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  • How do I tell Apache which PHP to use?

    - by Sam McAfee
    I am running Apache2 on a Mac OS X (10.5). I just compiled PHP 5.2.8 and finally got pdo-mysql working (or so I think). My command line "php --version" is showing 5.2.8 and I have the right modules installed. But, when do a phpinfo(), Apache dumps out PHP 5.2.6 (my earlier version, without pdo_mysql). How do I tell Apache which PHP to load? The httpd.conf has the line: LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so But, I don't know what or where that is. Is that what I have to change?

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  • Users using Perl script to bypass Squid Proxy

    - by mk22
    The users on our network have been using a perl script to bypass our Squid proxy restrictions. Is there any way we can block this script from working?? #!/usr/bin/perl ######################################################################## # (c) 2008 Indika Bandara Udagedara # [email protected] # http://indikabandara19.blogspot.com # # ---------- # LICENCE # ---------- # This work is protected under GNU GPL # It simply says # " you are hereby granted to do whatever you want with this # except claiming you wrote this." # # # ---------- # README # ---------- # A simple tool to download via http proxies which enforce a download # size limit. Requires curl. # This is NOT a hack. This uses the absolutely legal HTTP/1.1 spec # Tested only for squid-2.6. Only squids will work with this(i think) # Please read the verbose README provided kindly by Rahadian Pratama # if u r on cygwin and think this documentation is not enough :) # # The newest version of pget is available at # http://indikabandara.no-ip.com/~indika/pget # # ---------- # USAGE # ---------- # + Edit below configurations(mainly proxy) # + First run with -i <file> giving a sample file of same type that # you are going to download. Doing this once is enough. # eg. to download '.tar' files first run with # pget -i my.tar ('my.tar' should be a real file) # + Run with # pget -g <URL> # # ######################################################################## ######################################################################## # CONFIGURATIONS - CHANGE THESE FREELY ######################################################################## # *magic* file # pls set absolute path if in cygwin my $_extFile = "./pget.ext" ; # download in chunks of below size my $_chunkSize = 1024*1024; # in Bytes # the proxy that troubles you my $_proxy = "192.168.0.2:3128"; # proxy URL:port my $_proxy_auth = "user:pass"; # proxy user:pass # whereis curl # pls set absolute path if in cygwin my $_curl = "/usr/bin/curl"; ######################################################################## # EDIT BELOW ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING ######################################################################## use warnings; my $_version = "0.1.0"; PrintBanner(); if (@ARGV == 0) { PrintHelp(); exit; } PrimaryValidations(); my $val; while(scalar(@ARGV)) { my $arg = shift(@ARGV); if($arg eq '-h') { PrintHelp(); } elsif($arg eq '-i') { $val = shift(@ARGV); if (!defined($val)) { printf("-i option requires a filename\n"); exit; } Init($val); } elsif($arg eq '-g') { $val = shift(@ARGV); if (!defined($val)) { printf("-g option requires a URL\n"); exit; } GetURL($val); } elsif($arg eq '-c') { $val = shift(@ARGV); if (!defined($val)) { printf("-c option requires a URL\n"); exit; } ContinueURL($val); } else { printf ("Unknown option %s\n", $arg); PrintHelp(); } } sub GetURL { my ($URL) = @_; chomp($URL); my $fileName = GetFileName($URL); my %mapExt; my $first; my $readLen; my $ext = GetExt($fileName); ReadMap($_extFile, \%mapExt); if ( exists($mapExt{$ext})) { $first = $mapExt{$ext}; GetFile($URL, $first, $fileName, 0); } else { die "Unknown ext in $fileName. Rerun with -i <fileName>"; } } sub ContinueURL { my ($URL) = @_; chomp($URL); my $fileName = GetFileName($URL); my $fileSize = 0; $fileSize = -s $fileName; printf("Size = %d\n", $fileSize); my $first = -1; if ( $fileSize > 0 ) { $fileSize -= 1; GetFile($URL, $first, $fileName, $fileSize); } else { GetURL($URL); } } sub Init { my ($fileName) = @_; my ($key, $value); my %mapExt; my $ext = GetExt($fileName); if ( $ext eq "") { die "Cannot get ext of \'$fileName\'"; } ReadMap($_extFile, \%mapExt); my $b = GetFirst($fileName); $mapExt{$ext} = $b; WriteMap($_extFile, \%mapExt); print "I handle\n"; while ( ($key, $value) = each(%mapExt) ) { print "\t$key -> $value\n"; } } sub GetExt { my ($name) = @_; my @x = split(/\./, $name); my $ext = ""; if (@x != 1) { $ext = pop @x; } return $ext; } sub ReadMap { my($fileName, $mapRef) = @_; my $f; my @arr; open($f, '<', $fileName) or die "Couldn't open $fileName"; my %map = %{$mapRef}; while (<$f>) { my $line = $_; chomp($line); @arr = split(/[ \t]+/, $line, 2); $mapRef->{ $arr[0]} = $arr[1]; } printf("known ext\n"); while (($key, $value) = each(%$mapRef)) { print("$key, $value\n"); } close($f); } sub WriteMap { my ($fileName, $mapRef) = @_; my $f; my @arr; open($f, '>', $fileName) or die "Couldn't open $fileName"; my ($k, $v); while( ($k, $v) = each(%{$mapRef})) { print $f "$k" . "\t$v\n"; } close($f); } sub PrintHelp { print "usage: -h Print this help -i <filename> Initialize for this filetype -g <URL> Get this URL\n -c <URL> Continue this URL\n" } sub GetFirst { my ($fileName) = @_; my $f; open($f, "<$fileName") or die "Couldn't open $fileName"; my $buffer = ""; my $first = -1; binmode($f); sysread($f, $buffer, 1, 0); close($f); $first = ord($buffer); return $first; } sub GetFirstFromMap { } sub GetFileName { my ($URL) = @_; my @x = split(/\//, $URL); my $fileName = pop @x; return $fileName; } sub GetChunk { my ($URL, $file, $offset, $readLen) = @_; my $end = $offset + $_chunkSize - 1; my $curlCmd = "$_curl -x $_proxy -u $_proxy_auth -r $offset-$end -# \"$URL\""; print "$curlCmd\n"; my $buff = `$curlCmd`; ${$readLen} = syswrite($file, $buff, length($buff)); } sub GetFile { my ($URL, $first, $outFile, $fileSize) = @_; my $readLen = 0; my $start = $fileSize + 1; my $file; open($file, "+>>$outFile") or die "Couldn't open $outFile to write"; if ($fileSize <= 0) { my $uc = pack("C", $first); syswrite ($file, $uc, 1); } do { GetChunk($URL, $file, $start ,\$readLen); $start = $start + $_chunkSize; $fileSize += $readLen; }while ($readLen == $_chunkSize); printf("Downloaded %s(%d bytes).\n", $outFile, $fileSize); close($file); } sub PrintBanner { printf ("pget version %s\n", $_version); printf ("There is absolutely NO WARRANTY for pget.\n"); printf ("Use at your own risk. You have been warned.\n\n"); } sub PrimaryValidations { unless( -e "$_curl") { printf("ERROR:curl is not at %s. Pls install or provide correct path.\n", $_curl); exit; } unless( -e "$_extFile") { printf("extFile is not at %s. Creating one\n", $_extFile); `touch $_extFile`; } if ( $_chunkSize <= 0) { printf ("Invalid chunk size. Using 1Mb as default.\n"); $_chunkSize = 1024*1024; } }

