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  • Programming During a Crisis

    - by Duracell
    Hello, I'm having difficulty turning this into a proper question, but here goes... Some of you may have heard about the flooding happening in Queensland, Australia. Well, I'm in the inner suburbs of Brisbane right now; the river has been slowly creeping toward my house since Tuesday. When I left for work this morning it was twenty meters down the road when it is normally kilometers away. Within hours of the distater striking, the government already had some pretty good web applications available for people to get information about what was happening and where the flood was predicted to rise. They also set up a database for people to search for the whereabouts of relatives or could register their location for others to see. Has anyone been involved in the development of these kinds of projects before? It's interesting that they could churn out this software in what appeared to be less than a day when the average development house could take weeks at best. In what ways did it differ from a 'normal' project? Any other thoughts?

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  • Can't log-in anymore

    - by Awake Zoldiek
    I installed Ubuntu x64 12.04 Desktop LTS on my new laptop three days ago. Of course when I installed it I did an "apt-get upgrade" and a "apt-get update". I modified the .bashrc file to add some aliases but that's about it. Everything went fine I think, but this morning when I tried to connect to my user account, it just simply didn't work. Even when I give the right password, it will send me to a black screen with a few text lines written in white for a second and then back to the log-in screen. When I logged into the guest session, I couldn't shutdown / restart. I tried the "rm /home/MyUsername/.Xauthority" solution after doing a Ctrl + Alt + F1 at the log-in screen. But that didn't work. Does anyone has an idea ? My Ubuntu seems to use Gnome. Thank you a lot in advance ! This question is similar to this one, but their solution didn't help : -- after 12.04 upgrade: can't log in although password is correct

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  • JavaOne Gangnam Style

    - by Tori Wieldt
    Yes, JavaOne is *the* place for excellent content, including technical information, opportunities to learn best practices from your peers, and access to industry experts. You can find lots of information about content in Java Evangelist Arun Gupta's 25 Reasons to attend JavaOne 2012. But you also have to let your Gangnam Style loose. Here are the Top Ten Fun Reasons to attend JavaOne 2012: 10. Connect with developers from more than 80 countries 9. Kick off the week at GlassFish and Friends Party Sunday night 8. Meet the community of Java Rock Stars 7. Enjoy all San Francisco has to offer 6. Meet your next best friend playing pinball in the Game Zone 5. Have your picture taken with Duke 4. Java in the morning and brews in the afternoon at the Taylor Street Cafe 3. Ride across the Golden Gate Bridge at the Community Geek Bike Ride 2. Rock out at the first-ever Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival and #1... 1. It beats being at work!  If you haven't registered, there's still time. Join us!

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  • System always halt

    - by user211964
    Good day, Thanks Bruno for the prompt response. First sorry for my bad writing. I'll try to clarify my problem. Now my system already update to version 13.10. The problem is my system always put on stop whenever there is no activity. Example: I open terminal then execute "sudo apt-get update" then I leave my laptop away, the update stop at 20%. After I move my mouse then the update continue. When I watch a movie using vlc. Play the movie and change to full screen. After a while like 30-40 seconds the movie pause, and again after I move my mouse or hit any button on my keyboard the movie continue to play. I downloading torrent file, a big file, I leave my laptop the whole night, the next morning the downloading just stop. the problem my laptop cannot be on idle. means when I downloading a file or updating my system I just cannot leave my laptop away. I have to kept my laptop busy like surfing the internet...playing games etc.

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  • Keyboard and mouse/touchpad wont work in 11.10

    - by Maynard
    I installed Ubuntu 11.10 onto my Fujitsu Lifebook N5010 Laptop yesterday and all seemed good up until this morning. My key board and mouse/touchpad no longer work. I can, however, plug in a usb mouse and that works so I am able to shut the laptop off. With the usb mouse plugged in I still can't use the keyboard so the only thing the mouse is good for is shutting the system down. When I first boot the system the mouse/touchpad and keyboard will work long enough so that I can log in my password but then after about 20 seconds or so the mouse/touchpad and keyboard stop working. I have searched the internet for answers and haven't found anything that is working for me. Someone suggested I type a particular command into the terminal but not real sure how I do that without a keyboard. And going out to buy a usb keyboard (assuming that would work) and usb mouse still doesn't fix the problem. Anybody have any suggestions I would REALLY appreciate it. I love Ubuntu but this is just not good.

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  • There's Not an App for That (Yet)

    - by Mark Hesse
    With an earlier-than-normal departure this morning to avoid the stalemate known as traffic congestion, I suddenly realized what I had failed to grab on my way out the door...  my company ID badge.  Unfortunately, at the time of my epiphany, I was far enough into commuter no-man's land where turning back would completely negate my early departure and increase my overall drive time exponentially.  Not being one to retrace my steps, I decided to press on. Upon arrival at the office and with an hour to go before a security guard would be on duty, I started thinking about the number of times I had forgotten my ID vs. the number of times I had forgotten my phone.  While rare on both accounts, my ID was most likely the missing artifact. I then wondered why there isn't an app for my smartphone that allows me to verify my credentials with my employer and then, provided with a secure token for the day, have the ability to access my building's card entry system.  On many levels, this seems much more secure than an ID card which can be lost, stolen or even forged and then used simply by tailgating into and around buildings at facilities where card scanning can generally be avoided.   As it turns out, another building on the campus has 24 x 7 guard coverage, so I was able to gain access in a relatively short time and secure a temporary ID badge.  Once inside and online, a quick internet search on the subject of smartphone badge access shows that efforts are underway to do exactly what I was thinking needed to be done. Having not spent any time studying about the technology, I discovered that it relies on Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled smartphones (of which, mine does not provide).  The only other option would require modifications to the security infrastructure to support alternative authentication technologies, such as barcode readers, which would be extremely costly to implement. For now, my best option is to put my corporate ID under my car keys... 

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  • Wireless (Broadcom) just stopped working after putting machine to sleep!

