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• How can I obtain in-game data from Warcraft 3 from an external process?

  - by Slav

  I am implementing a behavior algorithm and would like to test it with my lovely Warcraft III game to watch how it will fight against real players. The problem I'm having is that I don't know how to obtain information about in-game state (units, structures, environment, etc.) from the running WC3 game. My algorithm needs access to the hard drive and possibly distributed computing, that's why JASS (WC3's editor language) isn't appropriate; I need to run my algorithm from a separate process. Direct3D hooking is an approach, but it wasn't done for WC3 yet and a significant drawback of that approach would be the inability to watch how the AI performs online, since it uses the viewport to issue commands. How I read in-game data from WC3 in a different process in a fastest and easiest way?

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• What is the history of why bytes are eight bits?

  - by DarenW

  What where the historical forces at work, the tradeoffs to make, in deciding to use groups of eight bits as the fundamental unit ? There were machines, once upon a time, using other word sizes, but today for non-eight-bitness you must look to museum pieces, specialized chips for embedded applications, and DSPs. How did the byte evolve out of the chaos and creativity of the early days of computer design? I can imagine that fewer bits would be ineffective for handling enough data to make computing feasible, while too many would have lead to expensive hardware. Were other influences in play? Why did these forces balance out to eight bits? (BTW, if I could time travel, I'd go back to when the "byte" was declared to be 8 bits, and convince everyone to make it 12 bits, bribing them with some early 21st Century trinkets.)

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• Box2Dweb very slow on node.js

  - by Peteris

  I'm using Box2Dweb on node.js. I have a rotated box object that I apply an impulse to move around. The timestep is set at 50ms, however, it bumps up to 100ms and even 200ms as soon as I add any more edges or boxes. Here are the edges I would like to use as bounds around the playing area: // Computing the corners var upLeft = new b2Vec2(0, 0), lowLeft = new b2Vec2(0, height), lowRight = new b2Vec2(width, height), upRight = new b2Vec2(width, 0) // Edges bounding the visible game area var edgeFixDef = new b2FixtureDef edgeFixDef.friction = 0.5 edgeFixDef.restitution = 0.2 edgeFixDef.shape = new b2PolygonShape var edgeBodyDef = new b2BodyDef; edgeBodyDef.type = b2Body.b2_staticBody edgeFixDef.shape.SetAsEdge(upLeft, lowLeft) world.CreateBody(edgeBodyDef).CreateFixture(edgeFixDef) edgeFixDef.shape.SetAsEdge(lowLeft, lowRight) world.CreateBody(edgeBodyDef).CreateFixture(edgeFixDef) edgeFixDef.shape.SetAsEdge(lowRight, upRight) world.CreateBody(edgeBodyDef).CreateFixture(edgeFixDef) edgeFixDef.shape.SetAsEdge(upRight, upLeft) world.CreateBody(edgeBodyDef).CreateFixture(edgeFixDef) Can box2d really become this slow for even two bodies or is there some pitfall? It would be very surprising given all the demos which successfully use tens of objects.

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• Can I install Ubuntu 12.04 on MacBook 6.1 (Late 2009) on my external hard drive?

  - by tommywinarta

  I have no experience in installing Linux based OS on MacBook, but I already have Windows installed on my Mac. I read some articles saying I can have the Lucid Lynx installed in my Macbook 6.1 and luckily I already got the CD (which was distributed for free back then haha), my question is that can I have the 12.04 installed instead of the 10.04 and what do I need to do that? I also would like to know can I install it on my external hard drive just like installing it on a usb stick? I have viewed the how-to for installing the Lucid Lynx, is it just the same? Thanks in advance!

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• How are you keeping abreast with latest HPC trends?

  - by Fanatic23

  For those of you primarily working on high performance computing for non-scientific purposes (as in no fortran) what are the ways by which you keep yourself abreast of the latest trends out there? Industry gossip? Random blogs from google? Search SO? I am into HPC recently and looking for the high level architectural landscape. Given that everyone from GPGPU coders to FPGA folks to Erlang developers claim they are into HPC, how are you keeping up with so much information?

