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  • SSD with multiple partitions - disk life implications

    - by Nicolas Webb
    Each block on a SSD has a finite number of writes. This is mitigated on modern drives by "spreading" the writes around as you use the drive. I'm wondering if you partition a SSD into several partitions (a Mac using Boot Camp, for example) if this measure is defeated somewhat - can the writes be spread across the entire drive? Or are they contained strictly within the partition boundaries? Any SSD controller engineers here :)?

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  • raid 0 data recovery?

    - by Fred
    HI All, I have two identical seagate 7200.9 500Gb drives confiured as a RAID 0 spanned disk in windows. One of the drives has lost power and wont spin up at all. I know this normally means death for the data on both drives but i have a cunning plan.. DISK 1 - NO POWER RAID 0 DISK DISK 2 - FULLY FUNCTIONAL RAID 0 DISK DISK 3 - FULLY FUNCTIONAL SPARE DISK Copy the working drive (disk 2) data to a third 500GB DISK (disk 3), remove the logic board from the working disk (disk 2) and replace it with the non working logic board on the broken drive (disk 1) , then hopefully recreate the RAID 0 with disk 1 and disk 3, just long enough to get the data off it. Hope this makes sense, here are my questions: Windows disk manager atm recognises disk 2 but wont let me access it in anyway, therefore copying the data off it (or getting a disk image) cant be done in windows. Does anyone know of any software (in linux or self booting) that would allow me to access this disk? Anyone know of any software that will recreate the spanned drive off two disk images Am i missing any key information that means i definitely shouldn't even bother starting this, i know its a long shot anyway but its worth a try unless i definitely cant do it. The irritating thing is that i am sure its a logic board failure on disk 1 as it simply wont power up at all, suddenly no signs of life, so i am sure the data is intact! Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks

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  • How to fix high Load_Cycle_Count laptop drive (TOSHIBA MK6006GAH in Vaio TX1XP)?

    - by Sam Brightman
    Hoping someone knows exactly what's going on here. It seems this drive has some combination of aggressive power saving settings and Ubuntu defaults that has massively increased the Load_Cycle_Count for the drive: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695 So the drive is now so slow that it cannot boot because it takes long enough to access the data that the kernel will not recognise it properly. I'm not worried about the data on the drive, but would really like to keep the laptop functioning. There is some indication that this is possible because the figure is still low 200,000s and most drives supposedly go to 600,000. Additionally, SMART tests pass and consider the drive healthy and without errors. But the really surprising thing was when I ran mhdd... Every single read came up red (slow) until I pressed 'R' for reset drive. I noticed the next read was normal speed, so held down 'R'. Magically the drive read perfectly for as long as I held the key BUT resumed slow (and noisy) seeking/reading after releasing. I don't think the source code to mhdd is available, so I'm not exactly sure what this means (besides, I don't know enough low-level HDD stuff either). It seems like the drive should be able to work, but is stuck trying to power save or something. There are no BIOS options on the laptop. Does anyone know how I can stop the drive from doing extremely slow/noisy operations like this? Or is constantly resetting the drive also damanging, and only causing it to work well by luck (i.e. not a suggestion that it's fixable)?

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  • Validation errors from Google App Engine Logout link

    - by goggin13
    I am making a web page using the Google App Engine. I am validating my pages, and found that the logout link that is generated by the call to the users api (in python) users.create_logout_url(request.uri) does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. The href in the anchor tag looks like this: /_ah/login?continue=http%3A//localhost%3A8080/&action=Logout Including a link with this anchor text throws three different validation errors: *general entity "action" not defined and no default entity *reference to entity "action" for which no system identifier could be generated *EntityRef: expecting ';' Here is a dummy page with the anchor tag in it, if you want to try it on w3c validator.Dummy Page. The logout link wont work, but you can see how the page is valid without it, but the actual text inside the href tag breaks the validation. Any thoughts on whats going on? Thank you!