    - by tommed
    Had the wireless working on my Dell Studio 15 for months now (Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, now 10.10 64bit). But I shut the lid this morning, which put the machine to sleep; when I openend it again the wireless would no longer connect to anything :'( I rebooted the machine, but that didn't help. I then did ifconfig eth1 {down,up}, but that didn't help, then I did iwconfig eth1 power {down,on}, but that didn't work. So I uninstalled the wireless driver (Broadcom STA) from additional drivers (reboot in the middle), but it still won't work anymore!! This is the trace from daemon.log, looks like it is a driver issue? Nov 28 12:26:39 ulap NetworkManager[1218]: (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected - scanning Nov 28 12:26:39 ulap NetworkManager[1218]: (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning - disconnected Nov 28 12:26:45 ulap NetworkManager[1218]: (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected - scanning Nov 28 12:26:50 ulap wpa_supplicant[1295]: Trying to associate with MY_MAC_CODE (SSID='MY_WIRESS_SSID' freq=2417 MHz) Nov 28 12:26:50 ulap wpa_supplicant[1295]: Association request to the driver failed Nov 28 12:26:50 ulap NetworkManager[1218]: (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning - associating Nov 28 12:26:51 ulap wpa_supplicant[1295]: Associated with MY_MAC_CODE Nov 28 12:26:51 ulap NetworkManager[1218]: (eth1): supplicant connection state: associating - associated Nov 28 12:27:01 ulap wpa_supplicant[1295]: Authentication with MY_MAC_CODE timed out. Nov 28 12:27:01 ulap NetworkManager[1218]: (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated - disconnected Anyone seen this, or know how I can get around this issue? It had been working fine up until now?! Even ran update-manager, but there wasn't any changes to the wireless drivers (or any related networking areas). Running the most up-to-date version of 10.10 x64. My android phone and other devices are still working on the wireless.

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  • Iterative and Incremental Principle Series 5: Conclusion

    - by llowitz
    Thank you for joining me in the final segment in the Iterative and Incremental series.  During yesterday’s segment, I discussed Iteration Planning, and specifically how I planned my daily exercise (iteration) each morning by assessing multiple factors, while following my overall Implementation plan. As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, regardless of the type of exercise or how many increment sets I decide to complete each day, I apply the 6 minute interval sets and a timebox approach.  When the 6 minutes are up, I stop the interval, even if I have more to give, saving the extra energy to apply to my next interval set.   Timeboxes are used to manage iterations.  Once the pre-determined iteration duration is reached – whether it is 2 weeks or 6 weeks or somewhere in between-- the iteration is complete.  Iteration group items (requirements) not fully addressed, in relation to the iteration goal, are addressed in the next iteration.  This approach helps eliminate the “rolling deadline” and better allows the project manager to assess the project progress earlier and more frequently than in traditional approaches. Not only do smaller, more frequent milestones allow project managers to better assess potential schedule risks and slips, but process improvement is encouraged.  Even in my simple example, I learned, after a few interval sets, not to sprint uphill!  Now I plan my route more efficiently to ensure that I sprint on a level surface to reduce of the risk of not completing my increment.  Project managers have often told me that they used an iterative and incremental approach long before OUM.   An effective project manager naturally organizes project work consistent with this principle, but a key benefit of OUM is that it formalizes this approach so it happens by design rather than by chance.    I hope this series has encouraged you to think about additional ways you can incorporate the iterative and incremental principle into your daily and project life.  I further hope that you will share your thoughts and experiences with the rest of us.

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  • How to repair ubuntu or restore my windows 7 installation? Nothing helps

    - by AFRIKA
    i had windows 7 installed and I installed ubuntu alongside it. Booted ubuntu and explore it for a while. Turned pc off and went to bed. Next morning wanted to boot into windows but no luck... MBR error... Tried to repair windows using installation disk but it doesn't recognize win installation. Tried console bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot but still same. So I went back to ubuntu and tried with boot-repair, but got a write error. Restarted pc and now I cannot boot to either ubuntu or windows... Tried to recover NTFS partition with hiren's boot but it cannot find partition. Tried every solution there is on the web but no help... Is there any way to fix it because windows installation is very important to me?! btw, i noticed that grub indicates windows 7 to a sdb2 partition that doesn't exists... And when I RUN ubuntu from CD and browse disk, I dont see any files from windows 7. Is that normal or? http://paste.ubuntu.com/6338340/ PLEASE HELP...

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  • Boot failure on Ubuntu 11.04

    - by B Seven
    I was using my laptop with Ubuntu without problem for a few months. I did not update any software or install any OS updates. This morning when it started, I got error: no such device:.... error: no such disk error: you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue... Then takes me back to GRUB menu. Both Ubuntu option and recovery mode option show the same thing (above). What does this mean? How do I fix it? Since I did not install anything new, does it mean the SSD is dying (again)? How to check the SSD to and fix any file system errors? Ubuntu 11.04 EDIT: Just remembered something: when the system was shutting down, it did not turn off. There were a bunch of weird output statements, and I assumed the system had shut down so I turned it off with the power button. Perhaps something got corrupted because of that.

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  • How to prevent computer from automatically sleeping and/or hibernating?

    - by mehaase
    I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and my laptop* won't wake from sleep/suspend/hibernate. (Is sleep the same thing as suspend?) I'm not even sure which of these things it's doing. When I am done working for the day, I lock my screen (Control-Alt-L). When I come back the next day, the screen is in power saving mode, and no amount of typing or clicking (on the usb keyboard/mouse or the builtin keyboard/trackpad) nor tapping the power button will bring it back to life. The only way I can get my machine to work is to hold down the power button until it shuts off, then press the power button again to turn it back on. Obviously, anything I had open from the previous day is pretty much gone -- in particular, my VMs all get rudely shut down without any warning. This is driving me INSANE. I spend the first hour of every work day trying to figure out how to get my computer to stop locking up over night. What I've tried: Editing the org.freedesktop.upower.policy to disable suspend and hibernate. Setting power management options in "Power" section of "System Settings". Looking at all power management options in the BIOS (none appear to be relevant to sleep/suspend/hibernate). Reading every forum post/askubuntu post that I can find that's even tangentially related to the subject. My question: how to disable the automatic sleep and/or hibernate (and/or anything similar) in Ubuntu 12.04. I don't care if it's still possible to sleep/suspend/hibernate/whatever by pushing buttons or running some command or reciting led zeppelin lyrics backwards. I just want my laptop to be ready for work in the morning. *The laptop is a Dell Latitude something or other. I don't want to get too specific because I've seen a lot of similar questions get closed for being too specific. I think my question is generic enough to stand -- it's a question about the latest, stable version of Ubuntu.