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• D-fense! D-fense! ...for Java technology

  - by hinkmond

  Who needs defense when computing with the Java platform? Isn't "the best defense is a good offense"? At least in football and volleyball... See: The Best Defense Here's a quote: "The other Oracle tester page, Verify Java Version, consistently reports whether the latest version is installed. Just click the big red button to see if the 'recommended' version of Java is installed." So, go ahead and use Java technology! There is "nothing to fear but fear itself". I like that quote better. Hinkmond

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• Azure Florida Association: Modern Architecture for Elastic Azure Applications

  - by Herve Roggero

  Join us on November 28th at 7PM, US Eastern Time, to hear Zachary Gramana talk about elastic scale on Windows Azure. REGISTER HERE: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/657038102 Description: Building horizontally scalable applications can be challenging. If you face the need to rapidly scale or adjust to high load variations, then you are left with little choice. Azure provides a fantastic platform for building elastic applications. Combined with recent advances in browser capabilities, some older architectural patterns have become relevant again. We will dust off one of them, the client-server architecture, and show how we can use its modern incarnation to bypass a class of problems normally encountered with distributed ASP.NET applications.

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• Citrix dévoile Xen Cloud Platform 1.0, la première version de son environnement de développement Cloud open-source

  Citrix dévoile la première version de Xen Cloud Platform Son environnement de développement Cloud open-source Xen.org (à l'origine de l'hyperviseur open source Xen) annonce le lancement de Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0. Développé dans le cadre du Xen Cloud Project lancé en 2009, XCP 1.0 est une solution de Citrix pour les PME désireuses de mettre en place des clouds privés, ainsi qu'aux passionnés de l'open source, aux universités et aux chercheurs souhaitant expérimenter le cloud computing. Il s'agit d'un tournant dans l'utilisation en entreprise pour Xen.org. Jusqu'ici, celui-ci ne proposait traditionnellement que des logiciels sous forme de code source. XC...

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• VMware annonce VMware View 4.6, la solution de virtualisation bureautique améliore l'accès à distance grâce à la prise en charge du PCoIP

  VMware annonce VMware View 4.6 La solution de virtualisation bureautique améliore l'accès à distance grâce à la prise en charge du PCoIP VMware, le spécialiste des logiciels de virtualisation et d'infrastructures de Cloud Computing, annonce la disponibilité générale de la version 4.6 de VMware View, une solution qui offre un accès à distance qui prend désormais en charge le protocole PCoIP. Pour mémoire, la prise en charge du PCoIP permet de simplifier et de sécuriser les processus de connexion à distance et d'authentification sur le poste de travail, et, ajoute Vmware, « en libérant l'entreprise de l'obligation de posséder un VPN SSL ». « La prise en char...

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• Is there a quick way to convert camera raw files to DNG?

  - by dericke

  Before I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my daily computing, I used Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom for processing photos from my DSLR. Adobe made it really straightforward to convert from proprietary camera raw files (in my case, .NEF) to DNG. I haven't found any way to convert NEF to DNG in Ubuntu yet. Most photography programs do process NEFs to JPG/TIFF/PNG/etc., but I'm looking for a converter for archival purposes. Are there any tools available, either standalone or built into another app, that can losslessly convert from NEF to DNG?

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• Can I set Ubuntu 12.10 to automatically reboot to Windows once only?

  - by Bill Tetzeli

  Is there some way when I'm in Ubuntu 12.10 that I can set it to reboot automatically to Windows just once, so that when I'm in Windows I can reboot and it will automatically boot back into Ubuntu? I need this because often when I travel I access my home computer for email and other personal info that I don't want to travel with or leave to the tender mercies of the "cloud". On rare occasions, I need to temporarily boot into Windows 7 to do something Windows-specific, but then I want to be able to boot back into Ubuntu because that's where most of my computing takes place. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Bill

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• Creating sites with local ips that pointing to a distant server.

  - by fatnjazzy

  Hi. We are a company that is distributed in several places over Europe (real offices). Each office has its own domain. company.de company.co.uk company.ch And so. Our website servers are located in one place. We can't distribute our site to different locations. How can we create a local IP in each location to show our main server. so google will see us as local ip. Explanation: Google has decided to increase your PR if you have a local IP, they think that if you bought a server in a local market means that you are very serious about your business. We have 8 employees in each office, we cant have a separate server, is that mean that we are not serious about our business? no, this is y i need to create this illusion. Thanks

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• Windows 7 Climbing the Charts, Fights for Market Share

  Microsoft has to fight with competitors in various industries for market share whether it be in computing video games or portable media devices just to name a few. The story is no different within the cell phone industry either. Within this particular mobile arena the main enemies for Microsoft are RIM Apple and Google Android. Microsoft is lagging a bit among the competition as things currently stand but they hope that will change in the near future.... Transportation Design - AutoCAD Civil 3D Design Road Projects 75% Faster with Automatic Documentation Updates!