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  • [zsh] how to clone a local git repository whose name contains a `:'?

    - by zshgit
    I'm trying to clone a local git repository. The repository's name contains a `:'. This is confusing both me and git. I get the following error: ~/work/c% git clone ../a::b . Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/work/c/.git/ ssh: Could not resolve hostname ../a: Name or service not known fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly How would you escape the `:'? For now I'm just changing the name of the original repository :-) I'm using zshell...

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  • DVD burn IMAPI2 + getting error, multiple of the sector size

    - by sijith
    hi, I am writing a program which burns data to DVD. When i run my program its showing error code 0xC0AA0403(The size of the provided IStream object is invalid. The size must be a multiple of the sector size, 2048.) Please help me on this. How to specify data as multiple of 2048. I am just passing a single DOC file to burn

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  • Is it possible to design our own algorithm to create unique GUIDs?

    - by AKN
    GUID are generated by the combination of numbers and characters with a hyphen. eg) {7B156C47-05BC-4eb9-900E-89966AD1430D} In Visual studio, we have the 'Create GUID' tool to create it. I hope the same can be created programmatically through window APIs. How GUIDs are made to be unique? Why they don't use any special characters like #,^ etc... Also Is it possible to design our own algorithm to create unique GUIDs?

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  • FF extension: saving a value in preferences and retrieving in the js file

    - by encryptor
    I am making an extension which should take a link as the user input only once. Then the entire extension keeps using that link on various functions in the JS file. When the user changes it, the value accessed by the js file also changes accordingly. I am using the following but it does not work for me var pref_manager = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferencesservice;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefService) function setInstance(){ if (pref_manager.prefHasUserValue("myvar")) { instance = pref_manager.getString("myvar"); alert(instance); } if(instance == null){ instance = prompt("Please enter webcenter host and port"); // Setting the value pref_manager.setString("myvar", instance); } } instance is the global variable in which i take the user input. The alert (instance) does not show up, which means there is some problem by the way i am saving the pref or extracting it. Can someone please help me with this. I have never worked with preferences before. so even if there are minor problems i might not be able to figure out.

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  • Object Deletion: use parent or not

    - by metdos
    Which one do you prefer to delete objects? Especially in QT, but other practices are also welcome. These two alternatives seem same to me, are they? 1.Bound to another class, and destroy when it is destroyed. SomeClass::SomeClass{ socket_ = new QTcpSocket(this); } or 2.Destroy in the destructor of class SomeClass::SomeClass{ socket_ = new QTcpSocket(); } SomeClass::~SomeClass{ delete socket_; }

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  • nsthread in iphone xcode

    - by BibiBuBu
    Good Day! i want to use nsthreads in a project of xcode that will call a function which is for the network access and will check that if the network is there or not, so i need to have a thread which will execute after lets say 1 minutes to check the connectivity. and will continue run unless the app is closed. [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(startTheBackgroundJob) toTarget:self withObject:nil]; startTheBackgroundJob NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; // wait for 3 seconds before starting the thread, you don't have to do that. This is just an example how to stop the NSThread for some time [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:5]; //[self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(checkNet) withObject:nil]; [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(checkNet) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:YES]; [pool release]; it works only for the first time but not any other, i mean only 1 loop it makes can somebody help me in this regard. Thanks

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  • Opening Excel file in a SharePoint document library from VSTO with specified credentials

    - by Saab
    I'm trying to open a workbook from within Excel. The Excel file is located on a SharePoint server, within a Document Library. I use the following code to open the workbook. newWorkbook = globalsThisAddInApplication.Workbooks.Open( workbookUrl, Type.Missing, false, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing); When I do this the user has to enter his credentials (username/password dialog). I'm already storing the user credentials, and I want them to be used when the file is opened.

