AllowOverride all RailsBaseURI /redmine PassengerResolveSymLinksInDocumentRoot on </Directory> Apache2 error log after booting Apache: [Wed Feb 09 19:59:58 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Phusion_Passenger/3.0.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.6.6 configured -- resuming normal operations Redmine production log after logging in: Logfile created on Wed Feb 09 20:01:40 +0100 2011 Processing WelcomeController#index (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:01:48) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"welcome"} Rendering template within layouts/base Rendering welcome/index Completed in 220ms (View: 96, DB: 16) | 200 OK [http://sirius/redmine] Processing AccountController#login (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:03:17) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"login", "controller"=>"account"} Rendering template within layouts/base Rendering account/login Completed in 85ms (View: 63, DB: 1) | 200 OK [http://sirius/redmine/login] Processing AccountController#login (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:03:20) [POST] Parameters: {"back_url"=>"http%3A%2F%2Fsirius%2Fredmine", "action"=>"login", "authenticity_token"=>"cEMUZHhRKJU8w3p6d+xQQhJTk4/pnnzUdg5g5fwhxDU=", "username"=>"admin", "controller"=>"account", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "login"=>"Login \302\273"} Redirected to http://sirius/redmine Completed in 37ms (DB: 6) | 302 Found [http://sirius/redmine/login] Processing WelcomeController#index (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:03:20) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"welcome"} Rendering template within layouts/base Rendering welcome/index Completed in 100ms (View: 77, DB: 6) | 200 OK [http://sirius/redmine] Apache2 error log afterwards: [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(247)] ModPagespeed OutputFilter called for request /redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(272)] unparsed=/redmine/login, absolute_url=http://sirius/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: HtmlParse::StartParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(299)] Request headers:\nHTTP/1.1 0 Internal Server Error\r\nHost: sirius\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nKeep-Alive: 115\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nReferer: http://sirius/redmine\r\nCookie: _redmine_session=BAh7BjoPc2Vzc2lvbl9pZCIlNmVlMzFiMDc4MWQxZDU5ZTI5MTk2NjU0NGY3MzJmYzQ%3D--ea4b7adbc35551051632b5544faaad138ae08d90\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(302)] request-filename=/var/www/redmine/login, uri=/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(319)] ModPagespeed Response headers:\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nStatus: 200\r\nX-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.0.0-128\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2157us: HtmlParse::Flush [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2272us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2342us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:AddHead [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2407us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2504us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssCombine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [warn] [0209/200317:WARNING:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(32)] Failed to create or read input resource /redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [warn] [0209/200317:WARNING:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(32)] Failed to create or read input resource /redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 3642us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssFilter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] http://sirius/redmine/login:9: Failed to load resource http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] http://sirius/redmine/login:17: Failed to load resource http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Failed to load resource http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 4863us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:Javascript [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:11: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:12: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:13: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:14: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:15: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 8389us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 8588us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 8701us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineCss [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: 8701us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineCss [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 9199us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineJs [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] Creating connectionhttp://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connectionhttp://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 11398us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:ImgRewrite [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 11506us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CacheExtender [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 14401us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:HtmlWriter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 15218us: HtmlParse::FinishParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [warn] [client 192.168.1.55] Not GET request: 2., referer: http://sirius/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(247)] ModPagespeed OutputFilter called for request /redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(272)] unparsed=/redmine/login, absolute_url=http://sirius/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: HtmlParse::StartParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(299)] Request headers:\nHTTP/1.1 0 Internal Server Error\r\nHost: sirius\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nKeep-Alive: 115\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nReferer: http://sirius/redmine/login\r\nCookie: _redmine_session=BAh7BzoPc2Vzc2lvbl9pZCIlNmVlMzFiMDc4MWQxZDU5ZTI5MTk2NjU0NGY3MzJmYzQ6EF9jc3JmX3Rva2VuIjFjRU1VWkhoUktKVTh3M3A2ZCt4UVFoSlRrNC9wbm56VWRnNWc1ZndoeERVPQ%3D%3D--8b195ac3cab88b5a1f408e3f18aaddc70782140e\r\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nContent-Length: 165\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(302)] request-filename=/var/www/redmine/login, uri=/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(319)] ModPagespeed Response headers:\nHTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\nLocation: http://sirius/redmine\r\nStatus: 302\r\nX-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.0.0-128\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 604us: HtmlParse::Flush [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 697us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 758us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:AddHead [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 813us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 912us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 965us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssCombine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1020us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssFilter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1073us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:Javascript [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1125us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineCss [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1179us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineJs [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1233us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:ImgRewrite [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1285us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CacheExtender [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1338us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:HtmlWriter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1415us: HtmlParse::FinishParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(247)] ModPagespeed OutputFilter called for request /redmine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(272)] unparsed=/redmine, absolute_url=http://sirius/redmine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: HtmlParse::StartParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(299)] Request headers:\nHTTP/1.1 0 Internal Server Error\r\nHost: sirius\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nKeep-Alive: 115\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nReferer: http://sirius/redmine/login\r\nCookie: _redmine_session=BAh7BzoMdXNlcl9pZGkGOg9zZXNzaW9uX2lkIiVlYjNmYTY5NmZjNzMwYTdhMjA5ZDJmZmM4MTM0MzcyMw%3D%3D--57a4931aae681664d2a6ff6c039ac84b6ebc9e55\r\nIf-None-Match: "76628aff953f11fbdefb77ce3d575718"\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(302)] request-filename=/var/www/redmine, uri=/redmine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(319)] ModPagespeed Response headers:\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nStatus: 200\r\nX-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.0.0-128\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 1870us: HtmlParse::Flush [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 1973us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 2040us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:AddHead [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 2101us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 2231us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssCombine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549