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• Getting Started Integrating Windows Azure with Microsoft Office Solutions

  Nearly everyone starts learning anything new by beginning with something simple and adding incremental knowledge. One of the biggest challenges with Windows Azure and SQL Azure is that the simple beginning seems a bit more elusive. The "Hello World" application in the new world of cloud computing, while not overly complex in concept, requires a good measure of preparation and configuration. The following content is designed to aid you in getting started with Windows Azure and SQL Azure in the spirit...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• Counting product releases if you work on the backend/online services?

  - by stackoverflowuser2010

  I am trying to update my resume, and I would like to count the number of "product releases" that I was directly involved in with a company. It would seem to serve as a performance metric. The problem is that I was working on the backend of a very large distributed system, like along the lines of Hadoop or other huge database. We had regular 6-month major releases and other minor releases. My manager kept saying that "shipped" these releases, but "shipping" a product to me sounds like releasing single pieces of software, like Microsoft would ship Office 11 or something. Any ideas on "product releases" for backend service engineers, or any other type of performance metric?

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• Handling (many) multiple projects in Git in an enterprise environment

  - by Michael K

  One of the advantages of older version control systems such as CVS and SVN in enterprise development is that anyone can connect to source control and see all the projects that the company has. This can make it easier to get a high level view of what kid of development is happening outside your sprint and also keeps everything in one place and easy to find. However, distributed version control systems (Git, specifically) use the repository as their base unit. They work best with one project (or several closely related projects) per repository. This makes repository management more difficult in most enterprise environments where it is not unusual to have more than 25-50 projects to support. As far as I have been able to determine, you have to keep a list somewhere else of all the repos you have. There is software available, like GitHub, that help, but that still is an extra step beyond a single connection string and listing the contents of the repository. What is the best way to deal with the complexity of multiple repositories?

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• Learning to program on punchcards

  - by Plutor

  I'd like to try programming with punch cards once in my life. How can I do this? I'm in my 30s, and grew up entirely in the PC era, programming on computers with screens and keyboards. I want to experience the way my father and grandfather used to work. I imagine the hardware (and probably the cards themselves) are no longer manufactured. Are there any universities or museums with functioning punch card readers anymore? I'm in Boston, but I'm willing to travel to do this. I asked MetaFilter, and I got some mixed answers (along with a lot of "no, don't do this" nay-saying). I did get a pointer to the Retro-Computing Society Of Rhode Island, but I haven't received a response to my email to them yet.

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• SAPPHIRE 2012 : SAP veut imposer sa nouvelle image et simplifier l'IT avec ses outils pour le Big Data, la mobilité et le Cloud

  SAPPHIRE 2012 : SAP veut imposer sa nouvelle image et simplifier l'IT Avec des outils pour le Big Data, la mobilité et le Cloud Après plusieurs années de changements radicaux qui l'ont fait passer d'éditeur mono-produit à fournisseur multi-services (BI, SGBD, Cloud, mobilité, In-computing), SAP rentre dans une nouvelle phase : celle de la consolidation. Cette évolution dans la continuité se traduit jusque dans l'arrivée de nouveaux slogans (comme « SAP runs like never before ») inspiré du traditionnel « Runs Better with SAP », placardés sur les murs du SAPPHIRE ? la grande messe annuelle de l'éditeur qui a ouvert ses portes aujourd'hui à Madrid. L'évolution se...

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• Effecient finding of long-range spotting targets

  - by nihohit

  I'm creating a top-down 2d strategy game, with a square grid map. So far, I've used Bresenham's line drawing algorithm in a circle to determine what's in LOS of each unit, and then targedt one of the targets in the circle. Now I find that this limits my units to shoot only at targets that they see. I want to extend my targeting algorithm to target any other unit in range of my weapon, even if they're out of sight range of this given unit, if they're "spotted" by another friendly unit. In other words, I want to enable usage of weapons with ranges longer than sight range. Is there a better way than iterating over all sighted units and computing range and LOSto each of them?