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  • JQuery - Pass variables to PHP script via AJAX call and then display file

    - by hfidgen
    Hiya, I'm trying to generate Outlook event files for my events, doing so on the fly as and when someone requests it by pressing a link on the page. Here's what i've got so far, but I can't find out how to get the browser to download the content which is returned. I know how I could do this if I sent everything via _GET, but I'd prefer to do it via _POST, hence I'm going down this route.. Any thoughts? Thanks! HTML / Javascript <script> $(function() { $(".button").click(function() { // validate and process form // first hide any error messages var start = $("input#start").val(); var end = $("input#end").val(); var dataString = 'start='+ start + '&end=' + end; $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "/calendar.php", data: dataString, success: function(data) { //Need to return the file contents somehow! } }); return false; }); }); </script> <form name="calendar" method="post" action=""> <input type="hidden" name="start" id="start" value="<?php echo $start; ?>" /> <input type="hidden" name="end" id="end" value="<?php echo $end; ?>" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" id="submit_btn" value="Outlook" /> </fieldset> </form> PHP File <?php if (isset($_POST['start'])) { $start = $_POST['start']; $end = $_POST['end']; $c = header("Content-Type: text/Calendar"); $c .= header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=calendar.ics"); $c .= "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n"; $c .= "VERSION:2.0\n"; $c .= "PRODID:-//xxxyyyy//NONSGML //EN\n"; $c .= "METHOD:REQUEST\n"; // requied by Outlook $c .= "BEGIN:VEVENT\n"; $c .= "UID:". $start . $end ."-" . "-xxxxyyyy.com\n"; // required by Outlook $c .= "DTSTAMP:".date('Ymd').'T'.date('His')."\n"; // required by Outlook $c .= "DTSTART:20080413T000000\n"; $c .= "SUMMARY:" . "\n"; $c .= "DESCRIPTION:" . "\n"; $c .= "END:VEVENT\n"; $c .= "END:VCALENDAR\n"; echo $c; } else { echo "Sorry you can't access this page directly"; } ?>

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  • Adding a transparent bitmap to a windows button

    - by cmaughan
    It's a while since I've done this, but I'm trying to add a custom button graphic to a windows button, with some transparent areas. I've tried various schemes but can't seem to get the transparent areas to show. Here's my code: hbmpUpDisabled = LoadImage(instance,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_UPARROWDISABLED), IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_DEFAULTSIZE | LR_LOADTRANSPARENT | LR_LOADMAP3DCOLORS ); SendMessage(GetDlgItem(hWndDlg, IDC_MOVEUP),BM_SETIMAGE,(WPARAM)IMAGE_BITMAP,(LPARAM)hbmpUpDisabled); Does anyone notice any problems here? It works if my bitmap is a 1-bit bitmap. I couldn't get a 32 bit bitmap to work, and I'm not sure how to setup a 24 bit or 8 bit bitmap to do it.... I tried a custom 255,0,255 color (which IIRC is a default transparent value), but so far no joy....

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  • RESTful membership

    - by FoxDemon
    I am currentlly trying to design a RESTful MembershipsController. The controller action update is used only for promoting, banning, approving,... members. To invoke the update action the URL must contain a Parameter called type with the appropriate value. I am not too sure if that is really RESTful design. Should I rather introduce sepearate actions for promoting,... members? class MembershipsController < ApplicationController def update @membership= Membership.find params[:id] if Membership.aasm_events.keys.include?(params[:type].to_sym) #[:ban, :promote,...] @membership.send("#{params[:type]}!") render :partial => 'update_membership' end end end

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  • asterisk : add application

    - by karthi-27
    Hi all, I want to know the way to add new asterisk applications and modules.For example I don't have the SetGlobalVar application in my asterisk machine.I want to add that.Is there any way. Thanks in advance .

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  • How do i do background processing in Windows Mobile 6

    - by d1k_is
    Im making a windows mobile app and i was wondering how i go about doing background processing (ie. threading) The built in .NET class doesnt seem to work properly, they just run the code in the same process, unless thats just the emulator. Anyway, is there a special way to do this with windows mobile?

