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• How can state changes be batched while adhering to opaque-front-to-back/alpha-blended-back-to-front?

  - by Sion Sheevok

  This is a question I've never been able to find the answer to. Batching objects with similar states is a major performance gain when rendering many objects. However, I've been learned various rules when drawing objects in the game world. Draw all opaque objects, front-to-back. Draw all alpha-blended objects, back-to-front. Some of the major parameters to batch by, as I understand it, are textures, vertex buffers, and index buffers. It seems that, as long as you are adhering to the above two rules, there's little to be done in regards to batching. I see one possibility to batch, while still adhering to the above two rules. Opaque objects can still be drawn out of depth-order, because drawing them front-to-back is merely a fillrate optimization, meanwhile state changes may very well be far more expensive than the overdraw of drawing out of depth-order. However, non-opaque objects, those that require alpha-blending at least, must be drawn back-to-front in order to avoid rendering artifacts. Is the loss of the fillrate optimization for opaques worth the state batching optimization?

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• Using PhysX, how can I predict where I will need to generate procedural terrain collision shapes?

  - by Sion Sheevok

  In this situation, I have terrain height values I generate procedurally. For rendering, I use the camera's position to generate an appropriate sized height map. For collision, however, I need to have height fields generated in areas where objects may intersect. My current potential solution, which may be naive, is to iterate over all "awake" physics actors, use their bounds/extents and velocities to generate spheres in which they may reside after a physics update, then generate height values for ranges encompassing clustered groups of actors. Much of that data is likely already calculated by PhysX already, however. Is there some API, maybe a set of queries, even callbacks from the spatial system, that I could use to predict where terrain height values will be needed?

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• Wicd not playing well with networks that utilize network access control

  - by Sion

  Starting a couple months ago (might be able to find exact date if necessary) my installation of Wicd stopped being able to see wireless networks that use NAC (Network Access Control) such as Aruba networks. But if I shut down Wicd and start NetworkManager I can connect to said networks and log in to them depending on what the NAC requires. This is the current wicd package installed: net-misc/wicd-1.7.1_pre20111210-r1 This is how I manipulate the network manager running: su -c'/etc/init.d/wicd stop; /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start' What would cause this specific of a problem to occur?

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• Relaying to tech "support" that computer is actually broken.

  - by Sion

  First some background: I have a Dell Inspiron 15R M050, it is still under the Dell limited warranty and the Best Buy Extended warranty. I am currently dual booting Debian Squeeze and Windows 7, the only reason I go into Windows is to play video games specifically steam games. Issue: When I play my games in Windows I am capable of playing for anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours before I suffer a hard-lock. I cannot alt-tab, ctrl-alt-delete, ctrl-shift-escape do anything for 2-3 minutes. After this hard-lock period everything runs fine, I can continue the game for probably another hour at least before I suffer another lock. Games: Borderlands, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Starcraft 2, Garrys Mod What I have tried: Running the diagnostic suite in the dell bios, restoring the OEM Windows recovery partition on the HD, fresh installing Windows 7 Professional, updating BIOS, Calling tech support and having them run a software Hardware Diagnostics suite. The question: I think from the research that I have performed that it might be a lack of thermal paste on the CPU, would I be able to go to Best Buy and have them do a hardware diagnostic from the hardware level then have them be able to tell Dell that there is a hardware issue? Or would there be a different problem?

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• Power supply switch like stays off motherboard light turns on

  - by Sion

  I bought a computer at the thrift store yesterday. The computer powered on without any error beeps. Getting it back to the house determined that the CD and hard drive needed to be changed. Put in a populated hard drive to check, the computer turned on and seemed to function. Put in a new CD drive, and just put in a new Hard drive. I plugged it in to check and I noticed that the light for the power supply switch did not come on. But I did notice that the light on the motherboard is lit. and I could not turn the computer on. To help troubleshoot it I unplugged the CD and Hard drive. then re-plugged the power supply and switched it on and off. Nothing changed. Parts: Motherboard: Digital Home PSW DH deluxe Power Supply: FSP-Group FX700-GLN Did I accidentally unplug something while installing the hard drive? Is the Power supply fried somehow?

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• VLC Dynamic Range compression multiple songs

  - by Sion

  In my collection of music I have some songs which seem to be compressed nicely. But in addition to those I have songs which are overly quite compared to the louder compressed songs. So maybe the problem isn't compression but average volume. Would the Dynamic Range Compressor in VLC work for this type of problem or would I have better luck using external speakers and running it through a guitar compressor?