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• Why did my RWA Computers gadget stop working?

  - by payling

  Our company has SBS 2011 and the "Computers" gadget in Remote Web Access has suddenly stopped working. The below error appears in place of the list of computers: "There was a problem loading a gadget. Contact the person who manages your server." There hasn't been any recent changes to the server that I know of. Also, when I go to SBS standard console and go to properties of a user to view the list of computers the user has access to it says "querying..." instead of a list of computers. Any troubleshooting tips? Can't seem to figure out what is going on. I've tried restarting the server and poking around in the event logs and I couldn't find anything wrong. Update 1: I came across another error when viewing properties for a user through the SBS standard console. "There is no such object on the server."

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• Installing AJAX Control Toolkit 4 in Visual Studio 2010

  - by Yousef_Jadallah

    In this tutorial I’ll show you how to install AJAX Control toolkit step by step: You can download AJAX Toolkit .NET 4 “Apr 12 2010” released before 4 days, from http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/43475#DownloadId=116534, Once downloaded, extract AjaxControlToolkit.Binary.NET4  on your computer, then extract AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite. after that you need to open Visual Studio 2010, So we will add the toolkit to the toolbox. To do that press right-click in an empty space on your toolbox, then choose Add Tab.     You can rename the new tab to be “Ajax Toolkit” for example : Then when it is added, right-click under the tab and select Choose Items: When the dialog box appears Choose .NET Framework Components tab then click Browse button and find  AjaxControlToolkit folder that you installed the  AJAX Control Toolkit. In that directory you will find a sub-directory called AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite, and under that folder you will find bin Folder, in this folder choose AjaxControlToolkit.DLL which 5.59 MB.   The result of these steps, Visual Studio will load all the controls from the DLL file and by default it will be checked in this list:   To submit your steps press OK button.   Ultimately,you can find the components in your Toolbox and you can use it.     Happy programming!

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• Unable to update the EntitySet because it has a DefiningQuery and no &lt;UpdateFunction&gt; element

  - by Harish Ranganathan

  When working with ADO.NET Entity Data Model, its often common that we generate entity schema for more than a single table from our Database.  With Entity Model generation automated with Visual Studio support, it becomes even tempting to create and work entity models to achieve an object mapping relationship. One of the errors that you might hit while trying to update an entity set either programmatically using context.SaveChanges or while using the automatic insert/update code generated by GridView etc., is “Unable to update the EntitySet <EntityName> because it has a DefiningQuery and no <UpdateFunction> element exists in the <ModificationFunctionMapping> element to support the current operation” While the description is pretty lengthy, the immediate thing that would come to our mind is to open our the entity model generated code and see if you can update it accordingly. However, the first thing to check if that, if the Entity Set is generated from a table, whether the Table defines a primary key.  Most of the times, we create tables with primary keys.  But some reference tables and tables which don’t have a primary key cannot be updated using the context of Entity and hence it would throw this error.  Unless it is a View, in which case, the default model is read-only, most of the times the above error occurs since there is no primary key defined in the table. There are other reasons why this error could popup which I am not going into for the sake of simplicity of the post.  If you find something new, please feel free to share it in comments. Hope this helps. Cheers !!!

