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  • How to use multiple SkyDrive accounts on one computer?

    - by user1563721
    Is there any way how to use multiple SkyDrive accounts on one computer running MAC OS X or Windows 8? I would like to sync data from different accounts to different folder and not to merge these accounts to one. The reason is that every SkyDrive has it's storage limits and I'm using every account for different work data. The result should be the following: I have a number of SkyDrive accounts every for different work, let's say: S1 S2 S3 I would like to sync exactly the same number of folders on computer using different accounts to sync them: SkyDriveS1Folder - (folder on computer which syncing the content of S1 SkyDrive) SkyDriveS2Folder - (folder on computer which syncing the content of S2 SkyDrive) SkyDriveS3Folder - (folder on computer which syncing the content of S3 SkyDrive) Is it possible somehow? I found a workaround for Windows machines (http://superuser.com/questions/525932/running-multiple-instances-of-microsoft-skydrive) but is there anything for MAC OS X machines? Or is it possible through any third party application?

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  • Win7 Prof. Computer won't wake on lan via Magic Packet from outside network

    - by Michael
    Hi all. I just purchased a new computer running Windows 7 Professional x64. I'd like to save power by having it sleep after an hour, but I would also like to be able to Remote Desktop into it at my leisure. I set up a static IP and have port forwarding set up on the router. If the computer is awake, the RDP connection works just fine. I downloaded and installed Wake-On-Lan thanks to this article If I put my new computer to sleep and send the magic packet from my old computer inside of my home network it wakes up. If I do the same thing, however, from my work computer outside the network it does not. I figured the Firewall was blocking the incoming traffic, but nothing in the Windows Firewall logs points to this happening. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or any tests I can run through in order to narrow down what the problem might be. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.

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  • Transfer hard-drive with windows XP to another computer. On booting, asks to activate xp

    - by Jesse
    I had an old computer sitting around that I have not been able to boot successfully. I moved the hard drive and placed it in my newer computer. If I boot linux, I can mount the XP hard-drive and access the files. If I try to boot from the XP hard-drive, it will boot, but it asks me to activate windows before proceeding. If I continue, I get the "activation window" with two images/icons(?) which are failing to load. Nothing else happens. The version of windows came with the original computer the hard-drive came from, so I'm not sure if I'm married to the broken computer (I hope not!). Is there anything I can do in order to boot into XP from the new computer?

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  • Why am I unable to access the network shares on my own computer?

    - by DoomStone
    I am having some problems with media center computer, with Windows 7 on it. The computers IP address is 192.168.1.13, and another computer can without any problem navigate to \\192.168.1.13, but the computer itself can not. Neither \\servername nor \\localhost. If I reboot the computer a couple of times, it will work again, but this is a big problem as my computer cleans my media center library on boot and there, if it can not access \\192.168.1.13, it will think that all the files have been removed and therefore delete them from the database. I really have no idea on where to start with this problem, but if anyone has tried this before and fixed it, I would be very happy, as it would save me from having to reinstall the whole system.

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  • Automatically make user local administrator on their computer through GPO?

    - by Grant
    In our AD 2003 domain each user gets local admin permissions on their computer. Everyone else can login with their domain account as normal user. Right now this means going to the desktop and manually adding the user as a local administrator. Is there any way to automate this process through logon scripts or GPOs? I have found ways to use a gpo to make everyone who logs in to a computer a local admin, but really only want to give it to the primary user (or in some cases users) of the computer. I've also seen methods that required adding a group for each computer...but really dont want to clutter AD like that. I do have a list mapping each user to each computer name. If it matters the desktops are a mix of xp and win7.

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  • Converting EBNF to BNF

    - by Vivin Paliath
    It's been a few years since my computer-language class and so I've forgotten the finer points of BNF's and EBNF's and I don't have a textbook next to me. Specifically, I've forgotten how to convert an EBNF into BNF. From what little I remember, I know that one of the main points is to convert { term } into <term> | <many-terms>. But I don't remember the other rules. I've tried to look this up online but I can only find links to either homework questions, or a small comment about converting terms with curly braces. I can't find an exhaustive list of rules that define the translation.