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• What is the current frequency of my processor (CPU-Z equivalent)?

  - by Anake

  Is there a ubuntu program like CPU-Z which will show me the actual frequency of my processor? I do a fair amount of scientific computing which leads to me running my programs for up to 10 hrs. To alleviate this problem a little I overclock my CPU. However I can't see what the actual clock of my processor from within ubuntu which means I either have to restart and look at the bios or load into windows. If there was an applet or command line command to find out this information it would be very helpful. Thanks for your help

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• MySQL: Best of Breed Database

  - by Bertrand Matthelié

  Oracle offers best of breed technology at every layer of the stack, from servers and storage to applications. Discover why MySQL is a best of breed database solution for: Web-based applications, including the next generation of highly demanding web, cloud, mobile and social application Distributed applications requiring a powerful and reliable embedded database Custom and departmental enterprise applications on Windows and other platforms Check out our Resource Center to get access to white papers and other resources. And, remember to register for MySQL Connect if you haven’t done so yet. You can still save US$ 300 over the on-site fee – Register Now!

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• SAP courtise les petites structures et les startups, l'éditeur veut faire savoir que ses solutions ne s'adressent pas qu'aux "gros"

  SAP courtise les petites structures et les start-ups Et veut faire savoir que ses solutions ne s'adressent pas qu'aux multinationales HANA n'est pas réservé aux multinationales. SAP a mis les petits plats dans les grands pour le faire savoir lors d'un « concours » de start-ups qui souhaitent utiliser la technologie de In-Memory Computing de l'éditeur allemand pour accélérer de manière drastique le traitement de leurs données ? et donc de leurs temps de calcul. Cette journée parisienne du « SAP Startup Forum » a vu défiler des entreprises très diverses. Certaines ont été lancées depuis plusieurs années (comme Kxen, qui crée des outils de « deuxième génération d'analyse pré...

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• Writing a spell checker similar to "did you mean"

  - by user888734

  I'm hoping to write a spellchecker for search queries in a web application - not unlike Google's "Did you mean?" The algorithm will be loosely based on this: http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T13 In short, it generates correction candidates and scores them on how often they appear (along with adjacent words in the search query) in an enormous dataset of known n-grams - Google Web 1T - which contains well over 1 billion 5-grams. I'm not using the Web 1T dataset, but building my n-gram sets from my own documents - about 200k docs, and I'm estimating tens or hundreds of millions of n-grams will be generated. This kind of process is pushing the limits of my understanding of basic computing performance - can I simply load my n-grams into memory in a hashtable or dictionary when the app starts? Is the only limiting factor the amount of memory on the machine? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Perhaps putting all my n-grams in a graph database with some sort of tree query optimisation? Could that ever be fast enough?

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• If I use locks, can my algorithm still be lock-free?

  - by Joe Pension

  A common definition of lock-free is that at least one process makes progress. 1 If I have a simple data structure such as a queue, protected by a lock, then one process can always make progress, as one process can acquire the lock, do what it wants, and release it. So does it meet the definition of lock-free? 1 See eg M. Herlihy, V. Luchangco, and M. Moir. Obstruction-free synchronization: Double-ended queues as an example. In Distributed Computing, 2003. "It is lock-free if it ensures only that some thread always makes progress".

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• Google migre AdWords de MySQL vers F1, son nouveau SGBDR distribué, développé en interne qui combine le meilleur de NoSQL et SQL

  Google migre AdWords de MySQL vers F1 son nouveau SGBDR distribué développé en interne qui combine le meilleur de NoSQL et SQL Google a développé en catimini son propre gestionnaire de base de données relationnelle. La société a déplacé récemment plusieurs de ses services de publicité de MySQL vers F1, un nouveau SGDBR « Fault-Tolerant Distributed » développé en interne. Présenté lors du forum SIGMOD 2012 de Scottsdale en Arizona sur les bases de données, F1 combine les meilleures approches des SGBDR et des bases de données NoSQL, selon la division Google Research, à l'origine du projet. F1 est essentiellement centré autour de l'évolutivité, la tolérance aux pann...

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