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  • another question about OpenGL ES rendering to texture

    - by ensoreus
    Hello, pros and gurus! Here is another question about rendering to texture. The whole stuff is all about saving texture between passing image into different filters. Maybe all iPhone developers knows about Apple's sample code with OpenGL processing where they used GL filters(functions), but pass into them the same source image. I need to edit an image by passing it sequentelly with saving the state of the image to edit. I am very noob in OpenGL, so I spent increadibly a lot of to solve the issue. So, I desided to create 2 FBO's and attach source image and temporary image as a textures to render in. Here is my init routine: glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY); glEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY); glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glPixelStorei(GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1); glGetIntegerv(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_BINDING_OES, (GLint *)&SystemFBO); glImage = [self loadTexture:preparedImage]; //source image for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { fullquad[i].s *= glImage->s; fullquad[i].t *= glImage->t; flipquad[i].s *= glImage->s; flipquad[i].t *= glImage->t; } tmpImage = [self loadEmptyTexture]; //editing image glGenFramebuffersOES(1, &tmpImageFBO); glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, tmpImageFBO); glFramebufferTexture2DOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0_OES, GL_TEXTURE_2D, tmpImage->texID, 0); GLenum status = glCheckFramebufferStatusOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES); if(status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE_OES) { NSLog(@"failed to make complete tmp framebuffer object %x", status); } glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0); glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 0); glGenRenderbuffersOES(1, &glImageFBO); glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, glImageFBO); glFramebufferTexture2DOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0_OES, GL_TEXTURE_2D, glImage->texID, 0); status = glCheckFramebufferStatusOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES) ; if(status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE_OES) { NSLog(@"failed to make complete cur framebuffer object %x", status); } glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0); glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 0); When user drag the slider, this routine invokes to apply changes -(void)setContrast:(CGFloat)value{ contrast = value; if(flag!=mfContrast){ NSLog(@"contrast: dumped"); flag = mfContrast; glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, glImageFBO); glClearColor(1,1,1,1); glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glOrthof(0, 512, 0, 512, -1, 1); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); glScalef(512, 512, 1); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, tmpImage->texID); glViewport(0, 0, 512, 512); glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(V2fT2f), &fullquad[0].x); glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(V2fT2f), &fullquad[0].s); glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4); glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 0); } glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES,tmpImageFBO); glClearColor(0,0,0,1); glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glOrthof(0, 512, 0, 512, -1, 1); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); glScalef(512, 512, 1); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, glImage->texID); glViewport(0, 0, 512, 512); [self contrastProc:fullquad value:contrast]; glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 0); [self redraw]; } Here are two cases: if it is the same filter(edit mode) to use, I bind tmpFBO to draw into tmpImage texture and edit glImage texture. contrastProc is a pure routine from Apples's sample. If it is another mode, than I save edited image by drawing tmpImage texture in source texture glImage, binded with glImageFBO. After that I call redraw: glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, SystemFBO); glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glOrthof(0, kTexWidth, 0, kTexHeight, -1, 1); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); glScalef(kTexWidth, kTexHeight, 1); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, glImage->texID); glViewport(0, 0, kTexWidth, kTexHeight); glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(V2fT2f), &flipquad[0].x); glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(V2fT2f), &flipquad[0].s); glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4); glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 0); And here it binds visual framebuffer and dispose glImage texture. So, the result is VERY aggresive filtering. Increasing contrast volume by just 0.2 brings image to state that comparable with 0.9 contrast volume in Apple's sample code project. I miss something obvious, I guess. Interesting, if I disabple line glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, glImage->texID); in setContrast routine it brings no effect. At all. If I replace tmpImageFBO with SystemFBO to draw glImage directly on display(and disabling redraw invoking line), all works fine. Please, HELP ME!!! :(

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  • How to Read Device Data From serial port

