Search Results

Search found 8495 results on 340 pages for 'high availability'.

Page 84/340 | < Previous Page | 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91  | Next Page >

  • Problem with waitable timers in Windows (timeSetEvent and CreateTimerQueueTimer)

    - by MusiGenesis
    I need high-resolution (more accurate than 1 millisecond) timing in my application. The waitable timers in Windows are (or can be made) accurate to the millisecond, but if I need a precise periodicity of, say, 35.7142857141 milliseconds, even a waitable timer with a 36 ms period will drift out of sync quickly. My "solution" to this problem (in ironic quotes because it's not working quite right) is to use a series of one-shot timers where I use the expiration of each timer to call the next timer. Normally a process like this would be subject to cumulative error over time, but in each timer callback I check the current time (with System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch) and use this to calculate what the period of the next timer needs to be (so if a timer happens to expire a little late, the next timer will automagically have a shorter period to compensate). This works as expected, except that after maybe 10-15 seconds the timer system seems to get bogged down, and a few timer callbacks here and there arrive anywhere from 25 to 100 milliseconds late. After a couple of seconds the problem goes away and everything runs smoothly again for 10-15 seconds, and then the stuttering again. Since I'm using Stopwatch to set each timer period, I'm also using it to monitor the arrival times of each timer callback. During the smooth-running periods, most (maybe 95%) of the intervals are either 35 or 36 milliseconds, and no intervals are ever more than 5 milliseconds away from the expected 35.7142857143. During the "glitchy" stretches, the distribution of intervals is very nearly identical, except that a very small number are unusually large (a couple more than 60 ms and one or two longer than 100 ms during maybe a 3-second stretch). This stuttering is very noticeable, and it's what I'm trying to fix, if possible. For the high-resolution timer, I was using the extremely antique timeSetEvent() multimedia timer from winmm.dll. In pursuit of this problem, I switched to using CreateTimerQueueTimer (along with timeBeginPeriod to set the high-resolution), but I'm seeing the same problem with both timer mechanisms. I've tried experimenting with the various flags for CreateTimerQueueTimer which determine which thread the timer runs on, but the stuttering appears no matter what. Is this just a fundamental problem with using timers in this way (i.e. using each one-shot timer to call the next)? If so, do I have any alternatives? One thing I was considering was to determine how many consecutive 1-millisecond-accuracy ticks would keep my within some arbitrary precision limit before I need to reset the timer. So, for example, if I wanted a 35.71428 period, I could let a 36 ms timer elapse 15 times before it was off by 5 milliseconds, then kill it and start a new one.

    Read the article

  • WPF Animation FPS vs. CPU usage - Am I expecting too much?

    - by Cory Charlton
    Working on a screen saver for my wife, http://cchearts.codeplex.com/, and while I've been able to improve FPS on lower end machines (switch from Path to StreamGeometry, use DrawingVisual instead of UserControl, etc) the CPU usage still seems very high. Here's some numbers I ran from a few 5 minute sampling periods: ~60FPS 35% average CPU on Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz, 3GB ram, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (128MB), Vista [My dev laptop] ~40FPS 50% average CPU on Pentium D @ 3.4GHz, 1.5GB ram, Standard VGA Graphics Adapter (unknown), 2003 Server [A crappy desktop] I can understand the lower frame rate and higher CPU usage on the crappy desktop but it still seems pretty high and 35% on my dev laptop seems high as well. I'd really like to analyze the application to get more details but I'm having issues there as well so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong (never profiled WPF before). WPF Performance Suite: Process Launch Error Unable to attach to process: CCHearts.exe Do you want to kill it? This error message occurs when I click cancel after attempting launch. If I don't click cancel it sits there idle, I guess waiting to attach. Performance Explorer: Could not launch C:\Projects2\CC.Hearts\CC.Hearts\bin\Debug (USEVISUAL)\CCHearts.exe. Previous attempt to profile the application finished unsuccessfully. Please restart the application. Output Window from Performance: Profiling started. Profiling process ID 5360 (CCHearts). Process ID 5360 has exited. Data written to C:\Projects2\CC.Hearts\CCHearts100608.vsp. Profiling finished. PRF0025: No data was collected. Profiling complete. So I'm stuck wanting to improve performance but have no concrete way to determine where the bottleneck is. Have been relatively successful throwing darts at this point but I'm beyond that now :) PS: Screensaver is hosted at CodePlex if you want to look at the source and missed the link above. Edit: My RenderOptions darts... // NOTE: Grasping at straws here ;-) RenderOptions.SetBitmapScalingMode(newHeart, BitmapScalingMode.LowQuality); RenderOptions.SetCachingHint(newHeart, CachingHint.Cache); RenderOptions.SetEdgeMode(newHeart, EdgeMode.Aliased); I threw those a little while back and didn't see much difference (not sure if the bitmap scaling even comes into play). Really wish I could get profiling working to know where I should try to optimize. For now I assume there is some overhead in creating a new HeartVisual and the DrawingVisual contained inside. Maybe if I reset and reused the hearts (tossed them in a queue once they completed or something) I'd see an improvement. Shrug Throwing darts while blindfolder is always fun.