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  • Port scientific software to GPU and publish it

    - by Werner
    Hi, let's say that I am a physicist and that I am the master of the universe when it comes to port salready existing oftware to GPU's with 100x or more speedups. Let's say that I find that some other scientist, which does not know how to program GPU, publishes the Open Source code in his/her website of a physical simulation program, in the field I am expert on. Let's say that I realize "I can port that code to GPU", and I suggest him, but he shows no interest. My interest here is, 1) to port it to GPU, 2) to publish this result in a scientific journal related with physics and/or computer science My question for you is 1- would you proceed here to port the code to GPU (or other new arch) and publish it? 2- how would you do it and which journal do you suggest? Thanks

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  • OpenCV - DLL missing, but it's not?

    - by charles-22
    I am trying just a basic program with OpenCV with the following code: #include "cv.h" #include "highgui.h" int main() { IplImage* newImg; newImg = cvLoadImage("~/apple.bmp", 1); cvNamedWindow("Window", 1); cvShowImage("Window", newImg); cvWaitKey(0); cvDestroyWindow("Window"); cvReleaseImage(&newImg); return 0; } When I run this, I get The program can't start because libcxcore200.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. However, I can see this DLL. It exists. I have added the following to the input dependencies for my linker C:\OpenCV2.0\lib\libcv200.dll.a C:\OpenCV2.0\lib\libcvaux200.dll.a C:\OpenCV2.0\lib\libcxcore200.dll.a C:\OpenCV2.0\lib\libhighgui200.dll.a What gives? I'm using visual studio 2008.

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  • What are the CS fundamentals behind package/dependency management?

    - by Frep D-Oronge
    Often I hear about situations where companies are developing extensable in house software (the dreaded enterprise 'framework') which is supposed to support multiple 'plugins' from diffirent teams. Usually this ends up being a half baked solution that does not really work due to compatibility prolems between addins, or between addins and the framework itself. Usually this means QA have to 'rubber stamp' a global set of versions accross all plugins, or more usually plugins are released and stuff breaks in nasty ways. This problem has been solved before however, for example the package management systems like apt for debian linux. I suspect that the reason it works is that it is built from the start on a known 'Computer Science-y' concept. My question is what is it?

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  • Static Evaluation Function for Checkers

    - by Kamikaze
    Hi all! I'm trying to write an evaluation function for a game of checkers that I'm developing but I can't find the right documentation. I've read several documents on the web witch describe different techniques for either writing one or letting the computer find it(using genetic algorithms or Bayesian learning) but they're too complicated for a novice like me. All documents pointed a reference to "Some studies in machine learning using the game of checkers" by A.L.Samuel but I couldn't get my hands on it yet :(. I've only read the follow up "Some studies in machine learning using the game of checkers -II" and found some good info there, but it doesn't explain what the eval parameters mean (I think I don't have the whole article). Thanks for your help!

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  • Framework/tool for processing C++ unit tests with numerical output

    - by David Claridge
    Hi, I am working on a C++ application that uses computer vision techniques to identify various types of objects in a sequence of images. The (1000+) images have been hand-classified, so we have an XML file for each image containing a description of where the objects are actually located in the images. I would like to know if there is a testing framework that can understand/graph results from tests that are numeric, in this case some measure of the error in the program's classification of the images, rather than just pass/fail style unit tests. We would like to use something like CDash/CTest for running these automated tests, and viewing over time how improvements to the vision algorithms are causing the images to be more correctly classified. Does anyone know of a tool/framework that can do this?

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  • Write the longest possible loop.

    - by Abhay
    Hello Group, Recently I was asked this question in a technical discussion. What is the longest possible loop that can be written in a programming language? This loop has to be as long as possible and yet not an infinite loop and should not end-up crashing the program (Recursion etc...) I honestly did not know how to attack this problem, so I asked him if is it practically possible. He said using some computer science concepts, you can arrive at a hypothetical number which may not be practical but nevertheless it will still not be infinite. Anyone here; knows how to analyse / attack this problem. P.S. Choosing some highest limit for a type that can store the highest numerical value is apparently not an answer. Thanks in advance,

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  • What is this Hash-like/Tree-like Construct Called?