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  • IE9 Kiosk Mode scheduled task opens behind taskbar

    - by greg27
    I've set up a scheduled task in Windows 7 Pro to open up Internet Explorer 9 (x86 version) in kiosk mode. The scheduled task executes when a certain user logs in, and this user is logged in automatically when Windows starts. This is the command I'm using to start IE: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -k http://example.com So far so good - the computer boots up, the user gets logged in, and IE opens up in kiosk mode. The problem is that IE seems to open behind the taskbar - so the taskbar (start menu, pinned programs, etc.) appears at the bottom of the window, and the bottom of the IE window is visible through the taskbar (since the taskbar is translucent). Is there anything I can do, preferably without installing any third party programs (although I will go for that option if none other is available), to ensure that the IE9 kiosk window always opens in front of the taskbar?

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  • How to make a custom Windows 8 installation

    - by Nison Maël
    What is the step-by-step way to make a custom Windows 8 installation ? For example, with a minimal example, I would like an image which : Has a single user named "User" This user has Chrome and Firefox installed Has no link in the start screen except the desktop link Has no buttons on the task bar I have tried to use sysprep but I lose user settings. The CopyProfile seems to apply Administrator's settings on programmaticaly created accounts, but does not preserve local users settings accross installations.

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  • Mountain Lion overheating issue have to do with launchd/Python?