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  • No WIFI on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after today software update

    - by Adchara
    I just got new dell inspiron3537 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (no windows O/S). It got some wireless (hard block) yesterday. So, this morning, I ran the software update all the security update. After that I can't see "Wireless" in system setting. So, I updated all the software update and looked thru several web site and found "sudo lshw -c network" command. I tried and found the result below. *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 07 serial: 74:86:7a:40:5d:48 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.10 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:60 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:c0700000-c0700fff memory:c0400000-c0403fff *-network UNCLAIMED description: Network controller product: QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Qualcomm Atheros physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 01 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:c0600000-c067ffff memory:9fb00000-9fb0ffff Please suggest what I should do to fix it. Thx in advance

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  • Mobile (Portable) Website

    - by johnny_s
    I have an online presentation to do next week and I have it all ready to go. The website is html and css only (no db), and currently resides on my shared hosting account. Now although my shared hosting is (relatively) reliable, I have noticed that recently they have been making some changes and my website has been unavailable at times. I don't want this to happen to me on the morning of my presentation, so I am asking what is the best way to prepare for such a thing? My domain is www.presentation.mydomain.com and I would like to keep this if possible (even if issues arise). I have been thinking of a few alternatives; host my site on two different domains or servers (but what about domain name)? have a portable XAMPP version on a USB (again, domain name)? possible fail-over site/location? Any advice or suggestions are welcome. Update Presentation will be carried out on their laptop, not mine. So I am unable to install any software.

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  • Insanity Day 3

    - by D'Arcy Lussier
    So on Tuesday (Sept 25th) I did my 2nd Insanity workout (for those keeping track, I’m not counting the fit test as #1) and it was MURDER on my legs. I wasn’t able to get to it yesterday, and I’m noticing a trend in this first week – I can easily push to do it every 2nd day, but life is just too crazy busy right now (yeah yeah, excuses right? I look at it more like priorities – I have a tech conference I’m running next week, crazy days right now). Today I moved to the 3rd workout – but honestly I couldn’t get into it. It was the cardio recovery day, which is a lot of stretching and stuff. I think if I had been doing the first two sessions back to back I’d need it, but I didn’t want to cool down today – I wanted to push! So I moved to the next DVD in the series but for some reason couldn’t get it to run on my computer, even with SlyDVD. So – back to Disc 1 and the Plyometric Cardio Circuit! Fantastic workout again this morning. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not all of a sudden in amazing shape, but I am noticing already that I seem to be somewhat better – I’m really looking forward to my next fit test at the end of the month!

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  • XML transform element appearing in wrong place in document

    - by Mike
    I am having some problems with an XML transform and need some help. The stylesheet should iterate through all suffix elements and place the contents without the suffix tag next to the last text node within its first ancestor quote-block element (see desired ouput). It works when only a single suffix is present, but not when 2 are present, when 2 are present it places both suffixes next to each other in the last text node of the first quote-block. Any ideas? I have tried limiting the selections to ancestor::quote-block[1] in various places but that doesn't have the desired effect. Source XML <paragraph> <para> <quote-block> <list prefix-rules="specified"> <item prefix="“B42"> <para id="0a84d149-91b7-4012-ac6d-9f4eb8ed6c37">In June 2000, EME and EWS reached an agreement to negotiate towards a direct contract for coal haulage by rail (on a DIY basis), which would replace the previous indirect E2E arrangements that EME had in place with ECSL. An internal EWS e-mail noted: <quote-block> <quote-para>‘We did the deal with Edison Mission yesterday morning for LBT-Fiddlers @ £[…]/tonne as agreed. This rate until 16th September pending a contract.</quote-para> <quote-para><emphasis strength="strong">Enron are now off our hands so far as Edison are concerned. The Enron flows we have left are to British Energy’s station at Eggborough; from Immingham, Redcar and Hull</emphasis>. Also to Enron’s own power station at Wilton – 250,000 tonnes/year. I think we are stuck Enron [sic] on the Eggborough traffic until next April when British Energy will, hopefully take over their own coal procurement. <emphasis strength="strong">But we have got them out of Fiddlers Ferry and Ferrybridge – a big step forward</emphasis>.’</quote-para> <suffix>(Emphasis added.)</suffix> </quote-block> </para> </item> <item prefix="B43"> <para id="d64a5a72-0a02-476f-9a7b-7c07bbc93a8a">This e-mail is evidence of both EWS’s intent and, indeed, its success in stopping ECSL from carrying out indirect supplies to EME, one of the new generating companies.”</para> </item> </list> <suffix>(emphasis in original)</suffix> </quote-block> </para> </paragraph> Stylesheet <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://xml.sm.com/schema/cases/report" xmlns:sm="http://xml.sm.com/functions" xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/" xpath-default-namespace="http://sm.com/schema/cases/report" exclude-result-prefixes="xs sm" version="2.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <!-- Match quote-blocks with open or close attributes. --> <xsl:template match="*[*:quote-block and descendant::*:suffix]"> <xsl:call-template name="process-quote-block"/> </xsl:template> <!-- Match inline quote with open or close attributes --> <xsl:template match="*[*:quote and descendant::*:suffix]"> <xsl:call-template name="process-quote-block"/> </xsl:template> <!-- Process the quote block --> <xsl:template name="process-quote-block"> <xsl:variable name="quoteBlockCopy"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:apply-templates select="$quoteBlockCopy" mode="append-suffix"> <xsl:with-param name="suffix" select="sm:get-suffix-note(.)"/> <xsl:with-param name="end-node" select="sm:get-last-text-node($quoteBlockCopy)"/> </xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:template> <!-- Match quote-blocks with open or close attributes. --> <xsl:template match="*[*:quote-block and descendant::*:suffix][ancestor::*:quote-block[1]]" mode="create-copy"> <xsl:call-template name="process-quote-block"/> </xsl:template> <!-- Match inline quote with open or close attributes --> <xsl:template match="*[*:quote and descendant::*:suffix]" mode="create-copy"> <xsl:call-template name="process-quote-block"/> </xsl:template> <!-- This will match all elements. Just copy and pass through the parameters. --> <xsl:template match="*" mode="append-suffix"> <xsl:param name="suffix"/> <xsl:param name="end-node"/> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> <xsl:apply-templates mode="append-suffix"> <xsl:with-param name="suffix" select="$suffix"/> <xsl:with-param name="end-node" select="$end-node"/> </xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <!-- Apply the text node to the content. If the node is equal to the last node then append the descendants of suffix --> <xsl:template match="text()[normalize-space() != '']" mode="append-suffix"> <xsl:param name="suffix"/> <xsl:param name="end-node"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="count(. | $end-node) = 1"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <xsl:apply-templates select="$suffix"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <!-- Or maybe neither. --> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> <!-- Dont copy suffix as --> <xsl:template match="*:suffix" mode="append-suffix"/> <xsl:function name="sm:get-suffix-note"> <xsl:param name="node"/> <xsl:sequence select="$node/descendant::*:suffix/node()"/> </xsl:function> <xsl:function name="sm:get-last-text-node"> <!-- Finds last non-empty text() node, ignoring <suffix> elements that are a child of this specific quote-block. --> <xsl:param name="node"/> <xsl:sequence select="reverse($node//text()[not(ancestor::*:suffix) and normalize-space() != ''])[1]"/> </xsl:function> </xsl:stylesheet> Current Output XML <paragraph> <para> <quote-block> <list prefix-rules="specified"> <item prefix="“B42"> <para id="0a84d149-91b7-4012-ac6d-9f4eb8ed6c37">In June 2000, EME and EWS reached an agreement to negotiate towards a direct contract for coal haulage by rail (on a DIY basis), which would replace the previous indirect E2E arrangements that EME had in place with ECSL. An internal EWS e-mail noted: <quote-block> <quote-para>‘We did the deal with Edison Mission yesterday morning for LBT-Fiddlers @ £[…]/tonne as agreed. This rate until 16th September pending a contract.</quote-para> <quote-para><emphasis strength="strong">Enron are now off our hands so far as Edison are concerned. The Enron flows we have left are to British Energy’s station at Eggborough; from Immingham, Redcar and Hull</emphasis>. Also to Enron’s own power station at Wilton – 250,000 tonnes/year. I think we are stuck Enron [sic] on the Eggborough traffic until next April when British Energy will, hopefully take over their own coal procurement. <emphasis strength="strong">But we have got them out of Fiddlers Ferry and Ferrybridge – a big step forward</emphasis>.’</quote-para> </quote-block> </para> </item> <item prefix="B43"> <para id="d64a5a72-0a02-476f-9a7b-7c07bbc93a8a">This e-mail is evidence of both EWS’s intent and, indeed, its success in stopping ECSL from carrying out indirect supplies to EME, one of the new generating companies.”(Emphasis added.)(emphasis in original)</para> </item> </list> </quote-block> </para> </paragraph> Desired Ouput <paragraph> <para> <quote-block> <list prefix-rules="specified"> <item prefix="“B42"> <para id="0a84d149-91b7-4012-ac6d-9f4eb8ed6c37">In June 2000, EME and EWS reached an agreement to negotiate towards a direct contract for coal haulage by rail (on a DIY basis), which would replace the previous indirect E2E arrangements that EME had in place with ECSL. An internal EWS e-mail noted: <quote-block> <quote-para>‘We did the deal with Edison Mission yesterday morning for LBT-Fiddlers @ £[…]/tonne as agreed. This rate until 16th September pending a contract.</quote-para> <quote-para><emphasis strength="strong">Enron are now off our hands so far as Edison are concerned. The Enron flows we have left are to British Energy’s station at Eggborough; from Immingham, Redcar and Hull</emphasis>. Also to Enron’s own power station at Wilton – 250,000 tonnes/year. I think we are stuck Enron [sic] on the Eggborough traffic until next April when British Energy will, hopefully take over their own coal procurement. <emphasis strength="strong">But we have got them out of Fiddlers Ferry and Ferrybridge – a big step forward</emphasis>.’(Emphasis added.)</quote-para> </quote-block> </para> </item> <item prefix="B43"> <para id="d64a5a72-0a02-476f-9a7b-7c07bbc93a8a">This e-mail is evidence of both EWS’s intent and, indeed, its success in stopping ECSL from carrying out indirect supplies to EME, one of the new generating companies.”(emphasis in original)</para> </item> </list> </quote-block> </para> </paragraph>