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• Remotely Schedule and Stream Recorded TV in Windows 7 Media Center

  - by DigitalGeekery

  Have you ever been away from home and suddenly realized you forgot to record your favorite program? Now Windows 7 Media Center, users can schedule recordings remotely from their phones or mobile devices with Remote Potato. How it Works Remote Potato installs server software on the host computer running Windows 7 Media Center. Once the software is installed, we’ll need to do some port forwarding on the router and setup an optional dynamic DNS address. When setup is completed, we will access the application through a web based interface. Silverlight is required for Streaming recorded TV, but scheduling recordings can be done through an HTML interface. Installing Remote Potato Download and install Remote Potato on the Media Center PC. (See download link below) If you plan to stream any Recorded TV, you’ll also want to install the streaming pack located on the same page. It isn’t required to stream all shows, only shows that require the AC3 audio codec. Click Yes to allow Remote Potato to add rules to the Windows Firewall for remote access. You’ll likely need to accept a few UAC prompts. When notified that the rules were added, click OK. Remote Potato will then prompt you to allow administrator privileges to reserve a URL for it’s web server. Click Yes. Remote Potato server will start. Click on the configuration button at the right to to reveal the settings tabs.   One the General tab, you’ll have the option to run Remote Potato on startup and minimized in the System Tray. If you’re running Media Center on a dedicated HTPC, you’ll probably want to enable both startup options. Forwarding Ports on Your Router You’ll need to forward a couple ports on your router. By default, these will be ports 9080 and 9081. In this example we’re using a Linksys WRT54GL router, however, the steps for port forwarding will vary from router to router. On the Linksys configuration page, click on the Applications & Gaming Tab, and then the Port Range Forward tab. Under Application, type in a name of your choosing. In both the Start and End boxes, type the port number 9080. Enter the local IP address of your Media Center computer in the IP address column. Click the check box under Enable. Repeat the process on the next line, but this time use port 9081. When finished, click the Save Settings button. Note: It’s highly recommended that you configure the home computer running Media Center & Remote Potato with a static IP address.   Find your IP Address You’ll need to find the IP address assigned to your router from your ISP. There are many ways to do this but a quick and easy way is to visit a site like checkip.dyndns.org (link available below) The current external IP address of your router will be displayed in the browser.   Dynamic DNS This is an optional step, but  it’s highly recommended. Many routers, such as the Linksys WRT54GL we are using, support Dynamic DNS (DDNS). What Dynamic DNS allows you to do is affiliate your home router’s external IP address to a domain name. Every time your home router is assigned a a new IP address by your ISP, the domain name is updated to point to your new IP address. Remote Potato’s user interface is accessed over the Internet is by connecting to your router’s IP address followed by a colon and the port number. (Ex: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:9080) Instead of constantly having to look up and remember an IP address, you can use DDNS along with a 3rd party provider like DynDNS.com, to sign up for a free domain name and configure it to be updated each time your router is assigned a new IP address. Go to the DynDNS.com website (See link at the end of the article) and sign up for a free Domain name. You’ll need to register and confirm by email.   Once you’ve signed in and selected your domain name click Activate Services. You’ll get a confirmation message that your domain name has been activated.    On the Linksys WRT54GL click on the Setup tab an then DDNS. Select DynDNS.org, or TZO.com if you prefer to use their service, from the drop down list.   With DynDNS, you’ll need to fill in your username and password you signed up with at the DynDNS website and the hostname you chose. Note: You can connect over your local network with the IP Address of the computer running Remote Potato followed by a colon and the port number. Ex: 192.168.1.2:9080 Logging in Remote Potato and Recording a Show Once you connect, you’ll see the start page. To view the TV listings, click on TV Guide. You’ll then see your guide listings. There are a few ways to navigate the listings. At the top left, you can click on any of the preset time buttons to jump to  the listings at that time of the day.  Click on the arrows to the right and left of the day and date at the top center to proceed to the previous or next day. Or, jump to a specific day with the date and date buttons at the top right.   To setup a recording, click on a program.   You can choose to record the individual show or the entire series by clicking on Record Show or Record Series.   Remote Potato on Mobile Devices Perhaps the coolest feature of Remote Potato is the ability to schedule recording from your phone or mobile device. Note: For any devices or computers without Silverlight, you will be prompted to view the HTML page. Select Browse Listings. Select your program to record. In the Program Details, select Record Show to record the single episode or Record Series to record all instances of the series. You will then see a red dot on the program listing to indicate that the show is scheduled for recording.   Streaming Recorded TV Click on Recorded TV from the home screen to access your previously recorded TV programs. Click on the selection you wish to stream. Click on Play. If you receive this error message, you’ll need to install the streaming pack for Remote Potato. This is found on the same download page as installation files. (See link below) The Begin from slider allows you to start playback from the start (by default) or a different time of the program by moving the slider. The Quality (bitrate) setting  allows you to choose the quality of the playback. We found the video quality on the Normal setting to be pretty lousy, and Low was just pointless. High was the best overall viewing experience as it provided smooth quality video playback. We experienced significant stuttering during playback using the Ultra High setting.   Click Start when you are ready to begin. When playback begins you’ll see a slider at the top right.   Move the slider left or right to increase or decrease the size of the video. There’s also a button to switch to full screen.   Media Center users who travel frequently or are always on the go will likely find Remote Potato to be a blessing. Since being released earlier this year, updates for Remote Potato have come fast and furious. The latest beta release includes support for streaming music and photos. If you like those nice network TV logos, check out our article on adding TV channel logos to Windows Media Center. Downloads and Links Download Remote Potato and Streaming Pack Find your IP address Sign Up for a Domain Name at DynDNS.com Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Schedule Updates for Windows Media CenterUsing Netflix Watchnow in Windows Vista Media Center (Gmedia)Add a Sleep Timer to Windows 7 Media CenterStartup Customizations for Media Center in Windows 7Enable Media Streaming in Windows Home Server to Windows Media Player TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips DVDFab 6 Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 FoxClocks adds World Times in your Statusbar (Firefox) Have Fun Editing Photo Editing with Citrify Outlook Connector Upgrade Error Gadfly is a cool Twitter/Silverlight app Enable DreamScene in Windows 7 Microsoft’s “How Do I ?” Videos