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• Modifying RaspberryPi as perfect linux box [on hold]

  - by Jai Hind Rubik's

  I have just bought one Raspberry pi RaspberryPi. I want to load linux kernel there. Actually my plan is to first load kernel ver sion 2.6.* after that one 3.10.* above that and in boot time I want to load 3.10.* (can choose). just after booting, I want to log in there through my windows machine using client like putty or telnet, on telnet I want see following prompt there: login as: root [email protected]'s password: ********** Last login: Thu Aug 21 22:41:07 2014 from 10.78.235.82 [root@debd ~]# [root@debd ~]#ls [root@debd ~]# Documents ... Can any one tell what kind of modification I needed to do for this? I am college student and have less knowledge managing hardware

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• Tell git which private key to use

  - by jrdioko

  ssh has the -i option to tell it which private key file to use when authenticating: -i identity_file Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or DSA authentication is read. The default is ~/.ssh/identity for protocol ver- sion 1, and ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa for protocol version 2. Iden- tity files may also be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file. It is possible to have multiple -i options (and multiple identities specified in configuration files). Is there a similar way to tell git which private key file to use when on a system with multiple private keys in the .ssh directory?

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• error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '(' token

  - by jonathanasdf

  include/TestBullet.h:12: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conver sion before '(' token I hate C++ error messages... lol ^^ Basically, I'm following what was written in this post to try to create a factory class for bullets so they can be instantiated from a string, which will be parsed from an xml file, because I don't want to have a function with a switch for all of the classes because that looks ugly. Here is my TestBullet.h: #pragma once #include "Bullet.h" #include "BulletFactory.h" class TestBullet : public Bullet { public: void init(BulletData& bulletData); void update(); }; REGISTER_BULLET(TestBullet); <-- line 12 And my BulletFactory.h: #pragma once #include <string> #include <map> #include "Bullet.h" #define REGISTER_BULLET(NAME) BulletFactory::reg<NAME>(#NAME) #define REGISTER_BULLET_ALT(NAME, CLASS) BulletFactory::reg<CLASS>(NAME) template<typename T> Bullet * create() { return new T; } struct BulletFactory { typedef std::map<std::string, Bullet*(*)()> bulletMapType; static bulletMapType map; static Bullet * createInstance(char* s) { std::string str(s); bulletMapType::iterator it = map.find(str); if(it == map.end()) return 0; return it->second(); } template<typename T> static void reg(std::string& s) { map.insert(std::make_pair(s, &create<T>)); } }; Thanks in advance.

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• SVN: Create a dump file of a folder

  - by DarkJaff

  I'm trying to create a dump file of a folder in my SVN repository.(My goal is to import this dump on another repository, but that's another story). I've read like 20 pages about this and they all tell me to use svndumpfilter but I can't seem to make it work. Here is my command: C:\>svnadmin dump d:/SvnData/TestingSVN/ | svndumpfilter include /TestingSVN/Trunk/Fms/ > d:\FMS.txt The output in the command line is this strange thing: Including prefixes: '/TestingSVN/Trunk/Fms' * Dumped revision 0. Revision 0 com*m iDtutmepde da sr e0v.isi n 1. Revision 1 committed as 1. * Dumped revision 2. Revision 2 committed a*s D2u.mpe revision 3. Revisio*n D3u mcpoemdm irtetveids iaosn 34.. Revision* 4D ucmopmemdi trteevdi saiso n4 .5. Revision 5 com*m iDtutmepde da sr e5v.isi n 6. Revision 6 commi*t tDeudm paesd 6r.evi ion 7. Revisio*n D7u mcpoemdm irtetveids iaosn 78.. Revision *8 Dcuommpmeidt treedv iassi o8n. 9. Revision 9* cDoummmpietdt erde vaiss i9o.n 1 . Revisi*o nD u1m0p ecdo mrmeivtitseido na s1 11.0 . Revision 11 *c oDmummiptetde dr eavsi s1i1o.n 1 . Revision 12 committed* aDsu m1p2e.d r vision 13. Revision 13 committ*e dD uamsp e1d3 .rev sion 14. Revision 14 commit*t eDdu mapse d1 4r.evi ion 15. Revision 15 committed as 15. * Dumped revision 16. Revision 16 committed as 16. Dropped 83 nodes: '/Branches' '/Branches/305' '/Branches/305/New Text Document.txt' '/Fms' '/Fms/ADPropertySheet.cpp'** etc. for 83 nodes... Also, the dump file itself is only 3 kb and contain no real data, only things like that (this is not the complete dump, just a sample) SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 2 UUID: 592fc9f0-5994-e841-a4dc-653714c95216 Revision-number: 0 Prop-content-length: 56 Content-length: 56 K 8 svn:date V 27 2009-06-19T15:05:52.001352Z PROPS-END Revision-number: 1 Prop-content-length: 112 Content-length: 112 K 7 svn:log V 38 This is an empty revision for padding. K 8 svn:date V 27 2009-06-19T15:11:29.378511Z PROPS-END Can anybody help me sort this out?