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  • The Art of Productivity

    - by dwahlin
    Getting things done has always been a challenge regardless of gender, age, race, skill, or job position. No matter how hard some people try, they end up procrastinating tasks until the last minute. Some people simply focus better when they know they’re out of time and can’t procrastinate any longer. How many times have you put off working on a term paper in school until the very last minute? With only a few hours left your mental energy and focus seem to kick in to high gear especially as you realize that you either get the paper done now or risk failing. It’s amazing how a little pressure can turn into a motivator and allow our minds to focus on a given task. Some people seem to specialize in procrastinating just about everything they do while others tend to be the “doers” who get a lot done and ultimately rise up the ladder at work. What’s the difference between these types of people? Is it pure laziness or are other factors at play? I think that some people are certainly more motivated than others, but I also think a lot of it is based on the process that “doers” tend to follow - whether knowingly or unknowingly. While I’ve certainly fought battles with procrastination, I’ve always had a knack for being able to get a lot done in a relatively short amount of time. I think a lot of my “get it done” attitude goes back to the the strong work ethic my parents instilled in me at a young age. I remember my dad saying, “You need to learn to work hard!” when I was around 5 years old. I remember that moment specifically because I was on a tractor with him the first time I heard it while he was trying to move some large rocks into a pile. The tractor was big but so were the rocks and my dad had to balance the tractor perfectly so that it didn’t tip forward too far. It was challenging work and somewhat tedious but my dad finished the task and taught me a few important lessons along the way including persistence, the importance of having a skill, and getting the job done right without skimping along the way. In this post I’m going to list a few of the techniques and processes I follow that I hope may be beneficial to others. I blogged about the general concept back in 2009 but thought I’d share some updated information and lessons learned since then. Most of the ideas that follow came from learning and refining my daily work process over the years. However, since most of the ideas are common sense (at least in my opinion), I suspect they can be found in other productivity processes that are out there. Let’s start off with one of the most important yet simple tips: Start Each Day with a List. Start Each Day with a List What are you planning to get done today? Do you keep track of everything in your head or rely on your calendar? While most of us think that we’re pretty good at managing “to do” lists strictly in our head you might be surprised at how affective writing out lists can be. By writing out tasks you’re forced to focus on the most important tasks to accomplish that day, commit yourself to those tasks, and have an easy way to track what was supposed to get done and what actually got done. Start every morning by making a list of specific tasks that you want to accomplish throughout the day. I’ll even go so far as to fill in times when I’d like to work on tasks if I have a lot of meetings or other events tying up my calendar on a given day. I’m not a big fan of using paper since I type a lot faster than I write (plus I write like a 3rd grader according to my wife), so I use the Sticky Notes feature available in Windows. Here’s an example of yesterday’s sticky note: What do you add to your list? That’s the subject of the next tip. Focus on Small Tasks It’s no secret that focusing on small, manageable tasks is more effective than trying to focus on large and more vague tasks. When you make your list each morning only add tasks that you can accomplish within a given time period. For example, if I only have 30 minutes blocked out to work on an article I don’t list “Write Article”. If I do that I’ll end up wasting 30 minutes stressing about how I’m going to get the article done in 30 minutes and ultimately get nothing done. Instead, I’ll list something like “Write Introductory Paragraphs for Article”. The next day I may add, “Write first section of article” or something that’s small and manageable – something I’m confident that I can get done. You’ll find that once you’ve knocked out several smaller tasks it’s easy to continue completing others since you want to keep the momentum going. In addition to keeping my tasks focused and small, I also make a conscious effort to limit my list to 4 or 5 tasks initially. I’ve found that if I list more than 5 tasks I feel a bit overwhelmed which hurts my productivity. It’s easy to add additional tasks as you complete others and you get the added benefit of that confidence boost of knowing that you’re being productive and getting things done as you remove tasks and add others. Getting Started is the Hardest (Yet Easiest) Part I’ve always found that getting started is the hardest part and one of the biggest contributors to procrastination. Getting started working on tasks is a lot like getting a large rock pushed to the bottom of a hill. It’s difficult to get the rock rolling at first, but once you manage to get it rocking some it’s really easy to get it rolling on its way to the bottom. As an example, I’ve written 100s of articles for technical magazines over the years and have really struggled with the initial introductory paragraphs. Keep in mind that these are the paragraphs that don’t really add that much value (in my opinion anyway). They introduce the reader to the subject matter and nothing more. What a waste of time for me to sit there stressing about how to start the article. On more than one occasion I’ve spent more than an hour trying to come up with 2-3 paragraphs of text.  Talk about a productivity killer! Whether you’re struggling with a writing task, some code for a project, an email, or other tasks, jumping in without thinking too much is the best way to get started I’ve found. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t have an overall plan when jumping into a task, but on some occasions you’ll find that if you simply jump into the task and stop worrying about doing everything perfectly that things will flow more smoothly. For my introductory paragraph problem I give myself 5 minutes to write out some general concepts about what I know the article will cover and then spend another 10-15 minutes going back and refining that information. That way I actually have some ideas to work with rather than a blank sheet of paper. If I still find myself struggling I’ll write the rest of the article first and then circle back to the introductory paragraphs once I’m done. To sum this tip up: Jump into a task without thinking too hard about it. It’s better to to get the rock at the top of the hill rocking some than doing nothing at all. You can always go back and refine your work.   