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• LLBLGen Pro v3.0 with Entity Framework v4.0 (12m video)

  - by FransBouma

  Today I recorded a video in which I illustrate some of the database-first functionality available in LLBLGen Pro v3.0. LLBLGen Pro v3.0 also supports model-first functionality, which I hope to illustrate in an upcoming video. LLBLGen Pro v3.0 is currently in beta and is scheduled to RTM some time in May 2010. It supports the following frameworks out of the box, with more scheduled to follow in the coming year: LLBLGen Pro RTL (our own o/r mapper framework), Linq to Sql, NHibernate and Entity Framework (v1 and v4). The video I linked to below illustrates the creation of an entity model for Entity Framework v4, by reverse engineering the SQL Server 2008 example database 'AdventureWorks'. The following topics (among others) are included in the video: Abbreviation support (example: convert 'Qty' into 'Quantity' during name construction) Flexible, framework specific settings Attribute definitions for various elements (so no requirement for buddy-classes or messing with generated code or templates) Retrieval of relational model data from a database Reverse engineering of tables into entities, automatically placed in groups Auto-creation of inheritance hierarchies Refactoring of entity fields into Value Type Definitions (DDD) Mapping a Typed view onto a stored procedure resultset Creation of a Typed list (definition of a query with a projection) on a set of related entities Validation and correction of found inconsistencies and errors Generating code using one of the pre-defined presets Illustration of the code in vs.net 2010 It also gives a good overview of what it takes with LLBLGen Pro v3.0 to start from a new project, point it to a database, get an entity model, perform tweaks and validation and generate code which is ready to run. I am no video recording expert so there's no audio and some mouse movements might be a little too quickly. If that's the case, please pause the video. It's rather big (52MB). Click here to open the HTML page with the video (Flash). Opens in a new window. LLBLGen Pro v3.0 is currently in beta (available for v2.x customers) and scheduled to be released somewhere in May 2010.