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• Logging Application Block

  - by Gordon Carpenter-Thompson

  I'm using the Logging Application Block in my ASP.NET application and want to convert the application to a Sharepoint WebPart. It all works fine as long as I change: <trust level="WSS_Minimal" originUrl="" /> to <trust level="Full" originUrl="" /> If not I get an exception in the logs: Failed to add webpart *************255Fcatalogs%252Fwp%252FSearchWebPart%252Ewebpart;SearchWebPart. Exception Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPageUserException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Logger' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Logger' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.SystemConfigurationSource' threw an exception. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neut... ...ral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed. at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet) at System.Security.CodeAccessPermission.Demand() at System.AppDomainSetup.VerifyDir(String dir, Boolean normalize) at System.AppDomainSetup.get_ConfigurationFile() at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.SystemConfigurationSourceImplementation..ctor(Boolean refresh) at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.SystemConfigurationSource..cctor() The action that failed was: Demand The type of the first permission that failed was: System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission The first permission that failed was: <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermi... ...ssion, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" PathDiscovery="D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\8686\web.config"/> The demand was for: <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" PathDiscovery="D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\8686\web.config"/> The granted set of the failing assembly was: <PermissionSet class="System.Security.PermissionSet" version="1"> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Flags="Execution"/> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.StrongNameIdentityPermis... ...sion, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" PublicKeyBlob="0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100257FAE170ABB2AB4A8EF914DFEA757F7DB8C221F01850FC8753A4C6585C0B07749DA33DF4D64A721A070E7CDCDEFC8C786E3626418389BCF461E4300E6F4C477BE5CE64AD12C29D517208D6BA627D9F73A9066B7638BE1FEE3EABE6C3E537B546CB3B5DE5E436F95278BB1E9DBDE85C2A6B624010A8073841D467CC7A0A0C6C8" Name="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common" AssemblyVersion="3.1.0.0"/> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.UrlIdentityPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Url="file:///D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/wss/VirtualDirectories/8686/bin/Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.DLL"/> <IPe... ...rmission class="System.Security.Permissions.ZoneIdentityPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Zone="MyComputer"/> <IPermission class="System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Level="Minimal"/> <IPermission class="Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.WebPartPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" version="1" Connections="True"/> </PermissionSet> The assembly or AppDomain that failed was: Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a646907c4a695009 The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer The Url of the assem... ...bly that failed was: file:///D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/wss/VirtualDirectories/8686/bin/Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.DLL --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.SystemConfigurationSource..ctor() at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.ConfigurationSourceFactory.Create() at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Logger..cctor() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Logger.Write(LogEntry log) at com.okana.sharepoint.SearchWebPart.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Con... ...trol child) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.WebPartManagerControlCollection.AddWebPartHelper(WebPart webPart) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.WebPartManagerControlCollection.AddWebPart(WebPart webPart) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.AddWebPart(WebPart webPart) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManagerInternals.AddWebPart(WebPart webPart) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartWithRetry(WebPart webPart) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddDynamicWebPart(WebPart webPart) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.LoadWebPart(WebPart aspWebPart, String zoneId, Int32 zoneIndex, Boolean isClosed) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.... ...SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternalShared(WebPart webPart) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(SPSupersetWebPart superset, Boolean throwIfLocked) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(SPSupersetWebPart superset, Boolean throwIfLocked) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(SPSupersetWebPart superset) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartQuickAdd.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) My log configuration is this: <loggingConfiguration name="Logging Application Block" tracingEnabled="true" defaultCategory="General" logWarningsWhenNoCategoriesMatch="true"> <listeners> <add fileName="XAE.log" rollSizeKB="0" timeStampPattern="yyyy-MM-dd" rollFileExistsBehavior="Overwrite" rollInterval="Day" formatter="Text Formatter" header="" footer="" listenerDataType="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration.RollingFlatFileTraceListenerData, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral" traceOutputOptions="None" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.TraceListeners.RollingFlatFileTraceListener, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral" name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> <add fileName="IDOL.log" rollSizeKB="0" timeStampPattern="yyyy-MM-dd" rollFileExistsBehavior="Overwrite" rollInterval="Day" formatter="Text Formatter" header="" footer="" listenerDataType="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration.RollingFlatFileTraceListenerData, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral" traceOutputOptions="None" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.TraceListeners.RollingFlatFileTraceListener, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral" name="IDOL Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> <formatters> <add template="{timestamp(local)} : {category} : {message}" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Formatters.TextFormatter, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral" name="Text Formatter" /> </formatters> <categorySources> <!-- For any log entries that you wish to suppress set "All" to "Off" --> <add switchValue="All" name="Communication"> <listeners> <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </add> <add switchValue="All" name="Debug"> <listeners> <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </add> <add switchValue="All" name="Exception"> <listeners> <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </add> <add switchValue="All" name="General"> <listeners> <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </add> <add switchValue="All" name="Warning"> <listeners> <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </add> <add switchValue="All" name="IDOL"> <listeners> <add name="IDOL Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </add> </categorySources> <specialSources> <allEvents switchValue="All" name="All Events" /> <notProcessed switchValue="All" name="Unprocessed Category" /> <errors switchValue="All" name="Logging Errors &amp; Warnings"> <listeners> <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" /> </listeners> </errors> </specialSources> </loggingConfiguration> Clearly this is because it's trying to create the log files and WSS_Minimal doesn't allow this. Is there a simple way to disable all logging for now? Removing the logging is problematic as it's used in the underlying libraries. I have tried setting all switchValue="All" to "Off" but it still throws the exception even though nothing should be logged

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