    - by viatropos
    I want to create a "Config" class that acts somewhere between a hash and a tree. It's just for storing global values, which can have a context. Here's how I use it: Config.get("root.parent.child_b") #=> "value" Here's what the class might look like: class Construct def get(path) # split path by "." # search tree for nodes end def set(key, value) # split path by "." # create tree node if necessary # set tree value end def tree { :root => { :parent => { :child_a => "value", :child_b => "another value" }, :another_parent => { :something => { :nesting => "goes on and on" } } } } end end Is there a name for this kind of thing, somewhere between Hash and Tree (not a Computer Science major)? Basically a hash-like interface to a tree.

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  • CS Education, where was it? Where is it now? Where is it going?

    - by CheesePls
    I'm planning on doing research into Computer Science education for my senior project and I could think of no better group of people to consult than the SO community. So, what do you think about the state of CS education in the United States (and the rest of the world, though I had planned on focusing on the US)? What do you feel are necessary topics? What topics are superfluous? Objects first vs. Objects early vs. Objects later? ALSO, if anyone has or knows of any blogs, studies, etc., those would be very helpful as well.

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  • Detecting video playing in browser from a screenshot -- OpenCV

    - by Jon
    I would like to draw a rectangle around a video playing on my screen. For example, I am watching a YouTube video in my browser. I would like to be able to take a screenshot, analyze that screenshot, and then draw a rectangle around where the YouTube video is playing. I have just started looking into how I might be able to to this. I came across OpenCV. I understand that OpenCV covers many computer vision techniques. Would any of them be particularly well suited for this task? Also, is this something that can be done in real time? Finally, is there a technique that would work for both in browser and full screen? Thanks!

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  • Why do we need normalized coordinate system? Options

    - by jcyang
    Hi, I have problem understand following sentences in my textbook Computer Graphics with OpenGL. "To make viewing process independent of the requirements of any output device,graphic system convert object descriptions to normalized coordinates and apply the clipping routines." Why normalized coordinates could make viewing process independent of the requirements of any output devices? Isn't the projection coordinates already independent of output device?We only need to first scale and then translate the projection coordinate then we will get device coordinate. So why do we need first convert the projection coordinate to normalized coordinate first? "Clipping is usually performed in normlized coordinates.This allows us to reduce computations by first concatenating the various transformation matrices" Why clipping is usually performed in normlized coordinates? What kind of transformation concatenated? thanks. jcyang.

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  • Specialized course in Web programming or Generalized course in Computer Science?

    - by Sugan
    I am planning to do my masters in Computer Science in UK. I am interested in Web programming. What should I opt for. A general course in Computer Science or in some specialized course in Web Programming. If web programming, are there a lot of colleges offering these courses. Are there a lot of job offers there in UK. I am not sure whether I can ask this question here. If not point me where I can ask this question.

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  • Step Away From That Computer! You’re Not Qualified to Use It!

    - by Michael Sorens
    Most things tend to come with warnings and careful instructions these days, but sadly not one of the most ubiquitous appliances of all, your computer. If a chainsaw is missing its instructions, you’re well advised not to use it, even though you probably know roughly how it’s supposed to work. I confess, there are days when I feel the same way about computers. Long ago, during the renaissance of the computer age, it was possible to know everything about computers. But today, it is challenging to be fully knowledgeable even in one small area, and most people aren’t as savvy as they like to think. And, if I may borrow from Edwin Abbott Abbott’s classic Flatland, that includes me. And you. Need an example of what I mean? Take a look at almost any recent month’s batch of Windows updates. Just two quick questions for you: Do you need all of those updates? Is it safe to install all of those updates? I do software design and development for a living on Windows and the .NET platform, but I will be quite candid: I often have little clue what the heck some of those updates are going to do or why they are needed. So, if you do not know why they are needed or what they do, how do you know if they are safe? Of course, one can sidestep both questions by accepting Microsoft’s recommended Windows Update setting of “install updates automatically”. That leads you to infer that you need all of them (which is not always the case) and, more significantly, that they are safe. Quite safe. Ah, lest reality intrude upon such a pretty picture! Sadly, there is no such thing as risk-free software installation, and payloads from Windows Update are no exception. Earlier this year, a Windows Secrets Patch Watch article touted this headline: Keep this troublesome kernel update on hold. It discusses KB 2862330, a security update originally published more than 4 months earlier, and yet the article still recommends not installing it! Most people simply do not have the time, resources, or interest, to go about figuring out which updates to install or postpone or skip for safety reasons. Windows Secrets Patch Watch is the best service I have encountered for getting advice, but it is still no panacea and using the service effectively requires a degree of computer literacy that I still think is beyond a good number of people. Which brings us full circle: Step Away From That Computer! You’re Not Qualified to Use It!