    - by Aamir Khurshid
    I have one device which sends data on COM port say on COM13. Now i want to read that data and display it in the RichTextBox or in any text control. I have written the application with the help of IO and IO.Ports but comport.DataRecived event does not fire, even though device is sending data on that port. I have some software on which i define the port number and it successfully display data, which insure me that data is receiving on the Port but i am unable to receive. Is there any way i can read data? comm.Parity = cboParity.Text;//None comm.StopBits = cboStop.Text;//One comm.DataBits = cboData.Text;//8 comm.BaudRate = cboBaud.Text;//9600 comm.DisplayWindow = rtbDisplay;//Null comm.PortName = "COM13"; comm.OpenPort(); cmdOpen.Enabled = false; cmdClose.Enabled = true; cmdSend.Enabled = true; public bool OpenPort() { if (comPort.IsOpen) { comPort.Close(); } comPort.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(comPort_DataReceived); comPort.PortName = _portName; comPort.Open();return true; }

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  • Is my TFS2010 backup/restore hosed?

    - by bwerks
    Hi all, I recently set up a sandbox TFS to test TFS-specific features without interfering with the production TFS. I was happy I did this sooner than I thought--I hadn't been backing up the encryption key from SSRS and upon restoring the reporting databases, they remained inactive, requiring initialization that could only come from applying the encryption key. Said encryption key was lost when I nuked the partition after backing up the TFS databases. The only option I seemed to have is to delete the encrypted data. I'm fine with this, since there wasn't much in there to begin with, however once they're deleted I'm not quite sure how to configure TFS to recognize a new installation of these services while using the restored versions of everything else. Unfortunately, the TFS help file doesn't seem to account for this state though. Is there a way to essentially rebuild the reporting and analysis databases? Or are they gone forever?

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  • how to make complex selectors with 'this' jquery

    - by Stomped
    I have an event handler that needs to do something to one of its children, based on some saved data. So what I'm currently doing is something like this: // Get the ID of 'this' item_id = $(this).attr('id'); // building a selector like $('#item1 .child_3') $('#' + item_id + ' .child_' + spVal).addClass('blah'); But this seems a little cumbersome. I've tried: $(this + ' .child_' + spVal).addClass('blah'); and it doesn't work, which doesn't really surprise me. Is there a better way to do this then the successful way I've outlined above?

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  • problem with threads

    - by Nadeem
    i want to be done for 10 times!!, to scan teh number and print it again!!, how i can do that #include <stdio.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <semaphore.h> sem_t m; int n; void *readnumber(void *arg) { scanf("%d",&n); sem_post(&m); } void *writenumber(void *arg) { //int x =3; //while(x>0) //{ //x = x-1; sem_wait(&m); printf("%d",n); //} } int main(){ pthread_t t1, t2; sem_init(&m, 0, 0); pthread_create(&t2, NULL, writenumber, NULL); pthread_create(&t1, NULL, readnumber, NULL); pthread_join(t2, NULL); pthread_join(t1, NULL); sem_destroy(&m); return 0; }

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  • jqGrid disable sortablerows

    - by gurun8
    I'm trying to disable sortablerows functionality from a grid. I'd like to have the ability to toggle on/off the sortablerows functionality. Enabling the feature is pretty straightforward: jQuery("#list").jqGrid('sortableRows', { update: function(event, ui) { updateOrder() } }); But disabling the feature has proven to be a little bit harder. I've consulted the UI Integrations where sortableRows is documented in the jqGrid Wiki: www.trirand.com/jqgridwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:jquery_ui_methods And found that "The method is fully compatible with jQuery UI sortable widget." So I ventured off to the jQuery UI sortable documentation and found this: http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ jQuery("#list").jqGrid('sortableRows', {disabled: true}); The code above simply disables the rows. So I moved onto the destroy method: jQuery("#list").jqGrid('sortableRows', {destroy: true}); but that doesn't do anything. Based upon the documentation the destroy method seems to be exactly what I need, so maybe my syntax is wrong but I can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone have experience with this same issue?

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