Learn a Productivity Technique and Stick to It There are a lot of different productivity programs and seminars out there being sold by companies. I’ve always laughed at how much money people spend on some of these motivational programs/seminars because I think that being productive isn’t that hard if you create a re-useable set of steps and processes to follow. That’s not to say that some of these programs/seminars aren’t worth the money of course because I know they’ve definitely benefited some people that have a hard time getting things done and staying focused. One of the best productivity techniques I’ve ever learned is called the “Pomodoro Technique” and it’s completely free. This technique is an extremely simple way to manage your time without having to remember a bunch of steps, color coding mechanisms, or other processes. The technique was originally developed by Francesco Cirillo in the 80s and can be implemented with a simple timer. In a nutshell here’s how the technique works: Pick a task to work on Set the timer to 25 minutes and work on the task Once the timer rings record your time Take a 5 minute break Repeat the process Here’s why the technique works well for me: It forces me to focus on a single task for 25 minutes. In the past I had no time goal in mind and just worked aimlessly on a task until I got interrupted or bored. 25 minutes is a small enough chunk of time for me to stay focused. Any distractions that may come up have to wait until after the timer goes off. If the distraction is really important then I stop the timer and record my time up to that point. When the timer is running I act as if I only have 25 minutes total for the task (like you’re down to the last 25 minutes before turning in your term paper….frantically working to get it done) which helps me stay focused and turns into a “beat the clock” type of game. It’s actually kind of fun if you treat it that way and really helps me focus on a the task at hand. I automatically know how much time I’m spending on a given task (more on this later) by using this technique. I know that I have 5 minutes after each pomodoro (the 25 minute sprint) to waste on anything I’d like including visiting a website, stepping away from the computer, etc. which also helps me stay focused when the 25 minute timer is counting down. I use this technique so much that I decided to build a program for Windows 8 called Pomodoro Focus (I plan to blog about how it was built in a later post). It’s a Windows Store application that allows people to track tasks, productive time spent on tasks, interruption time experienced while working on a given task, and the number of pomodoros completed. If a time estimate is given when the task is initially created, Pomodoro Focus will also show the task completion percentage. I like it because it allows me to track my tasks, time spent on tasks (very useful in the consulting world), and even how much time I wasted on tasks (pressing the pause button while working on a task starts the interruption timer). I recently added a new feature that charts productive and interruption time for tasks since I wanted to see how productive I was from week to week and month to month. A few screenshots from the Pomodoro Focus app are shown next, I had a lot of fun building it and use it myself to as I work on tasks.   There are certainly many other productivity techniques and processes out there (and a slew of books describing them), but the Pomodoro Technique has been the simplest and most effective technique I’ve ever come across for staying focused and getting things done.   Persistence is Key Getting things done is great but one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in life is that persistence is key especially when you’re trying to get something done that at times seems insurmountable. Small tasks ultimately lead to larger tasks getting accomplished, however, it’s not all roses along the way as some of the smaller tasks may come with their own share of bumps and bruises that lead to discouragement about the end goal and whether or not it is worth achieving at all. I’ve been on several long-term projects over my career as a software developer (I have one personal project going right now that fits well here) and found that repeating, “Persistence is the key!” over and over to myself really helps. Not every project turns out to be successful, but if you don’t show persistence through the hard times you’ll never know if you succeeded or not. Likewise, if you don’t persistently stick to the process of creating a daily list, follow a productivity process, etc. then the odds of consistently staying productive aren’t good.   Track Your Time How much time do you actually spend working on various tasks? If you don’t currently track time spent answering emails, on phone calls, and working on various tasks then you might be surprised to find out that a task that you thought was going to take you 30 minutes ultimately ended up taking 2 hours. If you don’t track the time you spend working on tasks how can you expect to learn from your mistakes, optimize your time better, and become more productive? That’s another reason why I like the Pomodoro Technique – it makes it easy to stay focused on tasks while also tracking how much time I’m working on a given task.   Eliminate Distractions I blogged about this final tip several years ago but wanted to bring it up again. If you want to be productive (and ultimately successful at whatever you’re doing) then you can’t waste a lot of time playing games or on Twitter, Facebook, or other time sucking websites. If you see an article you’re interested in that has no relation at all to the tasks you’re trying to accomplish then bookmark it and read it when you have some spare time (such as during a pomodoro break). Fighting the temptation to check your friends’ status updates on Facebook? Resist the urge and realize how much those types of activities are hurting your productivity and taking away from your focus. I’ll admit that eliminating distractions is still tough for me personally and something I have to constantly battle. But, I’ve made a conscious decision to cut back on my visits and updates to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other sites. Sure, my Klout score has suffered as a result lately, but does anyone actually care about those types of scores aside from your online “friends” (few of whom you’ve actually met in person)? :-) Ultimately it comes down to self-discipline and how badly you want to be productive and successful in your career, life goals, hobbies, or whatever you’re working on. Rather than having your homepage take you to a time wasting news site, game site, social site, picture site, or others, how about adding something like the following as your homepage? Every time your browser opens you’ll see a personal message which helps keep you on the right track. You can download my ubber-sophisticated homepage here if interested. Summary Is there a single set of steps that if followed can ultimately lead to productivity? I don’t think so since one size has never fit all. Every person is different, works in their own unique way, and has their own set of motivators, distractions, and more. While I certainly don’t consider myself to be an expert on the subject of productivity, I do think that if you learn what steps work best for you and gradually refine them over time that you can come up with a personal productivity process that can serve you well. Productivity is definitely an “art” that anyone can learn with a little practice and persistence. You’ve seen some of the steps that I personally like to follow and I hope you find some of them useful in boosting your productivity. If you have others you use please leave a comment. I’m always looking for ways to improve.