    Read the article

  • How I can add JScroll bar to NavigableImagePanel which is an Image panel with an small navigation vi

    - by Sarah Kho
    Hi, I have the following NavigableImagePanel, it is under BSD license and I found it in the web. What I want to do with this panel is as follow: I want to add a JScrollPane to it in order to show images in their full size and let the users to re-center the image using the small navigation panel. Right now, the panel resize the images to fit them in the current panel size. I want it to load the image in its real size and let users to navigate to different parts of the image using the navigation panel. Source code for the panel: import java.awt.AWTEvent; import java.awt.BorderLayout; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment; import java.awt.Image; import java.awt.Point; import java.awt.Rectangle; import java.awt.RenderingHints; import java.awt.Toolkit; import java.awt.event.ComponentAdapter; import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent; import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter; import java.awt.event.MouseEvent; import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener; import java.awt.event.MouseWheelEvent; import java.awt.event.MouseWheelListener; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Arrays; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.SwingUtilities; /** * @author pxt * */ public class NavigableImagePanel extends JPanel { /** * <p>Identifies a change to the zoom level.</p> */ public static final String ZOOM_LEVEL_CHANGED_PROPERTY = "zoomLevel"; /** * <p>Identifies a change to the zoom increment.</p> */ public static final String ZOOM_INCREMENT_CHANGED_PROPERTY = "zoomIncrement"; /** * <p>Identifies that the image in the panel has changed.</p> */ public static final String IMAGE_CHANGED_PROPERTY = "image"; private static final double SCREEN_NAV_IMAGE_FACTOR = 0.15; // 15% of panel's width private static final double NAV_IMAGE_FACTOR = 0.3; // 30% of panel's width private static final double HIGH_QUALITY_RENDERING_SCALE_THRESHOLD = 1.0; private static final Object INTERPOLATION_TYPE = RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR; private double zoomIncrement = 0.2; private double zoomFactor = 1.0 + zoomIncrement; private double navZoomFactor = 1.0 + zoomIncrement; private BufferedImage image; private BufferedImage navigationImage; private int navImageWidth; private int navImageHeight; private double initialScale = 0.0; private double scale = 0.0; private double navScale = 0.0; private int originX = 0; private int originY = 0; private Point mousePosition; private Dimension previousPanelSize; private boolean navigationImageEnabled = true; private boolean highQualityRenderingEnabled = true; private WheelZoomDevice wheelZoomDevice = null; private ButtonZoomDevice buttonZoomDevice = null; /** * <p>Defines zoom devices.</p> */ public static class ZoomDevice { /** * <p>Identifies that the panel does not implement zooming, * but the component using the panel does (programmatic zooming method).</p> */ public static final ZoomDevice NONE = new ZoomDevice("none"); /** * <p>Identifies the left and right mouse buttons as the zooming device.</p> */ public static final ZoomDevice MOUSE_BUTTON = new ZoomDevice("mouseButton"); /** * <p>Identifies the mouse scroll wheel as the zooming device.</p> */ public static final ZoomDevice MOUSE_WHEEL = new ZoomDevice("mouseWheel"); private String zoomDevice; private ZoomDevice(String zoomDevice) { this.zoomDevice = zoomDevice; } public String toString() { return zoomDevice; } } //This class is required for high precision image coordinates translation. private class Coords { public double x; public double y; public Coords(double x, double y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } public int getIntX() { return (int)Math.round(x); } public int getIntY() { return (int)Math.round(y); } public String toString() { return "[Coords: x=" + x + ",y=" + y + "]"; } } private class WheelZoomDevice implements MouseWheelListener { public void mouseWheelMoved(MouseWheelEvent e) { Point p = e.getPoint(); boolean zoomIn = (e.getWheelRotation() < 0); if (isInNavigationImage(p)) { if (zoomIn) { navZoomFactor = 1.0 + zoomIncrement; } else { navZoomFactor = 1.0 - zoomIncrement; } zoomNavigationImage(); } else if (isInImage(p)) { if (zoomIn) { zoomFactor = 1.0 + zoomIncrement; } else { zoomFactor = 1.0 - zoomIncrement; } zoomImage(); } } } private class ButtonZoomDevice extends MouseAdapter { public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) { Point p = e.getPoint(); if (SwingUtilities.isRightMouseButton(e)) { if (isInNavigationImage(p)) { navZoomFactor = 1.0 - zoomIncrement; zoomNavigationImage(); } else if (isInImage(p)) { zoomFactor = 1.0 - zoomIncrement; zoomImage(); } } else { if (isInNavigationImage(p)) { navZoomFactor = 1.0 + zoomIncrement; zoomNavigationImage(); } else if (isInImage(p)) { zoomFactor = 1.0 + zoomIncrement; zoomImage(); } } } } /** * <p>Creates a new navigable image panel with no default image and * the mouse scroll wheel as the zooming device.