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• Running ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC side by side

  - by rajbk

  One of the nice things about ASP.NET MVC and its older brother ASP.NET WebForms is that they are both built on top of the ASP.NET runtime environment. The advantage of this is that, you can still run them side by side even though MVC and WebForms are different frameworks. Another point to note is that with the release of the ASP.NET routing in .NET 3.5 SP1, we are able to create SEO friendly URLs that do not map to specific files on disk. The routing is part of the core runtime environment and therefore can be used by both WebForms and MVC. To run both frameworks side by side, we could easily create a separate folder in your MVC project for all our WebForm files and be good to go. What this post shows you instead, is how to have an MVC application with WebForm pages  that both use a common master page and common routing for SEO friendly URLs.  A sample project that shows WebForms and MVC running side by side is attached at the bottom of this post. So why would we want to run WebForms and MVC in the same project?  WebForms come with a lot of nice server controls that provide a lot of functionality. One example is the ReportViewer control. Using this control and client report definition files (RDLC), we can create rich interactive reports (with charting controls). I show you how to use the ReportViewer control in a WebForm project here :  Creating an ASP.NET report using Visual Studio 2010. We can create even more advanced reports by using SQL reporting services that can also be rendered by the ReportViewer control. Now, consider the sample MVC application I blogged about called ASP.NET MVC Paging/Sorting/Filtering using the MVCContrib Grid and Pager. Assume you were given the requirement to add a UI to the MVC application where users could interact with a report and be given the option to export the report to Excel, PDF or Word. How do you go about doing it?   This is a perfect scenario to use the ReportViewer control and RDLCs. As you saw in the post on creating the ASP.NET report, the ReportViewer control is a Web Control and is designed to be run in a WebForm project with dependencies on, amongst others, a ScriptManager control and the beloved Viewstate.  Since MVC and WebForm both run under the same runtime, the easiest thing to is to add the WebForm application files (index.aspx, rdlc, related class files) into our MVC project. You can copy the files over from the WebForm project into the MVC project. Create a new folder in our MVC application called CommonReports. Add the index.aspx and rdlc file from the Webform project   Right click on the Index.aspx file and convert it to a web application. This will add the index.aspx.designer.cs file (this step is not required if you are manually adding a WebForm aspx file into the MVC project).    Verify that all the type names for the ObjectDataSources in code behind to point to the correct ProductRepository and fix any compiler errors. Right click on Index.aspx and select “View in browser”. You should see a screen like the one below:   There are two issues with our page. It does not use our site master page and the URL is not SEO friendly. Common Master Page The easiest way to use master pages with both MVC and WebForm pages is to have a common master page that each inherits from as shown below. The reason for this is most WebForm controls require them to be inside a Form control and require ControlState or ViewState. ViewMasterPages used in MVC, on the other hand, are designed to be used with content pages that derive from ViewPage with Viewstate turned off. By having a separate master page for MVC and WebForm that inherit from the Root master page,, we can set properties that are specific to each. For example, in the Webform master, we can turn on ViewState, add a form tag etc. Another point worth noting is that if you set a WebForm page to use a MVC site master page, you may run into errors like the following: A ViewMasterPage can be used only with content pages that derive from ViewPage or ViewPage<TViewItem> or Control 'MainContent_MyButton' of type 'Button' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server. Since the ViewMasterPage inherits from MasterPage as seen below, we make our Root.master inherit from MasterPage, MVC.master inherit from ViewMasterPage and Webform.master inherits from MasterPage. We define the attributes on the master pages like so: Root.master <%@ Master Inherits="System.Web.UI.MasterPage"  … %> MVC.master <%@ Master MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Root.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage" … %> WebForm.master <%@ Master MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Root.Master" Inherits="NorthwindSales.Views.Shared.Webform" %> Code behind: public partial class Webform : System.Web.UI.MasterPage {} We make changes to our reports aspx file to use the Webform.master. See the source of the master pages in the sample project for a better understanding of how they are connected. SEO friendly links We want to create SEO friendly links that point to our report. A request to /Reports/Products should render the report located in ~/CommonReports/Products.aspx. Simillarly to support future reports, a request to /Reports/Sales should render a report in ~/CommonReports/Sales.aspx. Lets start by renaming our index.aspx file to Products.aspx to be consistent with our routing criteria above. As mentioned earlier, since routing is part of the core runtime environment, we ca easily create a custom route for our reports by adding an entry in Global.asax. public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");   //Custom route for reports routes.MapPageRoute( "ReportRoute", // Route name "Reports/{reportname}", // URL "~/CommonReports/{reportname}.aspx" // File );     routes.MapRoute( "Default", // Route name "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults ); } With our custom route in place, a request to Reports/Employees will render the page at ~/CommonReports/Employees.aspx. We make this custom route the first entry since the routing system walks the table from top to bottom, and the first route to match wins. Note that it is highly recommended that you write unit tests for your routes to ensure that the mappings you defined are correct. Common Menu Structure The master page in our original MVC project had a menu structure like so: <ul id="menu"> <li> <%=Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home") %></li> <li> <%=Html.ActionLink("Products", "Index", "Products") %></li> <li> <%=Html.ActionLink("Help", "Help", "Home") %></li> </ul> We want this menu structure to be common to all pages/views and hence should reside in Root.master. Unfortunately the Html.ActionLink helpers will not work since Root.master inherits from MasterPage which does not have the helper methods available. The quickest way to resolve this issue is to use RouteUrl expressions. Using  RouteUrl expressions, we can programmatically generate URLs that are based on route definitions. By specifying parameter values and a route name if required, we get back a URL string that corresponds to a matching route. We move our menu structure to Root.master and change it to use RouteUrl expressions: <ul id="menu"> <li> <asp:HyperLink ID="hypHome" runat="server" NavigateUrl="<%$RouteUrl:routename=default,controller=home,action=index%>">Home</asp:HyperLink></li> <li> <asp:HyperLink ID="hypProducts" runat="server" NavigateUrl="<%$RouteUrl:routename=default,controller=products,action=index%>">Products</asp:HyperLink></li> <li> <asp:HyperLink ID="hypReport" runat="server" NavigateUrl="<%$RouteUrl:routename=ReportRoute,reportname=products%>">Product Report</asp:HyperLink></li> <li> <asp:HyperLink ID="hypHelp" runat="server" NavigateUrl="<%$RouteUrl:routename=default,controller=home,action=help%>">Help</asp:HyperLink></li> </ul> We are done adding the common navigation to our application. The application now uses a common theme, routing and navigation structure. Conclusion We have seen how to do the following through this post Add a WebForm page from a WebForm project to an existing ASP.NET MVC application Use a common master page for both WebForm and MVC pages Use routing for SEO friendly links Use a common menu structure for both WebForm and MVC. The sample project is attached below. Version: VS 2010 RTM Remember to change your connection string to point to your Northwind database NorthwindSalesMVCWebform.zip