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  • Help analyzing traceroute

    - by Abdulla
    Hello, my name is Abdulla and I'm from Kuwait. Sorry for my question as I know its not technically challenging. I'm facing some problems with my internet connection. My company has a DSL 2mb connection. My main problem is latency, in the morning its good but after that its gets really bad. My Internet provider says there's nothing wrong and that everything is working perfectly. I tried to explain to them the latency issue but they say that as long as I'm getting the download speed there isn't anything I can do about it. I only want to know if this is true and that the company can't do anything before I change my internet provider, as I feel that the guys at the contact center might getting back to me without asking tech support. Below are 2 traces I made, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon: This was taken around 17:00 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=387ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=388ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 375ms, Maximum = 388ms, Average = 381ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=376ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=382ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=378ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=374ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=353ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=346ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=335ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=344ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=328ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=332ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=325ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=338ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=341ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 26, Received = 26, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 325ms, Maximum = 382ms, Average = 348ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>travert google.com 'travert' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 168.187.0.226 4 7 ms 8 ms 9 ms 168.187.0.125 5 180 ms 187 ms 188 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 209 ms 222 ms 204 ms 195.219.167.57 7 541 ms 536 ms 540 ms 195.219.167.42 8 553 ms 552 ms 538 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 547 ms 543 ms 542 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 540 ms 523 ms 531 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 755 ms 761 ms 695 ms ae-45-45.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.101] 12 271 ms 263 ms 400 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 701 ms 730 ms 742 ms 195.50.118.210 14 659 ms 641 ms 660 ms 209.85.255.76 15 280 ms 283 ms 292 ms 209.85.251.190 16 308 ms 293 ms 296 ms 72.14.232.239 17 679 ms 700 ms 721 ms 64.233.174.18 18 268 ms 281 ms 269 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> This was taken at 10:00am Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 110ms, Maximum = 120ms, Average = 113ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 32, Received = 32, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 109ms, Maximum = 135ms, Average = 112ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 168.187.0.226 4 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 168.187.0.125 5 20 ms 20 ms 18 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 171 ms 205 ms 215 ms 195.219.167.57 7 191 ms 215 ms 226 ms 195.219.167.42 8 * 103 ms 94 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 94 ms 95 ms 97 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 101 ms 101 ms 101 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.113] 12 102 ms 102 ms 101 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 103 ms 102 ms 103 ms 195.50.118.210 14 137 ms 103 ms 100 ms 209.85.255.76 15 130 ms 124 ms 124 ms 209.85.251.190 16 114 ms 116 ms 116 ms 72.14.232.239 17 135 ms 113 ms 126 ms 64.233.174.18 18 126 ms 125 ms 127 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. 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  • Please bear with me, can someone analyze this trace route please

    - by Abdulla
    Hello, my name is Abdulla and I'm from Kuwait. Sorry for my question as I know its not technically challenging. I'm facing some problems with my internet connection while gaming, I have DSL 2mb connection. My main problem is latency, in the morning its good but after that its gets really bad. My internet provider says there's nothing wrong and that everything is working perfectly. I tried to explain to them the latency issue but they say that as long as I'm getting the download speed there isn't anything I can do about it. I only want to know if this is true and that the company can't do anything before I change my internet provider, as I feel that the guys at the contact center might getting back to me without asking tech support. Below are 2 traces I made, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon: This was taken around 17:00 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=387ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=388ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=375ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 375ms, Maximum = 388ms, Average = 381ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.104] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=376ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=382ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=378ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=374ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=353ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=346ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=335ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=340ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=344ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=328ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=332ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=325ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=333ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=338ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.104: bytes=32 time=341ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.104: Packets: Sent = 26, Received = 26, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 325ms, Maximum = 382ms, Average = 348ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>travert google.com 'travert' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 168.187.0.226 4 7 ms 8 ms 9 ms 168.187.0.125 5 180 ms 187 ms 188 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 209 ms 222 ms 204 ms 195.219.167.57 7 541 ms 536 ms 540 ms 195.219.167.42 8 553 ms 552 ms 538 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 547 ms 543 ms 542 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 540 ms 523 ms 531 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 755 ms 761 ms 695 ms ae-45-45.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.101] 12 271 ms 263 ms 400 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 701 ms 730 ms 742 ms 195.50.118.210 14 659 ms 641 ms 660 ms 209.85.255.76 15 280 ms 283 ms 292 ms 209.85.251.190 16 308 ms 293 ms 296 ms 72.14.232.239 17 679 ms 700 ms 721 ms 64.233.174.18 18 268 ms 281 ms 269 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> This was taken at 10:00am Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 110ms, Maximum = 120ms, Average = 113ms C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com /t Pinging google.com [66.102.9.106] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=49 Reply from 66.102.9.106: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 66.102.9.106: Packets: Sent = 32, Received = 32, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 109ms, Maximum = 135ms, Average = 112ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [66.102.9.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 80-184-31-1.adsl.kems.net [80.184.31.1] 3 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 168.187.0.226 4 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 168.187.0.125 5 20 ms 20 ms 18 ms if-11-2.core1.RSD-Riyad.as6453.net [116.0.78.89] 6 171 ms 205 ms 215 ms 195.219.167.57 7 191 ms 215 ms 226 ms 195.219.167.42 8 * 103 ms 94 ms Vlan1102.icore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.24 1.109] 9 94 ms 95 ms 97 ms xe-9-1-0.edge4.paris1.level3.net [4.68.110.213] 10 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms ae-33-51.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.193] 11 101 ms 101 ms 101 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.113] 12 102 ms 102 ms 101 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.66] 13 103 ms 102 ms 103 ms 195.50.118.210 14 137 ms 103 ms 100 ms 209.85.255.76 15 130 ms 124 ms 124 ms 209.85.251.190 16 114 ms 116 ms 116 ms 72.14.232.239 17 135 ms 113 ms 126 ms 64.233.174.18 18 126 ms 125 ms 127 ms lm-in-f104.1e100.net [66.102.9.104] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