</p> */ public NavigableImagePanel() { setOpaque(false); addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() { public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) { if (scale > 0.0) { if (isFullImageInPanel()) { centerImage(); } else if (isImageEdgeInPanel()) { scaleOrigin(); } if (isNavigationImageEnabled()) { createNavigationImage(); } repaint(); } previousPanelSize = getSize(); } }); addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() { public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { if (SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(e)) { if (isInNavigationImage(e.getPoint())) { Point p = e.getPoint(); displayImageAt(p); } } } public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){ if (e.getClickCount() == 2) { resetImage(); } } }); addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionListener() { public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) { if (SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(e) && !isInNavigationImage(e.getPoint())) { Point p = e.getPoint(); moveImage(p); } } public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) { //we need the mouse position so that after zooming //that position of the image is maintained mousePosition = e.getPoint(); } }); setZoomDevice(ZoomDevice.MOUSE_WHEEL); } /** * <p>Creates a new navigable image panel with the specified image * and the mouse scroll wheel as the zooming device.</p> */ public NavigableImagePanel(BufferedImage image) throws IOException { this(); setImage(image); } private void addWheelZoomDevice() { if (wheelZoomDevice == null) { wheelZoomDevice = new WheelZoomDevice(); addMouseWheelListener(wheelZoomDevice); } } private void addButtonZoomDevice() { if (buttonZoomDevice == null) { buttonZoomDevice = new ButtonZoomDevice(); addMouseListener(buttonZoomDevice); } } private void removeWheelZoomDevice() { if (wheelZoomDevice != null) { removeMouseWheelListener(wheelZoomDevice); wheelZoomDevice = null; } } private void removeButtonZoomDevice() { if (buttonZoomDevice != null) { removeMouseListener(buttonZoomDevice); buttonZoomDevice = null; } } /** * <p>Sets a new zoom device.</p> * * @param newZoomDevice specifies the type of a new zoom device. */ public void setZoomDevice(ZoomDevice newZoomDevice) { if (newZoomDevice == ZoomDevice.NONE) { removeWheelZoomDevice(); removeButtonZoomDevice(); } else if (newZoomDevice == ZoomDevice.MOUSE_BUTTON) { removeWheelZoomDevice(); addButtonZoomDevice(); } else if (newZoomDevice == ZoomDevice.MOUSE_WHEEL) { removeButtonZoomDevice(); addWheelZoomDevice(); } } /** * <p>Gets the current zoom device.</p> */ public ZoomDevice getZoomDevice() { if (buttonZoomDevice != null) { return ZoomDevice.MOUSE_BUTTON; } else if (wheelZoomDevice != null) { return ZoomDevice.MOUSE_WHEEL; } else { return ZoomDevice.NONE; } } //Called from paintComponent() when a new image is set. private void initializeParams() { double xScale = (double)getWidth() / image.getWidth(); double yScale = (double)getHeight() / image.getHeight(); initialScale = Math.min(xScale, yScale); scale = initialScale; //An image is initially centered centerImage(); if (isNavigationImageEnabled()) { createNavigationImage(); } } //Centers the current image in the panel. private void centerImage() { originX = (int)(getWidth() - getScreenImageWidth()) / 2; originY = (int)(getHeight() - getScreenImageHeight()) / 2; } //Creates and renders the navigation image in the upper let corner of the panel. private void createNavigationImage() { //We keep the original navigation image larger than initially //displayed to allow for zooming into it without pixellation effect. navImageWidth = (int)(getWidth() * NAV_IMAGE_FACTOR); navImageHeight = navImageWidth * image.getHeight() / image.getWidth(); int scrNavImageWidth = (int)(getWidth() * SCREEN_NAV_IMAGE_FACTOR); int scrNavImageHeight = scrNavImageWidth * image.getHeight() / image.getWidth(); navScale = (double)scrNavImageWidth / navImageWidth; navigationImage = new BufferedImage(navImageWidth, navImageHeight, image.getType()); Graphics g = navigationImage.getGraphics(); g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, navImageWidth, navImageHeight, null); } /** * <p>Sets an image for display in the panel.</p> * * @param image an image to be set in the panel */ public void setImage(BufferedImage image) { BufferedImage oldImage = this.image; this.image = image; //Reset scale so that initializeParameters() is called in paintComponent() //for the new image. scale = 0.0; firePropertyChange(IMAGE_CHANGED_PROPERTY, (Image)oldImage, (Image)image); repaint(); } /** * <p>resets an image to the centre of the panel</p> * */ public void resetImage() { BufferedImage oldImage = this.image; this.image = image; //Reset scale so that initializeParameters() is called in paintComponent() //for the new image. scale = 0.0; firePropertyChange(IMAGE_CHANGED_PROPERTY, (Image)oldImage, (Image)image); repaint(); } /** * <p>Tests whether an image uses the standard RGB color space.</p> */ public static boolean isStandardRGBImage(BufferedImage bImage) { return bImage.getColorModel().getColorSpace().isCS_sRGB(); } //Converts this panel's coordinates into the original image coordinates private Coords panelToImageCoords(Point p) { return new Coords((p.x - originX) / scale, (p.y - originY) / scale); } //Converts the original image coordinates into this panel's coordinates private Coords imageToPanelCoords(Coords p) { return new Coords((p.x * scale) + originX, (p.y * scale) + originY); } //Converts the navigation image coordinates into the zoomed image coordinates private Point navToZoomedImageCoords(Point p) { int x = p.x * getScreenImageWidth() / getScreenNavImageWidth(); int y = p.y * getScreenImageHeight() / getScreenNavImageHeight(); return new Point(x, y); } //The user clicked within the navigation image and this part of the image //is displayed in the panel. //The clicked point of the image is centered in the panel. private void displayImageAt(Point p) { Point scrImagePoint = navToZoomedImageCoords(p); originX = -(scrImagePoint.x - getWidth() / 2); originY = -(scrImagePoint.y - getHeight() / 2); repaint(); } //Tests whether a given point in the panel falls within the image boundaries. private boolean isInImage(Point p) { Coords coords = panelToImageCoords(p); int x = coords.getIntX(); int y = coords.getIntY(); return (x >= 0 && x < image.getWidth() && y >= 0 && y < image.getHeight()); } //Tests whether a given point in the panel falls within the navigation image //boundaries. private boolean isInNavigationImage(Point p) { return (isNavigationImageEnabled() && p.x < getScreenNavImageWidth() && p.y < getScreenNavImageHeight()); } //Used when the image is resized. private boolean isImageEdgeInPanel() { if (previousPanelSize == null) { return false; } return (originX > 0 && originX < previousPanelSize.width || originY > 0 && originY < previousPanelSize.height); } //Tests whether the image is displayed in its entirety in the panel. private boolean isFullImageInPanel() { return (originX >= 0 && (originX + getScreenImageWidth()) < getWidth() && originY >= 0 && (originY + getScreenImageHeight()) < getHeight()); } /** * <p>Indicates whether the high quality rendering feature is enabled.</p> * * @return true if high quality rendering is enabled, false otherwise. */ public boolean isHighQualityRenderingEnabled() { return highQualityRenderingEnabled; } /** * <p>Enables/disables high quality rendering.</p> * * @param enabled enables/disables high quality rendering */ public void setHighQualityRenderingEnabled(boolean enabled) { highQualityRenderingEnabled = enabled; } //High quality rendering kicks in when when a scaled image is larger //than the original image. In other words, //when image decimation stops and interpolation starts. private boolean isHighQualityRendering() { return (highQualityRenderingEnabled && scale > HIGH_QUALITY_RENDERING_SCALE_THRESHOLD); } /** * <p>Indicates whether navigation image is enabled.<p> * * @return true when navigation image is enabled, false otherwise. */ public boolean isNavigationImageEnabled() { return navigationImageEnabled; } /** * <p>Enables/disables navigation with the navigation image.</p> * <p>Navigation image should be disabled when custom, programmatic navigation * is implemented.</p> * * @param enabled true when navigation image is enabled, false otherwise. */ public void setNavigationImageEnabled(boolean enabled) { navigationImageEnabled = enabled; repaint(); } //Used when the panel is resized private void scaleOrigin() { originX = originX * getWidth() / previousPanelSize.width; originY = originY * getHeight() / previousPanelSize.height; repaint(); } //Converts the specified zoom level to scale. private double zoomToScale(double zoom) { return initialScale * zoom; } /** * <p>Gets the current zoom level.</p> * * @return the current zoom level */ public double getZoom() { return scale / initialScale; } /** * <p>Sets the zoom level used to display the image.</p> * <p>This method is used in programmatic zooming. The zooming center is * the point of the image closest to the center of the panel. * After a new zoom level is set the image is repainted.</p> * * @param newZoom the zoom level used to display this panel's image. */ public void setZoom(double newZoom) { Point zoomingCenter = new Point(getWidth() / 2, getHeight() / 2); setZoom(newZoom, zoomingCenter); } /** * <p>Sets the zoom level used to display the image, and the zooming center, * around which zooming is done.</p> * <p>This method is used in programmatic zooming. * After a new zoom level is set the image is repainted.</p> * * @param newZoom the zoom level used to display this panel's image. */ public void setZoom(double newZoom, Point zoomingCenter) { Coords imageP = panelToImageCoords(zoomingCenter); if (imageP.x < 0.0) { imageP.x = 0.0; } if (imageP.y < 0.0) { imageP.y = 0.0; } if (imageP.x >= image.getWidth()) { imageP.x = image.getWidth() - 1.0; } if (imageP.y >= image.getHeight()) { imageP.y = image.getHeight() - 1.0; } Coords correctedP = imageToPanelCoords(imageP); double oldZoom = getZoom(); scale = zoomToScale(newZoom); Coords panelP = imageToPanelCoords(imageP); originX += (correctedP.getIntX() - (int)panelP.x); originY += (correctedP.getIntY() - (int)panelP.y); firePropertyChange(ZOOM_LEVEL_CHANGED_PROPERTY, new Double(oldZoom), new Double(getZoom())); repaint(); } /** * <p>Gets the current zoom increment.</p> * * @return the current zoom increment */ public double getZoomIncrement() { return zoomIncrement; } /** * <p>Sets a new zoom increment value.</p> * * @param newZoomIncrement new zoom increment value */ public void setZoomIncrement(double newZoomIncrement) { double oldZoomIncrement = zoomIncrement; zoomIncrement = newZoomIncrement; firePropertyChange(ZOOM_INCREMENT_CHANGED_PROPERTY, new Double(oldZoomIncrement), new Double(zoomIncrement)); } //Zooms an image in the panel by repainting it at the new zoom level. //The current mouse position is the zooming center. private void zoomImage() { Coords imageP = panelToImageCoords(mousePosition); double oldZoom = getZoom(); scale *= zoomFactor; Coords panelP = imageToPanelCoords(imageP); originX += (mousePosition.x - (int)panelP.x); originY += (mousePosition.y - (int)panelP.y); firePropertyChange(ZOOM_LEVEL_CHANGED_PROPERTY, new Double(oldZoom), new Double(getZoom())); repaint(); } //Zooms the navigation image private void zoomNavigationImage() { navScale *= navZoomFactor; repaint(); } /** * <p>Gets the image origin.</p> * <p>Image origin is defined as the upper, left corner of the image in * the panel's coordinate system.</p> * @return the point of the upper, left corner of the image in the panel's coordinates * system. */ public Point getImageOrigin() { return new Point(originX, originY); } /** * <p>Sets the image origin.</p> * <p>Image origin is defined as the upper, left corner of the image in * the panel's coordinate system. After a new origin is set, the image is repainted. * This method is used for programmatic image navigation.</p>