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  • Is the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" a good read for java programmers?

    - by anything
    This may be subjective and likely to be closed but I still wanted to know if its really helpfull to read Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs The book does not use java. Not that I wanted to learn java. I am just curious as to know if it be will useful read to be a better programmer and what are the things that I can gain from the book or are their any other alternatives to this book more suited to java programmers?

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  • Will deleting files on my computer delete them them in Ubuntu one?

    - by Shelley Demers
    OK. So I usually save my files online and not on my computer. I am hoping to be able to set up my Ubuntu One cloud to recognise changes made to documents and add new documents when synchronising. But not delete from the cloud, files I have deleted from my computer. Does anyone know if this is possible? I have searched around and can't figure out the answer to my question.I would appreciate any direction. Thank you so much!

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  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C ( in Python? )

    - by user29163
    I am attending a Computer graphics course after the summer. I have read lots of good things about the book "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C" for people who are willing to put in some work. My school does not focus on C/C++ until next year, so I have decided to learn Python this summer and get good at Python this following year. How language dependent is this book? Can I work through it in Python?

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  • Trying to setup a gateway via pppoe

    - by Bob
    I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer. I want to use this computer as a router for my other computers. The computer only has 1 network card, there is no slot for a second card. I can get the computer to connect to my ISP via pppoe and it can access the web. However the other computers on my local net can only see the router computer. I have tried 2 different pppoe packages, roaring penguin and network-manager-gnome. When I get it to work I will be replacing a 15 year old computer that is running Slackware 7.1. The old computer is currently my router. It is running Roaring Penguin I tried to setup the new computer with the same Roaring Penguin parameters as the old computer. Bob

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  • Need help in filtering the data with various condition and filling in scroll window GP

    - by Rahul
    Hi all, I am filtering the data and displaying in scroll window. There are many combination to display this data by customer id, customer id and itemnumber, customer id, itemnumber, work and history condition. And from date and To date condition. My query is when I am selecting the customer id and work or history table it should display the corresponding data. Like select * from price history where customerid=’custid’ and name=’Work’. It should display in scroll only these values none other it the same way history condition should work. Work and History are in check box. In my case whatever range I am selecting whether Work and History always loading with entire data, so it’s not filtering properly. My second problem is if I select from date and keep empty to date …in this case all the data should display from selected from date to end of table data. But I am not getting….pls somebody help me here is my entire coding: if empty('Customer Number') then warning "Select Customer ID"; focus 'Customer Number'; abort script; end if; if '(L) RadioGroup4' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'=1 then if empty(Date) then abort script; focus Date; end if; end if; if not empty('(L) Date') then if '(L) Date' {if not empty(Date) and empty('(L) Date') then warning"Please enter To Date"; focus field '(L) Date'; abort script; end if;} range clear table Display_Pricing_Temp; clear field 'Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing_Temp; range start table Display_Pricing_Temp; fill field 'Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing_Temp; range end table Display_Pricing_Temp; remove range table Display_Pricing_Temp; range clear table Display_Pricing; if '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and empty('Item Code' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') and str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')="0/0/0000" then {range clear table Display_Pricing;} range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' or "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work')"; {range clear table Display_Pricing;} end if; if '(L) Checkbox0' =true or '(L) Checkbox2'=true then {{Only Item No is there} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str('(L) Date')="0/0/0000" then range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"'"; end if; } if empty('(L) Date') and not empty(Date) then {date work hist item} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work,item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work} if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and not empty(Date) then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) "; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; end if; if not empty('(L) Date') and not empty(Date) then {Only Item No is there and work} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist item} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work,item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work} {date,work} if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and not empty(Date) then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; end if; {Only Item No is there and hist} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {for only work table } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {for only hist table } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; get first table Display_Pricing; if err() = OKAY then repeat copy from table Display_Pricing to table Display_Pricing_Temp; save table Display_Pricing_Temp; get next table Display_Pricing; until err() = EOF; else clear window Price_Scroll of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'; end if; else clear window Price_Scroll of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'; end if; fill window Price_Scroll table Display_Pricing_Temp by number 1;