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  • NFS issue brings down entire vSphere ESX estate

    - by growse
    I experienced an odd issue this morning where an NFS issue appeared to have taken down the majority of my VMs hosted on a small vSphere 5.0 estate. The infrastructure itself is 4x IBM HS21 blades running around 20 VMs. The storage is provided by a single HP X1600 array with attached D2700 chassis running Solaris 11. There's a couple of storage pools on this which are exposed over NFS for the storage of the VM files, and some iSCSI LUNs for things like MSCS shared disks. Normally, this is pretty stable, but I appreciate the lack of resiliancy in having a single X1600 doing all the storage. This morning, in the logs of each ESX host, at around 0521 GMT I saw a lot of entries like this: 2011-11-30T05:21:54.161Z cpu2:2050)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000a4cf9a8 3 2011-11-30T05:21:54.161Z cpu2:2050)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000a4dc9e8 3 2011-11-30T05:21:54.161Z cpu2:2050)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000a4d3fa8 3 2011-11-30T05:21:54.161Z cpu2:2050)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000a4de0a8 3 [....] 2011-11-30T06:16:07.042Z cpu0:2058)WARNING: NFS: 283: Lost connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /sastank/VMStorage, mounted as f0342e1c-19be66b5-0000-000000000000 ("SAStank") 2011-11-30T06:17:01.459Z cpu2:4011)NFS: 292: Restored connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /sastank/VMStorage, mounted as f0342e1c-19be66b5-0000-000000000000 ("SAStank") 2011-11-30T06:25:17.887Z cpu3:2051)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000a4c2b28 3 2011-11-30T06:27:16.063Z cpu3:4011)NFSLock: 568: Start accessing fd 0x41000a4d8928 again 2011-11-30T06:35:30.827Z cpu1:2058)WARNING: NFS: 283: Lost connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /tank/ISO, mounted as 5acdbb3e-410e56e3-0000-000000000000 ("ISO (1)") 2011-11-30T06:36:37.953Z cpu6:2054)NFS: 292: Restored connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /tank/ISO, mounted as 5acdbb3e-410e56e3-0000-000000000000 ("ISO (1)") 2011-11-30T06:40:08.242Z cpu6:2054)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000a4c3e68 3 2011-11-30T06:40:34.647Z cpu3:2051)NFSLock: 568: Start accessing fd 0x41000a4d8928 again 2011-11-30T06:44:42.663Z cpu1:2058)WARNING: NFS: 283: Lost connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /sastank/VMStorage, mounted as f0342e1c-19be66b5-0000-000000000000 ("SAStank") 2011-11-30T06:44:53.973Z cpu0:4011)NFS: 292: Restored connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /sastank/VMStorage, mounted as f0342e1c-19be66b5-0000-000000000000 ("SAStank") 2011-11-30T06:51:28.296Z cpu5:2058)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000ae3c528 3 2011-11-30T06:51:44.024Z cpu4:2052)NFSLock: 568: Start accessing fd 0x41000ae3b8e8 again 2011-11-30T06:56:30.758Z cpu4:2058)WARNING: NFS: 283: Lost connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /sastank/VMStorage, mounted as f0342e1c-19be66b5-0000-000000000000 ("SAStank") 2011-11-30T06:56:53.389Z cpu7:2055)NFS: 292: Restored connection to the server 10.13.111.197 mount point /sastank/VMStorage, mounted as f0342e1c-19be66b5-0000-000000000000 ("SAStank") 2011-11-30T07:01:50.350Z cpu6:2054)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x41240072bc80) 0x12, CmdSN 0x9803 to dev "naa.600508e000000000505c16815a36c50d" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0. 2011-11-30T07:03:48.449Z cpu3:2051)NFSLock: 608: Stop accessing fd 0x41000ae46b68 3 2011-11-30T07:03:57.318Z cpu4:4009)NFSLock: 568: Start accessing fd 0x41000ae48228 again (I've put a complete dump from one of the hosts on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/Vn60wgTt) When I got in the office at 9am, I saw various failures and alarms and troubleshooted the issue. It turned out that pretty much all of the VMs were inaccessible, and that the ESX hosts either were describing each VM as 'powered off', 'powered on', or 'unavailable'. The VMs described as 'powered on' where not in any way reachable or responding to pings, so this may be lies. There's absolutely no indication on the X1600 that anything was awry, and nothing on the switches to indicate any loss of connectivity. I only managed to resolve the issue by rebooting the ESX hosts in turn. I have a number of questions: What the hell happened? If this was a temporary NFS failure, why did it put the ESX hosts into a state from which a reboot was the only recovery? In the future, when the NFS server goes a little off-piste, what would be the best approach to add some resilience? I've been looking at budgeting for next year and potentially have budget to purchase another X1600/D2700/disks, would an identical mirrored disk setup help to mitigate these sorts of failures automatically? Edit (Added requested details) To expand with some details as requested: The X1600 has 12x 1TB disks lumped together in mirrored pairs as tank, and the D2700 (connected with a mini SAS cable) has 12x 300GB 10k SAS disks lumped together in mirrored pairs as sastank zpool status pool: rpool state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: sastank state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 74h21m with 0 errors on Wed Nov 30 02:51:58 2011 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM sastank ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t14d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t15d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t16d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t17d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t18d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t19d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-3 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t20d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t21d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-4 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t22d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t23d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-5 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t24d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t25d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 17h28m with 0 errors on Mon Nov 28 17:58:19 2011 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-3 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t9d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-4 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t10d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t11d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-5 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t12d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t13d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors The filesystem exposed over NFS for the primary datastore is sastank/VMStorage zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 45.1G 13.4G 92.5K /rpool rpool/ROOT 2.28G 13.4G 31K legacy rpool/ROOT/solaris 2.28G 13.4G 2.19G / rpool/dump 15.0G 13.4G 15.0G - rpool/export 11.9G 13.4G 32K /export rpool/export/home 11.9G 13.4G 32K /export/home rpool/export/home/andrew 11.9G 13.4G 11.9G /export/home/andrew rpool/swap 15.9G 29.2G 123M - sastank 1.08T 536G 33K /sastank sastank/VMStorage 1.01T 536G 1.01T /sastank/VMStorage sastank/comstar 71.7G 536G 31K /sastank/comstar sastank/comstar/sql_tempdb 6.31G 536G 6.31G - sastank/comstar/sql_tx_data 65.4G 536G 65.4G - tank 4.79T 578G 42K /tank tank/FTP 269G 578G 269G /tank/FTP tank/ISO 28.8G 578G 25.9G /tank/ISO tank/backupstage 2.64T 578G 2.49T /tank/backupstage tank/cifs 301G 578G 297G /tank/cifs tank/comstar 1.54T 578G 31K /tank/comstar tank/comstar/msdtc 1.07G 579G 32.8M - tank/comstar/quorum 577M 578G 47.9M - tank/comstar/sqldata 1.54T 886G 304G - tank/comstar/vsphere_lun 2.09G 580G 22.2M - tank/mcs-asset-repository 7.01M 578G 6.99M /tank/mcs-asset-repository tank/mscs-quorum 55K 578G 36K /tank/mscs-quorum tank/sccm 16.1G 578G 12.8G /tank/sccm As for the networking, all connections between the X1600, the Blades and the switch are either LACP or Etherchannel bonded 2x 1Gbit links. Switch is a single Cisco 3750. Storage traffic sits on its own VLAN segregated from VM machine traffic.