    Read the article

  • The command "".\Bin\mt.exe" -nologo -manifest ... exited with error code 3 in CCNET

    - by soldieraman
    I am trying to build my VS 2008 project in CCNEt and getting the below error <message level="high"><![CDATA[".\Bin\mt.exe" -nologo -manifest "C:\MyProject\MyFile.exe.manifest" -outputresource:"C:\MyProject\bin\Release\MyFile.exe;#1"]]></message> <message level="high"><![CDATA[The system cannot find the path specified.]]></message> <error code="MSB3073" file="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets" line="3397" column="13"><![CDATA[The command "".\Bin\mt.exe" -nologo -manifest "C:\Work\CI\Abc20ServerTrunkCheckout\ScannerInterface\Abc.ScannerInterface.Tester.exe.manifest" -outputresource:"C:\MyProject\bin\Release\MyFile.exe;#1" exited with code 3.]]></error> This project builds happily on my local server. ALso there is no Bin folder in M.Net\Framework\v3.5.... Any help will be awesome I also did an msbuild on the project and got the same error.

    Read the article

  • Passing parameters between interrupt handlers on a Cortex-M3 ...

    - by Captain NedD
    I'm building a light kernel for a Cortex-M3. From a high priority interrupt I'd like to invoke some code to run in a lower priority interrupt and pass some parameters along. I don't want to use a queue to post work to the lower priority interrupt. I just have a buffer and size to pass to it. In the proramming manual it says that the SVC interrupt handler is synchronous which presumably means that if you invoke it from an interrupt that's a lower priority than SVC's handler it gets called immediately (the upshot of this being that you can pass parameters to it as though it were a function call (a little like the BIOS calls in MS-DOS)). I'd like to do it the other way: passing parameters from a high priority interrupt to a lower priority one (at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the parameters in a fixed location in memory). What's the best way to do this (if at all possible)? Thanks,

    Read the article

  • IIS Strategies for Accessing Secured Network Resources

    - by ErikE
    Problem: A user connects to a service on a machine, such as an IIS web site or a SQL Server database. The site or the database need to gain access to network resources such as file shares (the most common) or a database on a different server. Permission is denied. This is because the user the service is running under doesn't have network permissions in the first place, or if it does, it doesn't have rights to access the remote resource. I keep running into this problem over and over again and am tired of not having a really solid way of handling it. Here are some workarounds I'm aware of: Run IIS as a custom-created domain user who is granted high permissions If permissions are granted one file share at a time, then every time I want to read from a new share, I would have to ask a network admin to add it for me. Eventually, with many web sites reading from many shares, it is going to get really complicated. If permissions are just opened up wide for the user to access any file shares in our domain, then this seems like an unnecessary security surface area to present. This also applies to all the sites running on IIS, rather than just the selected site or virtual directory that needs the access, a further surface area problem. Still use the IUSR account but give it network permissions and set up the same user name on the remote resource (not a domain user, a local user) This also has its problems. For example, there's a file share I am using that I have full rights to for sharing, but I can't log in to the machine. So I have to find the right admin and ask him to do it for me. Any time something has to change, it's another request to an admin. Allow IIS users to connect as anonymous, but set the account used for anonymous access to a high-privilege one This is even worse than giving the IIS IUSR full privileges, because it means my web site can't use any kind of security in the first place. Connect using Kerberos, then delegate This sounds good in principle but has all sorts of problems. First of all, if you're using virtual web sites where the domain name you connect to the site with is not the base machine name (as we do frequently), then you have to set up a Service Principal Name on the webserver using Microsoft's SetSPN utility. It's complicated and apparently prone to errors. Also, you have to ask your network/domain admin to change security policy for both the web server and the domain account so they are "trusted for delegation." If you don't get everything perfectly right, suddenly your intended Kerberos authentication is NTLM instead, and you can only impersonate rather than delegate, and thus no reaching out over the network as the user. Also, this method can be problematic because sometimes you need the web site or database to have permissions that the connecting user doesn't have. Create a service or COM+ application that fetches the resource for the web site Services and COM+ packages are run with their own set of credentials. Running as a high-privilege user is okay since they can do their own security and deny requests that are not legitimate, putting control in the hands of the application developer instead of the network admin. Problems: I am using a COM+ package that does exactly this on Windows Server 2000 to deliver highly sensitive images to a secured web application. I tried moving the web site to Windows Server 2003 and was suddenly denied permission to instantiate the COM+ object, very likely registry permissions. I trolled around quite a bit and did not solve the problem, partly because I was reluctant to give the IUSR account full registry permissions. That seems like the same bad practice as just running IIS as a high-privilege user. Note: This is actually really simple. In a programming language of your choice, you create a class with a function that returns an instance of the object you want (an ADODB.Connection, for example), and build a dll, which you register as a COM+ object. In your web server-side code, you create an instance of the class and use the function, and since it is running under a different security context, calls to network resources work. Map drive letters to shares This could theoretically work, but in my mind it's not really a good long-term strategy. Even though mappings can be created with specific credentials, and this can be done by others than a network admin, this also is going to mean that there are either way too many shared drives (small granularity) or too much permission is granted to entire file servers (large granularity). Also, I haven't figured out how to map a drive so that the IUSR gets the drives. Mapping a drive is for the current user, I don't know the IUSR account password to log in as it and create the mappings. Move the resources local to the web server/database There are times when I've done this, especially with Access databases. Does the database have to live out on the file share? Sometimes, it was just easiest to move the database to the web server or to the SQL database server (so the linked server to it would work). But I don't think this is a great all-around solution, either. And it won't work when the resource is a service rather than a file. Move the service to the final web server/database I suppose I could run a web server on my SQL Server database, so the web site can connect to it using impersonation and make me happy. But do we really want random extra web servers on our database servers just so this is possible? No. Virtual directories in IIS I know that virtual directories can help make remote resources look as though they are local, and this supports using custom credentials for each virtual directory. I haven't been able to come up with, yet, how this would solve the problem for system calls. Users could reach file shares directly, but this won't help, say, classic ASP code access resources. I could use a URL instead of a file path to read remote data files in a web page, but this isn't going to help me make a connection to an Access database, a SQL server database, or any other resource that uses a connection library rather than being able to just read all the bytes and work with them. I wish there was some kind of "service tunnel" that I could create. Think about how a VPN makes remote resources look like they are local. With a richer aliasing mechanism, perhaps code-based, why couldn't even database connections occur under a defined security context? Why not a special Windows component that lets you specify, per user, what resources are available and what alternate credentials are used for the connection? File shares, databases, web sites, you name it. I guess I'm almost talking about a specialized local proxy server. Anyway, so there's my list. I may update it if I think of more. Does anyone have any ideas for me? My current problem today is, yet again, I need a web site to connect to an Access database on a file share. Here we go again...