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• Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3

  - by Harald Behnke

  Oracle today introduced Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3, two complete, open standards-based office productivity suites for the desktop, web and mobile devices - helping users significantly improve productivity, reduce costs and achieve greater innovation across the enterprise.(View image)Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 is a web and mobile office suite that enables web 2.0-style collaboration and mobile document access. Compatibility with Microsoft Office and integration with Oracle Open Office enable rich and seamless offline editing of complex presentations, text and spreadsheet documents. Oracle Open Office 3.3 includes new enterprise connectors to Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle E-Business Suite, other Oracle Applications and Microsoft Sharepoint, to allow for fast, seamless integration into existing enterprise software stacks. In addition, it adds increased stability, compatibility and performance at up to five times lower license cost compared to Microsoft Office. Based on the Open Document Format (ODF) and open web standards, Oracle Office enables users to share files on any system as it is compatible with both legacy Microsoft Office documents and modern web 2.0 publishing. The Oracle Office APIs and open standards-based approach provides IT users with flexibility, lower short and long-term costs and freedom from vendor lock-in - enabling organizations to build a complete Open Standard Office Stack. If you're interested to learn more, read our today's press release or visit oracle.com/office.

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• DB2 insert performance - How to measure

  - by svrist

  [From stackoverflow] Im trying to find a way to speedup my inserts to a DB2 9.7.1 (ubuntu linux) Im watching vmstat and trying to gather some statistics via the db2 get snapshot commands but im not able to figure out which numbers im looking for to be able to see where the trouble is. I've read lits of stuff like http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/35692526/question-multiple-row-in.aspx, and http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/tips/dm-0403wilkins/ and tricks like ALTER TABLE lalala APPEND ON works somewhat (the difference between a dd if=/dev/zero and insert is still a factor 10) but I would like to be able to find the counters or other performance indicators that actually show why it makes sense to use those tricks. For example: What is the metric called that shows me that it is buffer pages allocation (FSCR stuff) that is the problem Where do I see that the insert time is hampered by clustered indexes? I find db2top very useful but im still searching for more direct view of "this is your bottleneck" methods

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