    - by Christopher Jones
    So, Ever since I installed ML, my MacBook Air has been running SUPER hot. Opened up activity monitor, and everything seemed to be pretty normal, until I had it refresh every .5 seconds... and then I started seeing some interesting things. A 'Python' process appears and is terminated several times a second, and uses TONS of CPU 70-110. It's parent process is 'launchd' - and when I sample the process, there is a lot going on with Python. http://db.tt/ovuX3hZM These appear and disappear too quickly to get one... this one only happened to be using 70 ish percent of CPU... but they consistently hit 100-110%. http://db.tt/ovuX3hZMg The parent process... launchd. lots of context switches and UNIX system calls... What is the deal here? (photo goes here when I earn the street cred) The sample of launchd. ANY help here could be of help to not only me, but possibly many others experiencing decreased battery life and warmer laps these days because of this Mountain Lion weirdness. PLEASE HELP! PS - I'd put the screen grabs inline, but i don't have enough street cred yet.

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  • DSL Modem with Wireless Router

    - by David
    I have a D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router and a TP-Link TD-8616 DSL modem. My old DSL modem died recently and I got the TP-Link as a replacement. With my old DSL modem, I plugged it into the WAN port on my D-Link and I could reach the internet through wireless and through the network. However, when I plugged the new TP-Link into the WAN port, I was not able to get any internet connectivity (either on the network ports or through wireless). So I plugged my labtop directly into the TP-Link DSL modem and I was able to get internet connectivity. I'm trying to figure out why my labtop can see the internet connection, but not the D-Link router. I think that the problem is due to the IP networking. My D-Link was originally set to have IP address 192.168.1.1. According to the documentation for the TP-Link DSL modem, it uses 192.168.1.1 as its IP address. I do not believe that my old DSL modem had an IP address. I logged into my D-Link router and changed its IP address to 192.168.1.2 and restarted it. Unfortunately, I still could not see the internet from my wireless devices. I've read a few forum postings which implied that I needed to setup a "bridge" between the two networks. Does that sound correct? Why didn't my old DSL modem require a bridge? I read pg. 12-13 of my D-Link's manual and they suggest that I need to disable UPnP, DHCP, and then plug the DSL modem into one of the LAN ports on my router. I'm concerned about doing this since I don't think that the firewall will work if I plug my DSL modem into one of the LAN ports. I also have a home NAS on my network and I wouldn't want that to be available over the internet. Does anyone have any advice about how I can get my TPLink DSL modem to work with my D-Link router? Thanks!

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  • Virus disturbing my audio

    - by Mike M
    i had a desktop.ini virus on my computer. I managed to get rid of it (i think) but now my Mcafee firewall will not stay on for more than 3 secs before it turns off again. Also something is freezing my computer for a few secs when a window is open, also my audio goes in and out when watching videos and listening to music. I figured out that it only happens when i connect to the internet. I have to restart my PC and quickly disconnect the internet if i want to listen to music. also i have vista

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  • 403 Forbiden on Apache (CentOS) Server

    - by pouya
    These are my VM setup: HOST: windows 7 ultimate 32bit GUEST: CentOs 6.3 i386 Virtualization soft: Oracle virtualBox 4.1.22 Networking: NAT -> (PORT FORWARD: HOST:8080 => GUEST:80) Shared Folder: centos all the project files goes into shared folder and for each project file a virtualhost conf file is created in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ like /etc/httpd/conf.d/$domain I wasn't able to see anything in my browser before disabling both windows firewall and iptables in centos after that if i type for example: http://www.$domain:8080/ all i see is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.$domain.com Port 8080 A sample Virtual Host conf file: <VirtualHost *:80> #General DocumentRoot /media/sf_centos/path/to/public_html ServerAdmin webmaster@$domain ServerName www.$domain ServerAlias $domain *.$domain #Logging ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-access.log combined #mod rewrite RewriteEngine On RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-rewrite.log RewriteLogLevel 0 </VirtualHost> centos shared folder is availabe to guest at /media/sf_centos These are file permissons for sf_centos: drwxrwx--- root vboxsf vboxsf group includes: apache and root So these are my questions: 1- How to solve Forbidden Problem? 2- How to setup both host and guest firewalls? 3- How can i improve this developement environment to simulate production environment as much as possible specially security improvements?