    Read the article

  • question on GWT and dockpanel , sizing and resizing

    - by molleman
    Hello guys, question on dock panels within gwt So i want the dockpanel to take up the whole size of the browser window dockPanel.setSize("100%", "100%"); if this correct Next Question, i am going to add a north panel , that will be 100px high and take up the whole width of the browser topPanel.setSize("100%", "100px"); dockPanel.add(topPanel, DockPanel.NORTH); is this correct, then i want to add a west panel that is 200px wide and the whole length of the browser up to just under the north panel westSideStackPanel.setSize("200px","100%") mainPanel.add(westSideStackPanel,DockPanel.WEST); i have created all this but when i look at my dockpanel there is a big gap between the west panel and the north panel the whole way accross the screen. why would this be? The north panel stays at 100px, and then there is a gap of about 100px high the whole width of the screen.

    Read the article

  • Style Switcher & Text Resizer Combined?

    - by Stephen
    Hi there, I've came across various style switchers that allow you to change the stylesheet (i.e. Light, Dark, High Contrast), and carious text-resizers that allow you to resize the test (usually with Three A's, small, medium and large). However, I can't seem to find a single switcher/resizer that works well together by allowing permutations of the two. i.e. so the user can choose a dark background with small text, or a dark background with large text, etc. I can only seem to get this working where the user can choose one or the other styles (large text or High Contrast, not a combination of the two). Any ideas on anything that may be suitable for this at all? Thanks, Stephen

    Read the article

  • Developer Capacity Planning

    - by Zaff
    What product or tool do you use to do Resource Capacity planning for your development team? Currently managing a large group and trying to provide visibility into my resource availability. I am creating this in MS project, but was curious if there was a better tool/solution based off your experience.

    Read the article

  • Routing Users to single Models with Rails

    - by Eric Koslow
    I'm creating a Rails app for students and high schools and I'm having some trouble with my User.rb. I want to have a user model to be used for logging in, but having that user have many roles. The tricky part is that I want users that have a student role to have_one student page, and those that have a role of principal to have_one high_school page. The students and also nested in the high_school so the entire thing becomes a big mess. So my question(s): How do I limit a user to only creating one student / high school to represent them? Also how would I nest this student pages inside the highschool without screwing up the user system? My environment: Rails3 and Ruby 1.9.2dev Thank you!

    Read the article

  • How To Make Moving News Bar in C# Desktop Application without Timer

    - by Ehab Sutan
    Hello, I'm making a desktop application in C# which contains a moving News Bar labels. I'm using a timer to move these labels but the problem is that when i make the interval of this timer low (1-10 for example) the application takes very high percentage of CPU Usage, And when i make it higher(200 -500 ) the movement of the labels becomes intermittent or not smooth movement even that the user may not be able to read the news in Comfortable way. Question is : Is there better way to make news Bar moving in a good manner without consuming high resources. Thanks.

    Read the article

  • Memory mapped files causes low physical memory

    - by harik
    I have a 2GB RAM and running a memory intensive application and going to low available physical memory state and system is not responding to user actions, like opening any application or menu invocation etc. How do I trigger or tell the system to swap the memory to pagefile and free physical memory? I'm using Windows XP. If I run the same application on 4GB RAM machine it is not the case, system response is good. After getting choked of available physical memory system automatically swaps to pagefile and free physical memory, not that bad as 2GB system. To overcome this problem (on 2GB machine) attempted to use memory mapped files for large dataset which are allocated by application. In this case virtual memory of the application(process) is fine but system cache is high and same problem as above that physical memory is less. Even though memory mapped file is not mapped to process virtual memory system cache is high. why???!!! :( Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