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  • DataContractSerializer case-insensitive datamember bug

    - by Andrew Bullock
    Here is my class: [DataContract] public class EventIndex : IExtensibleDataObject { public ExtensionDataObject ExtensionData { get; set; } [DataMember] private readonly IList<EventDescription> events; public IEnumerable<EventDescription> Events { get { return events; } } public EventIndex() { events = new List<EventDescription>(); } } As you can see, events is marked as a member. When I try and deserialize one of these classes, ReadObject throws a NullReferenceException. After a morning spent inside reflector, it turns out that its trying to deserialize the events collection into the Events getter. If I rename one of the members (events\ Events) I don't have an issue. Is there a way to make this work properly, without renaming workarounds or other such nonsense?

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  • JQuery PrettyPhoto/Lightbox with Loupe Magnifier

    - by thebluefox
    Morning gang, Right, I'm trying to crowbar a magnifier, like this one, into prettyPhoto (picked because the JS is nice). The trouble I'm having is initiating the loupe function when the prettyPhoto has loaded. If I include it in the prettyPhoto JS, it just gets itself into an endless loop, or doesn't get called at all. I've nearly got it working by putting a link next to the close button that calls the function inline, like so; <a href="#" onclick="$(\'.TB_Image\').loupe(); return false;">Magnify</a> The only problem here is that the return false doesn't work? It works when the call to loupe isn't in the onclick event though? Doing it this way does run the loupe function, but the homepage gets loaded so I don't know if it actually works or not. Has anyone got any sugestions at all? All help much appreciated!

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  • CC.NET Dashboard Error: Could not load type 'System.Security.Authentication.ExtendedProtection.Chann

    - by Leslie
    Late last week I upgraded CC.NET locally and on the build server. The build server is still fine, but locally I am now getting the following error: Exception Details: Exortech.NetReflector.NetReflectorTypeLoadException: Unable to load types from assembly System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089: Failed to load 1 of the 3612 types defined in the assembly. Exceptions: - Unable to load type: System.Security.Authentication.ExtendedProtection.ChannelBinding Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.Security.Authentication.ExtendedProtection.ChannelBinding' from assembly 'System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. I'm afraid this started after a batch of Windows updates this morning. I had another two updates that won't run, 979909 and 982168 (I had an update that wouldn't run last month). Anyone else having any issues? Thanks!

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  • How to debug nHibernate/RhinoMocks TypeInitializer exception

    - by Joe Future
    Pulling my hair out trying to debug this one. Earlier this morning, this code was working fine, and I can't see what I've changed to break it. Now, whenever I try to open an nHibernate session, I'm getting the following error: Test method BCMS.Tests.Repositories.BlogBlogRepositoryTests.can_get_recent_blog_posts threw exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'NHibernate.Cfg.Environment' threw an exception. --- System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member 'Castle.DynamicProxy.Serialization.ProxyObjectReference,Rhino.Mocks, Version=3.5.0.1337, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0b3305902db7183f'.. Any thoughts on how to debug what's going on here?

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  • BlackBerry Simulator & BIS Push Service

    - by Submerged
    I am hoping that someone knows if you can use RIMM's push service with BIS WITHOUT a hand held device. I have registered for the push evaluation and I want to program a push server that will send out notifications to BB clients. I got my email this morning containing: Server: Application: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Pwd: xxxXXXXX CPID (Content Provider ID):xxx Start Date (MM/DD/YYYY): X/X/XXXX Expiry Date (MM/DD/YYYY):X/X/XXXX First Name:XXXXXXX Last Name:XXXXX Email:[email protected] Account Type:Plus Source IP:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Usage:BIS AND Client: Application Credentials (for use in your client application): Application ID:XXX-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Push Port:xxxxx I am hoping someone can tell me where to get started - as an iPhone developer, I have to say, there is much more information. Lastly, if I DO need a device, does that device have to have a dataplan? I wanted to be able to serve my clients from WiFi as well, does the BB push system work only on Cell networks? Thank you

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  • How to add a Fragment inside a ViewPager using Nested Fragment (Android 4.2)

    - by sabadow
    I have a ViewPager with three Fragments, each one shows a List (or Grid). In the new Android API level 17 (Jelly Bean 4.2), one of the features is Nested Fragments. The new functionality description says: if you use ViewPager to create fragments that swipe left and right and consume a majority of the screen space, you can now insert fragments into each fragment page. So, if I understand right, now I can create a ViewPager with Fragments (with a button inside for example) inside, and when user press the button show another Fragment without loose the ViewPager using this new feature. I expend my morning trying to implement this on several ways but I can´t made it... Can somebody show a simple example of how to do this? PS: I'm only interested in doing at this way, with getChildFragmentManager to learn how works.

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