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  • Problems with Adobe Flash

    - by Georg Scholz
    I'm running Windows 7, 64-Bit on a Core-i5 HP Notebook. For approximately the last 3 months, I've had major problems with Adobe Flash. Flash has been uninstalled and installed again multiple times. No changes. Here is what happens in different browsers: (All browsers are in the latest version as of this post) Firefox: Doesn't work at all. This bothers me most, since FF is my favorite browser; I'm using a lot of Plugins. Have tried to de-activate all Plugins, but no change. IE and Chrome: Works, but most pages with Flash are stuck during page load for ~30 seconds. After that, everything is fine. Opera: No problems, everything working as it should. Strange, eh? Any help is highly appreciated!

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  • Firefox v15.0 about:newtab inaccessible via the back button

    - by Willem
    As of this morning I upgraded my Firefox to version 15.0. Or well, it did it for me. That's when my issue began. I've configured Firefox so that when I open up a new tab via Ctrl-T that it loads the about:newtab page which was released in version 14.x(?). I use this functionality extensively. I visit a page from the about:newtab page, read it, press the back button and pick another frequent website from the display I want to visit. However as of v15.0 the latter part is no longer functioning, after visiting a website from the about:newtab page the back button will not let me go back to the about:newtab page. Firefox acts as if that history entry was never there. I've tried searching the release notes to see if this change was intentional or a reported bug, but I have not found anything related so far. Is there anyway to (re)configure the new Firefox v15.0 to let me access the about:newtab page via a tab's history? EDIT: It appears that this only affects the initial 'visit' to the about:newtab page when opening a new tab, manually visiting about:newtab will register it as a history entry and allow it to be navigated to via the back and forward buttons. So I guess this changes my question to 'How can I make Firefox 15.0 treat the inital page from a newtab as a history entry'.

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  • Painless way of consolidating files across multiple machines/OSes

    - by 5arx
    Just bought a NAS. So I thought I'd get all our photos, media files and pdfs consolidated, de-duplicated, de-junked and virus-checked and stick them all on it. We have 3 laptops, one running Windows, the others OSX. We have a file server running Windows - it was the result of an earlier attempt at a networked fileserver - and a Mac Pro that is also kind of a server (previous attempts at this job have resulted in most of our stuff being on it). Also memory cards/sticks, cd backups and so on. I would be grateful if anyone could suggest a strategy or, ideally, tool(s) I could use to solve this problem. It is probably no more than one or two terabytes of data in total, but I can imagine that going through it all manually, file-by-file may well drive me insane.

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  • Can't Open Up Event Viewer

    - by Erik W
    I just installed a large backlog of Windows Updates (I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit) and now a handful of programs are acting strangely (not opening, crashing, etc) I went to try to diagnose the program using the Event Viewer, but when I open it up I get the error "Microsoft Management Console has Stopped Working" immediately after I double-click on the icon. Is there any way for me to figure out what is going wrong? I have another Windows 7 PC, that I tried to remotely view the logs from, but I got the error "The RPC Server is Unavailable". I'd like to start up the service, but oh wait, I can't open anything in the "Administrative Tools". I'd like not to re-install Windows, as I had just done so a couple months ago after a Windows Update jacked up my graphics card drivers.

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  • How does voltage fluctuation affect a laptop

    - by user45535
    I own an Acer Aspire 3680. In the past 2 years, I have given, my laptop for service due to the same kind of problem. Last year at the same time, I gave my laptop to the service center. They repaired it and I managed to ask them this question: Why does this problem happen. How can I prevent it? They said, that due to voltage fluctuations, something has gone wrong in your laptop. They actually were hesistant in mentioning as to which part they changed/repaired. Now recently the same problem happened and again I gave it to a service center to get it repaired and they also said, this is caused due to voltage fluctuation. My Question is: Due to Voltage fluctuation which part of the laptop can get affected. How can I prevent this from happening. Laptop Symptoms before I gave to service: When I plug in the adapter for charging the Green Light blinks and the laptop doesn't turn on. Neither does the charging indicator indicates the light, while charging.

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  • How can I add a favicon to a bookmarklet in Google Chrome?

    - by pattulus
    I'm on OS X and I want my bookmarklets to have favicons. I already found two articles but they didn't help much: http://www.tapper-ware.net/blog/?p=97#comment-2076 It's a great article but as I understand it this doesn't seem to work for Chrome :( http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/3032/google_chrome_how_to_change_icons_on_the_bookmarks_bar/ The problem with this tipp is - if I'm wrong, then please correct me - that after I cleaned the history, the cache, etc. the whole thing will be gone again. If there is a chance to modify the bookmarklets by hosting them myself I'd instantly do it, but I found no solution so far.