    Read the article

  • please explain NHibernate HiLo

    - by Ben
    I'm struggling to get my head round how the HiLo generator works in NHibernate. I've read the explanation here which made things a little clearer. My understanding is that each SessionFactory retrieves the high value from the database. This improves performance because we have access to IDs without hitting the database. The explanation from the above link also states: For instance, supposing you have a "high" sequence with a current value of 35, and the "low" number is in the range 0-1023. Then the client can increment the sequence to 36 (for other clients to be able to generate keys while it's using 35) and know that keys 35/0, 35/1, 35/2, 35/3... 35/1023 are all available. How does this work in a web application as don't I only have one SessionFactory and therefore one hi value. Does this mean that in a disconnected application you can end up with duplicate (low) ids in your entity table? In my tests I used these settings: <id name="Id" unsaved-value="0"> <generator class="hilo"/> </id> I ran a test to save 100 objects. The IDs in my table went from 32768 - 32868. The next hi value was incremented to 2. Then I ran my test again and the Ids were in the range 65536 - 65636. First off, why start at 32768 and not 1, and secondly why the jump from 32868 to 65536? Now I know that my surrogate keys shouldn't have any meaning but we do use them in our application. Why can't I just have them increment nicely like a SQL Server identity field would. Finally can someone give me an explanation of how the max_lo parameter works? Is this the maximum number of low values (entity ids in my head) that can be created against the high value? This is one topic in NHibernate that I have struggled to find documentation for. I read the entire NHibernate in action book and it still doesn't go into how this works in any detail. Thanks Ben

    Read the article

  • IIS Strategies for Accessing Secured Network Resources

    - by Emtucifor
    Problem: A user connects to a service on a machine, such as an IIS web site or a SQL Server database. The site or the database need to gain access to network resources such as file shares (the most common) or a database on a different server. Permission is denied. This is because the user the service is running as doesn't have network permissions in the first place, or if it does, it doesn't have rights to access the remote resource. I keep running into this problem over and over again and am tired of not having a really solid way of handling it. Here are some workarounds I'm aware of: Run IIS as a custom-created domain user who is granted high permissions If permissions are granted one file share at a time, then every time I want to read from a new share, I would have to ask a network admin to add it for me. Eventually, with many web sites reading from many shares, it is going to get really complicated. If permissions are just opened up wide for the user to access any file shares in our domain, then this seems like an unnecessary security surface area to present. This also applies to all the sites running on IIS, rather than just the selected site or virtual directory that needs the access, a further surface area problem. Still use the IUSR account but give it network permissions and set up the same user name on the remote resource (not a domain user, a local user) This also has its problems. For example, there's a file share I am using that I have full rights to for sharing, but I can't log in to the machine. So I have to find the right admin and ask him to do it for me. Any time something has to change, it's another request to an admin. Allow IIS users to connect as anonymous, but set the account used for anonymous access to a high-privilege one This is even worse than giving the IIS IUSR full privileges, because it means my web site can't use any kind of security in the first place. Connect using Kerberos, then delegate This sounds good in principle but has all sorts of problems. First of all, if you're using virtual web sites where the domain name you connect to the site with is not the base machine name (as we do frequently), then you have to set up a Service Principal Name on the webserver using Microsoft's SetSPN utility. It's complicated and apparently prone to errors. Also, you have to ask your network/domain admin to change security policy for the web server so it is "trusted for delegation." If you don't get everything perfectly right, suddenly your intended Kerberos authentication is NTLM instead, and you can only impersonate rather than delegate, and thus no reaching out over the network as the user. Also, this method can be problematic because sometimes you need the web site or database to have permissions that the connecting user doesn't have. Create a service or COM+ application that fetches the resource for the web site Services and COM+ packages are run with their own set of credentials. Running as a high-privilege user is okay since they can do their own security and deny requests that are not legitimate, putting control in the hands of the application developer instead of the network admin. Problems: I am using a COM+ package that does exactly this on Windows Server 2000 to deliver highly sensitive images to a secured web application. I tried moving the web site to Windows Server 2003 and was suddenly denied permission to instantiate the COM+ object, very likely registry permissions. I trolled around quite a bit and did not solve the problem, partly because I was reluctant to give the IUSR account full registry permissions. That seems like the same bad practice as just running IIS as a high-privilege user. Note: This is actually really simple. In a programming language of your choice, you create a class with a function that returns an instance of the object you want (an ADODB.Connection, for example), and build a dll, which you register as a COM+ object. In your web server-side code, you create an instance of the class and use the function, and since it is running under a different security context, calls to network resources work. Map drive letters to shares This could theoretically work, but in my mind it's not really a good long-term strategy. Even though mappings can be created with specific credentials, and this can be done by others than a network admin, this also is going to mean that there are either way too many shared drives (small granularity) or too much permission is granted to entire file servers (large granularity). Also, I haven't figured out how to map a drive so that the IUSR gets the drives. Mapping a drive is for the current user, I don't know the IUSR account password to log in as it and create the mappings. Move the resources local to the web server/database There are times when I've done this, especially with Access databases. Does the database have to live out on the file share? Sometimes, it was just easiest to move the database to the web server or to the SQL database server (so the linked server to it would work). But I don't think this is a great all-around solution, either. And it won't work when the resource is a service rather than a file. Move the service to the final web server/database I suppose I could run a web server on my SQL Server database, so the web site can connect to it using impersonation and make me happy. But do we really want random extra web servers on our database servers just so this is possible? No. Virtual directories in IIS I know that virtual directories can help make remote resources look as though they are local, and this supports using custom credentials for each virtual directory. I haven't been able to come up with, yet, how this would solve the problem for system calls. Users could reach file shares directly, but this won't help, say, classic ASP code access resources. I could use a URL instead of a file path to read remote data files in a web page, but this isn't going to help me make a connection to an Access database, a SQL server database, or any other resource that uses a connection library rather than being able to just read all the bytes and work with them. I wish there was some kind of "service tunnel" that I could create. Think about how a VPN makes remote resources look like they are local. With a richer aliasing mechanism, perhaps code-based, why couldn't even database connections occur under a defined security context? Why not a special Windows component that lets you specify, per user, what resources are available and what alternate credentials are used for the connection? File shares, databases, web sites, you name it. I guess I'm almost talking about a specialized local proxy server. Anyway, so there's my list. I may update it if I think of more. Does anyone have any ideas for me? My current problem today is, yet again, I need a web site to connect to an Access database on a file share. Here we go again...