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  • How to automatically remove Flash history/privacy trail? Or stop Flash from storing it?

    - by Arjan van Bentem
    Many people have heard about third-party cookies, and some browsers even block those by default. Some people may even be using Private Browsing modes. However, only few seem to realise that Adobe's Flash player also leaves a cross-browser trail on your local hard drive, and allows for sending cookie-like information back to the server, including third-party sites. And because it is a plugin, Flash does not take any of the browser's privacy settings into account. Sorry for the long post, but first some details about why using Flash raises a privacy concern, followed by the results of my tests: The Flash player keeps a cross-browser history of the domain names of the Flash-sites your computer has visited. Unlike your browser's history, this history is not limited to a certain number of days. History is also recorded while using so-called Private Browsing modes. It is stored on your hard drive (though, as described below, without going to Adobe's site you won't know what is stored). I am not sure if any date and time information is kept about each visit, but to see the domain names: right-click on some Flash content, open the settings dialog, and click the Help icon or click the Advanced button within the Privacy tab. This opens a browser to the help pages on Adobe.com, where one can click through to the Website Storage Settings panel. One can clear the existing list, but one cannot stop it from being recorded again. Flash allows for storing data on your local hard drive, using so-called Local Shared Objects (aka "Flash Cookies"). Just like HTTP cookies, this data can be sent back to the server, for tracking purposes. They are cross-browser, have no expiration date, and no user defined maximum lifetime can be set in the Flash preferences either. These not being HTTP cookies, they are (of course) not blocked by a browser's cookies preferences and are not removed when the normal HTTP cookies are deleted. Adobe has announced that version 10.1 will obey Private Browsing in most popular browsers, but unfortunately no word about also removing the data whenever normal cookies are deleted manually. And its implementation might be confusing: [..] if the browser is in normal browsing mode when the Flash Player instance is created, then that particular instance will forever be in normal browsing mode (private browsing is turned off). Accordingly, toggling private browsing on or off without refreshing the page or closing the private browsing window will not impact Flash Player. Local Shared Objects are not limited to the site you visit, and third-party storage is enabled by default. At the Global Storage Settings panel one can deselect the default Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer. Because of the cross-browser and expiration-less nature (and the fact that few people know about it), I feel that the cross-browser third-party Flash Cookies are more dangerous for visitor tracking than third-party normal HTTP cookies. They are even used to restore plain HTTP cookies that the user tried to delete: "All advertisers, websites and networks use cookies for targeted advertising, but cookies are under attack. According to current research they are being erased by 40% of users creating serious problems," says Mookie Tenembaum, founder of United Virtualities. "From simple frequency capping to the more sophisticated behavioral targeting, cookies are an essential part of any online ad campaign. PIE ["Persistent Identification Element"] will give publishers and third-party providers a persistent backup to cookies effectively rendering them unassailable", adds Tenembaum. [..] To justify this tracking mechanism, UV's Tenembaum said, "The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie is good or bad, or how it works." When selecting None (zero KB) for Specify the amount of disk space that website websites that you haven't yet visited can use to store information on your computer, and checking Never ask again then some sites do not work. However, the same site might work when setting it to None but without selecting Never ask again, and then choose Deny whenever prompted. Both options would result in zero KB of data being allowed, but the behaviour differs. The plugin also provides a Flash Player cache for Adobe-signed files. I guess these files are not an issue. So: how to automatically delete that information? On a Mac, one can find a settings.sol file and a folder for each visited Flash-website in: $HOME/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/ Deleting the settings.sol file and all the folders in sys, removes the trail from the settings panels. However, the actual Local Shared Ojects are elsewhere (see Wikipedia for locations on other operating systems), in a randomly named subfolder of: $HOME/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects But then: how to remove this automatically? Simply removing the folders and the settings.sol file every now and then (like by using launchd or Windows' Task Scheduler) may interfere with active browsers. Or is it safe to assume that, given the cross-browser nature, the plugin would not care if things are removed while it is active? Only clearing during log-off may not work for those who hibernate all the time. Firefox users can install BetterPrivacy or Objection to delete the Local Shared Objects (for all others browsers as well). I don't know if that also deletes the trail of website domain names. Or: how to stop Flash from storing a history trail? Change of plans: I'm currently testing prohibiting Flash to write to its own sys and #SharedObjects folders. So far, Flash has not tried to restore permissions (though, when deleting the folders, Flash will of course recreate them). I've not encountered any problems but this may take some while to validate, using multiple browsers and sites. I've not yet found a log that reports errors. On a Mac: cd "$HOME/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer" rm -r sys/* chmod u-w sys cd "$HOME/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player" # preserve the randomly named subfolders (only preserving the latest would suffice; see below) rm -r \#SharedObjects/*/* chmod -R u-w \#SharedObjects I guess the above chmods cannot be achieved on an old Windows system (I'm not sure about XP and Vista?). Though maybe on Windows one could replace the folders sys and #SharedObjects with dummy files with the same names? Anyone? Obviously, keeping Flash from storing those Local Shared Objects for all sites may cause problems. Some test results (Flash 10 on Mac OS X): When blocking the sys folder (even when leaving the #SharedObjects folder writable) then YouTube won't remember your volume settings while viewing multiple videos. Temporarily allowing write access to the blocked folders while visiting trusted sites (to only create folders for domains you like, maybe including references in settings.sol) solves that. This way, for YouTube, Flash could be allowed to write to sys/#s.ytimg.com and #SharedObjects/s.ytimg.com, while Flash could not create new folders for other domains. One may also need to make settings.sol read-only afterwards, or delete it again. When blocking both the sys and #SharedObjects folders, YouTube and Vimeo work fine (though they might not remember any settings). However, Bits on the Run refuses to even show the video player. This is solved by temporarily unblocking the #SharedObjects folder, to allow Flash to create a subfolder with some random name. Within this folder, it would create yet another folder for the current Flash website (content.bitsontherun.com). Removing that website-specific folder, and blocking both #SharedObjects and the randomly named subfolder, still seems to allow Bits on the Run to operate, even though it still cannot write anything to disk. So: the existence of the randomly named subfolder (even when write protected) is important for some sites. When I first found the #SharedObjects folder, it held many subfolders with random names, some created on the very same day. I wonder when Flash decides it wants a new folder, and how it determines (and remembers) that random name. For a moment I considered not blocking write access for sys and #SharedObjects, but explicitly creating read-only folders for well-known third-party tracking domains (like based on a list from, for example, AdBlock Plus). That way, any other domain could still create Local Shared Objects. But the list would be long, and the domains from AdBlock Plus are probably all third-party domains anyway, so disabling Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer might have the very same result. Any experience anyone? (Final notes: if the above links to the settings panels do not work in the future, then use the URL that is known to Flash player as a starting point: www.adobe.com/go/settingsmanager. See also "You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again" at Wired.com -- which uses Flash cookies itself as well... For the very suspicious using Time Machine: you may want to exclude both folders, for each user, and remove the trace that is already on your backup.)

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  • Accessibility and usability issues when designing websites for older computer users

    - by Vafello
    As a part of my final year university project I am designing a social networking website targeted mainly to older users. I was wondering what accessibility and usability issues should be taken into account when creating a website for such users, apart from obvious ones - such as bigger font, compatibility with current standards, straight-forward interface. Or maybe an older user is just the same as an average user and no special design is needed? Let me know what you think. Thanks.

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