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  • Mac OS X: How to change the color label of files from the Terminal

    - by Svish
    Is there a way I can set the color label of a file to some color when in the Terminal? I know that the following command lists some info about what the color currently is, but I can't figure out how to do something about it. Like change it. mdls -name kMDItemFSLabel somefile.ext The reason I would like to know is that I want to recursively mark all files in a folder of a certain type with a certain color label (in my case gray). I know how to do the finding: find . -name "*.ext" And I know how I can run the command afterwards for each file using -exec, but I need to know how to do the actual labeling... I would like a solution that only involves commands built-in to Mac OS X. So preferably no 3rd party stuff, unless there is no other way.

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  • SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Power View Infrastructure Configuration and Installation: Step-by-Step and Scripts

    - by pinaldave
    Power View, a feature of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience. It provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers. Microsoft has recently released very interesting whitepaper which covers a sample scenario that validates the connectivity of the Power View reports to both PowerPivot workbooks and tabular models. This white paper talks about following important concepts about Power View: Understanding the hardware and software requirements and their download locations Installing and configuring the required infrastructure when Power View and its data models are on the same computer and on different computer Installing and configuring a computer used for client access to Power View reports, models, Sharepoint 2012 and Power View in a workgroup Configuring single sign-on access for double-hop scenarios with and without Kerberos You can download the whitepaper from here. This whitepaper talks about many interesting scenarios. It would be really interesting to know if you are using Power View in your production environment. If yes, would you please share your experience over here. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, T SQL, Technology

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  • SQL Saturday #156 : Providence, RI

    - by AaronBertrand
    Well, East Greenwich, RI. Another successful event, this one put on by John Miner, Brandon Leach, Steve Simon, Scott Abrants and a host of other folks. Several #SQLFamily friends in attendance as well: Grant Fritchey, Mike Walsh, Jack Corbett, Wayne Sheffield and others. I gave a session in the morning and then a session to cap off the day. Thanks to everyone who attended! The downloads are here: T-SQL : Bad Habits & Best Practices The Ins & Outs of Contained Databases...(read more)

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  • skills that can't be outsourced- web development related

    - by Matt Derami
    I never know where it's acceptable to post something like this, so please forgive if it's in the wrong place. I'm very interested in going further in to web development; I know a bit of javascript, a bit of php, and so forth, but I'm now seeing these services that will go from psd to wordpress for 200 bucks and I'm wondering how the hell is anyone able to compete with this? So I'm wondering if those more knowledgeable than me could tell me what areas are the least likely to be able to be outsourced, for 5 bucks to some kid in Uzbekistan( no offense to that kid).. do you think it's on the database management side, or maybe app development? ideas appreciated.

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  • Can I get a C++ Compiler to instantiate objects at compile time

    - by gam3
    I am writing some code that has a very large number of reasonably simple objects and I would like them the be created at compile time. I would think that a compiler would be able to do this, but I have not been able to figure out how. In C I could do the the following: #include <stdio.h> typedef struct data_s { int a; int b; char *c; } info; info list[] = { 1, 2, "a", 3, 4, "b", }; main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < sizeof(list)/sizeof(*list); i++) { printf("%d %s\n", i, list[i].c); } } Using #C++* each object has it constructor called rather than just being layed out in memory. #include <iostream> using std::cout; using std::endl; class Info { const int a; const int b; const char *c; public: Info(const int, const int, const char *); const int get_a() { return a; }; const int get_b() { return b; }; const char *get_c() const { return c; }; }; Info::Info(const int a, const int b, const char *c) : a(a), b(b), c(c) {}; Info list[] = { Info(1, 2, "a"), Info(3, 4, "b"), }; main() { for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(list)/sizeof(*list); i++) { cout << i << " " << list[i].get_c() << endl; } } I just don't see what information is not available for the compiler to completely instantiate these objects at compile time, so I assume I am missing something.

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  • Best thing to do about projects supporting multiple versions of Visual Studio?

    - by Earlz
    I have an open source project that works on .Net 2.0 and up. The thing is though that I prefer to use Visual Studio 2012, which forces the solution and project files to only work with VS2010/2012. What exactly should I do? I don't want for my users to have to create a solution from scratch if they don't have access to VS2010, but yet, I also don't want to attempt to keep 3 different project files in sync(VS2005, VS2008, and VS2010/2012) What is the usual solution for this?

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  • Legally, can I re reuse code for different customers?