    Read the article

  • shell script output in html + email that html

    - by Kimi
    Using Solaris I have a monitoring script that uses other scripts as plugins. Theses pugins are also scripts which work in difffernt ways like: 1. Sending an alert while high memory uilization 2. High Cpu usage 3. Full disk Space 4. chekcking the core file dump Now all this is dispalyed on my terminal and I want to put them in a HTML file/format and send it as a body of the mail not as attachment. Thanks .

    Read the article

  • Uses of Erlang in Telecom

    - by user94154
    I'm a web developer and a college student majoring in telecommunications. This means I'm decent at programming and I know a little about telecom networks (at a high, non-technical level). I keep reading that Erlang is used all over the telecom industry (supposedly for its performance). I'm wondering if there's anyway I can combine my programming skills with my telecommunications major with Erlang. Is most of the Erlang/telecom stuff closed source? Are there any open source telecom projects written Erlang? UPDATE: sipwiz's comment makes me think in terms of a question larger than "uses of Erlang". How can I leverage a high-level understanding of telecom networks and the telecom regulatory environment with programming. I hope this hasn't veered too off-topic for SO.

    Read the article

  • Pure Java HTML viewer / renderer

    - by dma_k
    I wonder what are the available pure embeddable Java HTML viewers? The requirements are: Should implement JComponent interface to be placed into Scrollable pane. Should be preferably a free solution; opensource is a plus. Availability as maven artifact is a plus. I know only few components: Build-in Java JEditorPane, supports HTML 3.2 Cobra Toolkit, open source, supports HTML 4, Javascript and CSS 2 MARTHA by RealObjects, commercial, supports HTML 4, CSS 2.1 Any other components?

    Read the article

  • Where to go after PHP?

    - by sub
    I'm starting to get sick of PHP and search for a web-development language with future. What to learn next? Can I rely on the availability of Ruby (on Rails) on my client's hosters? Could Django be a better choice?

    Read the article

  • Cracking the Playfair cipher

    - by wwrob
    I have the ciphertext and an encrypting program (with the key hardcoded in). How would I go about finding the key? Surely the availability of the encryptor must open up possibilities beyond brute-forcing it.

    Read the article

  • Practical approach to concurrency control

    - by Industrial
    Hi everyone, I'd read this article recently and are very interested on how to make a practical approach to Concurrency control on a web server. The server will run CentOS + PHP + mySQL with Memcached. How would you set it up to work? http://saasinterrupted.com/2010/02/05/high-availability-principle-concurrency-control/ Thanks!

    Read the article

  • JW Player - How can I add an event listener for fullscreen toggling?

    - by Charles
    I'm using JW Player 4.5 on my site and I need to add an event listener for when fullscreen is toggled. The reason for this is to switch between a low-def version and high-def version. The default video will be the low-def version and when they switch to a fullscreen display, it will change to the high-def version. According to http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Player5Events, the ViewEvent.JWPLAYER_VIEW_FULLSCREEN1 event can only be called from Actionscript. I need it to be from Javascript... Is there any way to achieve this? Can you recommend a better solution?

    Read the article

  • How to ignore/prevent javadoc folder from validation during Eclipse Build?

    - by h2g2java
    In my war is a huge javadoc folder. There is no point in validating it since javadocs are produced by Sun(Oracle) javadoc utility. I have forgotten how I did it the last time. I need to tell Eclipse build not to validate that particular folder. Reasons why I need it: 1. the html produced by Sun javadoc generation utility does not meet the requirement that Eclipse uses - there is a bug report in Eclipse but Eclipse responds that Sun javadoc generator non-compliance is not their fault and that Eclipse intends to stick to their strict compliance. Which results in lots of html errors listed in the problems tab. 2. the javadoc folder is a remote link and high activity on that link is using up my cpu resource, and because it is a link to a remote location, that cpu high activity is sustained for long time until it finishes scanning the whole 35MB javadocs. Thanks - need help.

    Read the article

  • Monitor serial port already open

    - by Cristiano
    Hi, I am try to read data over serial port already open. I have used C# and c++ library for use microsoft api (overlapped and not overlapped I/O), but not work. I can use same windows api? or other?? Thanks in advance for your availability, Cristiano http://bugbusters.altervista.org/index.php

    Read the article

  • Performance of browser plugin based RIA vs. Java Script based RIA

    - by Kabeer
    Hello. For my data intensive web application (heavy forms & complex reports), from performance standpoint, which is better ... a browser plug-in based RIA (say SilverLight) or Java Script based RIA (say ExtJS). At this moment, we can avoid the discussion of plug-in availability, etc. My only focus is performance. Reasoning will be appreciated.

    Read the article

< Previous Page | 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91  | Next Page >