    - by canice
    The company I work for develops custom factory automation applications for multiple customers. Even though each application is custom, they contain common code which is re-used across projects. One of the customers is now looking for the source code to their application, which has caused a major storm in the company. Management have decided that we can't give them the source to the shared components as they are used by other customers. I've been asked to modify the shared components 'enough' so as they aren't common. So my questions are: 1) Legally, should there be any problem with re-using common components for different customer? 2) If I really need to modify the common components, then how much is 'enough' ? (I know this sucks, but I either do this or hand in my notice). Oh yeah, and my company has no license in place with any of these customers.

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  • Purpose of NOP instruction and align statement in x86 assembly

    - by alvonellos
    It has been a year or so since I last took an assembly class. In that class, we were using MASM with the Irvine libraries to make it easier to program in. After we'd gone through most of the instructions, he said that the NOP instruction essentially did nothing and not to worry about using it. Anyway, it was about midterm and he has some example code that wouldn't run properly, so he told us to add a NOP instruction and it worked fine. I asked I'm after class why and what it actually did, and he said he didn't know. Anybody know?

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  • Stop myself from over-complicating applications

    - by stuartmclark
    Recently I worked on a fairly large project involving C# and MVVM. This application had around 160 projects in the solutions each seprarated into their own layers. As I have been working on this application for almost a year, building it from scratch as part of a team, I am now coming off that project and onto smaller more trivial projects. As I was beginning to develop a small in-house tool I found myself trying to mimic the larger applications structure and layering but in the end I just had a simple application with several DLLs which I know I wouldn't have done if I had not worked on that larger application before. I am just wondering if there are any techniques I can utilise to stop myself from turning a "code-behind" style trivial application into a full blown MVVM application? Or should I continue developing as I am and try to keep the unnecessary fluff out of the project?

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  • What is the relationship between OpenGL, GLX, DRI, and Mesa3D?

    - by user65308
    I am starting out doing some low-level 3D programming in Linux. I have a lot of experience using the higher level graphics API OpenInventor. I know it is not strictly necessary to be aware of how all these things fit together but I'm just curious. I know OpenGL is just a standard for graphics applications. Mesa3D seems to be an open source implementation of this standard. So where do GLX and DRI fit? Digging around on Wikipedia and all these websites, I've yet to find an explanation of exactly how it all goes together. Where does hardware acceleration happen? What do proprietary drivers have to do with this? Thanks!

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  • How can we unify business goals and technical goals?

    - by BAM
    Some background I work at a small startup: 4 devs, 1 designer, and 2 non-technical co-founders, one who provides funding, and the other who handles day-to-day management and sales. Our company produces mobile apps for target industries, and we've gotten a lot of lucky breaks lately. The outlook is good, and we're confident we can make this thing work. One reason is our product development team. Everyone on the team is passionate, driven, and has a great sense of what makes an awesome product. As a result, we've built some beautiful applications that we're all proud of. The other reason is the co-founders. Both have a brilliant business sense (one actually founded a multi-million dollar company already), and they have close ties in many of the industries we're trying to penetrate. Consequently, they've brought in some great business and continue to keep jobs in the pipeline. The problem The problem we can't seem to shake is how to bring these two awesome advantages together. On the business side, there is a huge pressure to deliver as fast as possible as much as possible, whereas on the development side there is pressure to take your time, come up with the right solution, and pay attention to all the details. Lately these two sides have been butting heads a lot. Developers are demanding quality while managers are demanding quantity. How can we handle this? Both sides are correct. We can't survive as a company if we build terrible applications, but we also can't survive if we don't sell enough. So how should we go about making compromises? Things we've done with little or no success: Work more (well, it did result in better quality and faster delivery, but the dev team has never been more stressed out before) Charge more (as a startup, we don't yet have the credibility to justify higher prices, so no one is willing to pay) Extend deadlines (if we charge the same, but take longer, we'll end up losing money) Things we've done with some success: Sacrifice pay to cut costs (everyone, from devs to management, is paid less than they could be making elsewhere. In return, however, we all have creative input and more flexibility and freedom, a typical startup trade off) Standardize project management (we recently started adhering to agile/scrum principles so we can base deadlines on actual velocity, not just arbitrary guesses) Hire more people (we used to have 2 developers and no designers, which really limited our bandwidth. However, as a startup we can only afford to hire a few extra people.) Is there anything we're missing or doing wrong? How is this handled at successful companies? Thanks in advance for any feedback :)

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